Category Archives: breads
My $150 dinner
I am as cheap as they come. I revel in a $7.35 lunch for two at the Krystal. Fifty percent off of anything? I’m there. But once in awhile you just have to kick out the jams. The Southern Foodways … Continue reading
Filed under beef, breads, cheese, pizza, Uncategorized
Beef short rib pizza
I have nothing profound to say about this except that it’s amazing what you can put together from bits and pieces and end up with something that gets the ultimate complement from Mark: “I’d have this again.” The short rib … Continue reading
Palmiers
Palm-Yea! That’s how you pronounce these things, which I am ending the year on because even if you can’t cook a lick you can make these for a New Year’s Eve gathering and look like Julia Child. Palmiers are the … Continue reading
Mini croissant sandwiches
Southern women love college football. It’s a fashion opportunity. Oh, we genuinely love the game and can talk all that football talk, but I guarantee if you open any woman’s closet in the SEC you will find a blinding array … Continue reading
Filed under breads, pork, snacks, tea sandwiches, Uncategorized
Tomato sandwiches
Sometimes only a tomato sandwich will do. Like when you’ve had a raging summer cold for three days and you feel like cotton balls are stuffed between your ears. Like when the thought of actually cooking something requires far more … Continue reading
Panzanella salad
Yes, we are on a salad kick. This is because I gained five pounds eating funeral food and another two when Bunny and I took our whirlwind trip through the Presidential Court cafeteria at UT, feeling compelled to stop at … Continue reading
Filed under breads, salads, Uncategorized, veggies
Food therapy
It would be unseemly to boast about the exceptional quality of the funeral food that arrived at Bunny’s house after the passing of my father-in-law. That would indicate there is a pecking order in the desirability of funeral food, which … Continue reading
Banana bread
There is, of course, a right brain and a left brain to the culinary arts. Left brainers are your cooks. A dash of this, a pinch of that. It’s intuitive. Most famous chefs are, at the heart of it, cooks. … Continue reading
Filed under breads, sweets, Uncategorized
My $135 head of lettuce
It is Sunday morning and I’m heading to Aldi after church to get Noah some fruit. That boy is eating me out of house and home right now, but he has exhibited a slight inclination to eat fruit and I … Continue reading
The wedding
So this is my best memory of my friend, JoAnn. It is the late 1970s at Calabash Cove, a seafood restaurant in Charlotte. I am having supper with her and her children, who at that time were probably six and … Continue reading
Filed under breads, breakfast, Uncategorized
