Earlier in the fall Jen over at Modern Beet* posted a recipe for split pea soup, but I never got around to making it. I blame her for planting the seed in my head. Then later in England, my friend Leslie and I made the mistake of grocery shopping while incredibly hungry. I saw a [...]
In cooking, I am constantly trying to grow and change the way I see food. My feeling is that if you just cook the same thing over and over with no change, the dish looses it’s luster. Instead of the same old soup, deconstruct it. Make that soup into a salad, mixed grill or even [...]
When I bought the beets for this dish, I actually had no intention of making soup at all. Phil had requested my roasted beet salad for dinner and I guess I went a tad overboard at the produce stand because I ended up bringing home two bunches. I just couldn’t resist those little, orange, light [...]