Most of my time is spent thinking about food. Or eating it. Or cooking it. And since I have been blogging about food, I follow a lot of other food lovers. On Facebook and Twitter and other sites. I learn all about food trends and food foibles. And right now, bacon is hot. In my opinion, bacon has always been hot – but it keeps showing up on all sorts of in-the-know food … [Read more...] about Mustard – Brown Sugar Glazed Bacon
Breakfast And Brunch
Classic Quiche Lorraine
It’s easy to forget the pleasures of something as simple as a good quiche. Just a basic pie, full of goodness, and easy to prepare, but delicious and decadent all the same. Cary Grant as John Robie in To Catch a Thief serves it at his French villa, perhaps thoroughly proving that real men do eat quiche. Hey, if it’s good enough for Cary Grant, it’s good enough for me. I … [Read more...] about Classic Quiche Lorraine
Rhubarb Crumb Cake
Every time I buy rhubarb at the grocery, at any store, the cashier has to ask me what it is and then struggles to find it on the produce code chart. Is it a vegetable or a fruit (technically a vegetable, by the way)? Once a cashier suggested I memorize the code to make it easier on everyone. Inevitably, this leads to the question “What do you do with it?” And on the … [Read more...] about Rhubarb Crumb Cake
The Gravy Train
So, now you have, I am sure, studied the primer for making good Buttermilk Biscuits. And you’d like to know all the many ways you can serve your beautiful creations. Here are two of my favorites. I once had some friends by for a biscuit bar, serving baskets full of homemade biscuits, homemade preserves, tomato gravy, sausage gravy and lots of good butter. I even made … [Read more...] about The Gravy Train
Southern Buttermilk Biscuits- A Primer
Heaven is a Biscuit I love biscuits. Love them. I could eat a whole batch at one sitting, even without butter or jam or gravy. I say I could, because believe it or not I do possess the restraint not to. And I should probably clarify, I love good buttermilk biscuits. Sure, I have been known to eat a fast food sausage biscuit or a chain restaurant puck covered with … [Read more...] about Southern Buttermilk Biscuits- A Primer
