This is not my recipe. I merely tweaked it, but that’s because my pesky little fingers can’t leave anything alone. I’m a compulsive tweaker. It’s what I do. When Marc van der Linden—a Dutch royalty journalist and chief-editor of Royalty Magazine—tweeted his recipe, I was intrigued. It seemed so simple yet so tomatey, for lack of a better word. Exactly how any unpretentious home-made tomato soup should be; comfort food…
I actually came up with this recipe by accident. I ran out of flour one day, had a 2-month-old baby whom I really didn’t want to drag to a store for just two measly tbsp of flour—that would’ve been plain stupid and my momma didn’t raise no fools. Even though you wouldn’t say that if you ever ran into my brother. He’s weird… but it’s a good kind of weird. I…
You could have have seen this one coming! Seriously. Don’t tell me you didn’t expect it! I’ve been on an Indian food binge ever since my Peppery Chicken Curry. It’s all so fragrant and yummy. Having a blast trying several recipes from the Pure India book, tweaking them and giving them my own twist. Then I put the book aside and wondered what would happen if I’d Indiafy—for lack of a…
I still had some celery stalks in my fridge that needed to be used up. So, I did what any woman in dire need of a recipe would do; I confiscated a friend’s cookbook. While flipping through the pages I happened upon this recipe and just knew I had to make it. What is Ribollita? It’s an Tuscan country soup and literally translated it would mean “reboiled”. Apparently this soup was…