My grandmothers screened back porch was an adjunct to the kitchen. A red and white plastic gingham t...

For some reason, beans don’t make it to our dinner table very often. Although they’re high in fi...

I apologize for taking a little hiatus from the blog for the last couple of weeks. I have no valid e...

Let’s talk turkey! Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and cooks across the country are prepar...

I grew up in an era of church socials and covered dish dinners. Whenever there was such an event, al...

I admit that I’m a carnivore from way back. I’ve been a serious meat eater for most of my life, ...

I vividly remember sitting in my freshman comp class many years ago on a cool October day. Professor...

I don’t usually think of pizza as typical breakfast food. Anytime we have leftover pizza from the ...

Our pantry is out of control. Jim, a.k.a., Mr. Organization, gives me a regular food inventory in an...

We had a pizza dinner party last week for our friends, Bruce and Felix, and Felix’s daughter, Sier...

How many of you remember Tomato Aspic? It was the “fancy” congealed tomato salad that all the la...

You know how one really cool article of clothing can make an otherwise boring outfit extraordinary? ...

Punxsutawney Phil seems to have gotten it right this year. He saw his shadow on Groundhog Day, and a...

Hong Kong is one of the most vibrant cities I’ve ever visited. A couple of years ago, we took an A...

Years ago, I spent a month in Nepal trekking in the Himalayas around Mt. Everest National Park. Afte...

I realized as I was perusing my past recipes that I haven’t posted many side dishes. For today’s...

It was a special weekend morning when my mother would wake us up to a breakfast of pancakes. Knowing...

We’re just back from a two-week stay in Provincetown, Massachusetts at the tip of Cape Cod. We mad...

In the 1970s, Aberdeen, Mississippi, population 6,000, was fairly slim on eating establishments. Ern...

Jim loves lemon desserts. So, being the good partner that I am, I have to gratify his sweet tooth so...

Monsoon season has descended on Atlanta, and for the last couple of weeks an endless barrage of rain...

If you live in the South, cobbler is in your blood. We Southerners grow up eating the ubiquitous des...

It’s time to start thinking Thanksgiving, so what do you say we start with dessert? How about a Pu...

It’s just not Christmas without some Peanut Blossom Cookies. I’ll say right off the bat that I h...

When we remodeled our house four years ago, I dedicated a large kitchen cabinet for cookbooks. At th...

Do you ever wonder how humans came to ingest certain foods? Who first thought about eating an egg? W...

My grandmother’s screened back porch was an adjunct to the kitchen. A red and white plastic gingha...

It was a special weekend morning when my mother would wake us up to a breakfast of pancakes. Knowing...

Years ago, I spent a month in Nepal trekking around Mt. Everest, so for obvious reasons, I was excit...

I have mixed feelings about the change of seasons. I’m a spring/summer kind of guy, and I always s...

We had another cold snap a few days ago but I’m holding on to hope this was the last one of the ye...

The Deep South heatwave has hit! We’ve been in the mid- to upper-90s for a couple of weeks now. I ...

If you live in the deep south and have ever attended a covered dish supper or a church social, I’m...

Our good friends, Jim and Cheryl Hagy, are in town this week, and we’re hosting them for dinner on...

Have you ever noticed that Thanksgiving menus frequently feature a whole lot of brown and beige food...

When I think of summer, I think of fresh cucumbers and tomatoes. A previous post features one of my ...