Food Blogga

The other day at Sprouts, a local grocery store, a woman saw me selecting baby eggplant.
She asked, "Do you like those?"
"Oh, I adore them," I said. "They're much sweeter and more tender than large eggplants."

I thought you'd appreciate a follow-up to last week's post about 4-year-old Cody Brasich. Sadly, little Cody passed away this past weekend while in Hospice care, with his mom and dad by his side.
Hundreds of people, including many of you reading this, placed generous bids on the online bake sale and made direct donations to codybrasich.com. So far, over $11, 000 has been raised to help Cody's parents with their exorbitant medical bills....

I'm not exactly sure when it happened, but at some point in the last several years, ginger butternut squash soup became America's #1 vegetarian soup of choice.
Ginger butternut squash soup is everywhere. Google it, and you'll get hundreds of recipes (I stopped counting after the eighth full page load). Every vegetarian cookbook has a recipe for it. It's the go-to soup for Thanksgiving holidays and dinner parties...

Onions have their place. I wouldn't dream of starting a marinara sauce without sauteed shallots. Nearly every soup I make starts with sauteed brown onions. Red onions enliven fruit salsas, and scallions add depth to guacamole. And let's face it, a bratwurst...