Posted in chicken, guest posts, recipes on Jul 28th, 2009
I’m out of town, and lucky to bring you a guest post from wonderful writer Paige Orloff, food editor of The Sister Project. When Paige isn’t writing, cooking, or thinking about cooking, this city-turned-country girl cares for family, friends, horses and fowl. I asked Paige to share a food memory, and did she ever; clearly, [...]
Posted in chicken, family, Holiday, Kansas on Jun 20th, 2009
We’re on the road this weekend, toward Western Kansas, to Abilene, to stare at some pretty country, to fret about tornadoes, to visit the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum. We toured Ike’s boyhood home, gawked at parlor chairs and portraits and sifters, trying to find out what makes great men great. Here in Mrs. Eisenhower’s [...]
Posted in chicken on Feb 2nd, 2009
It’s been suggested that the Internet runs on a kind of hive mind, drawing us all into a tractor beam of same-thoughts, and this recently proved true when I heard from reader Kathleen J. Bade, blogger of One Tree Past the Fence, about my naked salted chicken. Apparently Kathleen, a professional photographer, was also going [...]
Posted in chicken on Nov 7th, 2008
As I wheeze my way through fall allergies, poor Greg gets to hear me sniffle up the stairs, snuffle down the stairs and now whine all the way to cyberspace. As previously noted, what I’d really like is some chicken soup – but I’m too hazy to even throw a little poultry in the pot. [...]
We had friends to dinner the other night, a nice little party with flowers and wine and Josie upstairs. These days I like making it nice but not stiff, special without fuss – but just a few years back it was all fuss all the time – to a newly minted chef girl, married girl, [...]
