My Desert Isle Cooking Magazine

Eating Well

Of course, ingredients might be limited on the desert isle, but if I could only take one cooking magazine it would be Eating Well. The recipes are consistently creative, delicious, and healthy without relying on a lot of "low fat" ingredients (which I generally abhor). The magazine is laid out beautifully and isn't stuffed with tacky "special advertising sections" that are just a pain in the butt to page through.

This week, I made this wonderful Creamy Porcini Mushroom Barley Soup.

Soup

It calls for a King's ransom worth of dried Porcini mushrooms, a fact I tried in vain to conceal from Mr. Thrifty, who saw the packages on the kitchen counter. ("Really, Dear, it's just pennies a day..."). But I think even Mr. Thrifty would admit this soup is worth it.