Homestyle Bean Curd with Mushrooms

When Morganna was about two, I worked in a Chinese restaurant as a waitress. This meant that Morganna ate a lot of really good Chinese food from the time she could toddle, and this affected her palate from the very beginning. She used to love to go to dinner with me, and she adored the […]

Birthday Waffle Breakfast

Most people get cake to celebrate a birthday. Not Zak. He wanted waffles and bacon. And, because I am a good wife, that is what I got up early this morning and made for himself, his Dad and Grandpa. Oh, and I had some, too. (And I made fried apples, because I insist that everyone […]

I Dunno, Lad, But It’s Green….

Every time my Mom visits me and ’tis the season, I cook her up a pan of fried green tomatoes (green as in unripe, not green as in a tomato that is green when ripe)–yet another classic southern dish that gives away my hillbilly Applachian heritage. But I do it, because both she and I […]

Seasonal Sunday Morning

Late summer used to be one of the saddest times of year for me. In the middle of the orgiastic harvest, when the fields are knee-deep in ripe tomatoes, when melons are heavy on the vine, and are so sweet that you can smell them from two rows away, when corn and beans and squash […]

Cooling Down With Heat

When it gets unbelieveably hot in August, sometimes the last thing I want to do is cook. Often, the second-to-last thing I want to do is eat. When I am sweaty and miserable, food is generally the last thing on my mind. The first thing on my mind is where I can find a nice […]

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