Recently Garden & Gun magazine published a list of the 50 best Southern dishes. Best side, best meat, best seafood. Generally, the best dish to eat in the South. Not surprisingly, New Orleans and the state of Louisiana made the list numerous times with nods to Cochon Butcher, Galatoire’s and many more. Charleston, South Carolina another city […]
This creamy garlic soup is a welcome change from the ordinary and staid winter soup. No, squash, no pumpkin, no potato, not here. Yet, the soup has that familiar velvety texture and creamy flavor, so loved by chefs in these colder months. Oddly enough the soup, when finished, is strangely reminiscent of a creamy mushroom […]
Soup is high volume, long lasting and crowd pleasing. This one also happens to be not only vegetarian, but vegan as well. The addition of coconut milk and curry adds more of an exotic flavor to the pumpkin as well as a deep, wintry flavor. If you don’t have 10 mouths to feed it freezes well […]
Pumpkin Nut Bread (makes two 9″ loaves) 3 cups pumpkin puree 2 cups sugar 2/3 cup milk 1/2 cup softened butter 4 cups flour 4 tsp baking soda 2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp salt 1 tsp nutmeg 1 tsp grate ginger 1 cup chopped walnuts In a large bowl mix the sugar and pumpkin […]
A simple and delicious recipe for your Tuesday morning. We recently had a wonderful dish at Gautreau’s Restaurant (named one of NOLA’s top 10 of 2011 by Brett Anderson), a seared scallop appetizer on a bed of creamy corn pudding topped with fava beans and bacon vinaigrette. The scallops were plump, the corn pudding creamy and sweet. […]