Eating the Scenery

My last two free-range chickens (will order more from the Northwest Food Hub !) achieved thawed-ness at a very awkward time.  So I put th...

The authors of Cooks Illustrated's book  The Best Recipe:  Soups and Stews  are crazy obsessed with perfection.  Pages of text d...

I've been picking up grassfed beef soup bones here and there for a while (okay, a couple of years) and finally got 'em all out of ...

I thought Tom Yum Goong was the best soup ever.  But I have a new favorite!  The braising greens from Box 2 found their way into this sou...

It's gray and blustery outside.  It's the day after Thanksgiving.  Maybe it's a Sunday night.  Whatever.  You just don't fee...

This incomparable Thai soup requires a trip to your local Asian market, but after that initial effort, it's quick to prepare. Tom Yu...

  The Autumnal Equinox is here, so ...it's soup time!  I'm pretty sure Soup Peddler David Ansel titled his hilarious and fun-to-read...

Whoa!  This is what happens when you've been craving chili and you see "Buffalo" on a package of ground meat at the grocery s...

Lately I've been noticing those interesting vegetables tucked up and back of the more usual, recognizable varieties in the front rows of...

This delicious chowder has become our traditional Christmas Eve dinner dish.  Savory, hearty, with a subtle hint of tarragon ... it's a ...

Two things captivated me when I spotted this recipe years ago.  It called for two cups of white wine, which I felt sure would elevate a simp...

When looking at a heap of fresh tomatoes ripening rapidly on one's kitchen counter, one tends to think of sweeping, efficient yet delici...

This week, things got a little sparse in the vegetable department between farmers' markets. I looked at a motley collection of vegetab...

Yesterday I started craving raspberry-nectarine pie, so I know that it's season-shifting time. Could be that's why this soup, with...

I don't think I've ever truly carmelized onions before, but today I was determined to actually do it. After the initial 40-minute c...

Years ago I learned that no, I cannot substitute onions for leeks. They're completely different. Leeks have a deep, primal kind of fra...

Exploring ideas for a dish that would combine my CSA pears and onions , I happened upon one that would also include my CSA chickpeas . An ...

I just had to do something with one of those beautiful CSA onions tonight. I hadn't used the potatoes from Box 2 yet, so I got them o...