I don’t know if it’s the blight that everyone has talked about, spreading this far south, or if it’s been the cool weather, or what, but my farmer’s market has had a plethora of green tomatoes lately. And actually that’s fine by me because I love the tangy tartness of a green tomato – fried, [...]

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I’m one of those people who have a love-hate relationship with okra. I love the flavor of it – and being from the South, I grew up eating fried okra in quantity. On the other hand, I’m not so fond of the sliminess that cooked okra has. It’s a texture thing. [...]

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What fun to be a contestant in the 3rd ever Foodie Fights, a competition between 6 food bloggers who are given 2 random ingredients and told to cook something. The random ingredients for this month were cauliflower and raspberries.

Good GRIEF. [...]

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Boiled peanuts are another uniquely Southern treat. Every time I road trip in the South, and especially if I’m traveling off the freeway and on the back roads, I keep my eyes out for the hand-lettered signs that say “Boiled P-NUTS!” The more rural the location, the better the boiled peanuts. The [...]

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Veggie Lasagna Recipe
This might more accurately be titled How-to-use-up-leftover-veggies-lasagna because it’s what I make when I have bits and pieces of veggies in the crisper that need to be used before they go bad. It’s easy to make – although not fast, because once it’s prepped, it still needs to bake for an hour. [...]

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Collard Green Recipe
Collard greens are a uniquely Southern food, I think. Most people who aren’t from the South (or haven’t lived here a while) don’t really know what they are, even if they’ve heard of them to begin with. Usually non-Southerners approach collards with suspicion, if not outright fear, visions of some overcooked, [...]

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It’s entirely possible that I was unduly influenced by Ree (the Pioneer Woman) and her posting of mac and cheese this week. Last night about 8:30, while sitting on the sofa waiting for Bones to start, I suddenly developed an craving for mac and cheese. A really bad craving. The kind of [...]

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Everyone has their own version of guacamole – that wonderful, rich, creamy, avocado dip that appears in every Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurant.  Me?  I tend to be a bit of a purist.  I like avocado, some lime, a little garlic, and some cilantro – it lets the flavor of the avocado shine through.  Still, you [...]

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Years ago I worked in an office in downtown Portland, OR.  Across the street from our office was a deli that made to-die-for Hungarian Mushroom Soup.  On particularly cold, rainy winter days one of us from the 4th floor would run across the street and buy a gallon of soup, and bring it back to [...]

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After yesterday’s pantry cleaning extravaganza, I realized that I have tons of lentils, so I went searching for a recipe that was something different from the lentils/onions/tomato/carrot soupish-sort-of-thing that I’ve done to death.  I found a yummy looking lentil and mushroom soup online, which I tweaked (quite a lot actually).  What I came up with [...]

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