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February
Bacon Day
Every once in awhile, worlds collide and my work life and blogging life intersect. For those of you who don’t know, I run the Community…
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…
22
November
Butter-roasted pecans
Thanksgiving Day, boys and girls, officially starts the beginning of the Season of Overeating, at least in the South. Can you count the ways we…
30
October
Roasted acorn squash
There is nothing profound to say about acorn squash that I can think of. You are either a squash person or you are not. Mark…
29
August
Tomato sandwiches
Sometimes only a tomato sandwich will do. Like when you’ve had a raging summer cold for three days and you feel like cotton balls are…
15
August
On a desert island
So I have just finished making flat chicken and green noodles for the boy, who is home from college. I just love flat chicken, which…
6
May
Lobster rolls
Oh, yes. What else is there to say? Back before I got married, I did a lot of traveling by myself. I liked it. And…
4
May
Dad’s barbecue sauce
My dad had his first heart attack when I was 4 years old. It was not a momentous event for me, of course, because I…
10
April
Compound butter
I am all about the compound butter. Being the thrifty person I am compound butter is a way to use up all the scraps and…
7
April
Last summer’s corn
It is nights like this that I thank the sweet Lord that I made myself cut the kernels off 20 ears of corn last August….
23
March
Butter roasted potatoes
It is evident that an old dog can learn a new trick by virtue of the fact that I learned a new trick the other…