Food magazines and food based television really have a hard job. One would think that getting to spend your life devouring plates of food, traveling to exotic places and hob knobbing with the best chefs in the world would be the best job in the world. (And it would….call me if anyone is interested in a middle …
gumbo
My Friends Went to NOLA and All I Got Was a Craving For Cajun Food
Spring Break. Do you go on a spring break with your kids? Is it a time you remember from college? Do most couples take a spring break? Do retired people? Do single folks? I just don’t know. A week-long vacation that is a clear “break” between the long weary winter and the first days of spring sounds amazing! My …
What Do You Call It….Soup?
How caught up to you get in word definitions? Do you feel the need to correct people? Do you let it slide because it really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things? Do you deliberately say things improperly just to see if your “friend” will correct you? (This is one of my favorite games …
Chumbo
Brrrrr!!!! If you don’t live in the Midwest, I consider you lucky right now. The last two days have been filled with incredible amounts of snow and wickedly low temperatures. It is so cold…..how cold is it…it is so cold that we are eating with plastic silverware so that our forks won’t stick to our …
Okra’s Gook Club
I have found as an ex-picky eater that the more I learn about a food, the better odds I will have to prepare it perfectly. But what do you do with a food that has a bad reputation like Okra. It doesn’t matter what I read about okra, someone will mention the “slime”. I’m …