Soup!

We had a cool rainy day yesterday, and, as James loves soup, I gave NBR's tortilla soup a try. Oh wow it's good. You take chicken broth,infuse it with cilantro, onion, and garlic, add shredded chicken, some pepper jack, some sour cream, and some avocado, and some home-made tortilla strips. Good stuff.
Did you know we have an entire crisper drawer dedicated to cheese? I think having a variety of cheeses handy is essential for seriously killer cooking. Kinda like frosting a cake-- you can eat a cake sans frosting, and it's still good, but it's FANTASTIC if you frost it. Our standard stock:
Sharp cheddar
EXTRA sharp cheddar (usually beechers)
Parmesan
Romano
No Woman
A jack of some sort
Havarti
Mozzarella
Cream cheese
Bergenost
Feta

We don't have all these all the time, but they're pretty familiar friends around here.