31
January
Nashville hot chicken
King Daddy remembers the day he and some of his colleagues visited Prince’s Hot Chicken. One of them ordered the extra hot. It was a…
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…
24
January
My adult child
That boy is leaving me again. How can he do that? He’s just a little boy. How will he survive without me? Who will make…
22
January
Muffaletta roll-ups
So we are just reception crazy at St. Paul’s right now. Last night it was a funeral reception for a beloved parishioner. Next Sunday it’s…
15
January
My favorite French fries
French fries. I will drive a half hour for a good plate of fries. Over the years, I’ve eaten them from hundreds if not thousands…
8
January
Creamed chipped beef
I think there might be new life for an old favorite, creamed chipped beef. King Daddy and I were having lunch out the other day…
6
January
Holler and Dash
It has now been four hours since I consumed the most delicious biscuit sandwich I’ve ever eaten. And I still can’t move. Like not an…
29
December
Black-eyed pea salsa
Right now in kitchens throughout the South there is only one question on the minds of their owners. What to make for New Year’s Day….
22
December
My 8th annual rum cake
It started when Mark bought a Subaru from Jim Reed Automotive on Broadway in Nashville in 2008. With it came annual holiday e-mails from the…
16
December
Saltine toffee
This is the time of the fancy cookie. Christmas brings linzer cookies, snowballs, gingersnap sandwich cookies, brown sugar snowflakes. I don’t make any of those….
11
December
English tea disasters
The 2016 St. Paul’s Episcopal Church English Tea was yesterday. Except for the one panic attack I have each and every year as food chair…