Monthly Archives: November 2006

Thanksgiving Bounce Back

We’re totally stuffed with turkey and mashed potatoes. We had multiple days of leftovers, three kinds of pie, and lots of fun with my Mom, Dad, and Sister out in Arizona. So now comes the recovery time, back to eating relatively healthy foods. It’s an uphill battle, as Christmas is looming around the corner. We

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here’s hoping you and yours have a great time, may your birds be juicy and your potatoes buttery. There’s a ton of good Turkey recipes out there in the world, so we wanted to drop a quick leftover idea instead. In the words of Johnny Cash, “Momma turns the leftovers into hash, we’re doing alright,

Pot Bread

Last week, the New York Times made a bold claim. It had nothing to do with Iraq, the election, or our rights slowly being chipped away at by our hateful government, it was about bread. Specifically, it was about one New York baker’s claim that the traditional 12 steps of baking can do with one

The Traditional Thanksgiving Gantt Chart

Thanksgiving is only two weeks away, like us, you’re probably starting to pick out a good Turkey recipe, decide side dishes, and pick out pies. That stuff is a lot of fun. We hosted our first ever Thanksgiving dinner last year. As we were planning for it, we decided we wanted to eat around three.

Kiss My Grits

Corn used to be dried for storage. Dry corn lasts a lot longer than watery fresh corn. When you were ready to eat your dried corn, you could take it to the local grist mill and have it ground into corn meal suitable for corn bread, corn mush, stuff like that. As the stone wheel