Writing the good read
Sorrel is a lemony perennial leafy herb. It grows easily and is hard to kill. There are variagated varieties that are pretty, but are tough and don’t taste as nice as the French culinary variety. It’s worth growing, especially if you like this soup, because you can’t usually find it in large enough quantities…
The Mean Lady doesn’t just torture my body and recommend which brand of condoms a newly single lady should use. She’s multi-talented and for a year has been on me to try this great recipe for watermelon gazpacho from the pages of Bon Appetit. So the other day, I had Mia come over to teach…
Cold weather makes me want a hot bowl of tomato soup. But sometimes I want something a little different. I saw a recipe a while back — I don’t remember in what magazine — for a tomato and artichoke soup and thought it sounded interesting. So I trotted off to the kitchen to play. I…
I love cassoulet, a French stew that traditionally includes beans, sausage, chicken or duck and pork. But the traditional variety includes ingredients I wouldn’t use in everyday cooking (like duck and other fatty cuts of meat) and can take a long time to make — days for some recipes. I saw one recipe on line…
Mia, dearest, I never want you to call me again, ask what to make for a dinner party, and then inform me afterward that you just ordered a pizza instead. So here is a lovely dish that takes just a few ingredients that you should have in your pantry anyway (go look at the first…
We have been teased here in the great Northwest with glimpses of spring, only to be surprised by a sudden snow shower and/or lower than average temperatures. So it’s still soup season here. And there are some soups that are best in spring, when the ingredients are at their peak — think fresh pea and…
A little over a year ago, I hosted a soup swap as part of National Soup Swap Day, an event made up by a really nice Seattlite a few years ago. I wrote about it at Nerd’s Eye View and got my first national clip writing about the trend in USA Weekend. This year, though,…