The dispiriting weather forecast--below, via Google. Friggin' cold and friggin' rainy. On days like these, there is but one sure pick-me-up: soup. In a typically magnificent essay her classic How to Cook a Wolf, the food writer M.F.K. Fisher made an inarguable case that, if you can make tea, it's silly not to try and make soup.The natural progression from boiling water to boiling water with something in it can hardly be avoided, and in......

(This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer’s market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs.) Seahawks vs. General Tso's Chicken preview. As we wandered the aisles of Safeway shoplifting the......

Blackberry week continues with Seattlest Rachael's blackberry sorbet recipe At 7:30 on Sunday morning--when we should have been doing something productive like sleeping--we slipped out of our apartment and walked a few paces up the street to an overgrown parking lot teeming with blackberries. We picked a few handfuls and returned home to make what would be the most knee-bucklingly amazing sorbet we’ve ever tasted. It was plain and simple and tasted exclusively of fresh......