I went out to lunch with some folks yesterday and mentioned the soup blog as we walked to the restaurant. It turned out we were all soup fans, and there was much discussion of what our favorites were, how they were made and what made them special. By the time we were seated we were holding forth with considerable fervor on the subject of food. Continue reading
I just found the list for the Philip K. Dick Award in my inbox (thanks Van Gelder) where it’s been sitting since last night, and I’m moderately mortified to find I haven’t read a single one. Maybe I’ve got that backwards. They look like a pretty good lot, once you get beyond the non-descriptive titles, and are all available in Kindle format for pretty reasonable money. So maybe the purpose of awards has been met, introducing me to books worth considering amidst the crowded shelves.
Like many boomer kids, and some later ones as well, I spent part of my childhood polishing the copper bottoms of my mother’s Revere Ware pots. Actually, I think it was the only part of dish-washing that I liked, revealing the copper gleam on the pots, which were hung on a pegboard in our kitchen. Pegboards are another post I’m sure to get to.
When I moved out some thirty years or so ago, I went out and bought myself my own set…but without copper bottoms. They had the same lightweight and nearly indestructible design, and they served me well until about the turn of the century when my wife and I merged households. Continue reading
Split Pea Soup with Ham Hocks
Despite moments of doubt and faith, the Split Pea Soup came out very well. The ham hocks I used didn’t have as much flavor or meat on them as they usually do, but I augmented them with some ham I had around. At the end I added crushed red pepper, which gives zing to the soup…which some folks will love and some…not so much. I’ll be coming back to this soup again, as it’s one of my favorite winter soups. Continue reading
Vegas Vette
Though I’m not an especially big Corvette fan, I do like orange, and I found the lines on this classic vette on the show floor at CES 2011 to be very compelling.
