Soup for the 'Itis

Somebody won ham and white bean soup because he was diagnosed with Bronchitis. A promise is a promise, so last weekend I soaked a bunch of the white beans I had on hand and used up the last of my Easter ham. As a bonus, I got to put to rest the last of my kale that I thought I'd never see the end of!

Plenty of stock on hand from Monsieur Poulet and a bit of yellow onion completed this ultra-simple but ultra-ultra-satisfying one pot meal. I highly recommend this with a warm, crusty baguette for cleaning your bowl. And if you're sans 'itis, a dark ale...

The Last Winter Supper

This was one of the best suppers I ever made for Josiah, so as a last hurrah, farewell-winter kind of ceremony, he and I made it again and reveled in the leftovers for two nights in a row. The recipes for both the skirt steak with paprika butter and the sunchoke and farro winter hash are from the oh-so-delectable Food and Wine magazine. Find the recipes here!

And note how similarly gorgeous our picture (above) is compared to theirs. That made me feel satisfied. If you're a vegetarian or don't want to bother with steak, the hash is insanely good on its own.

Note that I used duck fat to sautee everything up, though. Vegetarians are seriously missing out.

For dessert, Nigella Lawson's Choco-Hoto Pots...

And now if I could only figure out what to do with all this leftover kale. Something like triplification happened when I untied the twine holding the bunch together...