Jamaican Pumpkin + Red Pea Soup
This soup is a delicious amalgamation of common Jamaican flavors and ingredients: collards, to stand in for the ubiquitous calloo greens; red beans, their most common; pumpkin, a surprising staple on the island I hear grows readily there; a homemade flavor base lifted...
Minestrone Invernale
Happy New Year, everyone! Hard not to be hopeful these days, excited for a fresh start. Perhaps one in which we all become better versions of ourselves and the world changes for the better. Or maybe one in which we all get haircuts and start wearing real pants again...
Hoppin’ John
I grew up in the “South,” by which I mean Florida. It wasn’t until I married Garth, who somehow grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, that I learned of this tradition of eating Hoppin’ John over rice on New Years’ Day to bring you luck in the coming year. Basically,...
Greek Soup Mashup
This soup is a fantasy blend of three classic Greek soups— avgolemono, fasolada and tahinosoupa— to create a kind of Greek soup unicorn. It would probably offend someone somewhere, but I don’t care because it’s totally delicious and full of things I like to eat. I...
