Taking corn soup beyond the package

It’s easy to prettify a 32 oz package of soup. The Pacific Natural Foods Buttery Sweet Corn soup was only $1.00 at some food outlet.
Minced two stalks of celery. Had some sauteed onions in the fridge, so threw in 1/2 cup of that. Found a stray sweet potato. Wrapped it in some cling film and [...]

The Pressure Cooker Gourmet, by Victoria Wise (mini-review)

Last year, I purchased “The Pressure Cooker Gourmet.” Long before I had a pressure cooker to call my own, I was apprehensive about fending off kitchen explosions and the psk-psk sound – is the noise inspiring or anxiety-provoking?
Ms. Victoria Wise reveals that these formidable tools are quite easy and safe to handle. More importantly, she [...]

Run, don’t walk, to Fairway and get Gata Hurdes olive oil

Either that, or, bribe any New Yorker you can get your hands on. One of my friends made the mistake of letting me try some Gata Hurdes olive oil. It’s Spanish. Beautiful green. Amazing flavor: smooth, fruity (perhaps even a teensy grassy), and a nod in the direction of pepperiness with a final destination of [...]

When the stars make you drool just like Pasta Fazool, that’s Amore…(about $.50 per serving)

Sometimes slow cookers can help you become magical – in two places at once. Yes, you can be hard at work in the kitchen and relaxing elsewhere, at the very same time. (mea culpa, no pix for this post.)
Pasta Fazool (Pasta e Fagioli)

3lbs of Swanson’s Lower Sodium chicken stock ($2.75);
1 lb dry kidney beans, soaked [...]

So Delicious: yes, it is. Chocolate Obsession? Yes, indeed.

If you don’t know already, Turtle Mountain makes a dairy-free frozen dessert called So Delicious Chocolate Obsession. See, how clever – they left off the “y” in soy. Not only laced with ribbons of chocolate sauce, inexplicably delicious crunchy flakes of chocolate torment you with utter irresistibility. Oh, buy it. From what I can tell, [...]