7
October
Filet Mignon with Mushroom Cream Sauce
I am embarrassed to say that I figured this out completely by mistake. In general, I shop at all the wrong grocery stores. Yes, my…
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…
29
September
Salted Butter and Chocolate Chunk Shortbread
Remember back in the day when the Neiman Marcus chocolate chip cookie recipe became infamous because it was falsely stated that a woman who asked…
13
September
The Waffle House Index
As Hurricane Florence slams into the North and South Carolina costs, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is monitoring a vital disaster tracking service: The Waffle…
8
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…
1
September
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….
28
August
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…
17
August
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…
12
August
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…
7
August
The 112 dollar bottle of mayonnaise
Dammit Boy loves his mayonnaise. Always has. When he was little he made his own mayonnaise, salt and pepper sandwiches. Yes, he made that up….
29
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…