There are certain recipes that are so versatile, that they are a perfect place to incorporate your favorite meat, especially those extra scraps that you don’t know what to do with. One of my favorite such recipes is fried rice—full of bold flavor, spice and sweetness and a perfect base in which to incorporate duck,…
A few weeks ago in Arkansas, my friend Paul Michael made a dish he makes regularly whenever someone has caught a nice redfish or bass. They all call it "coo-bee-on" and so I just assumed it was another one of their local regional dishes that this Yankee was unfamiliar with.
And then I saw…
When I was in Arkansas I made a new friend. And one night, while we all were digesting our 237th feast, she told us about this recipe she'd dreamed up using shrimp she'd had. It was smothered in scallions and tomatoes and lots and lots of butter. She agreed to make it for us as…
It begins with an Amish man. Like most of my stories do.Okay fine it doesn't begin with him, it begins with a 5 pound sack of potatoes that we purchased at a run down store in a vacant town across from this abandoned house that I really want to buy and fix up but am…
Scroll to the bottom to enter the second giveaway of the week... we're on a roll baby.I've been bewitched by Friday Night Lights. The show and the real life fantasy of mine. It is partly because I want to be as cool as Tim Riggins when I grow up, minus the jail bait, but also…