From the recipe box: main dishes for mid-winter

My recipe boxes… and files… and clippings… and notebooks are among my greatest treasures. For not only are the recipes therein tested and true favorites, they are also wonderful reminders of people who have been a part of my personal history.

Seldom do I encounter a recipe amongst the collection where there is not a memory attached to it. So while I prepare that recipe I linger amongst the loving thoughts of the persons and events that are linked to it.

There is, for example, the bean soup with kale that takes me back to a time when two family members were diagnosed with diabetes and heart dis...