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    • Chili Verde and Rice (so good I made it twice, well…three times)

      Chili Verde and Rice (so good I made it twice, well…three times)

      For the Santé South wine festival this year, I decided to try a new recipe. Nothing like testing something for the first time when you’re cooking for 800 people, right? Anyway, the recipe sounded bulletproof in concept so I gave it a whirl. La...

    • Breakfast for Dr. Seuss

      Breakfast for Dr. Seuss

      The Mississippi Children’s Museum does a whole lot of cool things. One of those is their annual birthday celebration of Dr. Seuss. For the past few years I’ve helped the celebration by cooking up Green Eggs and Ham. This year was no diff...

    • In Praise of the Common Button Mushroom

      In Praise of the Common Button Mushroom

      It used to be that the only mushroom available fresh in the grocery store was the humble button mushroom. If you wanted mushrooms in your dish there were just a couple of choices. You could go canned or you could go button. The canned mushrooms That...

Buy some damn tongs already!

The little green house on Stable Alley in St. Mary’s, Georgia was nearly perfect. We had 75% of our children (we still call these quasi-adults “children”) with us and the kitchen had a gas stove. We brought an ice chest full of food, packed in like we were expecting some ...

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Worth the Drive

My father spent the final year of his life in the VA Nursing Home in West Jackson. It was a difficult time for both of us. When a series of mini strokes tumbled him from his gregarious, larger than life existence into a weakened shell of his ...

Cercle Complet

Much of my love for cooking is a result of my parents’ love of the same. Both my mother and father were fantastic cooks, but dad was more of a student of culinary history and arts. His library was filled with cookbooks and when we ...

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