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A collection of 18 posts

Happy new year, southern style

Happy new year, southern style

For a number of years now, Robert and I have enjoyed cooking up a southern new year’s day dinner featuring the traditional foods of pulled pork, hoppin’ john, collard greens and cornbread. Last year we were sick with COVID, and sick at heart over the Marshall Fire, so we

Pimento Cheese

Yes, yes, it’s finally here: the McDonald recipe for pimento cheese. What is pimento cheese, some of you are asking? It’s an appetizer, a snack, it makes a great sandwich, it pairs well with those best summer tomatoes we all long for, you can put it in an

Pizza joy

This is too, too good not to post – this way, when I need to watch it another 427 times, it will be easy to find. Guarantee the one -minute time investment is worth it. Pizza in the making ? pic.twitter.com/cyoCb4bzmp — ??????? ➐ (@MSh3aib) May 10, 2020

Liberté ... from the same old boring cocktails

Liberté ... from the same old boring cocktails

Hello from the inside. I, like everyone else, have been living out the ultimate ‘I just wish I could stay home ALL THE TIME’ fantasy for the last five six who-knows how many weeks due to “the unprecented circumstances” and “issues related to COVID-19,” two phrases I hadn’t really

No baloney

Dear all, the post below was (mostly) drafted on December 27, 2014. That’s a long time ago. In fact, that’s bologna. Or baloney. Except, well – read the below about that. I can now see that I was held up in posting this due to a) no photograph of

holiday edition: green bean casserole

holiday edition: green bean casserole

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all. It’s been a while – I got a little busy. Had to move this blog, a couple big projects at work, got married, you know, just this and that. Anyhow in honor of the holiday today, I wanted to share with you what is going on

sunshine in a jar

If you don’t like lemons, there’s nothing for you here today. Unless you like limes. If you don’t like lemons and you don’t like limes, I hope you like oranges, although this post won’t help you with those. If you don’t like lemons, limes,

Curing what ails you: chicken soup for the MOUTH

I have a true confession to make. I am 36 years old, and until just a couple weeks ago, I’d never made chicken soup from scratch. I can see now that was a huge mistake. By the time this recipe was done, it smelled so amazing I was ready

Farmer Maggot's creamy mushroom & potato soup

I considered calling this Samwise’s Tater and Mushroom soup but once I added the cream I figured it would be more of a Shire soup than an on-the-road soup. For those less enlightened nerdy than I, here’s the deal on Farmer Maggot. Without further ado, the recipe. You

The vinaigrette that changed my summer

It seems overstated. That’s okay. It’s still true. Whether we like it or not, we all know … we should eat healthily – lots of veggies and greens and such, and that often gets interpreted as lots of salad. I am a lover of salad, but anything can get boring

Odds & ends soup

Should I be calling this stone soup? I don’t really remember that book or story very well, I’ll admit. Right, so sometimes I have a lot of odds and ends around the pantry and I’m feeling a bit lazy. In the winter, I’m a big fan

Mastering the Art of ... um, Cooking

If I have a cooking show, someday, I might have to call it, Cooking with Captain Obvious. And I will talk about things like how brown butter sauce, although it sounds fancy, is really just when you let butter brown. And then use it for a sauce. Or at least

Chickens, lend me your thighs

I’d like to begin this post by saying – I realize I haven’t really been bringing it lately. I’ll try and do better. With that in mind, if you can’t be interesting, at least give people something tasty to think about. Meat eating people that is; at

Tuna salad

One of the major interferences with my enjoyment of tuna salad is the necessity of mayo. Yes, I recognize its importance as a binder, but I don’t love it. Enter, no-mayo tuna salad. Inspired by an idea of my mom’s (thanks mom!) I roughly chopped some grape tomatoes,

French Onion Soup: Death Match

Day Two and I’m already on to food. This shouldn’t be surprising, I suppose, being that I come from a long line of people on my mother’s side for whom an important topic of conversation at any meal typically includes the plans for the next meal, or

Kittens & schnitzel

Not together, certainly. Favorite things, in case you haven’t guessed, is what I’m getting at here. Since I appear to be doing just crap at posting without some kind of reason, and because posting every day for some set reason kind of wears me out, and because after

update on the fish

well, i gave the fish a try last night. sadly, though i had the bamboo shoots ready, i forgot to toss them in. bummer. however, i did add some green beans, some lovely fresh crunchy long ones, along with a shallot (in addition to the scallions) and that was inspired.

fish of the future

Welcome to a new thematic posting series, ‘perishables.’ I’m sorry, when I impulsively renamed my personal blog “Odd Size Baggage” a few months ago I didn’t realize I would also be giving birth to a host of ridiculous airport- or shipping-related terminology. But, here we are. So anyway,