I recently purchased Jim Lahey’s cookbook My Pizza and have made my fair share of his pizzas. But today, I’m not going to write about pizza or pizza dough (stay…
Category: Soups and Stews
Every week, my husband saves the Food section of the New York Times for me. I had a few weeks worth piled up and in the January 20, 2016 edition, I came across Martha…
When I was young, I skied every winter weekend (and often during the week after school). Whenever I headed to the lodge for lunch, I enjoyed a bowl of chili topped with…
Following up on my Italian Wedding Soup post, here is another simple and delicious recipe for an Italian soup called Pasta e Fagioli. I first tasted this soup after moving to the suburbs in 2005. There was a…
Growing up in the Midwest, I had never heard of Italian Wedding Soup until I moved to Boston in 1995. When I began work in the financial district a couple…
I have no background story for this post except that I love roasted cauliflower and curry, separately. I have been craving a creamy cauliflower soup for a while and narrowed…
…so why is it snowing outside? I’m not talking about a flurry here or there. It is snowing hard (at times sideways) and we are expected to get 2-5 inches of snow…
I grew up in rural northern Michigan. The winters were bitterly cold but never bothered me back then. (Now, they most certainly do!) Most mornings I had a bowl of…
I have always loved tofu and ate a lot of it as a kid. It is so versatile and can take on almost any seasoning or preparation. It’s similar to chicken – alone it is flavorless,…
I have a dear friend who is a member of a local cooking club which meets on Wednesday nights. This week’s theme was SOUP. On Monday, she made a test batch of the one she chose…