While I’ve shared a basic Southern gravy recipe here before, if you’re thinking of making biscuits and gravy it can’t be done with restaurant style gravy. It must be made with sausage gravy. Sausage gravy is a Southern staple....
For my family cornbread was a staple food. It was served with beans and potatoes, with fish, for holidays, at parties and often just as a snack. It was always served with a bowl of chili. There was no question that chili and cornbread were meant to go together. If...
While chili (particularly “Texas Red”, and yes, that means no beans.) is the official state food of Texas, there is little doubt that the unofficial state food of Texas is the chicken fried steak. I’ve known the wonderful delight of chicken fried...
Lately I’ve been spending quite a bit of time on the icky-bits. Firstly, I agree with the nose-to-tail movement. I firmly believe that if an animal has given me the honor of its very life so that I may eat that no part of that gesture should be wasted....
If there’s one food that Americans have adopted from another culture and changed to their own liking it’s the taco. In fact, most Americans wouldn’t know a real taco if it bit them. We’ve changed them too much. Chain restaurants have buried...
Weekend breakfasts are one of the things that my family looks forward to. Weekdays are a grab-and-go affair with the school bus showing up before 7:00AM and three kids to get out the door, so taking the time to sit and enjoy something together in the morning is...