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December
Candy Crush
This is my version of Candy Crush and it plays out after every major candy holiday – 50 percent off. Deep discount. King Daddy loves…
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…
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December
The car dealer’s rum cake
The car dealer’s rum cake is not a nostalgic Christmas story. Most families inherit treasured holiday recipes passed down from generation to generation. We have…
11
December
Strawberry crisis averted
The English Tea — produced, directed and starring the Women of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church — is tomorrow and a crisis of monumental proportions was…
2
December
Mammy’s pies
I know. I know. Completely inappropriate. Mammy’s Cupboard in Natchez. Don’t look too closely when you enter through her skirt. This is a very old…
8
November
Sweet potato pie
My friend, Jessica, and I often discuss food at the Daily’s where I get my Diet Coke refills. As she’s ringing me up, we discuss…
18
September
Food utopia
I cannot convey too much how excited I am about this weekend. My friend, Mary Ann, is flying in from Washington, D.C. and she, Noah…
6
September
World’s Best Pecan Pie
This is a story about how I had to bake a pie and then pay the Women of St. Paul’s to keep it. It starts…
20
July
The bake sale (and a cookie recipe)
The annual Women of St. Paul’s bake sale, which accompanies the Men of St. Paul’s barbecue each year, is coming up on Saturday. And as…
3
June
Catering Claire’s big move (and a pasta salad recipe)
One of the many, many things I love about my son is that he doesn’t do anything halfway. His first year out of college has…
9
January
The newest member of the Natchez Garden Club – me (and a recipe for Mississippi Mud Cup Cakes)
I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to have been accepted into the Natchez Garden Club, not the least of which is because I…