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September
Roasted tomatoes
Somewhere around the beginning of September, I commit heresy. I admit, barely above a whisper, that I’m sick of tomatoes. I remember wistfully those first…
Roasted tomatoes
Somewhere around the beginning of September, I commit heresy. I admit, barely above a whisper, that I’m sick of tomatoes. I remember wistfully those first…
Olive oil cake
The top search for a dessert on Food52 is not a chocolate torte or peanut butter cookie or apple pie. It’s an olive oil cake….
We might starve (again)
“I wish I could go in a grocery store,” the Princess said plaintively. Her mother, my beloved daughter-in-law Tammy, does drive by grocery shopping from…
The best crab cakes
The most perfect crab cake I ever had was served with a side of misery. I was in Wilmington, Delaware, interviewing for an upper management…
Buttermilk biscuits with honey butter
Buttermilk biscuits are hard. Or they can be. Literally. King Daddy’s Granny Belle made extremely tender buttermilk biscuits. King Daddy never bothered to stand at…
Southern supper
You just get that itch. It comes sometime around late June or early July around here. You go to the farmer’s market one Saturday just…
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July
Southern supper
You just get that itch. It comes sometime around late June or early July around here. You go to the farmer’s market one Saturday just…
12
November
Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours
Thanksgiving was Saturday and almost the whole family was there. The day started out with my granddaughter, Sydney, helping Granbunny make cinnamon apples and Nana…
29
October
Red beans and rice
King Daddy wanted red beans and rice. I try to cater to King Daddy’s food whims as they occur as I am a good wife….
25
July
Leeks with mustard-bacon vinaigrette
I have joined a cookbook club. There are only 16,000 members so we have a lot of time for one-on-one communication. That’s a lie. Not…
1
July
Food myths that make me crazy
One of the great things about loving to cook is that you’re continually learning. I may be one dimensional in this way (okay, I am…
13
May
The Millennial gardens
Apparently I was doing it all wrong last year, which is why the vegetable garden at CRC World Headquarters failed miserably. The Millennial advised me…
18
March
Carrot salad
You have a winner when you find a recipe with basically four ingredients that just wows you. This carrot salad originally came to me from…
3
July
Novodugino trending
The farm-to-table movement is alive and well in Novodugino, Russia, a rural outpost of about 3,000 people. I know this because Dammit Boy spent several…
14
April
Cumin Beef Stir Fry
Tricks of the trade. That’s what we’re going to talk about today. Stir fry dishes, like casseroles, look so simple on the back end when…