Food, Photography and Bons Mots
Another soup beauty! This soup has a very unexpected ingredient—Jerusalem artichokes. What the heck are Jerusalem artichokes? Are they even artichokes at all? According to Harold McGee’s definitive book On Food and Cooking the Jerusalem artichoke is sometimes called a sunchoke or an earth apple.…
Love to try interesting-sounding new recipes? Me, too! Get a recipe failure now and then? Me, too! All may not be lost. I enjoy experimenting with new recipes. Sometimes, a recipe just doesn’t appeal to my taste or it lacks the visual appeal that is…
Here is a great comfort food to get you through unsettling times: Cream of Mushroom Soup. I used small brown baby bella mushrooms in this soup but you could mix things up with other mushroom varieties. This recipe uses a lot of mushrooms and yields…
I subscribe to an interesting app. It is titled Eat Your Books (https://www.eatyourbooks.com/myhome). Eat Your Books allows me to intelligently (and efficiently) search my burgeoning cookbook collection. Here is how it works. You enter the titles of the cookbooks you own. Once that is done,…
I remember first encountering bok choy years ago on a trip to China. Whether we were in Bejing or in The Stone Forest, bok choy was on our plates. It’s a staple in the Asian kitchen. Today, back in the United States, bok choy is…
As I sat steaming bowls of this beautiful soup in front of my New Year’s Day guests, I remember saying “This may be the most beautiful soup in the universe.” And it is. The intense orange color of this soup is spectacular. And the edgy…
Have I ever mentioned that I love soups? OK. I know I have—over and over and over. Forgive me. Here is a new favorite. This is a Deborah Madison recipe from her cookbook Vegetable Soups. This is her recipe for Broccoli Soup With Garlic, Ginger…
It’s cold. It is pouring rain. I have a @!%!! roof leak. I’m craving soup…again! Here is a recipe from Joanne Chang’s Myers + Chang At Home cookbook. You can buy the cookbook through your local bookstore or on Amazon here. In the introduction to…
Got those change-of-seasons blues? This Soup Au Pistou is just the right soup to blast you right out of those doldrums. It hits all those fall color vibes, too. Look at those orangey colors! Not visible in this photo is the dollop of basil pistou…
NEVER saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I’d rather see than be one. –Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) How about a purple soup? Ever saw one of those? Neither had I until I picked up…
