Winter Squash Soup
Leni’s Squash, Yam and Roasted Sweet Pepper Soup Butternut or other Winter squash Red Jewel Yams Curry Powder (optional – a very small amount – it’s just an accent) Sweet Peppers – yellow and red Onion Butter Half & Half…
A deboned turkey ready for the oven
Here is the bird trussed and ready for the roaster. It weighed 23 lbs. The thigh bones were removed.
A Lovely Way to Roast a Turkey
Here is our de-boned Thanksgiving turkey before putting it in the oven! Having not de-boned a bird in awhile it took about 45 minutes . . . . but it’s worth it. I didn’t stuff the bird – one can…
Talking about food while on the road (and cooking too)
On my long three weeks journey, after a few days in spent Oxford, MS at the Southern Foodways Alliance Conference, I crossed the Mississippi River at Helena over to W. Helena in Arkansas. At Pine Bluff High School I talked…
The best tastes of the Fall
Today I’m thinking about butternut squash soup; creamy, thick, deep yellow, yum! Several versions of this soup that I’ve been served are too sweet for my taste. I’m usually most responsive to savory. My recipe contains roasted red pepper,…
Leni’s heading back north
Here I am in Vicksburg, Mississippi, bookin’ out ahead of Hurricane Ida! Heading up Highway 61 just like in the Dylan song . . . . . “God told Abraham Kill me a son Abe says Man you must be…