Soupbowlful

1 soupbowlful of grated, dry rye 1 teaspoon butter

Yield: About eight large soupbowlsful

And then we started on soupbowlfuls of ice cream with fresh-frozen strawberries, and I think we got through four of those each before, well, we had to call it a draw.

When this, too, starts to blonde add a soupbowlful—we are thinking as usual of four or five persons—of long-grain rice, and a pinch of raw saffron.

Decoct to get 1 soupbowlful (of medicinal liquid).

Linguine Malafemina was a soupbowlful of linguine with shellfish (two huge scallops, two clams, three mussels, four medium shrimp) and a tomato sauce spiked with lots of thin slices of garlic and a vaguely musty flavor.

This $9.95 pie, though, is an elegant variation on the theme, a soupbowlful of thickened chicken broth, shot through with fresh herbs and wisps of chicken, studded with fat, sweet chunks of carrot, and peas that taste like peas, and capped with a giant, crunchy disk of puff pastry—the savory equivalent of the deconstructed napoleons Broadway Deli co-owner Michel Richard makes at Citrus, and just the thing with a glass of Clerc-Milon on a rainy afternoon.