Soup weather, a.k.a. my favorite season, has arrived! Once the high dips below 90 for several days in a row, I consider it official. There are so many delectable soups to rustle up and dig into, though, and it's really hard for me, as a devoted soupster, to choose which to make first. This year, I settled on minestrone for its calming, vegetableish effects, but I had an ulterior motive...I wanted to try frying some chickpeas, and I decided they'd come in handy as a crunchy crouton for the soup. I'd planned to include chickpeas in my minestrone, so what could be easier than reserving a few chickpeas from the can and frying them up?
making soup sing: chicken minestrone with crispy chickpeas
By foodorleans · September 23, 2011 · 0 Comments · 134 Views
Tagged with: Chicken, WEATHER, fall, bacon, cheese, fried, autumn, bread, Soup, onion, celery, parmesan, basil, carrot, thyme, broth, Bean, crouton, kidney, Minestrone, chickpea
ready to roast: Susan Spicer's jalapeno roast pork
By foodorleans · September 4, 2011 · 2 Comments · 656 Views
Ah, September...I don't know what the weather's like where you are, but here in New Orleans, it's pretty darn wet. But once the rains of Lee move northeast, we should get some fall-like weather, topping out around 75 degrees! Practically winter. I'm always ready to do some roasting as soon as the major summer heat subsides, and I'm jumping the gun a little here, but with good reason. We're making this scrumptious jalapeno-roasted pork from Susan Spicer's wonderful cookbook, Crescent City Cooking, so we can use the leftovers in a Labor Day/Paul's Birthday jambalaya tomorrow. Hooray!
[two pork shoulders (double recipe) about to go in the oven]
Tagged with: WEATHER, juice, fall, orange, shoulder, rice, garlic, september, Pork, thyme, grits, roast, jalapeno, Yummers, spicer, susan
