12
September
Once More Into The Breach
I have been married to Mark for almost 20 years and if I have learned one thing, it’s that you must serve your gameday snacks…
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…
My own pizza oven
Some techniques just change your life as a cook. Learning how to properly salt food was one for me (much more than you think, until…
11
September
Barbara’s Home Cooking
Now who doesn’t want some fried chicken, mashed potatoes and field peas after looking at this! Every other Friday from September to June, the P.E.O….
9
September
My boy loves liverwurst
This is a totally Northern thing. I am sad to say that I was not born in the South, but I got here as quick…
8
September
Twigs and sticks
As you can imagine, we all came home just bloated from the family reunion. Our send-off breakfast at Flapjacks Pancake Cabin (don’t you love Southern…
7
September
Baby Girl and Cheetos
Tammy, my daughter-in-law, stumbled onto something that is purely brilliant. We are in the mountains for our family reunion, gorging ourselves on football food (there’s…
3
September
Rum Cake
O.K., one more post and then I’m done for the night. I just made a couple of rum cakes, one for the church bazaar and…
3
September
Faucon Salad
Generally speaking, having a good time at work is preferable to keeping that old nose to the grindstone, don’t you think? There used to be…
1
September
Not Enough Silver
Normally, everything would be on silver. But there was not enough silver in Williamson County for Larry Kirk’s funeral reception. I talked to you a…
31
August
We Might Just Starve
Every three months or so the Mayhews of North Carolina and the Mayhews of Tennessee and the Harbins of Tennessee converge at a cabin at…
31
August
Steak Off
So during the “clean out the freezer” project today we pulled out some ribeye steaks and some filets. Too much steak? I think not! We…