Topic Soup/Stew/Legumes

Slow Food Sunday: Chinese Chicken Soup with Wontons and Greens

Sundays are slower.  At least they should feel slower.  Sundays were made for sleeping in, a leisurely breakfast with the paper, hanging out with those you love, and puttering around the

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Ratatouille: Quintessential Summer Dish

Ratatouille is never as good as it is right now. It’s the epitomical late-summer dish. Each ingredient is at its peak – eggplant, peppers, basil, tomatoes, summer squash. I became addicted

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Jack-o-Lantern Soup

I think a fittingly ironic end to Halloween is to puree and eat your jack-o-lantern. Pumpkins are delicious, rich in beta-carotene and anti-oxidants, and quite versatile – pumpkin soup, pumpkin risotto, pumpkin ravioli,

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All Hallow’s Eve Vegetarian Chili

Double, double, toil & trouble; Fire burn & cauldron bubble.” –William Shakespeare Many believe that All Hallows’ Eve, the most magically potent night of the year, is when the spiritual and

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Pollo di Carnevale

Pollo di Carnevale is a splendid country dish of braised chicken with wild mushrooms, herbs, green olives and a rich, tomato-laced sauce. The recipe is pilfered from Lynne Rossetto Kasper’s The Splendid Table,

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