Culturally Confused

Best part of the summer?  Sitting on your balcony/porch/front step drinking something cool and refreshing.  Preferably with alcohol.  And...

I must admit that I had never heard of the Brown Betty Bakery before I got the cookbook.  I mean, the place is in Pennsylvania.  I have n...

For a long time, Southern Living magazine was my source for the most over-the-top, horribly bad for you, yet amazing in your mouth recipe...

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 ...