I’ve had the original version of this recipe saved since the NY Times first posted it right after Katherine Hepburn died. When Pinterest came along, I remember moving it from my long list of bookmarks to make it one of my first food pins. It’s since become one of my go-to brownie recipes. It’s everything a…
Welcome to my second Hello Fresh review. I made this meal Wednesday night, the night that north Atlanta was getting hit with storms for the second time in 3 days. I was afraid for a while that I was going to have to cook by candlelight, but luckily the power only flickered a couple of times…
Let’s just jump right in to my first Hello Fresh review. I subscribed last week and my first box arrived today with 3 meals. I decided to start with the pork chops and mushroom gravy – mostly because I already have a really great pork chop and mushroom gravy recipe that I like and I…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Everyone in the blogging world is posting Irish recipes today, so I might as well join in with a family recipe for Irish soda bread. This is my maternal grandfather’s recipe, which I’m pretty sure he got from his Irish mother. It’s a little different from the traditional version which is…
I’m not generally a fan of sweet things for breakfast. My tastes run more to the savoury – eggs, bacon, biscuits, gravy, those kinds of things. Every now and then, though, I do get a craving for a pancake or a waffle and sometimes I especially get a craving to have a sweet breakfast-for-dinner. A…
There is a restaurant here in Atlanta that is well known for it’s chicken dishes. Last year they opened a location up near my house but I wasn’t exactly beating a track to the door. I mean … chicken? I roast a mean chicken myself and who wanted to pay Alpharetta restaurant prices for roasted…
This isn’t a travel blog. I want to say that up front because the word “travel” carries some assumptions on the internet, and most of them aren’t what this section is. I don’t do destination guides. I don’t do “Top 10 Things to Do in [City].” I don’t do affiliate-loaded itineraries optimized for SEO. There…
I’ve been reviewing restaurants on Yelp and Google for years. A lot of years. There’s a backlog over there with detailed notes on hundreds of meals, and most of those reviews are going to die when Yelp finally goes the way of every social platform that ever existed. So I’m bringing the ones I want…
A blog post takes between five and ten hours to make. I know that sounds like a lot. I thought it sounded like a lot when I first started timing it. Then I kept timing it and the number kept being right, so I stopped arguing with my phone timer and accepted it. This section…
There are two different kinds of writing about food on this blog, and they live in different places. Recipes live in Recipes. Those are the posts with ingredient lists and step-by-step instructions; the things you can pull up on your phone, scale the servings, and actually make. If you came looking for dinner, that’s the…
Every food has a backstory. Most of the ones we got told are wrong. Not lying-wrong, usually. Story-wrong. Stories travel faster than facts, and the version that travels is the version that wins. Someone decides. The decision calcifies. The origin disappears, or gets sanded down, or gets handed to whoever had better marketing. By the…
There’s a house on a creek in Johns Creek, Georgia, and it’s been our project since 2021. We bought it at the height of COVID, which is its own piece of context. We’d been looking for a vacation property in the mountains; somewhere to escape to, somewhere small, somewhere that would just be ours when…
