Garlic Piperade Soup: Put those 80 cloves of garlic to good use!
Follow me This recipe–with its 80 cloves of garlic, blanched and then minced–maybe should have made me blanche when I first ran across it in my worn copy of Jane…
Read moreA Tribute to my Dad
Follow me Gentle readers. I have lost my Dad, and my heart is raw from the losing. I have been trying to start a blog post on other topics, but…
Read moreBest Frog Eye Salad recipe & possible/probable? origin story
Follow me Frog eye salad is a dessert salad that shows up at nearly every one of our family gatherings. If it’s not there, there’s a pretty good/weird/confusing reason why…
Read more“And all at once, Summer collapsed into Fall.” –Oscar Wilde
Follow me And that’s how it happened this year: it was summer, then it was fall. Boom, baby. Aaaand, not long afterward: we were surprised by a killing freeze accompanied…
Read moreHot ‘n’ Spicy Chicken & Veg Soup: it’ll cure what ails ya
Follow me Last week I wrote about my pathetic craving for a chicken broth so hot and spicy, that it would sear my throat lining and make me cry. I…
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