Monday night I came home from work after walking from the train station in a gray, drizzly mist. I was damp, cold, and in a grumpy mood … so my first thought was to make comfort food. (Ok, no I lie … my first thought was a vodka martini. My second thought was comfort food!) [...]

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, [...]

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, slimy [...]