Food development efforts
This week in Houston has been terribly cold. As a result, I decided I REALLY wanted a good beef stew for dinner one night. Last winter, I had a terrific Guinness Stew at Paddy Murphy’s in Bangor. So I decided to try to make one of my own with a few modifications. I started with […]
When fall weather comes to Texas, one of my favorite things to cook is soup. Really there are typically four or five months of the year where one COULD want soup here. So it is imperative that ones avails themselves of soup weather. Most of the time I’d make something like cream of mushroom or […]
The farm where I picked peaches also had blackberries and because I’m a big berry fan I picked a container of them to make something with. Initially I thought I’d make ice cream but I ran out of time to do that. So I decided to make some jam instead because my dad really likes […]
Fall is here in Houston and as soon as it gets reasonably cold my husband starts asking for soup. Last weekend I made cream of mushroom soup the recipe for which I’ve posted before. This weekend he requested cream of broccoli. Cream of broccoli soup and cream of mushroom use very similar ingredients but the […]
This Sunday was St. Patrick’s Day and I wanted to make a Irish or British pub style meal. In the past, I’ve almost always made corned beef and cabbage for St. Patrick’s Day. However, I made this a couple weeks ago and I wasn’t ready to have it again so soon. Other alternatives were bangers […]
Fall has arrived here in Houston and that means soup season is back. This week I decided to make an old favorite – Potato Leek Soup. The biggest challenging with this soup is making sure the leeks are good and clean. The best way to do this is to slice them up and soak in […]
My fall CSA boxes started arriving this week and I’ve still got squash from the summer CSA boxes to use up. In order to make room for the new stuff that started showing up on Thursday I decide to make a nice fall squash bread last weekend. Last year at the holidays I made this […]
We had some more fall weather this week and so I was inspired to make soup again. This time I decided to make a soup with acorn squash and mushrooms. I like the taste of acorn squash. It isn’t too sweet and has a nice creamy texture. I match this with cremini mushrooms which are […]
A cold front came through Houston last week bringing with it much appreciated cooler truly fall weather. As soon as I felt the change in temperature I started scheming what tasty meals I could make that I haven’t had since March. First and foremost that means soups. Because soups were a mainstay growing up, I […]