From our friends over at Food Vibe:
I believe a well-cooked meal, shared with friends, can redeem an entire week. I believe a well-cooked feast (like Thanksgiving), shared with family, can redeem an entire year. In some cases, a well-cooked meal can redeem an entire life. This is the true pleasure of cooking for others: the redemptive value of good food. I like to believe that this is why I cook: to nourish people.
I am in search of the best Salmon Bisque recipe. I ate such a bisque for the first time last week over at Market Street Market, and I’ve been dying to taste it again ever since. It was a perfect, creamy, tomato-y, bisque with a hint of spice and just enough lemon. My initial search yielded sparse results of a recipe including lemon. In fact, only one from MyRecipes turned up looking anything like what I was trying to replicate. I tweaked it– a cheeky thing for someone who’s never made soup, much less bisque, before– with some additions from The New York Times Cookbook. The results are not perfect, but not a bad start.
This 3 ounce drink is of the gods…
I realized tonight that cooking is divine. Eating can be, of course, good and enjoyable and communal, but something about the mixing raw ingredients is similar to what creation must have been like.
This is especially true with spices, real spices. Cardamom and cloves and ginger and cinnamon and allspice. They are a small voice in a big world whispering that God is indeed good.
And during weeks like this, we need to listen all the harder for such whispers.