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Mama’s Butterscotch Pie
The main reason I decided to take up cooking for myself – many years ago – was purely selfish: I wanted to taste again all the wonderful foods that Mama had been so good at producing, and, given that she … Continue reading
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Tagged Butterscotch, butterscotch pie
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Recipe: Green Bean Casserole Made Fresh (No Cans!)
I agreed during the summer to publish this recipe, but what with life and such, I never actually did. I was reminded of it when I heard someone yesterday on the radio talking about what they were having for Thanksgiving … Continue reading
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Tagged Beans, Comfort Food, Green Bean Casserole, Thanksgiving
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For Bastille Day: Vichyssoise Redux
Around the year 2000, we invited our wonderful longtime Fire Island neighbors, Guy Musquere and Daniel Meyer – along with eight of their Parisian guests – to join us for a Bastille Day dinner, and since I wanted to honor … Continue reading
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Tagged Bastille Day, chives, cold soup, cream soup, Fire Island, French, soup, Versailles, Vichyssoise
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Recipe: The Elusive Magic Cobbler
I’m not sure when I first heard tell of it. Probably listening in on the womenfolks’ conversation while sitting on a folding chair in the back of the Century Methodist Church at a Wednesday night fellowship dinner (while scarfing down … Continue reading
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Tagged blueberry cobbler, deep dish pie, easy cobbler, easy dessert, peach cobbler
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Remembering Mama, and Margaret Sandlin’s Cherry Dessert
The first day of September is rich with meaning for so many people in so many ways. For students of every age, from Pre-K (something that hadn’t even been invented in my day) right on through doctoral studies, it marks … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, cooking, Death, desserts, faith, fruit glaze, Holy Spirit, Love, prayer, recipes, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged cherries, Cherry dessert, cherry pie filling, Decatur, Decatur Daily, Huntsville, Newcomers Club, refrigerated desserts, rich desserts, sinful desserts
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Recipe: Cheese Grits Soufflé
Cheese Grits Soufflé. I guess it really is true that you can take the man out of ‘Bama but you can’t take ‘Bama out of the man. When you cook a big dinner for 10 hungry beachcombers every weekend, some … Continue reading
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Tagged carbs, Cheese, cheese grits, cheese grits souffle, delicious, egg dishes, Grits, grits dishes, savory, souffle, souffles, starch
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Recipe: Salmon Ceviche
Believe it or not, we’re already into week three of our Fire Island share house season, when Richard and I play host to a great group of shareholders who either take a time share that includes every fourth week throughout … Continue reading
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Tagged ceviche, fish, lime juice cookery, marinated fish, Salmon, Salmon Ceviche, summer salads
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Recipe: Allen Geesey’s Sausage and Leek Soup
A couple of weeks ago, when the predictions were dire for a “historic” winter storm in New York City, one of the local news commentators made a tour through a local grocery store and showed pictures of the empty shelves … Continue reading
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Tagged cream soup, leeks, potato leek soup, sausage, soup, soups
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Recipe: Mr. Clancy’s Baked Onions, a Family Tradition
The Thanksgiving holidays, when we were kids, were magic times mostly spent with Aunt Peggy and her brood – either at our house in Century or theirs in Atlanta – when long-settled family food traditions could be counted upon to … Continue reading
Recipe: Vichyssoise!
Though I didn’t really realize it at the time, one of the great blessings of going on the annual Birmingham-Southern College Concert Choir tour – and I did three: to Texas, to Philly/D.C./Williamsburg, and to Chicago/Gary/St. Louis – was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Appetizer, cold soup, Fire Island, soup, Thanksgiving, Versailles, Vichyssoise, Yummy
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