I love hushpuppies. I mean, who does not like golden grown, deep fried balls of delicious cornbread? When I was growing up we had them with fried fish and shrimp dinners and they were the item I ate most greedily. These days I make hushpuppies for all sorts of occasions and I have found they [...]
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The day after Thanksgiving I tend to bag up some of my left-over turkey and freeze it. I love knowing that I have, in my freezer, the means to make any number of easy weeknight meals. From pot pies to tetrazzini, frozen turkey meat is a good thing to have on hand. This year I [...]
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Now matter how hard I try to restrain myself, when it comes to holidays I always make too much food. The 4th of July is no exception. Since we typically have some sort of smoked meat on the 4th, usually of the pork variety, I feel compelled to make a big batch of cornbread to [...]
Friday, January 29, 2010
Growing up in Texas, cornbread was something we ate almost weekly. Mom would almost always make her cornbread in a well-seasoned cast iron skillet. That skillet gave the the cornbread a lovely crust on the bottom and I would always pick off the crusty bottom before eating the tender center. We never got fancy with [...]
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Do you impulse buy? I do. My impulse buys are most often food related. Last week I discovered a really great local cheese shop, Scardello Artisan Cheese, in Dallas and I could not help but go in and shop. I got some terribly expensive, and very tasty, sea salt caramels, some disappointing dark chocolate, and [...]
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
My grandmother is going to be 89 tomorrow. I know, 89!! She told me, when I asked what she wanted me to bake for her special day, to just make whatever. "Great," I said and smiled, but inside I was frozen. What was I going to make???? She has no idea what leaving this choice [...]
Monday, January 31, 2011
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