Karo Syrup. Go on. Say it with me. Kaaaaay-rooooow suuuuur-up. Drag it out. It sounds better that way. […]
home cooking
Late afternoon cocktails. That’s one of the best things about the holidays. Well, aside from the birth of […]
Your Christmas may smell like pine boughs, or cinnamon, or chocolate, but mine smells like coconut. And liquor. […]
Sister Audnitha’s Filé Gumbo
(Just a quick note before we get into today’s post: We’ve come to the end of the See […]
Ambrosia — food of the gods. And food of the Southerner, especially around Christmas. It’s so good you’ll […]
It was Christmas day in the early double aughts, and it was just Sonny, Brother, and me. We’d […]
Picture in your mind a round disc of sugar and butter with pecans in it. Do you call […]
Lemon Jelly Cake
One of my favorite cakes is a Lemon Jelly Cake — yellow cake layers with lemon filling in […]
Sometimes I play “eat the pantry.” Every so often I wind up with a pantry full of canned […]
We are a house divided. And it doesn’t have anything to do with football. It does have everything […]