This simple soup sounds fairly awful and looks a mess, but it’s quite good, nutritious, low fat, very quick to make, and easy to adapt to an even lighter vegetarian version. I thought the cilantro was a little overpowering, and of course, those with a genetic predisposition to detest cilantro will want to skip it all together. 1 pound very
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My mother made this fabulous peanut butter pie as one of several desserts for Christmas dinner. We liked it so much that she made us another one for New Year. We’re not used to such a surfeit of sugar, and so retreated from rich sweets once the holidays had passed. When we recover, we’ll definitely try this pie again. Here’s
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“Mazy paths of rivers meander and by disposition I do the same,” says Martha Hall Foose at the beginning of her newest cookbook, A Southerly Course: Recipes and Stories from Close to Home. The book is an interesting ramble through Foose’s culinary repertoire, foods local to Mississippi (including game, crawdads, and Premium Number One Beauregard sweet potatoes), sweet personal stories,
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