Category Archives: soup Last week I wrote about my college friend John who hated white food, and today I’m writing about what could be my favorite food color—orange. Fall is undoubtedly my favorite season, and soup probably my favorite thing to cook. The methodical chopping and preparation of all the vegetable, the fragrant sautéing them in butter or […]  When I was in college my friend John told me he disliked all white food “Including cauliflower?” I asked dumbfounded, who doesn’t like cauliflower? As a kid my family ate cauliflower two ways, raw with Durkee’s Famous Sauce and steamed whole and covered with cheddar cheese. I wasn’t then, nor am I now a fan of […]  Each night my daughter and I go through the typical family pre-dinner ritual when I ask what she wants for dinner, and she replies “You decide” followed these days by “but no soup; it’s not soup weather!” I agree; who wants soup when you spend your day breathing something that feels more like soup than air? But I […]  I haven’t posted for two weeks, and now Monday is looming large before me. What do I say, what do I write? I had (foolishly) planned a post on portobella mushroom bacon, but it turned out pretty badly, so for now that project is going back to the lab for some more R&D, and I am […]  Spring officially started over a month ago, but it has been a slow, reluctant one this year. I haven’t felt the urge to switch out my clothes for the boxes in the attic, and I am still sleeping with an extra blanket on my bed. The cherry blossoms are blooming, the forsythia and crocuses have […] |
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