Some food can be a little scary. We tend to shy away from food that we don’t understand. I totally understand this urge. I mean, we’re talking about things that we are putting in our bodies here. There’s a lot at stake. Best to stay with the familiar. Or not. Because when we eat something…
green soup
I’ve got to be honest with you. I maybe wasn’t going to write about this soup. I was really excited about writing about this soup. And I made it, and it was good. But it wasn’t such a hit with the kiddos, and Joey, shall we say, endured it. But then I ate it again…
beef stew
I worked at the market yesterday, and I think that thirty hours later I am just starting to thaw. It never quite got above 35 degrees, and while all the happy tourists lucked out with a sunny crisp day for looking at their precious leaves, that is just too damned cold to stand in one…
black bean and roasted tomatillo soup with garlic yogurt
October might just be my favorite month for cooking. The cold air drives me straight to the stove, and the garden is still spitting out more produce than I can manage. The squash are taking over, but at the same time there are those few plants that are hanging on till they are done in…
pho
Yeehaw. It’s that time again, when Alana makes a mess making something that she never dared to do before! Pho! Or more accurately, Pho? There’s not much pho to be had around here, but every time we go to Denver, there’s a whole lot of talk of the famous Vietnamese noodle soup. That said, I…
Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 