Butter Together: They’re good for your heart
If you are as weird as I am (please say you are … please say somebody is), you may already know about this super-hot controversy over beans. To salt or not to salt?
Robert St. John: The perfect peach
Perfection finally showed up at my house last week. I ate it over the kitchen sink.
Baking a better banana bread
Listen, I know with the unprecedented heat wave and all, it’s not really “baking season,” but as a baker, sometimes baking just kind of happens to us, and we don’t really have a choice in it.
Everyday Clay: Building a better boat
There’s an interesting theory called the Ship of Theseus paradox.
In the Garden with Felder: Paving the way through the garden
Somebody call the waaa-bulance, ’cause I just installed a flagstone walk, rearranging each slab of natural stone like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. And no amount of Advil is easing the aches.
Jabe Nicholson: Whose fool are you?
In his play, “As You Like It,” Shakespeare wrote, “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” Sounds like everyone’s some kind of fool!
Butter Together: Fry-day every day
It’s funny how some of the dishes that seem the most basic are also the hardest to pull off.
Robert St. John: Yonderlust, Mississippi
Forty people from 10 states boarded a bus in Jackson. Most of them, if you’d pressed them, probably figured Mississippi would be fine.
A peach of a dinner
I know when it comes to seasonal cooking, you don’t think, “Ahh, yes, summer … the perfect time for a meatball.”
Keeping it cool with pico de gallo
Somehow, it’s already July, y’all!
Everyday Clay: As American as apple pie
It’s nostalgic … warm sliced apples, sweet gooey filling, hints of cinnamon and a buttery, flaky crust. You can’t beat a good slice of apple
Pulled over by peaches
I think I’ve mentioned several times at this point how much I dislike summer – how the heat, humidity and endless onslaught of mosquitoes come with no upsides and how I feel my summer-loving friends are out of their minds.
From seed potato to supper
Well, y’all, it was another exciting week in the garden for us.
Butter Together: For when you can’t stand the heat but can’t get out of the kitchen
I grew up in a home without central air conditioning. (I know, I know … my children could never.)
Everyday Clay: I think I’ve had too much to think
I had a dentist appointment this past week.
In the Garden with Felder: The best gardens tell stories
Do you have a landscape like everyone else, or a garden that says something about you?
Jabe Nicholson: The Holey Brolly
On June 30, 1973, I married my high school sweetheart. We were privileged to spend our honeymoon in Britain.
‘Bears, beets, brownies’
This year, we tried something new in our early summer vegetable garden: beets. And we harvested them this past weekend! We ended up with a small mountain of them, which was satisfying and exciting.
Butter Together: Loaf at first bite
I honestly didn’t know zucchini bread was a thing until we started a garden.
Tortilla smash burgers bring the grill indoors
I hope y’all enjoyed a lovely Father’s Day weekend celebrating all the father figures in your lives!
