7
January
Squash casserole featuring cheez stuff
Processed cheese food is the melting queen of cheeses, even if it isn’t one. Dammit Boy made a few Southern classics to feed his friends…
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…
26
August
Squash casserole (don’t hate me)
We are a little dim in the South. You know that old saying from Edmund Burke, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat…
22
April
Cheese grits
Grits, it seems, are (is?) a very controversial topic. If you’re in the South, it’s whether to have them sweet or savory. Sweet is with…
9
January
Cheese and ground beef casserole
Well, I am just about to cry. After a week of the Polar Vortex, now I am given to understand that there may be a…
18
December
Bad, bad, bad (and a recipe for stuffing)
So the afternoon began with onion dip and potato chips. It went deliciously downhill from there. You will be appalled. I am, too. But I…
10
November
Old food
Mark and I were talking last night about cubed steak in the South versus cubed steak in the North. Down here, it’s breaded and fried…
22
July
Cracked wheat salad
Self-control. Isn’t that just the hardest thing? I was at a gathering today with some of the Women of St. Paul’s and we were talking…
14
July
Top 5 ingredients you’re embarrassed to have in your pantry (and smothered country fried steak)
If you consider yourself to be a sophisticated cook who routinely uses ingredients like fish sauce, beef short ribs and Thai red chile paste, should…
30
April
Grilled pimento cheese spread and bacon sandwiches
As you all know, the Chicks at the Community Resource Center celebrate every Wednesday with bacon. And we had a truly revolutionary Bacon Wednesday a…
10
March
We are worms
It is the first day of Lent. If you are not Catholic or Episcopalian, this probably means nothing to you. But if you are, this…