OK folks, repeat after me: Keep It Simple, Stupid! Years ago, when my wife and I were first getting into interesting and involved cooking, we attempted a Sorrel Soup recipe.  Why Sorrel Soup? I have no idea really; I guess it seemed ...

Here's a cross-post of my latest blog entry. MARKETS CRASH AROUND THE WORLD! HOUSING PRICES COLLAPSE! MASSIVE LAYOFFS EXPECTED! DOGS LIVING PEACEFULLY WITH CATS! PARIS HILTON BACK! Every time I pick up the newspaper the headlines ...

They are dropping like flies around here.  Half my workplace has been out sick in the past few weeks and my kid is full of snot. I don't have time for the seasonal plague so I decided to concoct a soup that will kill any virus within a mile. I was going to post this in recipes, but I ...

Everybody likes miso soup, right? Certainly everyone in Japan does—anyway, if they don’t, they’re keeping pretty quiet about it. This soup is very, very easy to make, and it has a lot more range than you might think, since I ...

For the basics of miso soup, see part 1 of this entry. If you want miso soup with wakame, tofu, and scallion rings, you can go to any Japanese restaurant and get it, and it won't be expensive - if it is, they're ripping you off. But there are lots of other kinds you can't get so easily, so ...

I'm waxing nostalgic for summer.  Here's a cross post of my latest blog entry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most mornings I get up and walk the dog. ...

This week’s dish was acquacotta.  “Acquacotta” means “boiled water,” and this soup is so simple you really don’t need to know much more than how to boil water to pull it off. Recipes for acquacotta vary a lot, mostly because it’s ...

Here's another cross post from my blog, http://www.crabbycook.com. I realize most of you are out in California, so the lack of spring is foreign idea, but with only (5) +70 deg. days since October '07, global warming is starting to ...

It's going to be a busy week, and I'm just about done with tonight's busy preparations for tomorrow's busy business. I had a great dinner earlier, fyi! I took a little leftover vegetable curry, hotted it up with twice or thrice ...