Food and Recipes while under Coronavirus quarantine #8

[BetteDavisEyes]

I meant to post yesterday that a new season of Eva Longoria: Searching for... started last night on CNN. This season, Longoria is exploring French cuisine with the first episode in Paris. There are eight episodes that air on Sunday night at 9:00 and 10:00PM. We watched the first episode and recorded the second to watch today. Eva Longoria is beautiful and bright and serves as the perfect hostess as she escorts us to dining venues in France and shares food and wine with locals. Stanley Tucci started the series with Searching for Italy that aired for two seasons. Eva Longoria has done Searching for Mexico and Searching for Spain, and this season's Searching for France started last night. I highly recommend the series for anyone who is interested in the culture and food of France. We thoroughly enjoyed last night's show as Ms. Longoria guided us through different dining experiences in Paris and look forward to watching the second episode Paris Pastry sometime today.

https://people.com/eva-longoria-tony-parker-france-cnn-travel-docuseries-exclusive-11947696

 

[IceIce9]

When I first started cooking I used canned soup in casseroles. And I made casseroles often, as they were budget-friendly. And many of the recipes from the cookbook I mentioned upthread contain canned soup.

Eventually I learned to make béchamel to use in casseroles instead of canned soups.

My mom had a pantry full of canned soups when I was growing up. One of my dad’s friends worked at a Campbell’s plant nearby, and employees could purchase soup at cost. So he would bring us soup by the case. The soup had no labels so we had to place it on the shelves in alphabetical order on the shelves that mom had labeled.