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Food is My Love Language
The long weekend gave our family such a nice reprieve! My kitchen served as my therapy space, and I took full advantage – pancakes and strawberry butter, biscuits with sawmill gravy, lemon squares, whatever was requested was made – and I loved every minute. Our recent cold-for-Mississippi weather along with asking a cancer patient about her daily diet has also had the effect of me craving to eat and serve all sorts of comforting food. If you add all this together with MY kitchen tv streaming Netflix just for ME, I can almost forget the seriousness of life happening these days. I’m learning through this journey that living in the…
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My, My Chicken Pie
Gloomy afternoon and my meal plan designated “Chicken Pie” for today – well that worked out pretty well. I grew up with Chicken Pie being one of Mom’s go-to covered dishes. Hers is delicious…bubbly crust made from biscuit mix, cream of something, boiled eggs…southern classic. Mine is an adaptation from that wonderful Yankee, Ina Garten. (I usually refer to her as “Barefoot,” but that drives my husband crazy for some reason.) A dish like this is simple for a weeknight, provided you do a little prep. I routinely boil chicken, freeze the meat, and freeze the broth. It’s amazing what all you can accomplish in the kitchen when you have…
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Not Just Any Potato Soup
Fall in the South. For those that live here, the disappointment that this season can bring is all too well known…the teasing of a brisk morning only to succumb to mid-80s in the afternoon, a week of “boot-weather” only to bring your flip-flops back out the next week, and on and on. For me, the only solace is sheer denial. After the first evening of temps below 70, I’m all in – at least in my kitchen! Today we had a respite of perfect fall weather. Our Sunday evening meal matched it to a tee – Council House Potato Soup (and toasted, homemade sourdough bread). This potato soup is not…
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