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April
The 100-layer doughnut
You. Want. THIS. How have I lived a life without a Five Daughters Bakery 100-layer doughnut? How? It’s been a shell of a life, really….
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…
17
April
Banh Mi sandwiches and older age
It became painfully obvious after 15 minutes of standing in a line under a blazing hot sun waiting for a friggin Banh Mi sandwich that…
12
March
The best real Chinese food ever
I am still pondering the chicken feet, beef tendon and cow stomach. I’d like to think I could happily go there but I have done…
5
March
A “Southern” food blog
People ask me all the time what my blog is about. Well, I say, it’s about Southern food and stories and superstitions. I think. But…
17
February
Meat bread
I promise I will get to the meat bread in a moment. So someone once told me that P.F. Chang’s exists for unadventurous people who…
21
December
Le Pig Mac and Other Meaty Delights
Donald Link is my new favorite boyfriend. He has brought Le Pig Mac to Nashville as well as other meaty delights at his Nashville outpost…
2
December
Mammy’s pies
I know. I know. Completely inappropriate. Mammy’s Cupboard in Natchez. Don’t look too closely when you enter through her skirt. This is a very old…
13
November
Leaving home (and Duke’s)
So Dammit Boy and I were at our favorite meat ‘n three today when it suddenly occurred to him that he’s leaving a few essential…
18
September
Food utopia
I cannot convey too much how excited I am about this weekend. My friend, Mary Ann, is flying in from Washington, D.C. and she, Noah…
1
September
A shameful day
Sometimes you have a bad day. A shameful day. A day you’re actually regretting while you’re having it. But you do it anyway. That has…