My soup favorites change with time. Clam Chowder has always been a contender. Various squash soups run high on the list. My current favorite is pozole. I liked the Panera Bread version so much that I bought a couple of cups to go and told Albert to reproduce the contents of those paper cups. He has become much better at pozole than Panera ever was. He still can’t reproduce Popeye’s Red Beans and Rice, but I’ve enjoyed eating his progress. It’s fun to hand Albert a challenge.
We have this perfect system here. He cooks. I eat. He never complains either. He’s watched me destroy eggs and other simple ingredients often enough to know that he should man the frying pan. Years ago I cooked an over-easy egg that I photographed because of its uncanny resemblance to a razor clam. The pic above is a real clam since the other clam rests in a box somewhere but, except for the fact that one clam sits in a frying pan, the two look pretty much the same.
