26
January
Shamed by Anthony Bourdain
Oh, dear. I have fallen down on the job. I am reading Anthony Bourdain’s Medium Raw right now and last night I got to the…
An apron with my name
I want an apron with my name on it. I stopped working full time in January. I can’t quite bring myself to call it “retired.”…
Falling out of love with my grill
I never thought I would see this day and I’m even hesitant to write about it, but I’ve had a revelation regarding my gas grill…
The Wedge
Forget grain bowls, coconut-oil based dressings and…please…no more kale. Lately, I’ve been pining away for a good old Wedge. No one knows who invented that…
Make yourself a regular
King Daddy and I adopted a travel plan when we first went overseas. Go to one locale and make yourself a regular. When we went…
Goulash
I seem to be surrounded by goulash these days. Now that Dammit Boy lives in Vienna he makes it or eats it in a restaurant…
The fruit ninja
My son, who many of you know as Dammit Boy, is a 26-year-old research associate at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. He is…
9
January
Croutons
Waste not, want not. You know that’s my motto. Every once in awhile I overbuy on the bread and I choose the wrong kind. You…
24
November
Mediterranean brown rice salad
I know. I know. Why in the world am I writing about a rice salad the day before Thanksgiving? Because I am atoning for my…
4
August
Potato salad
There are sweet people and there are savory people. I am a savory person. I can go all year without eating a piece of chocolate…
30
May
Homemade croutons
I think I started making my own croutons because I’m cheap. And because I think the croutons they sell at the supermarket are tasteless nubs….
30
March
Cornbread salad
I came across this cookbook the other day: Sherman Didn’t Burn Our Recipes: Bartow’s Still Cooking. Really. Really? The people of Bartow, Georgia, are still…
27
January
Feeling ‘good’ or ‘bad’
Every Saturday, Mark and I get in the car around 10:30 a.m. to head out to eat. Pretty much the first thing out of our…