August 25, 2008 – 9:25 pm
Have you ever been in the midst of fruit so and lush and swollen with ripeness that it sends out long sinuous trails of heady and bewitching fragrances which reach out and enfold your entire being? Fruit that not whispers softly, but fairly shrieks “PICK ME ! PICK ME!” ? So pick you do. And [...]
August 13, 2008 – 12:42 pm
Mmmm…soup’s on. While in Seattle a few months back I slurped up a deliciously warming bowl of parmesan brodo with controne beans at How To Cook A Wolf. With that memory of a meal in mind, I put together this soup: a base of a richly golden chicken and turkey stock simmered with a chunk [...]
August 11, 2008 – 1:56 pm
My reveille told me that it was time to put on both a sweater and a pot of soup. I started with dried controne beans, clear cool water and beautiful aromats from the farmer’s market.