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Fried Yucca
A few of my friends got me The Truck Food Cookbook by John T. Edge for my birthday. Because they fully support my food obsession. It is filled with stories of entrepreneurial super-heros, locavore...
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Peach Guacamole
Sometimes you get the whole house to yourself. And you can have a snack for dinner. Something dippy. To eat with chips. Outside on the deck so you can watch the sunset cause it makes you feel serene...
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Banana Milk
Last month I ate at the Yellow Deli in Chattanooga. According to the Chicken Farmer’s daughter you risk being kidnapped when you go to the bathroom. For the record… The bathroom was 100 feet from our...
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Chickpea Patties
We’re opting for much healthier eating. Mostly because pants are now shorts and I can’t walk around in my favorite stretched out sweater and I’m feeling super conscious of the roundness of my curves....
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Ordinary Lens: Week 36
Bits and bobs of ordinary from this past week….. Real women know how to drive fence post Barbed wire? Bobbed wire? How do you tell if it’s a boy or a girl. Also cow butts make me feel better about my...
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Chiptotle Pork Butt
Cold weather is still hanging around here in Tennessee. We’ve had 30 degree days. Then 70 degree days. Then back to 30 degree days. We’ve had sleet and thunderstorms and balmy Sunday mornings. The...
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Mothers, Daughters and Girl Balls
Last Saturday night, I took part in Nashville’s inaugural show of Listen To Your Mother. Ours was just one of 32 performances across the country. Each show pulls together a bunch of women and puts...
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School of Essential Ingredients
A good meal is sultry. One bite captures the curves and tingle of a moment. Placing it gently on your tongue to spark a memory.
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Porch Fixin’s
A spring evening. A breeze. The weekend quickly coming to a close. Monday ready to pounce. The teenager has mowed the lawn which has turned her sparkly self into a sweaty 5’9″ stomping mess of cranky....
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Nashville Public Library Seed Exchange
Cool fact: if you’ve got a library card you can check out seeds. Seeds and good reads – a winning combination. You can join in the seed exchange program by going to any of these 4 branches: Bellevue,...
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Feed Me Words
I’m not a big magazine reader. I tend to flip through them, gaze at pretty pictures than put them in a stack. Sometimes I tear recipes out of magazines. They get their own stack. Basically, magazines...
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For Your Mouth: High Cotton – Charleston, SC
We met a friend for lunch. It was muggy and I was hungry. High Cotton – from the outside, just another restaurant on a busy street in Charleston, South Carolina. A black awning. A simple wooden sign....
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Things I’m Lovin’ – June
1. The Forest Feast is the latest edition to my cookbook collection. The pictures are pretty. The recipes are simple and uncomplicated. There are no fancy, exotic ingredients. Everything can be found...
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A Holy Place
Call people to gather. To sit together. To lift up hearts and hands. To seek love and forgiveness and laughter and nourishment. Church pews. Kitchen tables, park benches or chairs and TV trays in the...
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Restless With A Side Of Soul Itch
I’m restless with a side of soul itch. I’m feeling in-between and moving-on and letting go and kicking ass. It’s a fork in the road. A turn left or right moment. Over the cliff or sit way back from...
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Sour Cherry Compote
I’ve got an easy way to make you look fancy. Compote. When you put French words in your mouth – you sound classy and people will want to eat what you make. Compote is french for “mixture”. We’re...
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Listen To Your Mother 2014 Comes To YouTube
Photo courtesy of the talented Kerry Woo April seems like ages ago. I shared a stage with 12 other women for a Listen To Your Mother performance. I stood and read some words in front of people. My...
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Claiming Her Bones
I’ve instructed, guided, encouraged, inspired, warned, scolded, annoyed and had a hand in her life every minute of every day. I’ve tried to give her grace, courage and girl balls. Her days are knitted...
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Sour Cherry Popsicle
Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, I sat in a chair and fought off the cold with an Amazon shopping spree. While the sky outside was a silver-grey and the wind whipped arctic air under my...
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