With the Thanksgiving holiday rapidly approaching, I decided to offer a few tips for making your holiday meal easier, or at least more interesting. To begin with, choosing the right type of oil is crucial to a successful Turkey Day. After years of experimentation, I recommend Castrol 40 weight. Just fill up the crankcase of the old jalopy and high-tail it for Mom’s house! You don’t really want to spend all day cooking when you could be kicked back in the lounge chair with a cold one, do you? Of course not!
Archives for April, 2008
These books are all highly recommended for anyone who loves Southern cooking but needs to cut calories or fat. The diabetic cookbooks are especially good, even if you don’t have diabetes.
African-Americans have made a huge contribution to what has become Southern cooking. These books explore the influence of African and Caribbean influences on our food. They all feature wonderful recipes, some of them passed down for several generations.
From the mountains to the sea, North Carolina has some of the best eating of any state in the South. From the country ham and fried trout in the Smokies to the shrimp and scallops on the Outer Banks, you’ll love our home-grown flavors.
My home is in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, not far from Tennessee. This region has a rich heritage of cooking which has changed little from the days of the earliest pioneers. Simple but delicious and hearty recipes are featured in these books.
These books contain recipes from the late 1800s that will put you in touch with the true heritage of Southern cooking.
Emeril Lagassee — You’ve seen him on TV, now read the books! Emeril is one of the hottest chefs in the country, and his kicked-up cooking style will put a little “BAM!” on your table.
These books are the best available on Southern cooking. They all feature terrific recipes and will be treasured by your family.
The Low Country is the coastal plain around Charleston and Savannah. The cuisine there blends rice with the ever abundant seafood to give a mix of flavor you won’t find anywhere else on the planet.
I don’t know what it is about spring that makes us want to clean and organize. Ever since the first Neanderthal (or his wife, more likely) decided to tidy up the cave and straighten up the spears, we’ve used spring as a good time to get things organized. With that in mind, let’s look at some ways to organize our favorite room, the kitchen.
