Related Clues:
- Stock kin
- Form of baby food
- Early course at a restaurant
- Pumpkin pie filling, mostly
- Miso dish
- Beginning, in an idiom ... or a hint to the starred clues' answers, pre-transformation
- Turn into an edible paste
- Cooked and then blended food
- Minestrone or menudo
- Tureen fill
- Tomato ___ (pizza sauce base)
- Extremely excited having this on the restaurant menu?
- Tom yum, avgolemono or borscht
- Matzo ball ___, aka Jewish penicillin
- Part of many a lunch special