The tomatoes are ripening in the bath tub in the yard. Yellow flowers peak out from the tops of the Roma vines like springtime mistletoe and promise more and more and more. You gotta find a good bisque recipe if your yard too burgeons with ripe reds. May I offer this for the sampling. Tomato […]
Category: soup
Acadian Cuisine with Chowder a la Mame and a la Red Beans
The nights have grown cold and dark. Soup season, a time when we bathe ourselves in broths and stews and chowders and tea until the frost burns away. We visited Acadian country last summer and enjoyed many delicious seafood chowders. Simon Thibault has authored a cookbook that is testament to the food of the Acadians, […]
Cherry Gazpacho a la Stoneridge Orchards
Gazpacho is the ideal late summer cuisine—a chilled soup that is spicy, hearty and just the shade of autumn leaves. This was my first gazpacho attempt, and I wanted to find a recipe for gazpacho that would allow me to use Stoneridge dried cherries because Stoneridge Orchards also makes a chocolate dipped cherry that I […]
Cilantro Lemon Soup, Ginger Fried Rice and Boogaloo
Bayou Boogaloo sailed through Mid City this weekend. There were many, many pirates. Most of them neon. I saw a stuffed dolphin on a guy’s shoulder, next to his mullet’s tail. We sailed our trusty Old Town Featherweight from stage to stage, along side a fleet of giant rubber duckies. Summer has arrived in the […]
Spring Lettuce and Leek Soup and Skinny Margaritas, Anti-Hurricane Potion
Hurricane season starts in two weeks! To help sublimate our fears, KP and I volunteered to help pass out 1,500 hurricane readiness pamphlets in our neighborhood, provided by Nola Ready. At this point, visit NOLA Ready and at least sign up for emergency alerts so you can panic at appropriate times. There are evacuation meeting […]
Cream of Cauliflower Soup for Cozy Wintering
Super delicious soup—although looked like I literally made Whirled Peas. Baby food dinner for Adults. I used an ENORMOUS cauliflower that Rouses was selling (probably by mistake) for $4 –and this was a 7 pound head, possibly heavier and larger than my own. This with cooked down collard greens was a fabulous combo for this […]
Peanut Butter Soup for the Soul
I wanted to highlight a little goodness in the world amid ever-harrowing headlines. The catastrophic flooding in Louisiana in August this year left hundreds of dogs and cats homeless, hungry and scared. Local shelters had to scramble for food and supplies to care for them. To help ensure these animals had enough food while they waited […]
Acorn Squash Soup and Old Fashioned Maple Sweets, In Winter’s Kitchen
Just in time for fall issues this lovely read, In Winter’s Kitchen, the latest book from Minnesota writer Beth Dooley, author of several Northern Heartland cookbooks. The chapter on “Wheat” spoke to me as it was in Minnesota that I had my own personal foodie revolution featuring a sourdough starter named Flo, and hence, this […]
Lasagna Soup and Olympic Belly Rubs
It occurred to me today that we missed a major window of opportunity with Izzy. She has this new thing—when she sees me coming from a distance, she comes up along side me, catches stride and then lunges a few feet ahead in a swan dive/belly up maneuver. How can you not stop to stoop […]
Medicine Soup and Cape Breton
We chose to vacation on the Cape Breton and Upper Maine Atlantic Coast over the last week—a needed break from the thick New Orleans summer climate and also all things medicine and education (however, my dreams only ceased featuring scenes from various hospital call days on the last night of vacationing slumber…) The scenery was […]