To this point, I haven't really written much about the soups that my mother made, beyond Matzo Ball Soup and chicken broth. Since my mother had several other soups that were in my her regular rotation, it is time to address that lack. We will lead with pea soup.

Pea Soup6 cups water ( Read more... )

Hunting season for deer in my home state of North Dakota started on Friday, November 6. The start of deer season was one of the major unofficial holidays of the calendar when I was growing up. I'd say that in neighboring Minnesota the first day of fishing season was a bigger occasion, but in North Dakota they were pretty close to even ( Read more... )

2016 was bit better than 2015 was in terms of Supper Clubs. We had four events total, which equaled our totals from 2015 and 2014 combined.

At the end of March, gieves and I hosted a Supper Club at my house. I've completely failed to post the recipes for that, but it's on my list to do and here are some pictures to tide you over until then. 8 people ( Read more... )

For gaming night we take turns arranging for dinner. Tonight's my night. Right now my slow cooker has some delicious beef stew in it for tonight's gaming session. I'm going to take the virtually unprecedented step of posting the recipe before I've actually tried it. Hopefully it tastes good. It was certainly well reviewed. I found it on All Recipes ( Read more... )

While everyone else was finishing up their bagels, I was in the kitchen plating the soup course. Selecting the soup was somewhat tricky. After all, the original Jewish Soul Food Supper Club had had used matzo ball soup, even if it was Indian spiced. There aren't any other truly iconic Jewish soups, and I wasn't making borscht. Fortunately, ( Read more... )

More recipes as I organize the pile.

I have a lot of chili recipes. This one is the one my mother made throughout my childhood. I've updated it somewhat to fit my personal tastes.

Mom's Chili1/2 lb ground beef ( Read more... )

I found out about this recipe via eirias's husband G, who posted it on FB. I made it before I went on vacation. Some of it was my leftovers for the week and the rest went in the freezer from whence it emerged upon my return to feed my when my refrigerator was empty. From Country Living, originally.

Andouille and Black-Eyed Pea Chili1 tablespoon(s) ( Read more... )

Maybe it was this miso soup. Maybe not. It's yummy anyway, and dead simple to make.

Miso Soup
All Recipes4 cups vegetable broth ( Read more... )

After our sweet soup it was time for a more traditional soup. If you're having Jewish Soul Food, nothing is more traditional than matzo ball soup. On the other hand, part of the point of Supper Club is preparing new and adventurous foods that are outside your usual comfort zone, and I serve matzo ball soup on a regular basis at my house ( Read more... )

We'd had gefilte fish, but even the best gefilte fish is often looked at with concern by the uninitiated, and indeed several people sent their plates back with portions uneaten. It was clearly time to punch up Supper Club by throwing a couple of guaranteed winners at them ( Read more... )