Curried Chicken Salad is savory, a little sweet, and one of the tastiest chicken salads I know. It’s great on a croissant, atop butter lettuce, or on an endive leaf as a pick-up hors d'oeuvre. It’s also really good piled on crispy crackers, eaten standing over the...
No, they’re not authentic. But yes, they’re amazing and addicting. What we refer to as a báhn mì is a fine example of French-Asian fusion food from Vietnam. It began as a Vietnamese version of the quintessential French sandwich, the jambon-buerre--AKA, ham...
A few years back, I had a sweet friend call to say she needed a favor. Dot was in her 80s, smart as a whip, funny as could be, and I loved chatting with her. Dot was from Hattiesburg. She had moved here in the late 1990s I think, and we knew a lot of the same...
A while back I was in a mixed-age group of local cooks and we were talking about food. I know that’s difficult to imagine, but I swear it’s true. Anyway, the subject of party food came up. Every single one of us agreed that our favorite culinary genre was Southern...
We had egg salad sandwiches frequently when I was growing up. We also had tuna salad and chicken salad. I liked them all. It wasn’t until I was a teenager that I realized you couldn’t eat egg, tuna, or chicken salad from just anyplace. In fact, all of them were...
Dorothy Parker famously observed, “Eternity is a ham and two people.” As much as I admire Dorothy Parker and her wit, that’s nonsense. I--and I know I’m not the only one--love having ham leftovers, and they’re certainly not a burden as long as you plan ahead just a...
Thanksgiving is upon us! And as exciting as that may be, I know some of you out there are bracing yourselves to deal with the leftovers. One option is to just serve the same thing over and over until no one will eat it anymore or it needs throwing out, whichever comes...
Things are moving right along with my new food-shop-to-be, and my days are insane. There are a million moving parts, and keeping all the plates spinning is crucial. I’m ordering supplies, scheduling painters, plumbers, and electricians, plus organizing, planning,...
Unlike foie gras, veal tartare, and the still-beating hearts of cobras, as delicacies go, there is nothing controversial about pimento cheese. The only question at all is whether it’s good or bad. Bad pimento cheese is, of course, an abomination, but good pimento...
Looking around, you might think it’s impossible to have a party on the Gulf Coast without some sort of cocktail shrimp. And, heck, maybe it is. All I know is that I serve some sort of toothpick-able shrimp, with or without a dipping sauce, at parties all the time. And...
As of May 17, 2021, approximately 1,304,684 U.S. service men and women have died defending freedom since 1775. That number is approximate (at least in part) because we only have round-number estimates for the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. This Memorial Day...
Growing up we had a terrific restaurant in town called The Saratoga Trunk. They had pastas, salads, steaks, and some seafood, but in my mind the real standouts were the burgers. The menu itself wasn’t huge, and I don’t know how many burgers were on the menu, but it...
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