Recipes for the Resourceful Cook, by Keri Williams
Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–I’m really glad you’re here! This year, I, like so many others am asking the question of myself: what does Thanksgiving really mean? At first blush, I think it means being grateful: grateful for family and friends, the roof over my head, the food in my belly and yes–pecan pie. These are all really good things. When I took a little deeper dive and thought seriously about …
Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–I’m so glad you’re here! In my last post, I mentioned that I hosted my Friendsgiving on Sunday–turkey with all the trimmings. For this meal, I asked willing guests to taste and report on several wines I chose to test as pairings for the food. The quality of the wine was not the point here, but rather how well each wine complimented the food. My menu was …
Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! As I write this post, I now have Thanksgiving dinner #38 under my belt, having made Thanksgiving dinner for a Friendsgiving yesterday. Actually, between the years that I cooked turkey and all the trimmings for Christmas as well as Thanksgiving, the times I cooked the meal at someone else’s house and times that I made one Thanksgiving for friends and another for me …
Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–I’m really glad you’re here! Today, I’m exploring more alternatives to traditional Thanksgiving side dishes. Yesterday’s post featured hasselback potatoes as an alternative to mashed potatoes. Today, I’d like to suggest Mac and Trees as another alternative to mashed potatoes, or even to green bean casserole: This year, while visiting my parents in Texas, I did a lot of cooking for my mom and learned, to my …
Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! Thanksgiving is next week! Where. Has. This. Year. Gone? I do actually know, but I’m still processing much of what has happened this year, so please bear with me… But remember Thanksgiving holidays when you were a kid? Four whole days off from school, frosty weather, the tingle of excitement for the upcoming holiday season, and anticipation of that food that was about …
Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! Folks–here’s the bottom line: a pecan pie should be just that: a pecan pie. If you want a chocolate pie, make a chocolate pie. The two do not belong together in one pie–they just don’t. I am not a chocoholic. There. I said it and I’m not sorry. It’s not that I don’t like chocolate, because I do. But I like other sweets, …
Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! It’s been such a weird year. I’ve spent as much time in my California home as I’ve spent in my childhood home in Texas this year. I can’t count the number of times I’ve woken up and not known where I was over the last 12 months. I’ve now woken up in my own bed for about six weeks, which is probably the …
Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! “We all eat. It is one of the most basic of human needs. We must eat to survive, but it is the bonding that happens when we share a meal that makes the world a better place: it is the relationships built by sharing that simple, joyous and ancient ritual of coming together to break bread that provides the spice of life. This …
Hello and welcome back to another edition of The Stone Soup Cook: What’s Cooking in Keri’s California Kitchen Tonight? So glad you’re here! Today, I’m featuring pan-seared chicken breasts and maple-glazed roast kabocha squash: As the holidays draw nearer, it’s important to choose dinner ideas that embrace the season, but still provide a lighter alternative to the rich and often indulgent fare that dominates the season’s menus. This meal hits all the right notes without …
Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! Today, I’m sharing a new recipe for maple-glazed kabocha squash. But first, a story about squash and ill-mannered dinner guests. Or perhaps I should call it a cautionary tale…I’ll let you be the judge 😉 There are dinner guests, and then there are dinner guests. Mr. Stone Soup and I have thrown some legendary dinner parties. The Pandemic put an end to them …