I am typically not a fan of marshmallows. First of all, they are cloyingly sweet. I don’t like them covered in chocolate—even if they are shaped like bunnies, or Santa, or pumpkins. And I do not like them in fudge, or ice cream, or anywhere else that I can feel their texture. Because it’s gross. […]
Aside from the two teenage boys my husband and I share, we also have two other animals living in our house. Fur babies. BIG fur babies. Boo is our Great Dane. Like most Great Danes, she is a big, sappy, cuddlepuss, who has no understanding of her size in comparison to human laps. She crawls […]
Merry Christmas, Everyone! The Holidays are a time for making merry, celebrating what we believe, and practicing our traditions. Whether that means going Christmas caroling, lighting a Menorah, or playing Mary in the church Nativity scene, we all have some sort of festivities in which to partake this time of year. This is also when […]
The capacity for being sneaky has existed for as long as mankind. The only being with the ability to think beyond its instinct brings with it the power to choose mischief over conscientiousness, naughty over nice, and chocolate over vanilla. The question of whether or not people are inherently good, or inherently bad is as old as the question of birth […]
Sugar is worse than illegal drugs. It is today what LSD was in the 1970’s. I know this because: 1) I was a Director at Psych and Chemical Dependency Hospital; and 2) I am a Foodie who bakes. A lot. I believe that some people are able to kick their chemical dependencies more easily than their […]
Anybody that has read my work for a minute knows who my biggest influence was in the kitchen. Her repertoire wasn’t huge, but Granny taught me the basics. As a child, I learned through her to cook with my senses—taste, smell, touch and sight—rather than by following a recipe as if it were a volatile science experiment. […]
There are some foods that get no public respect. I am not saying that they should, only that they don’t. Meanwhile, many Goat-ropin, cedar-chopping Rednecks and other Human-American subspecies often referred to as White Trash secretly can’t get enough of them. Don’t be offended, people. I am referring also to myself as I recall Hanibal […]
In the South, we have a particular fondness for using terms of endearment, and we don’t reserve them just for those close to us. We use them everywhere, at all times, and to anyone. If we don’t know your real name, we’ll call you Sugar, Sweetheart, Sweetie, or Darlin’. If we know your real name, […]
I was never good at math. Like most girls, I excelled in verbal acrobatics and science, but math and history were, well, Greek to me. Not surprising, I guess, since so much of what we know of math was first contemplated, theorized, solved, and proved thousands of years ago in ancient Greece. Of course, there […]
I went to high school with a guy named Rhett…Rhett was a nice guy, and a good guy, and had a phone number I will never forgot. To make sure that number doesn’t become the next 867-5309, I won’t share all of it with you, but the last four digits spelled out S-N-O-B. For some […]
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