Damon Lee Fowler

It's finally soup weather, when the perfect antidote to the nip in the air is a fragrantly steaming bowl of a childhood favorite.

And yet, for far too many of us, what "soup weather" means in our kitchens isn't digging the stock pot out of the pantry, but stocking that pantry with cans whose labels sport appetizing images that their contents can never come close to meeting.

Soup making is one of the simplest and most satisfying things we do in the kitchen, and yet is also one of the first things to go for single cooks and for those with shrinking households. There's nothing wrong with occasionally resorting to a can when we're tired, cold, and hungry. But to abandon homemade soup altogether is to miss out Read More 

It seems as if October has only just gotten started, and already Halloween, November, and the winter holiday season are staring us in the face.

In our house, it's been a month of celebration and change, joy and sadness, and we've needed the kind of simple, warming, familiar food that comforts, things I can make almost on automatic pilot, but which really bring nothing new to the table or the conversation.

And yet sometimes, even in the routine and familiar, a change in seasonal flavors can bring something that, while not really new, adds freshness to the table Read More