Last October in our cooking group, we each decided to make a different kind of soup. I love pumpkin soup but have never made it myself so I took on the challenge!! I wanted to make it completely from scratch so that meant cooking my own pumpkin puree….yikes! Though that was a terrifying concept, it...
Happy Cinco de Mayo!!!! In honor of this day, my cooking group gathered and cooked up a Mexican fiesta. We made all sorts of authentic Mexican foods (even a chocolate flourless cake spiced with chili powder…amazing). One of my “assignments” was to make shrimp with a chipotle sauce. The most difficult part of this recipe...
For many, 2014 started off really cold. Who ever heard of a polar vortex? Chicago being labeled Chiberia? I was fortunate enough to have missed the brutally cold air but the mere thought of it made me retreat to the warmth of my kitchen and make soup — a staple on a normally chilly day...