Cooking with Murray
Way back when I was just a little bitty boy, my grandmother would make chicken soup. “Big deal”, you say, “everyone’s grandmother made chicken soup”. Well, this is really good soup, for one, and for two, it somehow involves tomatoes. Not good if you have a nightshade allergy, sure, but delicious otherwise. Continue reading “Chicken Soup”
When most families talk about “ingredients”, they’re talking about individual parts of a recipe. When my maternal grandmother talked about “ingredients”, she usually meant her seasoned breadcrumb mixture. It’s not like it went in everything, although it is fairly versatile, so I’m not sure why it gained that particular name, but it stuck, and that’s what I call them now too. Continue reading “Ingredients”
Since I was a child in the forbidding wilderness of Hollis, Queens, my Italian grandmother would make the same sort of marinara sauce every Thursday, and it quickly became known as “Thursday sauce”. It’s an incredibly simple preparation, and by the time I was in high school, I would eat a double bowl of it every time she made it. Continue reading “Thursday Sauce”