While split pea soup is undoubtedly un-pretty, it has been one of the most-made meals in my winter kitchen. Without realizing it, so much of the last few years has been about finding tiny moments of comfort, wherever they might be found. Which is the flip side of the anxiety coin that has been grocery […]
After an accidentally lengthy break, this roasted cauliflower soup was the first thing I had photographed in a long time. It’s simple and comforting, the cauliflower flecked all over with roasty-toasty bits, the garlic cooked until sweet and soft, with a kiss of warm spices brightened by fresh lemon at the end. I wanted these […]
My mother cooked like she loved; not at all, or just for show. My father, however, brought a sense of irreverent frivolity to almost everything, which was true most of all in the kitchen. I wonder now if he ever really loved to cook, or if the few moments of actual joy sprinkled throughout the […]
It doesn’t matter how long I’ve lived in a place with sunshine almost utterly year round, my body doesn’t seem to want or need to acknowledge that fact. A case in food-point: I can happily eat soup year round, no matter how many salads I make in the summer because they’re “seasonal”; I’ll never, ever […]
I’m doing it again. Because my Tomato-Less Tomato Soup is one of the most popular recipes of the year so far, I just couldn’t leave well enough alone and made a Cream Of Tomato-Less Tomato Soup, too! Yes, both recipes really are nightshade free! But both recipes have that can’t-quite-put-my-finger-on-it flavor of a classic tomato […]
I know, Tomato-Less Tomato Soup sounds like I’m one mirage short of a hallucination, but once I became fixated on this idea, I just couldn’t give it up. While we’re buried in flu-and-eternal-winter-bugs season, the number one thing I really crave is tomato soup. I’m surely not alone in this, given how often I see […]
