Late September is a strange time of year for me. The calendar says fall, but it’s still 90 degrees here in Florida. So while I am looking forward to more soups and stews and roasts and the fall vegetable season, we still have beautiful tomatoes. It was so humid here on this day, that I […]
Recipes
Asian Flair Pasta Salad
Have I mentioned I like pasta salad? Have I mentioned that I like to make a lot of it, to feed as many people as might be traipsing through my house at any given time? Have I also mentioned that I like to change it up so that it doesn’t get boring? Yeah, that. Yesterday […]
Tomato Soup
“When I was a kid, I loved Campbell’s Tomato Soup. I ate it with grilled cheese sandwiches and as far as I was concerned it was heaven. But kids grow up and sometimes when we revisit a childhood favorite, we’re dismayed to discover that it’s an overly salty, tin can tasting, hot mess. So […]
Pumpkin Soup
It had been a rather decadent holiday season around our house. I think the rough year that was 2009 was the catalyst for a lot of comfort food, diet breaking and alcohol consumption. I know it was around here. So, as we started the new year I was trying to feed my family (and myself) […]