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Once you have experienced homemade broth it's so difficult to go back. It's hard to believe that I once thought a teaspoon of flavour mix added to a cup of boiling water was even a thing. All that salt? Don't get me started! 

An early 20th-century Hindi definition describes raita as yogurt or buttermilk containing boiled greens, gourd or pumpkin, or fried droplets such as boondi, seasoned with salt, chili, cumin, and mustard. That is clearly a robustly spiced relish, not merely a seasoned cucumber cold soup.

I have two pounds of frozen chowder mix: haddock, scallops, and shrimp. Each ingredient is in it's own bag so in theory I don't have to defrost all three today. But doesn't a full seafood and fish chowder sound absolutely wonderful as the autumn wanes to winter?