Food, Photography and Bon Mots
Got holiday anxiety? You deserve a little private celebration during these busy holiday weeks. This elegant little Pea and Fennel Cream Soup certainly fits the bill. It is bright-green beautiful, comfortingly creamy and oh-SO-easy to prepare. This recipe is adapted from one that…
I’m imagining myself enjoying a bowl of this wonderful Fasolada soup on a lazy afternoon in a boisterous Greek taverna. Outside, the turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea lap gently against faded fishing boats beached on the sand . Bottles of Fix beer and a carafe…
Fall. Crisp, cool mornings. Pungent loamy soils and bursts of intense garden color. Juliet lifting her tiny nose to savor the new chill in the air. Soup weather. Finally. Spicy Fresh Corn and Coconut Soup Save Recipe Print Recipe My Recipes My Lists My Calendar…
De gazpacho no hay empacho. It’s a Spanish idiom. You can never have too much gazpacho. Or, translated for meaning, you can never have too much of a good thing. So, in that spirit, here is a very good gazpacho recipe. Pretty, too. Gazpacho…
Happy National Sneak Some Zucchini On Your Neighbor’s Porch Day! OK. It was August 8th. It’s the thought… On the other hand, where were you? Juliet and I didn’t get any zucchini on our porch. We looked. Let’s make up. I’ll put a great zucchini soup…
Summer! Here is a bit of mood music to set the tone: Joe Hisaishi’s One Summer’s Day. How pretty is that? This is my favorite time of the year for cooking. Summer fruits and vegetables are ripe and plentiful in the farmer’s markets. I just…
Need a little spice in your life? (Who doesn’t?) This spicy pozole soup should do the trick. Pozole is the Spanish word for hominy. Hominy is a traditional ingredient in Mexican cooking. It’s use, in fact, dates back to the kitchens of the Aztecs when…
My French neighbor, Nicole, loves Sweet Juliet. When she visits, she often greets Juliet with an affectionate mon petit chou. (Translated, that means “my little cabbage.”) Juliet has that effect on people. Absolute strangers and friends alike shower her with kind words and sweet kisses.…
How about a hearty chickpea soup for New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day? This recipe features all sorts of good vegetables to launch your new year–chickpeas, carrots, fennel, spinach and on and on. If you sprinkle some grated Parmesan over the soup at serving…
This is one beautiful (and delicious) soup. The original recipe comes from a cookbook titled Soup for Syria photographed and compiled by Beirut chef, photographer and cookbook author Barbara Abdeni Massaad. Massaad also is the author of the best-selling cookbook Man’oushe: Inside the…
