I adore making soup. I love prepping all of the ingredients, I like getting all the flavors to come together and I love the smell of goodness as the soup simmers away on the stove. Forget candles – I will take a pot of soup any day! I also like the communal aspect of soup [...] Read more »
Meatless Monday comes every week so we bought a huge bag of sprouted beans from Costco to create some recipes. Since Saturday was a rainy and kind of chilly day, a curry seemed just the thing to warm up and a perfect excuse to use the sprouted beans! The amounts are fairly precise – as [...] Read more »
Snapper Turtle Soup has been a longstanding favorite in my family – it is a rich and hearty soup that is perfect for a chilly winter day. When I was really young, one of my fondest memories was having Snapper Soup at Schaefer’s Canal House in Chesapeake City, Maryland. Barges and ships would slide silently [...] Read more »
Things have been so busy around the house with work schedules, school schedules, more work schedules that yesterday everyone ended up feeling a bit run down. What’s the best recipe when you have lost your perk and the scratchy throat takes up residence? Chicken Soup, of course! And while chicken noodle soup and chicken rice [...] Read more »
Having a rainy weekend with slightly cooler temps was a great excuse to try out some fabulous fall recipes. Although the weather in Florida does not reflect “autumn” as many of us know it, the markets certainly do. Squash (squashes??) abounds with their wild patterns and funky rinds that hold delicious treats inside. I had [...] Read more »
Being back in Florida means that I am having a tough time getting back into the swing of things from a seasonal standpoint. My brain says: I want soup! Soup season is here but the air conditioning is humming away and today, we were over 90 degrees. I have to balance the Florida weather with [...] Read more »
St. Patrick’s Day is simply an excuse to drink more Guinness. (As if I needed an excuse!) This is a fabulous stew and made to order for my palate with the addition of my always-favorite Guinness. Then you can serve it with Guinness too! Ingredients for Guinness Stew 2 pds 3 oz of chunked beef [...] Read more »
There are two sides to the day before Ash Wednesday this week – one is Fat Tuesday and the other is Shrove Tuesday. Yes, they are the same day and no, there are not tons of differences but in my mind, Fat Tuesday is more about the Mardi Gras spirit and New Orleans and Shrove [...] Read more »
