My kitchen is my kingdom, which I share with all the grace of, say, Napoleon after someone called him a pipsqueak and before Waterloo. My mother’s kitchen is . . . also my kingdom. (Come to think of it, that’s exactly how Napoleon would put it.) When I descend with my army visit, my mother… Continue reading Chocolate Betrayal
Category: Food
The Perfect Biscuit
I have been learning to bake biscuits for years. And from the first, mediocre batch, those biscuits have made my children happy. They are not picky children, and they are not fools: biscuits are warm, salty, and full of fat, and you can even add butter before that first eager bite. What’s not to like?… Continue reading The Perfect Biscuit
A Thanksgiving Paradox
Two ways to enjoy this light Thanksgiving dish, which aired yesterday on WAMC’s The Roundtable: read it below or listen to it here. ♦ ♦ ♦ It’s the week before Thanksgiving, and I am in heaven. More specifically I am in the Food Lion in Harrisonburg, Virginia, examining a truly pathetic produce aisle. Seriously, you call these brussels… Continue reading A Thanksgiving Paradox
An Ode to Creamed Spinach
The words “creamed spinach” do not, I have been informed, elicit the same emotions in every reader. No words do, I suppose, but “warm chocolate cake” probably come pretty close. The Adkins adherent may feel fear and the diabetic a pang of melancholy, but these barely register compared to the collective mouth-water of desire that… Continue reading An Ode to Creamed Spinach
Windfall/Downfall
First I have to do something with the gift I found on my porch (thank you, neighbors), and then I will start this blog. Perhaps with an entry on the first/then trap.