Ideas to make your home brighter & your heart lighter
As much as I love my Stan’s inspired Southern Style Pimento Cheese, sometimes I want something a little fancier. This gourmet 3-cheese pimento cheese spread fits the bill. I’ve been serving it for years at summer parties and cookouts. It takes a little extra effort to prepare, but it’s well worth the work. This recipe [...]
I may be the south’s foremost expert on pimento cheese. (Or is it pimiento cheese?) Back in my newspapering days, I was assigned to write not one, not two, but three articles about this southern delicacy, for three different publications. For a while, I joked that pimento cheese was my “beat.” There was a period [...]
Are you ready for some football food? Today, I’m sharing with you some of my favorite all-time party foods, plus a brand new recipe. It’s a little amuse bouche, as the French would say. A bite-sized hors d’oeuvre that isn’t what it seems.But it will amuse your tastebuds just the same. Today’s recipe comes courtesy [...]
I never thought you could make a fried potato taste any better. Until I took my first bite of a truffle fry. Oh my goodness. Food-gasm. Truffle oil is a magic ingredient. Worth every precious penny you have to pay for it. A lot of local restaurants are wise to that fact. I’ve noticed truffle [...]
The recipe, entitled simply “Wontons,” is handwritten and affixed to a sheet of pale pink paper. It is written in my girlish hand — fat loopy letters spread out across the page. It is stained with soy sauce and flour and oil — and who knows what else — from being used and handled so [...]
Some things don’t last long in our house. Pillows that are actually on the sofa. Picture perfect rooms. Hershey’s kisses. Chex cereal mix. So you can imagine what happens when we combine Hershey’s kisses with Chex cereal. Blink, and it’s gone. (Pillows and picture perfect rooms have nothing to do with this post, but I thought I’d keep [...]
