After a long walk in the freezing cold, my nose was as red as a rose hips that i had been picking. I sneezed my way through two hankies (we dont use paper tissue products) and put them into the wash with some possibly 100+ year old curtains that i pulled out of grandpa’s garage [...]
Is it just me, or is anyone else feeling sort of holiday food’ed out? I never thought I would say this, but if I see another cookie, cake, or slice of chocolate pecan pie, I am going to do something crazy, like look the other way. Today, after lunch, I stood in front of [...]
My own updated version of Homard Americain as Lobsters Thermidor is known as in France
3 live Homards (tiny lobsters)Boiled in salted water for 15 minutes, until their back legs pull off easily
Reserved the claws for another meal someday in the freezer. Cut then open through the belly with scissors and scooped out the meat. Reserved [...]
Hi, friends.
I’m writing this from Oklahoma City, from my old bedroom in my mother’s house, where I used to, as a teenager, write gushy poems about 18-year-old boys with sideburns. I had a real thing for 18-year-old boys with sideburns. I don’t anymore.
I now have a thing for whiskey-soaked dark chocolate Bundt cakes. [...]
This year was not a bumper crop from papie’s tangerine tree. We don’t have an inundation of those manderins like last year where I made fruit leather, sorbet and bottled them with rose water.
But there are these little baby ones on the sparse tree that never developed into adult tangerines that I didnt want to [...]
