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December
The best chili is at Krystal’s
Well, that’s not entirely true. The best chili is my own in my beautiful Staub cocotte, which is a very fancy word for Dutch oven…
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…
11
June
The best hot dog in the world
So it’s been a hard few weeks for a variety of reasons I won’t go into here because I hate it when people whine on…
14
July
The perfect hot dog
What makes the perfect hot dog? It involves these things and they are non-negotiable: Hot dogs with casings. There is no snap to a hot…
1
April
Not Bobby Flay’s chili (but really good)
So back when it was bitter cold (about three days ago), I decided to make chili. What’s more comforting? And I looked up Bobby Flay’s…
6
January
Chili
Chili. I think I’ll make some chili. The Polar Vortex visited the Peoples of the South last night. We did not answer our doors. We…
13
February
Anne Burrell’s braised beef short ribs
I love situational ethics, don’t you? So when Noah was much younger, his adventurous eating gene hadn’t kicked in yet and I would make two…
12
November
Brisket chili
Alrighty, I know this recipe presupposes that you happen to have some smoked brisket hanging around. And, yes, because I have two smokers and a…
22
September
Hurry-up chili
I don’t about ya’ll but this recession is beating the living daylights out of me. And nowhere is it more evident than in my kitchen….
1
February
The other chili
I know. I must have some kind of chili obsession going this week. But there’s a reason for it, and then I will just get…
30
January
Texas chili
As I sat down to write a post about Texas chili, I realized I had no funny or memorable stories about chili. Except have you…