Culturally Confused

If you ask what to serve next to potato salad, the answer always seems to be coleslaw.  Too bad that most of the coleslaw salads I've...

I'm not a big soup person.  So if I have soup, it needs to be really good soup.  But how can you tell ahead of time that the soup is ...

Okay, I'm kinda tired of dips for appetizers.  I mean, I know they're good, and I even daydream about my spinach-artichoke versio...

Okay, this one definitely goes in the Evil Desserts file.  Cookie, chocolate, caramel?  That sounds like some pretty horrific evil to me....

Sometimes it's nice to get up in the morning and be greeted by a warm breakfast waiting just for you.  Unfortunately, when you're...

Maybe I'm a bad Southerner, but I honestly didn't realize there was actually a magazine called Garden & Gun .  I mean, how st...

I talk a lot on this blog about these dishes I cook being delicious, and honestly, they are.  Every once in a while I get a stinker, but ...

When I was living in New Jersey, I missed Texas like you would not believe.  Okay, maybe you would.  I missed it terribly.  Especially th...

My friend Kim has a bad habit of looking at what I have pinned to my boards, and then demanding that I make all the wonderful things that...

My mom used to make scalloped potatoes with pork chops on top.  They were....bland.  Sorry, just being honest here.  I wondered if that w...