Monthly Archives: September 2017


Virginia State Fair Salted Buttermilk Grits and Pan Seared Shrimp in Red Eye Crema

“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

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 […]


Bev Clark’s Insanely Luxurious and Oh So Southern Grape Salad 2

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 […]