Of course I can’t write about soup in June without giving the giant disclaimer that it’s felt like March around here. I’ve talked to lots of people this week who report feeling low. I think we’ve been teased–a few great days in May, getting our hopes up for summer, then sucker-punched with this constant, COLD [...]

This delicious soup was influenced by what was lying around (of course), this great primer on bulgar, and my recent reading of Mark Bittman’s Food Matters. Permit me a small soapbox for each one.
1) What lies around. In the last week, I purchased several bits of produce for which I had no specific use. At [...]

I made macaroni and cheese the other night (you’re welcome, kids), and Yancey actually pushed it away and ate only salad.  He said, “Babe, don’t be mad at me.”  What’s a wife and mother to do?  Be mad, of course!  He’s on the healthy firefighter kick, and when I unveiled soba with cabbage last night [...]

I once looked up how to make the real pho–Vietnamese noodle soup.  Forget it.  The agony in getting the broth to be clear, the boiling of soup bones.  Our Vietnamese neighbors have us over for pho every few months.  Huang gets bored on a weekend afternoon (I never see him quit working), cooks up a [...]

Gourmet magazine is really gone.  I kept hoping (along with a million other readers) that someone would rescue it from the brink, swoop into their corporate NYC headquarters with a bunch of cash and magnanimity, and keep us all afloat.  No such luck.  The publishing world has substituted Bon Appetit for the remainder of my [...]