Saturday soup was Baked Potato Soup, recipe recreated from a menu item at the Hard Rock Cafe. A creamy rich soup with baked potatoes, bacon, onions and cheddar cheese. Not a very healthful soup but we mark it as a keeper.
Recipe calls for 2 cups of heavy cream. We used half and half which was fine. Lots of fat from the bacon and the cream, not in our usual diet.
Recipe from: America's most Wanted Recipes by Ron Douglas.
This cloned recipe is from a Hard Rock Cafe menu item.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Reading Backward List of Authors
On this blog is the list of Authors recommended in the Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge book by Richard W. Paul for use in reading backward. Purpose of that reading is to rethink the present and conteract the influence of social conditioning and the mass media. I hope to read at least one of these books from each time period this year. First one for me is On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - Over 100 years ago (1800s).
1. Over 2000 years ago:Writings of Plato, Aristotle,Aeschylus, and Aristophanes
2. Over 800 years ago (1200s):
Thomas Aquinas and Dante
3. Over 700 years ago (1300s):Boccaccio and Chaucer
4. Over 500 years ago (1400s):Eramus and Francis Bacon
5. Over 400 years ago (1500s):Machiavelli, Cellini, Cervantes, and Montaigne
6. Over 300 years ago (1600s):
John Milton, Pascal, John Dryden, John Locke, and Joseph Addison
7. Over 200 years ago (1700s):
Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Daniel Defoe, Goethe, Rousseay, and William Blake
8. Over 100 years ago (1800's):
Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, John Henry Newman, Leo Tolstoy, The Brontes, Frank Norris, Emile Durkheim, Edmond Rostand, and Oscar Wilde.
9. The last 100 years (1900's):
Ambrose Bierce, Gustavus Myers, H.L. Mencken, William Graham Sumner, W.H. Auden, Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Conrad, Max Weber, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka, Sinclair Lewis, Henry James, Bernard Shaw, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vinginia Woolf, William Appleman Williams, Arnold Toynbee, C. Wright Mills, Albert Camus, Willa Cather, Bertrand Russell, Karl Mannheim, Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein, Simone De Beauvoir, Winston Churchill, William J. Lederer, Vance Packard, Eric Hoffer, Erving Goffman, Philip Agee, John Steinbeck, Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Faulkner, Talcott Parsons, Jean Piaget, Lester Thurow, Robert Reich, Robert Heilbroner, Noam Chomsky, Jacques Barzun, Ralph Nader, Margaret Mead, Bronislaw Malinowski, Karl Popper, Robert Merton, Peter Berger, Milton Friedman, and J. Bronowski.
1. Over 2000 years ago:Writings of Plato, Aristotle,Aeschylus, and Aristophanes
2. Over 800 years ago (1200s):
Thomas Aquinas and Dante
3. Over 700 years ago (1300s):Boccaccio and Chaucer
4. Over 500 years ago (1400s):Eramus and Francis Bacon
5. Over 400 years ago (1500s):Machiavelli, Cellini, Cervantes, and Montaigne
6. Over 300 years ago (1600s):
John Milton, Pascal, John Dryden, John Locke, and Joseph Addison
7. Over 200 years ago (1700s):
Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Daniel Defoe, Goethe, Rousseay, and William Blake
8. Over 100 years ago (1800's):
Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, John Henry Newman, Leo Tolstoy, The Brontes, Frank Norris, Emile Durkheim, Edmond Rostand, and Oscar Wilde.
9. The last 100 years (1900's):
Ambrose Bierce, Gustavus Myers, H.L. Mencken, William Graham Sumner, W.H. Auden, Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Conrad, Max Weber, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka, Sinclair Lewis, Henry James, Bernard Shaw, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vinginia Woolf, William Appleman Williams, Arnold Toynbee, C. Wright Mills, Albert Camus, Willa Cather, Bertrand Russell, Karl Mannheim, Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein, Simone De Beauvoir, Winston Churchill, William J. Lederer, Vance Packard, Eric Hoffer, Erving Goffman, Philip Agee, John Steinbeck, Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Faulkner, Talcott Parsons, Jean Piaget, Lester Thurow, Robert Reich, Robert Heilbroner, Noam Chomsky, Jacques Barzun, Ralph Nader, Margaret Mead, Bronislaw Malinowski, Karl Popper, Robert Merton, Peter Berger, Milton Friedman, and J. Bronowski.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Mixed Potato Soup
The co-authors of this soup recipe started with this comment:
"We've never met a potato soup we didn't like." But they came up with this combination of four different varieties:
- Sweet potatoes
- Fingerling potatoes
- Yukon gold potatoes
- Red Potatoes
We didn't have most of those in the house so we used what we had.
That came down to 1 cup of sweet potatoes and 3 cups of Idaho baking potatoes.
We also substituted chicken broth for vegetable broth.
Onion, garlic, milk, cumin, and cinnamon were the other main ingredients.
Recipe suggests using a blender to make a smooth soup. Not wanting to take time to do that we served it with the bite-size pieces in it. That texture we really prefer and enjoyed it a lot. It is definitely marked as a keeper for us.
Recipe and story by Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross, Co-Authors of 3 cookbooks for the desparate. Contact them at Desparate DInners, or visit: http://kitchenscoop.com/
"We've never met a potato soup we didn't like." But they came up with this combination of four different varieties:
- Sweet potatoes
- Fingerling potatoes
- Yukon gold potatoes
- Red Potatoes
We didn't have most of those in the house so we used what we had.
That came down to 1 cup of sweet potatoes and 3 cups of Idaho baking potatoes.
We also substituted chicken broth for vegetable broth.
Onion, garlic, milk, cumin, and cinnamon were the other main ingredients.
Recipe suggests using a blender to make a smooth soup. Not wanting to take time to do that we served it with the bite-size pieces in it. That texture we really prefer and enjoyed it a lot. It is definitely marked as a keeper for us.
Recipe and story by Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross, Co-Authors of 3 cookbooks for the desparate. Contact them at Desparate DInners, or visit: http://kitchenscoop.com/
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