Sunday mornings usually spent with a dear friend… If you can’t be there—you can eat there! A journey’s recipe: Smother crispy, chewy, yeasty, toasty bagels in the bliss of guilty pleasure that is cream cheese and then nestle in wispy curls of paper thin sweet red onion, generously punctuate with […]
Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving, my darlings! As I was planning my own turkey and fixings this morning I thought that maybe–just maybe–some of you are overwhelmed by the innumerable processes and recipes out there for roasting a turkey. So, I would like to share mine as a tried and […]
“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”–La Rochefoucauld (Surely with great great grandma’s best China bowl nestling a rich creamy cushion of salted buttermilk grits, blessed with a smokey ladleful of red eye gravy crema, tantalizingly teased by the ooey gooey guilty pleasures of […]
Old Fashioned Herbed Chicken and Rice Ingredients: 1/2 c. butter (salted) 1 c. sweet onion, diced (one medium) 1c. sliced celery (heart and all) 1 T. fresh Thyme, minced 1 t. fresh oregano, minced 1/2 t. fresh rosemary, minced 1/2 t. freshly cracked black pepper 2 c. long grain rice […]
A girl of the American prairie by birth, I have spent the majority of my life in the South and while the wind and wide-open landscape that defines the Dakotas remains my heart, I find myself utterly entranced by all things Southern—the people, the land and waterways, the music and […]
Oh-So-Creamy Coconut Icebox Cake Dessert An updated version of the original Lady Bird Johnson (LBJ) Icebox Pudding Cake My mother always called this her “Yummy Dessert” and it was a delicious staple of spring and summer family get-togethers during the 70s at our house! Sadly, the recipe went missing […]
Eastern Shore Seafood Cheesecake Waterside living—be it poolside, bayside, lakeside or a picnic at the river or on the bank of a stream—is best when shared with friends and family. As we all know, food plays a key role in any waterside gathering and the simpler the better to ensure […]
My Daddy’s sister, Carole, was one of three girls in his family and, in my humble opinion, remains our family’s truest version of “Aunty Mame.” Every one of my father’s sisters is a force of nature (like their mother and my grandmother, Ilo Bren)–and true to that legacy Carole was […]
This recipe has its genesis in my Mom’s Sloppy Joes. Over the years I’ve added a number of ingredients–most notably my “secret ingredient” black coffee after reading in a western novel that chuck wagon cooks often added that ingredient to stews and chilis to give a more “robust” flavor base! […]
I come from hearty, hybrid immigrant stock and hail from the Great Plains state of South Dakota. My entire family represents died-in-the-wool, avid (occasionally rabid) football fans or, more specifically, Minnesota Viking fans! I missed that gene. I am a disappointment and an embarrassment to my family and, over the […]
