It started with a birthday dinner for a vegetarian guest of honor. The weather has been topsy turvy and a slight nudge of chill and wet revived my longing for soup. I settled on a variation of vichyssoise but wanted the onion flavor to be less dominant and substituted a vegetable. Somehow, the vegetable became the…
Category: Soup
California Dreaming
We have overindulged. On February 9, some 12-16 inches of snow fell in Chicago, and the next morning, in a moment when the stars were aligned in our favor, we boarded a plane and flew to California. Unmarred swaths of snow lay everywhere in the early morning hours. My car resembled a small igloo but would…
Catching Up
The holidays have come and gone and I have been somewhat remiss with my posts. This is perhaps a bit ironic, because it is the time of year when I cook constantly — for parties, family, and friends — and yet, I seem not to have found the time to write, much less photograph, most…
Remember the Taste 