Chicken soup. With noodles. And mushrooms. And quinoa. And soy sauce. And garlic. And…

There is nothing wrong with your standard can of chicken noodle soup. You know what you’re getting when you pour that stuff into your microwave-safe bowl. Broth. Salt. Chicken-ish bits. Noodles the texture of steamed wontons that nourish and satisfy, kinda. Post-snowman-building soup. Pre-NyQuil-drinking soup. It is what it is. But – as anyone who’s…

Grilled cheese sandwiches with pork-mushroom ragù (meat sauce, yo.)

Yes, a simple grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of tomato soup is warm and satisfying. But can’t we do better, friends? For one meal, can’t we leave nostalgia for that platonic post-leaf-raking, aprés-snow-shoveling meal aside, and give as much love to the grilled cheese sandwich as it has given us? Which is to say:…