Oh, chili.. Isn’t chili one of those things you anticipate eagerly, waiting until the first hopeful glimmer of a fall breeze to pin that recipe that looks oh-my-god good to your new Fall Foods board? It is for me, at least. Some of my greatest fall memories include whipping up a huge batch of chili,…
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Favorite Chicken Pot Pie
In America, we eat so few savory pies it’s a shame. If you read a British blog for even an instant, you’ll be blown away by all the pie-eating that goes on, unabashedly, at dinner. For you, British dinner pies, I present: the perfect pot pie. This is one of the dishes I’ve been making…
Shrimp and Grits: Creamy, Rich, Awesome
This is shrimp and grits: a love story. A few weeks after we met, O and I were comfortable with each other, but not comfortable enough to stop constantly trying to impress one another. Those, those were the days. He asked me to go to the Pixies concert at my favorite local theatre, and I…
Ultimate Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Before we begin, a note. What were you doing on this day, oh, eight years ago? You probably have no idea, unless you had a LiveJournal (because I wasn’t cool enough to use WordPress back then), and then you still might not have any idea. Check out my throwback blog post today, also known as…
Perfect, Crispy Oven Fries
Deep-fried fries are just.. not that fun. The back of the stove ends up with a film of grease, grease splatters on your forearms, and you spend eight bucks on enough oil. Yet fries themselves are, admittedly, quite fun. When I serve them to O, he lights up like a little kid who was just…
Cajun BBQ Shrimp Poboy
When O and I went to New Orleans, we fought. Not a lot. Just once. Over what? Butter. For weeks he’d been begging me to promise we’d, if nothing else, go to his favorite poboy shop, Liuzza’s By the Track. For weeks I’d promised, yet he continued to beg me to promise. I kept promising,…
