Oct

5

Muffins, Muffins, and Muffins

Posted by Annie Mueller

October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I love breakfast food, just not at the traditional breakfast hour. Something in me simply can’t handle eggs and salty meat and syrupy pancakes early in the day. (Unless Joe takes me out to IHOP; then I find I can handle the waffle pretty well. With a side of fried ham. Maybe it’s just cooking [...]

Oct

5

Mom’s Chicken and Dumplings

Posted by Annie Mueller

October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is, for me, the ultimate comfort food: thick, creamy sauce covering soft, home made dumplings and juicy pieces of chicken. It beats mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, fettuccine alfredo. It’s the best of come-on-home Southern cooking. This is the recipe from my Mom’s book, verbatim. I think she copied it from her Mom’s recipe [...]

Oct

2

Roasted Turkey with Herb-Garlic Butter

Posted by Annie Mueller

October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I don’t roast turkeys very often, and hardly ever in September. But last week my freezer, which contained a turkey, stopped working overnight, so in the morning I had a fully thawed turkey on my hands. What to do, what to do…?
Time to practice up for the holidays, turkey-lovers. After this, I’m thinking that I [...]

Oct

1

Leave the Figs Alone!

Posted by Annie Mueller

October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I just grabbed the latest issue of Domino while out shopping yesterday. It’s a great magazine, though I have to say their idea of “tight-budget decorating” and my idea of the same are, well, separated by several hundred dollars. I’ll let you guess which way the scale goes…
At the end of the magazine is the [...]

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