A Little Night Music

This is my latest blog post. "A Little Night Music" with Rebecca Silverman as assistant to the director is a must-see!!!!

What I Had for Lunch Today: Yellow Split Pea Soup with Hot Sauce

My usual soup--I've blogged the recipe here before--with my usual pumpkin oil garnish, snipped fresh parsley, and Lan Chi Chili Sauce with Garlic. As long as its cold, I'll keep eating soup every other day.

What I Had for Lunch Today: Red Curry with Rice

Today I cooked some brown rice and scratched around for something to put on top of it. I had a jar of Patak's curry paste, so I made a quick curry by sautéeing a shallot and some sliced mushrooms, adding a couple of spoonfuls of the curry paste, about a quarter cup of tomato sauce, some frozen peas, and half a can of coconut milk. Five minutes on the simmer and it was ready.

What I Had for Lunch Today: Salad With Chicken and Walnuts

My usual salad of romaine dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, sea salt and coarsely ground pepper. This one was also topped with strips of "chicken," chopped walnuts, and some cubes of stale bread all sautéed in the same iron spider.

What I Had for Lunch Today: Minestrone with Sperlonga

Ali made this soup, and it was full of vegetables, but beyond that I can't say much about its creation. I jazzed it up with a typical Italian garnish of butter, Parmesan, and fresh parsley snipped from my garden...plus a dusting of cayenne pepper. I ate it with some of Whole Foods' fabulous sperlonga.

What I Had for Lunch Today: Pepita Salad and Soup

Leftover soup today, plus a salad of romaine, grape tomatoes, hot red peppers, a hard-boiled egg, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and pepitas.

What I Had for Lunch Today: Sundried Tomato Soup

This is a small red onion and a shallot sautéed in butter, then some thyme, parsley, tarragon, snipped sundried tomatoes in olive oil, vegetable bouillon and water added; the whole thing simmered briefly, then topped off with heavy cream.