Food, Photography and Bon Mots
This creamy Cauliflower and Zucchini Soup is just the mug of soup you need to warm your body and spirit during this winter’s chill. It’s definitely soup weather–even here in relatively warm southern California. Cauliflower, of course, is good for you, too, as you move…
Two of my good friends just married and I made this soup for them and for some of our friends who gathered to celebrate their marriage. The soup was very well received and my friends urged me to post the recipe here. So, here goes. …
As we head into a hot summer, who doesn’t need a calming bowl of hot soup? I know I do. Hot soup???? In the summer? It turns out that there is some science behind the practice of eating hot soup on hot days. Epicurious,…
Look at the beautiful color of this soup! I’d venture to guess that you are thinking that this is a tomato-based soup. But, no. This is a Lentil and Beet Soup and it is downright delicious. This soup is cooked from a recipe in Naz…
“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.” ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan There is a sorrow in Irish history that is undeniable–the famine, “The Troubles,” and on and on. There is also strength and resolve…
Could you use a steaming bowl of creamy rich soup about now? The world is having a heartbreakingly-bad week. This recipe is adapted from Melissa Clark’s recipe on the NYT site. Here is a link to the original recipe: Lemony Carrot and Cauliflower Soup.
Wishing you a happy new year filled with all good things–including great gastronomical delights. As for me, I’m looking for comfort food as we ease into 2022 and this New York Times soup recipe (Cauliflower, Potato and White Bean Soup) has “comfort” written all over…
Ah, Moosewood! I owe them big time. I honed so many of my cooking skills on their cookbooks, beginning with Mollie Katzen’s delightful handwritten and self-illustrated Moosewood Cookbook back in the 1970s.. Katzen introduced me to everything from hummus to banana raita. The book is…
Tuesday is my day. That’s the day when I sort out my refrigerator vegetable bins. Often, that means a hearty and ever-changing soup for me. That’s good news. I love soup, particularly during these early Autumn days with just the beginning of a chill in…
She was so gifted a writer that W.H. Auden said of her: “I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose.” She was so elegantly beautiful that the Dadaist artist Man Ray begged to photograph her, fascinated as he was…
