Kale Chorizo Potato Soup - Caldo Verde
Oh this was delicious! I could go for some right now. It must be lunch time. Smokey and spicy.
Kale Chorizo Potato Soup (Caldo Verde) This soup is really easy.
1 large onion chopped
1 large bunch of kale, washed and cut into bit size pieces
3 medium potatoes cut into large pieces - skin […]
Curried butternut squash soup
Since I have the day off (President’s Day) and had a can of butternut squash in the cupboard and the secret ingredient this week is just that, I thought I would whip up some soup for lunch, esp since my BF said to boycott the secret ingredient. This way I can have some and […]
Cheesecake with ganache and kinnikitoos and fluffy
For a baby shower I co-hosted last weekend I was asked to make something for dessert. Now a lot of you might cringe, but I rarely think about desserts because I usually can’t eat them unless I make them and it is enough to cook dinner most of the time. But apparently others […]
Menu of the week or at least mid week
It’s about time I started doing this, so here is my first shot at it:
Monday: Turkish pide with meat and mozzarella (kind of like a folded up pizza with pita dough). We were in Chicago last weekend and my BF ordered this at a wonderful Turkish restaurant called Cousins. It looked soooo […]
phoeautiful, faux pho, love me my pho
Well, I had some lunch plans today. We were going to go get sushi. They got canceled. I still have my sushi craving, so decided to make some pho for lunch. Not sure how that worked as a substitute for raw fish wrapped in rice and seaweed, but it did. […]
Allium Frenchy soup or French onion soup aka 5 onion soup
Wild ramps (leeks to me), garden garlic (not my garden, but a friend’s), garlic chives, chives, and onions. That is what I used for my onion family soup - all in the allium family.
I learned to make the basis of this soup 10 years ago when I worked at McMenamins Brewery in Hilsboro Oregon. […]



