This is my grandmother’s cornbread recipe, halved for smaller households. She made twice this amount in a 12-inch skillet, feeding a family of six plus whoever showed up at dinnertime (which in rural Texas was often neighbors, cousins, or people from church). This version makes …
In the South, collards are a staple side dish, but they’re also a New Year’s Day tradition: My Meemaw (my East Texas grandmother) always made collard greens, black-eyed peas, and cornbread for New Year’s Day. Every single year, without fail: greens for money, peas for luck in the coming year.
Tomorrow is the first day of Hanukkah and I’m taking a break from Christmas cookie making to pop together some latkes for a friend. I’ve been wanting to make this recipe from Smitten Kitchen for a while and today seemed the perfect day for it. …
Back before Covid, I had a standing Monday-after-work-date with a friend. We would meet up at our favorite restaurant bar, halfway between our two houses, order 2 dirty vodka martinis with blue cheese olives, and split a spinach salad with steak. It got to the …
A while back I posted a recipe for Instant Pot chicken stock, and I still use that recipe once in a while when I need chicken stock quickly or I need to make multiple batches for a big cook. In the last couple of years, …
She was fearless in a way I didn’t fully appreciate until I was older …
This is my grandmother’s cornbread recipe, halved for smaller households. She made twice this amount in a 12-inch skillet, feeding a family of six plus whoever showed up at dinnertime (which in rural Texas was often neighbors, cousins, or people from church). This version makes …
I’m going to say something that physically pains me to type: the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025-2030, released by the Trump administration under RFK Jr.’s leadership at HHS, are not completely wrong about everything. There. I said it. I hate it. And now I …
As I write this, it’s pouring down rain outside. And it’s WARM. I’m still salty about the fact that it’s January and we have daytime temperatures in the 70s. I really want some winter weather before winter is over. But it is mid-January. Seed catalogs …
I had a whole other post with links and “return from the holidays” thoughts written and ready to go, but last night I scrapped it. Things feel too heavy right now for a lighthearted post. By now most people are aware that on Wednesday morning, …
In the South, collards are a staple side dish, but they’re also a New Year’s Day tradition: My Meemaw (my East Texas grandmother) always made collard greens, black-eyed peas, and cornbread for New Year’s Day. Every single year, without fail: greens for money, peas for luck in the coming year.
Subtitled: State of The Blog & Where I Stand Those of you who have been around for a while know I’ve tried to restart this blog multiple times since it first went quiet around 2014. I’d get excited, plan content, write posts, even publish a …
Here we are again on the first day of a new year. I don’t know about you, but for years I dove headfirst into the whole “make a bunch of resolutions” thing. I’d set up my perfect self doing all the things: get up and …
It’s December 30th, and I’m sitting on the sofa writing this post that I’ll share tomorrow for New Year’s Eve. The tree is still lit, though looking a little bare without presents underneath. There’s a fire going because Georgia has finally given us some actual …
Happy Boxing Day, y’all. It’s been a hot minute (okay, maybe two or three … or five), but here we are again with a fresh Friday roundup. I’m not making any promises about this becoming an every Friday thing just yet, but let’s see where …
Merry Christmas! This post was scheduled in advance; I’m not actually writing blog posts on Christmas Day. Having been a blogging slacker for <mumble> years, I had one solid moment of blogging motivation earlier in the week and decided to roll with it, scheduling a …
For the past 8 years I’ve posted a Thanksgiving and a Christmas menu to social media. My partner has shared them with his family and co-workers as well. Here’s this year’s Christmas menu. It started out pretty simple with just steaks, fish, and a few …