Mini Muffuletta Party Sandwiches
For a while now the trendy word around the Web has been "obsessed", and the hyperbole of it all makes me roll my eyes. For Pete's sake, how often is someone actually obsessed with something, as opposed to just liking it or just wanting it, or just being very...
Crab Hushpuppies with Hollandaise Sauce
One afternoon last week the phone rang. My friend Kim had been driving all over three counties selling real estate and was nearby. Oddly, she had not yet had lunch. She had to wait until I’d taken a few photos, but we fixed her up for lunch, and good. It just so...
Maque Choux
It’s still fresh corn season here on the Gulf Coast! I don’t know anybody who doesn’t like just-picked corn on the cob, but even corn on the cob can get a little meh if you eat it day after day. We all need a few other corn recipes in our arsenal, and one of my...
Hot Buttered Crab Claws
I like fried food just as much as the next Southerner, and growing up in Coastal Alabama, we all start liking fried seafood pretty early in life. I can remember my mother cutting up fried shrimp to put on my baby sister’s high chair tray. Fried fish had to be picked...
Summer Corn Chowder
Silver Queen corn season in Baldwin County, Alabama, has loomed large in my mind as long as I can remember. As a kid I loved corn on the cob--I still do--and in our family we never, ever, ever, had that kind of corn on the cob that came pouring out of a white grocery...

