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October
Roasted tomatoes one more time
I get a little anxious this time of year. We’re at the end of the glorious season of peppers, eggplant and tomatoes and are about…
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…
21
October
Every wine for its time
I have recently become a wine connoisseur. That’s a lie. I suspect when you drink wine out of a Solo cup you cannot qualify as…
11
October
Biscuit and gravy potato chips
“I am conducting an experiment.” That’s what I told one of my peeps at the convenience store when I lined up five bags of potato…
7
October
My obsession with spaghetti sauce
I was in Asheville this past weekend with the Observer girls. Well, we were all kind of like girls when we started at The Charlotte…
27
September
Why cook?
“There is simply no need for home cooking as grandma used to do it. You can mix a package of this with a can of…
23
September
My top 5: Music City Food and Wine
The Disneyland of food and wine. That’s what the Music City Food and Wine Festival is all about. I get that spending $150 a day…
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…
15
September
Real tortillas
So this is my driveway at this exact moment as we get a new roof put on the house. There is some kind of generator…
6
September
World’s Best Pecan Pie
This is a story about how I had to bake a pie and then pay the Women of St. Paul’s to keep it. It starts…
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…