Everybody I know loves a tomato pie. It’s summertime right now and no one will shut up about it. Tomato pie this, tomato pie that, etc, etc, and then they look at me, and I’m all like . . . What??? I don’t make that kind of tomato pie. Those of you who have...
Just because a dish has been around for a couple of hundred years, doesn’t mean I can’t fiddle with it, right? The modern version of what we call Eggplant Parmesan appeared in the Italian aristocrat/gourmand Ippolito Cavalcanti's cookbook, Cucina Teorico-Pratica,...
It’s summertime in Baldwin County, Alabama, and I hope you’re absolutely inundated with fresh local tomatoes. And when it gets too hot for tomatoes on the coast here in a minute, I hope you’ll buy silly amounts of Sand Mountain, Alabama tomatoes, which are the next...
What if I told you I have a vegetable recipe that your family will gobble up as fast as they snarf down French fries? What if I also told you making it was silly easy, but it sounded sort of fancy? (Y’all know that’s my favorite kind of recipe.) Well, Parmesan Roasted...
I assume you need a stupendously good holiday potato recipe? Well, today is your lucky day. This started out as an Emeril Lagasse recipe as I recall, I fiddled with it some, and now I’ve been making it forever. But let me be perfectly clear: this isn’t some...
One benefit of closing the shop and coming back to the blog is that I have a really good idea of what sorts of things y’all are wanting for dinner. I’ll be sharing a number of LCK favorites in the coming weeks. As always the focus will be on affordable...
Greek salad is a staple in restaurants all over our area. Greek places have them, pizza places have them, steak houses have them. And while you can get a decent Greek salad nearly anywhere along the Gulf Coast and many points beyond, this chopped version tastes like...
Good lord, it’s hot. But we still have to eat, evidently. Aside from Frozen Grapes in Ice Water, Gazpacho (garnished with Smoked Paprika Shrimp, of course) is one of the coolest dinners I know. AND, you can actually serve this to company if you have any. You can make...
I’ve shared a version of this salad in my Lazy Cook classes for a while now--turns out I’m not the only lazy cook out there, who knew?--and I frequently run into somebody or another who tells me that they make this salad all the time. So do I! Couscous Salad is in...
I catered a lovely wedding back in the fall, and the miniature version of these stuffed peppers was on the buffet. The venue was a sweet bed and breakfast, and the kitchen there is fairly close to the public areas. These smelled so good when we were baking them off to...
As the days get longer and the world continues to morph back into something I recognize, I find myself easing back into a more comfortable routine. And I’m most comfortable with a certain level of busy-ness. Even though I work from home, I need things to be popping at...
I know y’all are all starting to think about what to serve for Easter dinner. After a year of Covid-19 seriously cramping our holiday style, I am ready for a big Easter feast. And I’m willing to bet that we’ll see a fair amount of Easter/Spring/Renewal celebrating...
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