Ham is expensive if you look at the total price, but if you break it down to how many meals you get out of it, it’s often quite reasonable. I always get ham with a bone in so I can make some split pea or bean soup. Dice and freeze any leftover ham in 1…
Winter
Minestrone Soup from An Everlasting Meal
I periodically pick up and re-read portions of Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal (affiliate link). It’s a great read to get your creative cooking juices going. And it’s focused on using things up and doing a little work now that can be used tomorrow, etc. Highly recommended but not just a recipe book! And this Minestrone…
Lidia’s Italian Wedding Soup
Lidia’s Italian Wedding Soup recipe was one of the most visited recipes this year but I realized I had never brought it over into the blog. The old site is not very mobile friendly and doesn’t print as nicely so I thought I’d bring it over here and remind everyone how good this soup is!…
Sausage, Spinach, White Bean and Cauliflower Soup
The other day I made breaded and fried cauliflower. I made a great Sausage, Spinach, White Bean and Cauliflower Soup with the leftover cauliflower. I used Pam Anderson’s formula from How to Cook Without a Book, an easy set of ratios to remember with an onion, a pound each of chopped vegetables and meat, starch…
Lidia’s Chicken and Rice
This Chicken and Rice Recipe was my first “fall” dish, as it cooled off a little yesterday evening and I felt like something warm and comforting. I’ve made this enough times that the page in the cookbook (Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy) is wrinkled and splattered and I’ve almost got it memorized. I see…