All Four Burners

They allege that procrastination and perfectionism are positively correlated. They certainly are in my case. Which is why I have been sitting on this post for well over a week. That and the fact that I am sick…yet again. It started with a case of the sniffles on Sunday. Then, coupled with a terrible night […]

Welcome to 2013, y’all! And welcome to January, soup month! All soup, all the time. Also, I like soup, especially as the weather turns colder. By colder, I mean, of course, that the daily highs are in the 50’s, but dip to the chilly upper 30’s at night. It’s now so frigid in the mornings that I […]

Perhaps I was foolish to visit my parents when a superstorm was predicted to make landfall on the Maryland coast. I prefer to think of myself as foolishly optimistic. I may have been foolish too when I elected not to change my ticket from Tuesday to Wednesday, even though it was clear that Maryland Emergency […]

Exhilarated, I hurried home to scour Amanda Hesser’s distillation of the New York Times food archive for a suitable dish with which to commemorate the show. Initially, the horror of jello, jello molds, and other gelatinous substances overwhelmed. That is until I stumbled on this lovely potage — with watercress, no less.

This is a lovely variation on a classic potato-and-leek soup. Blending the cooked soup lends a velvety creamy cohesion to the final product. The green specks of spinach persuaded me that I was eating something quite nutritious.