Monthly archive June, 2008

Danish Braid. A Weekend Project.

This morning, I made two Danish Braids, because we don’t have enough carbs in the house. What with the cake, the biscuits, the scones. If not for Simply Orange, we’d have scurvy. There are three things you should know if you decide to make this Danish Braid: 1. The entire process takes at least eight...

Buttermilk Cookies

Summer officially arrives in the U.S. tonight at 11:59 p.m. This is the year we make friends. Life’s too short to dread the humidity, chlorine, and mosquitoes big enough to rape a chicken. And the sweating. The sweating! No, I’m not going to focus on that. Last January, Gourmet printed “What Is Southern?,” a previously...

Two Words: Catfish Cake

Last year, I was at a total loss for what to give Jeff for his birthday. My brother-in-law, Taylor, had just scored a new-in-the-box PlayStation 3 from a police auction, and he gave it to me to give to Jeff. G-a-v-e. I paid him back the money he’d spent, but he never asked for it....

French Chocolate Brownies

We took these French Chocolate Brownies to a “Lost” season finale party Thursday night, and it’s a good thing the room was dark, so no one noticed exactly how many I wolfed down. I needed something to supplement our dinner, which was a menu of Things That Are Difficult If Not Impossible For Me To...