20
June
Pork chops and Paula Deen
So, I’m in a bit of a quandary. Yes, there’s a recipe coming, but I have important things to consider first. What to do with…
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…
1
October
Paula Deen’s Banana Bread
I have a theory about cookbooks. If a person who is not famous writes a cookbook and then goes on to become famous and writes…
21
January
Paula Deen and diabetes
I apologize in advance if I am going to offend anyone, but I am just a little pissed off about poor Paula Deen and all…
2
June
Banana bread
There is, of course, a right brain and a left brain to the culinary arts. Left brainers are your cooks. A dash of this, a…
19
March
Michael Symon didn’t write this
Not this blog post. I’m obviously writing it. And I’ll get to what Iron Chef Michael Symon didn’t write in a minute. I have been,…
23
August
Lodge Cast Iron
There is no single cooking vessel in the Southern United States more revered than the cast iron skillet. And the only people who make them…
14
June
Zucchini bread
If there is any more hated word in the Southern lexicon than zucchini I don’t know what it is. It’s not that we don’t like…
14
March
Hash brown casserole and French doughnuts
Well, it was just a triumph for Breakfast Team Six this morning at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Franklin, Tennessee. Just a triumph. As you…
10
February
Bingles
Valentine’s Day is not a major holiday for me. But I just had to hoot when I went to the Publix last week and found…
4
February
Super Bowl: Dips
I have a deep and abiding love of dips. When Louise and I were little girls, we used to steal the plastic tub of store-bought…