This is a slightly bizarre but delicious summer soup made of pureed watermelon and tomato. The soup is served cold and requires no cooking, so it'd make vegetarians, vegans and even the raw food crowd happy.The recipe comes from Epicurious by way of Self Magazine. Self says the soup serves up generous portions of the "skin-saving antioxidant lycopene." That sounds dandy enough but we decided to try it out because we were craving watermelon one hot day and randomly Googled "watermelon soup".
We've harbored a fantasy of opening our own food truck that only serves up pie and coffee. Phoenix Novembers would be perfect for this endeavor. And while we don't actually have a pie truck, we are always eager to try a new pie recipe. Which brings us to this week's Monday Night Martha, where we take on Rum-Vanilla Cream Pie.
Martha describes this as a, "traditional 1950s style cream pie". Mmm, sounds good. Plus the recipe calls for 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon golden rum. We're in.First
Ah, Monday. The day when you wake up to the beginning of a brand new work week and realize you didn't do the laundry or make it to the grocery store. We doubt that this has ever actually happened to Martha. But if it did she might opt to make Baked Tortilla Espanola for dinner.It features ingredients that many of us are likely to already have on hand such as olive oil, baking potatoes, red onion, garlic, salt, pepper and eggs. And this means little shopping required.
I don't know about you, but for us Thanksgiving is all about the sides. Sure, the turkey is important but it's the sides that make it all sing. Which is why for this week's Monday Night Martha we thought we would try out a potential new Thanksgiving side dish: Apple, Leek and Butternut Squash Gratin. The recipe called for 2 leeks, a pound of butternut squash and a pound of apples such as Gala, Cortland, Baldwin or Macoun. Hmmm, we love leeks, love butternut squash and love apples. What th
