Slow-cooked Spiced Chicken and Green Chiles Tacos
This chicken! I’m not kidding, and I don’t say this lightly, but this chicken is the most tender boneless skinless chicken breast meat I’ve ever eaten.
You Are What You Eat
Monday morning memes, SuperBowl hangovers, food, home office, and Lady Gaga halftime video. You're welcome.
Cream of Tomato Soup Recipe
There's something about a big pot of creamy tomato soup that makes everyone feel good. And the best part? It takes about 30 minutes to make. Flat leaf parsley garnish optional. Appetite required.
Honey-Sesame Scallops
Another Creative Cooking Crew challenge! Fast, easy, sweet, and savory Honey-Sesame Scallops are good for you and the oceans!
Summer Break 2015
Submissions, vacations and celebrations! That's what this summer is made of.
Cocktail N’ Canapes
Another Creative Cooking Crew Challenge! Appetite required.
Sugar, Salt and Everything Nice
Saturday mornings and Wednesday afternoons from the cool crisp mornings of May to the hot, humid days of October, or until the corn dries up, the bays at the Hopkins [...]
Rain Rant
Farmers may have always worried about rain, or lack of, but this summer seems like a particularly fertile time to write about it. Silver Queen and Peaches and Cream [...]
On Stress and Cooking
What do you do to get out of a funk? Exercise, pray, cook, do laundry, meditate, hike, bike, or surf? Maybe you paint. Everyone's got something. My get-out-of-a-funk activities involve [...]
Vinaigrette
Sunday afternoons during the cold winter Kentucky months are ripe for lazy, day-long activities: I simmer soup, bake bread, read magazines, watch movies and take naps. That was before I started [...]
Grits
I love a big family wedding. And since I hail from a big family, weddings are DE rigor these days. Last week my niece, Cassie, and her boyfriend Mike of [...]
Noodles (again)
I needed a Noodle fix. And I didn’t want to go alone. Since Elvis was out of town, I called Kriston. Kriston agreed to go with me, having never been [...]
Control
My first and only attempt to create a cooking video ended after the first thirty seconds, when I explained in my cute, but serious voice, “I have gas, and I [...]
Noodles
There are few independent restaurants in Western Kentucky and Southern Indiana. I have a couple of "go-to" favoriites, but mostly, the restaurants in this region are fast-casual and family-style dining. But [...]
Chewing on the Paula Deen issue
The other day I used “Paula Deen” as a verb, as in “She was Paula Deened.” Today I wrote a blog post about the tuna industry and titled the caption [...]
