by Caroline Wright | Mar 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
While we’re on the subject of casseroles, I wanted to shake up another classic casserole and pour it into a bowl: broccoli and rice, except without the usual pairings of cheese or chicken. I was convinced I could cram all that comfort into the bowl even without the...
by Caroline Wright | Mar 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
I never did the Campbell’s thing, or had much of a point of reference to the casserole as a meal in general, until I started to work at Martha Stewart. It was there that I learned about how deep that line of comfort runs. I appreciated how an entire generation within...
by Caroline Wright | Mar 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
All of you probably know this by now, but I was really sick a few years ago. It involved a lot of complicated things I won’t get into right here, but it also involved a lot of healing with soup. Soup materialized everywhere, filling our cooler outside, our...
by Caroline Wright | Mar 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
A few years ago, I felt inspired by Mardi Gras and wanted to play around with a kind of obscure, green gumbo with origins in Africa. The result was a delicious bowl that reminds me of all the comfort of gumbo with none of the meat. It took me to the French quarter, to...
by Caroline Wright | Feb 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
This isn’t soup at all, really, but one vegan interpretation of half of the classic Southern dish of red beans and rice. The classic dish has Andouille sausage in it, which I obviously left out. I took a few tricks I played around with in the Hoppin’ John – chipotle...
by Caroline Wright | Feb 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Cabbage soup was all the rage in the 1950s. (Funny things were trendy then, like dancing in your socks in public, the jitterbug and pet rocks.) But it’s true – rumor has it that people would eat vats of this stuff in an attempt to fit into their poodle skirts. I...