Handy Dandy Kitchen Tip

A couple of days ago, I was showing a friend this nifty little trick I have for cleaning sticky gunk off of dishes. She stopped me mid-sentence and said, “You ARE going to write about this, right?” I hadn’t thought about it before then, but here I am, writing about it.
For years I’ve used my [...]

Pizza Margherita

Night #2 of our Five Nights of Pizza experiment: Pizza Margherita.
This pizza takes us to the next stop in pizza history. Well, almost the next stop.

Sourdough Pizza Crust

With Laura’s Pizza Research Extravaganza going on right now, this seems like the perfect time to share my recipe for sourdough pizza crust.
We’ve gotten rather hooked on sourdough pizza crust in the past few months. I’m not sure that it is historically accurate (i.e. I don’t think that pizza arrived in this country until AFTER [...]

Olympus Honey Bread

Here is our ancient Greek sweet pizza, which we made from the sweet ingredients we didn’t feel we could include on our dinner pizza on the first stop in pizza history.

Pizza Alexander

Laura Bee’s Sweet Tea

When we moved to the southeastern part of the US, there was one thing that I found totally incomprehensible: sweet tea. I grew up drinking large quantities of sun tea when I was a kid in Arizona. I GET that. It was so refreshing and we could drink gallons of it in a day.
In the [...]

California Girl does Carolina Barbecue

One of things that we’ve learned since we moved to the southeast is that people in the Carolinas take barbecue VERY seriously. In fact, barbecue is not a verb. One doesn’t “barbecue” meat. It’s practically a proper noun, as in, “Mildred is bringing Barbecue to the potluck so the line will start forming the day [...]

Guacamole Chicken

I went into the kitchen this afternoon with no real inspiration regarding dinner. But as I started pulling out things from my fridge, this meal began to take shape. It was wildly successful, I’m happy to report!

Tuscan Pesto Chicken Panino

At 5:50 p.m., my husband asked me, “Is there a plan for dinner?” And I stared blankly at him. Thirty minutes later, we put this on the table:

I will post the things we put on it, but I do hope you realize the point of this post is to show you how to [...]

Marinade for grilling meat and more

It was brought to my attention (thanks, Mom!) that we have never posted a marinade for grilling meat here. That is clearly an omission of major proportions which requires immediate attention. So without further ado, here’s a bit of rambling in general about marinating, and instructions for the marinade most frequently used in [...]