Popovers
If you are one of those people who make a frightened face when someone mentions baking or bread making, have I got a recipe for you. Hot, eggy, steamy, luscious popovers are one of my favorite things...
View ArticleWhole Wheat No-Knead Refrigerator Bread
I’ve been known to get very sentimental about the topic of bread. Bread baking is a connection to my grandfather. It is a connection we all have to each other and to our ancestors. It is a foundational...
View ArticleMustard Greens and Hollandaise Stack
It is funny what you cook when you have no one around to please but yourself. On rare occasions, when the stars align properly, men gather and scheme and pack and plan and take their daughters on...
View ArticleChipped Beef on Toast (S.O.S.)
S.O.S. stands for “Chipped Beef” (…except the word is actually Shit) on a Shingle. If you are over 50 you already know this and if you are under 50 you probably wouldn’t give a “chipped beef” if I said...
View ArticleGrilled Naan
I love baking all kinds of bread. It makes me so happy. It is simple and couldn’t be more basic, but at the same time seems like magic when it works. Naan is a type of flat but leavened bread of Middle...
View ArticleTurkey Reuben
Let’s talk about sandwiches again. I like talking about sandwiches. I certainly have my favorites, with the Croque-Madame I made awhile back being my runaway favorite. But, I’m very fond of the whole...
View ArticleSausage and Artichoke Dressing (Stuffing)
Thanksgiving is about the people and not the food. And some of my best ones have included canned peas, cranberry jelly shaped like a can, and pumpkin pie picked up 3 for $10 at the grocery store. Why?...
View ArticleZucchini Bread
Zucchini bread is one of life’s great comforts. Fortunately, it is also one of the simplest recipes in the world. Much like with it’s sibling, Banana Nut Bread, I can live off this from first cut to...
View ArticlePerfect Muffins
Recently I found a jewel of a recipe tucked in my mother’s old wooden recipe box. I “borrowed” the whole box a few years back. The recipe was cut from a magazine and glued to a note card. On the recipe...
View ArticleBuckwheat Blini
The last time I made little pancakes on which to place bites of smoked salmon, I read a comment elsewhere by an irate Russian about the ABSOLUTE FACT that a tiny pancake is not blini unless it is made...
View ArticleWestern Burgers
Western Burgers are a high school cafeteria legend in my hometown of Wichita Falls, Texas. They are a simple and beautiful bit of comfort, consisting of hamburger meat, onion, and seasonings fully...
View ArticleRefrigerator Bread, Again and Again
Seldom do I feel the need to repeat a recipe, but this is critical. I have become aware that some of my favorite people haven’t seen this recipe, which I posted HERE eons ago. And, I have had yet a few...
View ArticleCroque-Madame
This is a heavenly, decadent, big, fork and knife sandwich. For the last year or so they have been serving a version of it at the Zodiac Room at the Northpark Neimans, qualifying it as the very best...
View ArticleSweet Cornbread Muffins
Corn bread and corn muffins, and biscuits for that matter, are much like barbecue. People are downright passionate about the art-form. These are the most basic of recipes passed down from grandmother...
View ArticleAngel Biscuits
There are a million recipes for Angel Biscuits. They’ve probably been around since baking powder was invented. I have a wonderful handwritten recipe from the grandmother of a friend. I’ve seen them in...
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