Tag: main dish
member name: Kevin Weeks
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April 26, 2006 04:39 PM EDT --
Just Like Mom's
The urge to nostalgia seems universal. We are most aware of it when nostalgia for some aspect of our past becomes fashionable again as with automobiles like the Ford Thunderbird . . .
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May 05, 2006 03:09 PM EDT --
Phony Coney
Tam melted a rare bit of cheese
Hoping, her beau, Fred, to please
But when Tam said rarebit
Fred heard it as rabbit
Now Fred thinks Tam's just a tease.
When I was around 10 . . .
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February 13, 2008 03:47 PM EST --
T here are a few recipes I make once a year and only once a year, every year. They all meet my definition of "seriously good" and yet, are so loaded with things like saturated fats that I limit . . .
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June 12, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
S upposedly Beef Stroganoff was created by a chef in Saint Petersburg for a culinary competition held in the 1890s. Although the dish was almost certainly named for Count Paul Stroganoff, a Russian noble . . .
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June 12, 2006 02:40 PM EDT --
Pigalicious
I can't imagine anything more culinarily terrifying than channeling Rachel Ray. But when my friend Stephen over at Stephen Cooks went on a burger binge . . .
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May 02, 2006 12:21 PM EDT --
Of Ribs and Rubs
Ribs. Rich, unctuous pork striated with fat. Smoke and spices vying for dominance and ultimately doomed to a supporting role in the production of this most Southern of feasts. . . .
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September 14, 2006 06:11 PM EDT --
Dis 'n Dat
(Originally published on Seriously Good on 01/16/06.)
Slashfood declared Tuesday to be D-day. The deal is to do something food oriented involving the letter "D." I was . . .
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September 19, 2006 07:52 PM EDT --
Deep in Our Genes --
Were you and I living on a farm in the South 100 years ago, we'd be giving thought about now to the upcoming hog-butchering. Here in the valleys of East Tennessee (it's . . .
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October 06, 2006 05:45 PM EDT --
Ritual --
Sunday I cooked -- really cooked -- for the first time since I moved into this new place.
After a week of TV dinners while I searched for and began organizing pots and pans, dishes and glasses, . . .
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January 23, 2007 10:50 AM EST --
There was a time when I always had stale bread in my freezer. I’d buy a loaf for some purpose or other, eat part of it, then when the remainder started going stale I’d cut it up into . . .
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January 30, 2007 03:04 PM EST --
Paisano -- A countryman; a compatriot. Spanish from the French paysan, peasant. By implication, a working person.
Jeez! "Food for Working" sounds like a white-collar pretension of blue-collar . . .
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March 15, 2007 10:15 AM EDT --
Paisano sighed and said, "I still wonder about that boy."
My friend and I had just finished a bowl of lentil soup — a really great bowl of lentil soup that Paisano had made. He'd . . .
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May 20, 2007 11:58 AM EDT --
Southern Heat and Italian Pasta
Yesterday it hit 100 degrees -- in my apartment. My 25-year old air conditioning unit had given out and, although it was only 95 outside, I'm on the top floor, which . . .
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May 28, 2008 02:18 PM EDT --
M ummo, my mother's mother and the only grandmother I ever knew, made the best fried chicken in the world. The last time I saw Mummo was 30 years ago in her basement apartment in my uncle's house . . .
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June 18, 2008 01:05 PM EDT --
P ulled from the oven, the golden, pregnant crescents glisten with butter. The pastry is so flakey while hot it can barely maintain its shape. Savory steam escapes from vents filling the kitchen with . . .
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January 04, 2009 11:15 AM EST --
T here are a few recipes I make once a year and only once a year, every year. They all meet my definition of "seriously good" and yet, are so loaded with things like saturated fats that . . .
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February 04, 2006 10:26 AM EST --
Peasant Pastoral
Macaroni and cheese was the perfect dish to eat while moving into this new home, but a few weeks ago I fixed another of my favorite cheese dishes -- Raclette.
Raclette is a pungent . . .
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May 12, 2006 07:40 PM EDT --
The Devil Take You!
The first time I saw her on TV I thought, "What a joke!" She was way too skinny to be a cook -- particularly an Italian cook. Yeah, I mean that De Laurentiis woman. She's . . .
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April 25, 2007 09:38 AM EDT --
The Paisano sat across from me smirking into his wine. We'd gotten into a political argument over dinner and he was quite sure he had "won" the discussion. But the fact is Paisano has no . . .
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September 13, 2008 01:16 PM EDT --
T he group I refer to as my "cooking buddies" has been getting together every other year since 1994 for a Cooks' Bash . The first was held in Charleston, South Carolina where I had my first . . .
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