[Skip to recipe] I love blue cheese dressing but have always been disappointed in store bought varieties. Most of them have added sugar for some reason and are often too sweet for my taste. For a while you could buy the fresh made dressing from Whole Foods directly from their salad bar but between Covid-19…
This is a really quick and easy snack you can make in your air fryer in less than 10 minutes. Almonds are a big thing in my house. We usually buy a 5# bag of raw almonds from Costco a couple of times a month. We eat them for snacks, chop them up and add…
I never in a million years thought I’d be giving Antoine’s one star. That’s how the Yelp review I wrote in early 2020 opens, and I’m starting this post the same way because I want to be honest about how reluctantly I got here. Antoine’s is one of the iconic restaurants in New Orleans. It…
It’s finally FALL here in north Georgia. After a couple of days of rain, we have a sunny, cool, breezy day that feels like the seasons have finally started to change. We may still get a short burst of “third summer” in the next couple of weeks, but I’m hoping not. This cool, crisp weather…
I’m back from vacation and it was an amazing, relaxing, joyful, food-filled week. Settle in for a bunch of photos and a fried oyster recipe at the end (or, if you’d rather, skip the narrative and go straight to the recipe at the end of the post). This past winter, in the middle of a…
I can’t remember where I first saw the combination of purple cabbage and ground beef – it may have been a Hello Fresh recipe – but I remember thinking almost immediately that I thought it would make a good taco filling. So, of course, I had to try it. And it did. As it turns…
Southwestern influenced cuisine has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I’m from Texas. My ex is from Colorado. His family is from Arizona. And I have family in New Mexico. So Tex-Mex, Arizona-Mex, New Mexico-Mex, or any variation of that wonderful blend of regions and cultures has been…
The weather has finally gotten cold enough to justify a big pot of my favorite Irish stew down here in Georgia. I don’t know where this recipe came from originally and it’s not really fixed in stone. It’s mostly about a rich, thick tomato based sauce and whatever root veggies you have handy. It takes…
I had an opportunity to spend a little bit of vacation time in Austin last month. Although I was born in Dallas, I consider Austin my hometown; it’s where I went to high school and college and spent the most formative years of my life. Central Texas has always held a special place in my…
I know that everyone and their siblings have posted recipes for Instant Pot stock or broth or bone broth or whatever the name for it is these days. I’m going to be one more, so bear with me today. Last year when all my friends were getting Instant Pots, I resisted. I really did think…
Hey y’all! Happy 2018. In the interests of getting back into blogging on a regular basis, I’m going to start posting about some of the things I’m cooking without necessarily a lot of fancy photos or verbiage. I might come back and flesh out some of these posts later but for now, I’m going to…
A few days ago I posted a photo of what I consider the perfect boiled egg to my personal Facebook page and immediately got questions from friends on how I cooked it. I wrote up an explanation and before long the post had made it to a fitness group I belong to with even more…
