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Divinity is the Devil

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Karo Syrup. Go on. Say it with me. Kaaaaay-rooooow suuuuur-up. Drag it out. It sounds better that way. […]

December 14, 2017 Uncategorized

The Best Thing About the Holidays

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Late afternoon cocktails. That’s one of the best things about the holidays. Well, aside from the birth of […]

December 7, 2017 Uncategorized

This is a very good pie.

Your Christmas may smell like pine boughs, or cinnamon, or chocolate, but mine smells like coconut. And liquor. […]

December 5, 2017 Recipes

Sister Audnitha’s Filé Gumbo

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(Just a quick note before we get into today’s post: We’ve come to the end of the See […]

November 30, 2017 Blog Like Crazy, Recipes

Ambrosia: Food of the Gods

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Ambrosia — food of the gods. And food of the Southerner, especially around Christmas. It’s so good you’ll […]

November 29, 2017 Blog Like Crazy, Recipes

How to Put the Scald on a Bird

It was Christmas day in the early double aughts, and it was just Sonny, Brother, and me. We’d […]

November 28, 2017 Blog Like Crazy, Recipes

Pralines

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Picture in your mind a round disc of sugar and butter with pecans in it. Do you call […]

November 27, 2017 Blog Like Crazy, Recipes

Lemon Jelly Cake

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One of my favorite cakes is a Lemon Jelly Cake — yellow cake layers with lemon filling in […]

November 25, 2017 Blog Like Crazy, Recipes

Cheesy Fiesta Noodles

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Sometimes I play “eat the pantry.” Every so often I wind up with a pantry full of canned […]

November 24, 2017 Blog Like Crazy, Recipes

Pecan Pie

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We are a house divided. And it doesn’t have anything to do with football. It does have everything […]

November 22, 2017 Blog Like Crazy, Recipes

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