Since it’s Soup Season, seems like it’s time for something you can dunk.  Starch is how I get my kids to eat lots of things– “Three more bites of your curry, then you can have another piece of bread.”  Or “Another tablespoon of wasabi, then you can have a biscuit.” Especially if we’re eating down [...]

There are a handful of things I’ve made over and over and over again–easy recipes that never fail me, standbys that most our friends have eaten at our house or found on their doorstep during illness or after a baby’s been born.  Rebecca’s Tortilla Soup is one of them.
There aren’t a lot of soup recipes [...]

Maybe you haven’t noticed, but I’m posting roughly every other day instead of my daily Eager Beaver of yore.  It’s a more sustainable rhythm, but the upshot is I’ve got recipes piling up like nobody’s business.  I’ve got soup, cookies, cake, and sandwiches waiting in the wings, and I never know what will make it [...]

I’ve been proud of myself all week.  Instead of letting the summer garden rot and become a disgraceful mess, I got out there and cleaned up.  I harvested the last of the cucumbers; planted some cabbage, kale, broccoli, and brussel sprouts; weeded; picked green tomatoes off blighted plants.  Normally, by the time summer is over, [...]

I could never be a restaurant reviewer.  At least not the kind that goes in, acts all diffident, then slams the place as soon as they get into the car with their laptop.  I named this blog quickly and without much thought–In Praise of Leftovers–but more and more, it seems fitting that “praise” would be [...]