Posted in breakfast, cheap meals, comfort, weekly menu on Oct 19th, 2010 No Comments »
By reader request, I’m posting the directions for my sausage gravy to go with my flaky southern style biscuits. I have a bacon gravy recipe up and several other gravy recipes, but no sausage. The thing with gravy is, it’s more of a feel than exact measurements. And it is definitely not a recipe you […]
Posted in breakfast, events, food to share, herbs, sides on Apr 27th, 2010 2 Comments »
This tomato tart recipe might also be called a quiche. It came from a now out of print Williams Sonoma Entertaining Cookbook – where it is deemed a tart. I’ve made a few adjustments to the recipe – the largest of which is that it takes at least twice as long to cook as the […]
Posted in bread, breakfast, cheap meals, comfort on Mar 7th, 2010 2 Comments »
I’ve altered my Flaky Southern Style Biscuits Recipe to include a Stand Mixer Recipe as well as some method adjustments. The first recipe uses a rolling pin and kneads the dough by hand. I think it’s personal preference, but I have really loved my results with the stand mixer and find hand patting the dough […]
Posted in bread, breakfast, comfort, food to share on Aug 8th, 2009 4 Comments »
Biscuits are something people develop extremely strong opinions about and at the same time such an intense love affair for the preferred style it becomes difficult to even appreciate other methods. When my sister’s husband wanted to move from the city of San Francisco out into the woods to have trees and nature and a […]
Posted in breakfast, Mexican on Jun 7th, 2009 No Comments »
The other day my best friend from high school’s facebook status update said, “Ate pancetta for dinner, which is basically bacon for snobs.” I doth protest! Apart from joining a very Italian family through marriage, I likely would have jumped on the pancetta bandwagon anyway since I’m always trying new foods. I had a leftover […]
Posted in breakfast, ham, herbs on Apr 12th, 2009 No Comments »
So you know you spend too much time in the grocery store when… Last week I got busted by the Kenneth type grocery sacker doing a little dance to the bad elevator mix in the laundry detergent aisle. Our neighborhood grocery is two stories, so while I was alone in the aisle, “Kenneth” was looking […]
