Jambalaya Juju

It is spicy.
It involves rice.
It has sausage and ham in it.
Did I mention, it is spicy and involves rice?
Oh, yeah, I did.
Well, you can see why I think jambalaya may be my all-time favorite bit of American Southern Country-Folk food of all time.
Because it is spicy, involves rice and it has sausage and ham in […]

Naturally Sweet Apple Pie

When I was a kid, apple pie was my least favorite fruit pie.
Sounds blasphemous, doesn’t it?
It is positively unpatriotic to not like apple pie. It is like hating your mother, or burning a flag or admitting to having atheistic thoughts while sitting in front of the baptismal font.
It just isn’t often done, certainly not back […]

Gussied-Up Appalachian Classic

There are certain dishes that call me back to the hills and hollows, that recall the trickle of banjo and dulcimer music wafting on a sultry mountain breeze. The wail of a fiddle breaking fancy, the cry of crows flying low over a newly planted field of warm red clay, the smell of newly cut […]

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