16
March
Cubans
Not the people of Cuba, although I am very fond of them. The sandwich. The sandwich that many of you have never heard of. Such…
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…
12
March
Flat iron steak
I don’t know how anyone affords to eat a steak anymore. Have you seen how ridiculous the prices are? I know. I know. The U.S….
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…
6
March
Sausage bagels
Sometimes only a sausage bagel will do. I am not sure why or how I devised this breakfast sandwich. I think it was during what…
4
March
Crepes
I am an idiot. Or as Mark’s Granny Belle used to say, an “idjut.” Every year at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church the youth throw a…
2
March
Chimichurri
Doesn’t that name just scream fun? Even if you don’t know what it is? I will have to digress for a moment before I actually…
27
February
Tips
No, not the kind you give to your server, whose name is Brandy. And, by the way, where did that whole thing start? “My name…
26
February
A debacle
Oh, my Lord. They were all there. In the post directly below you will note my fear that Julie Hendrix, Donna Stokes Rogers and Wanda…
25
February
Goat cheese, peach and bacon bites
It is an hour before the every-other-month meeting of the Women of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and I can promise you there are dozens of…
23
February
Roasted cauliflower with pine nuts and raisins
If you go by the “eating seasonally” thing, which I am trying to do, now is the time for what I think of as “hard”…