You can’t really buy a small ham. If you want the goodness of a big, fat ham portion, it’s going to be 9 or 10 pounds or more. Ten pounds makes a lot of meals for two people. But I buy hams anyway and eat sliced ham for breakfast, for lunch as sandwiches and chip away at it before freezing the remains and making soup at a later date. After my latest ham purchase, I found a recipe to help finish … [Read more...]

Salmon has become a staple in our house. It’s good for you, it’s a nice change of pace from beef, pork and chicken and it tastes good – most any way you prepare it. I bought a pound and a half filet this week and decided to experiment – slightly. I decided to make Salmon Pilaf. It sounds exotic, but it’s really not. I simply baked the Salmon on a nice bed of Rice Pilaf. According to the … [Read more...]

I don’t often make soup. That’s because I consider soup a medicine, like aspirin or NyQuil, for when you’re sick. When it’s dinnertime, I want meat and potatoes. But Nancy likes soup. She likes soup even when she’s not sick. So, I decided to make soup. The easiest possible recipe I found, other than opening a can of Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup (which I considered as an option) was one for … [Read more...]

We are enjoying a bumper crop of okra this summer. Our fresh produce bins in the fridge runneth over. Nancy has a few plants in her above ground garden cage, and I have a dozen or so healthy plants in my garden. We have to pick okra every day or the pods get too large to eat. Our favorite way to enjoy fresh okra is to cut the pods into small pieces, roll them in corn meal ad pan fry them. But I … [Read more...]

  Nancy and I are huge fans of Long John Silver’s. In days gone by, on a typical Sunday night, my wife would send me along with a twenty-dollar bill to Long John Silver’s on Emmet Street where I returned with a basket of fish, chicken, slaw, and hush puppies. We loved their chicken and their fish. Then they up and left town! The closest Long John’s now is in Orange, but a 90-mile rounds … [Read more...]

The corn’s a’coming. Fresh corn on the cob. Tis the season for sure. There are dozens and dozens of ways to cook corn on the cob and I’ve never tried a recipe that wasn’t good. Baked, boiled, steamed, grilled? Fresh, sweet corn on the cob? How can you go wrong? But recently I saw a recipe from Spicey Southern Kitchen that is likely to go to the front of the line in my recipe cards. It’s … [Read more...]

Mexican food is fun to prepare. There are limitless possibilities and it’s fun to experiment. This week, I took advantage of some colorful peppers at Aldi’s and whipped up some Taco Stuffed Peppers. Aldi’s and several other grocery stores have been pre-packaging three mild peppers – orange, yellow and red, and offering the trio for $2.75, an excellent price. I bought 2 packages and went to … [Read more...]