They are miserable people - continually aggrieved. Any version of happiness is attached to anger and righteousness. Cognitive dissonance will do that to you.

I don’t mind it. It’s an easy way to add some vegetables. I just use tomato paste in mine - and cook it with the trinity until it gets sticky. Add the broth and seasonings and simmer that for a good long while. Add any meat (if using), add the rice. Cook until the rice is done. Add any shrimp or crawfish and cook…

I hope they came out well!! Lucky co-workers!

Best advice - don’t try to pipe the pastry into the long, traditional shape and fill them. Make profiteroles instead. It’s the same choux recipe (pastry), only the shape is different. You make little balls, bake them, cut them in half, fill them with pastry cream and put the chocolate glaze on. MUCH easier and they…

You had bad fried okra. You’ve got to fry it for good while, so that it gets crunchy. The frozen, breaded version is just awful. A good recipe comes from Cowboy Kent Rollins on you tube - my recipe is very similar.

I’m in our rental home near my daughter’s home. Her birthday is today. She tested positive for Covid after an asshole (or two) came into work sick. Irony alert - they sell PPE to military hospitals!! We spent a little bit of last weekend together, so now my husband is back at our home and I’m stuck here in quarantine…

Lots of old recipes call for oleo - which is basically flavored Crisco. Back in 1939 a case regarding the color of oleo or margarine reached the Supreme Court. In short, makers of these “fake butters” could no longer be sold yellow, so that’s why the yellow coloring packet was included for the purchaser to mix it in…

Cane syrup is generally only available in the Southern US, and getting harder to find. I live down here and it’s not in any of our mass market grocery stores, just the produce markets. You can find it online. Steen’s (I think?).

We didn’t eat Karo (corn syrup), just the cane syrup from the sugar cane mill up the road. For breakfast, we’d mix cane syrup and sour cream -something my granny called “salve” for some reason - and dip our (leftover from the day before) biscuits in it. I, too, never had maple syrup until I was an adult.

This was cane syrup (made from sugar cane) not corn syrup. There was a cane mill right up the street from my Grandmother’s house, so we got to watch them make it sometimes.

In our Southern household, we ate cane syrup with our pancakes and biscuits. Cane syrup has a distinct flavor (not a bad flavor, but not your standard pancake syrup). I used to love going to friends houses and having their Mrs. Buttersworth!  As an adult, I tried pure maple syrup and wasn’t sure I liked it. It grew on…

We don’t eat meat, but red beans and rice with cornbread and fried okra are on our regular rotation. If you season your beans well, the meat isn’t really necessary - and you can save those calories for caramelized apples or peaches and vanilla ice cream after your meal!

Girls of the family were often kept out of school on Mondays so they could help with the laundry.

Hands down, Chows are the cutest puppies. I had many foster puppies and our Chow Lab pup was so friggin adorable - a solid black fluffy little bear. He became very attached to us - he was a one-person dog (my husband was HIS person even though I did all the work! figures...) so we adopted him. He was such a majestic,…

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Check out cookieandkate.com...theirs is close to mine. I don’t eat meat so I add bacon bits (the salad variety doesn’t contain bacon) to my mixture. I also add shredded cheese into the cream cheese mixture as well. I top with buttered pankso. Let your imagination run wild! I want to try these with some diced “krab” or…

Baked, cheese stuffed jalapenos with crispy topping. (Made these last week because our grocery store had a special on raw jalapenos. Unlike the fried versions, these reheat very well, so you can make extra and keep them in the fridge. I sometimes make these and serve them with beans and Mexican rice or corn or avocado…

I didn’t see that offering! 

They are sold in small branded resealable bags - whole, diced, smoked diced. I find them in the produce department at Publix on an end cap. They do not need to be refrigerated, even after opening. I don’t have a bag near me right now or I’d give you the brand name.

I recently ordered Momofuku’s version of crispy garlic chili oil. It’s good, but a lot more expensive than Lao Gan Ma and the difference is negligible.