I’ve not had near the interest in food that I previously did. I do still occasionally get excited enough to cook, maybe once a week. Early this week I tried out a recipe from Paula Dean for an italianish chicken cordon bleu. It was ok, but caused the reflux to kick up and has thus […]
I went to Gran’s for turkey day, that means that my own turkey had to wait. We cooked it today, just a turkey breast. Pop rigged us up a safe turkey frying contraption rather like Alton’s. And of course, we did that thing that all people do when they deep fry a turkey – we […]
Yeah, I’ve been slacking on the blog lately. I haven’t been cooking all that much lately due to some problems I’ve been having with my stomach. Seems that my gall bladder has to come out, I’ve been passing stones as of late and I’m not enjoying it one little bit. Food has been pretty minimalistic […]
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you try to asphyxiate your guests. This weekend was filled with experimentation for me. Let’s start with the pumpkin. Or not. See, I went to the farmer’s market in search of pie pumpkins. I was determined to give another shot to making a pumpkin pie from scratch, it’s […]
The other night, as I was drifting off, I was struck with inspiration. See, I’d just earlier that evening knocked the box of pins off my desk again and spent some time digging around the carpet with a flashlight hoping to find them all then and not later with my foot. I know, a pincushion […]
Dad and I have been rather bummed since all of the Winn Dixie stores here have gone belly up. This means no more Palmetto Farms Pimento Cheese for us. It truly is the best brand that we’ve ever found and we’ve tried nearly all of them available in this market. Over the weekend, I picked […]
I think I overdid it in the kitchen pre-bbq. I didn’t cook anything for the next week and then took off on the road trip of love with the sweetest boyfriend for two wonderful weeks. The only kitchen activity I really did during the vacation was the mixing up of a black bean salad on […]
Sometimes things don’t work out exactly as you planned. I found a recipe for a roasted vegetable salad that sounded just scrumptious. How could you go wrong with asparagus and red peppers? Well, they weren’t the problem, per se. The problem turned out to be the eggplant. Folks have told me since that I overcooked […]
When I was a wee little girl, my dad used to bring home jellyrolls and share them with me. Cellophane wrapped sponge cake with raspberry jelly peeking out. I believe that they were from Kern’s bakery. I don’t know if Kern’s has closed up or isn’t as readily available around here or if they just […]
Several years ago, pop and I went through a summer of canning. We made a lot of jams that year: strawberry, blackberry, peach, apple butter. We also experimented with canning fruits (only the cherries didn’t turn out so well) and making our own mincemeat. It’s just the two of us and we really don’t eat […]