Recipe: Southern Comfort Biscuits and Gravy

Southern Comfort – Biscuits and Gravy

After living in the South for eight years, I am sorry to admit that I’ve only tried about 3 Southern comfort foods: chicken fried steak, gumbo, and biscuits and gravy. (Yes, I am including Florida as the South even though Florida is the southernmost Northern state in America.) The chicken fried steak was from a DQ so no comment there. The gumbo was made by a college roommate’s mother and it was filled with shrimp that the roommate and his dad caught that morning. Awesome!! They probably don’t know this, but I would sneak some late at night while everyone was asleep. Oh, yeah, me bad; and, yes, I’m still pissed that I was left to do “women’s things” with the family while he went off to shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico. Jerk*. Loved his family, though.

Recipe: Roasting Veggies a must-have easy essential

Roasted veggies - my saving grace

Seriously, they are my saving grace. I may have mentioned before that it was from sheer desperation that I discovered how to roast veggies. A few months ago, there were sitting in my refrigerator, a few dejected russet potatoes (yuck), dry-bendy carrots, wrinkled onions, depressed green peppers, and almost-flowering garlic. All these had been purchased with the full intent of adding vegetables to the diet with the full knowledge that this wasn’t gonna happen.