Buttergate Update: Paula Deen blackmailed!
The Paula Deen Scandal – let’s call it ‘Buttergate’ – spreads its ugly tentacles ever wider with each passing day, as new and shocking revelations come one after the other. The latest: Paula Deen was threatened by an extortionist over the court case that started the whole ‘N’-word mess…Read More →
Cooking 101: Fancy Butters
We recently learned that Paula Deen, the controversial Queen of Southern Cuisine (except on the Food Network), is bringing out a new line of flavoured ‘finishing’ butters. The idea is that you use a little to ‘finish’ dishes and add buttery flavour, rather than pile butter on all through cooking…Read More →
Do you secretly serve your guests take-out food?
Oh, man! Oh, man! Oh, man! This is the lowest trick ever! Apparently, many foodies and wannabes, and poseurs… Invite friends and folks they want to impress to their homes for a ‘home-made’ gourmet dinner – which they actually buy in from top-notch caterers!Read More →
How to Hard Boil an Egg – perfectly
I know. I know… Seems simple. But I keep getting questions from folks who just can’t seem to time their eggs right, or who can’t boil them without cracking them, or who always seem to get a grey/black skin on their yolks. I have a sure-fire method that solves all those problems.Read More →
Paula Deen Update: Fired by most sponsors!
Wow! The fallout from Paula Deen’s casual admission, in a statement released earlier this week, that she long ago used the ‘N’ word, just keeps coming. Seems nobody wants to stand by the old dear in her time of peril. Well… It’s often been said that paranoia, like the Plague, is highly contagious!Read More →
Leftover Rhapsody: Chicken & Turkey
Seems there’s always some Chicken left over, whether you roast it yourself or get a rotisserie bird from the supermarket or deli. And there’s always lots of Turkey left over from those family feasts we all enjoy so much. So… What do you do for an encore?Read More →