Homemade Tomato Soup & Open Faced Vegetable Melts (Plus: How to Bake with Yeast)
Posted by Ari in Balanced Eating, Breads Made With Yeast, How To, Main Dishes, My Recipes, Quick & Easy, Soups and Stews, Work Lunches on Feb 5th, 2009 | 111 Comments
Those of you who live in areas that see a lot of snow will understand when I say that sometimes a 10 minute drive to the market for a loaf of bread is so not worth it. Like last week, when Connecticut was being covered in sheets of snow and freezing rain, and I realized I’d forgotten to buy a...
Creamy Carrot Potato Soup
Posted by Ari in Budget Gourmet, My Recipes, Quick & Easy, Soups and Stews on Dec 17th, 2008 | 61 Comments
Some recipes are the result of hours spent in the kitchen, tweaking this ingredient or that, and some recipes just happen. The recipe in this post is an example of the latter and is, if you ask me, exactly what a soup should be as a result: the ingredients you have on hand, thrown into a pot and simmered...
Butternut Squash Stew with Rosemary and Tomatoes
Foggy Day Chili & Farm Stand Cornbread
Posted by Ari in Books, Food History, Main Dishes, Soups and Stews, Work Lunches on Dec 21st, 2007 | 23 Comments
Chili and cornbread are two of my favorite things to eat on crisp autumn or cold winter days. Not only do they fill you up, but they make you feel warm and toasty, transforming the icy winds into a welcome mealtime accompaniment. Sure the weather outside may be frightful, but in here honey, I got me...
Jamie Oliver’s Early Autumn Minestrone
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride By Daniel James Brown
It's not often that a history book will compel me to set all my novels aside, but "The Indifferent Stars Above" certainly did. Within the first few pages I was spellbound. I had to know how Sarah, a young woman newly married to her childhood sweetheart, would end up on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the dead of winter, starving and forced to do unspeakable things in order to survive.
"The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride" tells the story of the Donner Party from the perspective of newlyweds Sarah Graves and Jay Fosdick. In April of 1846 the couple joined Sarah's family as they journeyed west from Illinois to the promised land of California. (Read the rest of this review...)
