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Marinated Vegetable Salad
Looking for a cool vegetable salad recipe that can make a bunch or just enough and keep for a while in the refrigerator? This is it: marinated vegetable salad. I've made a gallon for a wedding...
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Mama's Southern-style Barbecue Sauce. Sweet!
Barbecue sauces across the United States are as varied and different as folks' accents. In the Deep South of Mississippi we like ours sweet. Here in Leakesville, there's none any sweeter or better...
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Bavarian Cream a la Mayree
It's creamy and rich and light and incredibly flavorful all at the same time. And it doesn't involve folding sweetened whipped cream into a cooked and cooled vanilla custard. It's my version of...
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cream Filling (or dip {or garnish [or late night...
This past Tuesday afternoon, on the flat coastal plain road of Highway 59 in Baldwin County, Alabama, the gray matter was wrapping itself around an idea for a new cake filling made from a local...
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A Tale of Two Banana Nut Breads
I'm an absolutely horrible blogger, the posts coming in fits and spells. I'd thought about doing a histiocytosis awareness post back in September when it was Histiocytosis Awareness Month. I thought...
View ArticleHurricane Prep 101: Things Probably Not Found On the Government Website
Hurricane Sandy is making her presence known on the East Coast, the effects of her felt from Kentucky to Canada, an area not as used to preparing for a hurricane as we are in the Deep South....
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Not-Really-a-Bread-Pudding Recipe with Caramel/Sour Cream/Godiva White...
It's all that was left!Any given weekend there are almost always several gallon ziplock bags full of cake trimmings, i.e., the crowns sliced from cakes so they'll lay nice and flat when put together....
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And the Truth Shall Set You Free
I was at a small social gathering Saturday evening. I'm not much of a social creature, socialization limited to church, family, and shopping at Piggly Wiggly. It was good to visit with folks at an...
View ArticleThe Problem With Excuses...
I love excuses. I can come up with excuses for everything considered too much of a challenge or too great of an overcoming or too big of a problem to think through or. Or. Or anything an excuse can...
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Oven Roasted Rutabagas and Mr. Van
**sigh** I don't suppose there's a single food consumed here that doesn't bring back a memory or two. Even rutabagas bring back thoughts of great fondness from young family days lived in Oxford,...
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Doxology
An odd thing happened during church today.I'd finished playing the Doxology:Praise God from Whom all blessings flow.Praise Him all creatures here below.Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts.Praise Father,...
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I'm a Bobcat now, Dr. Williams said so...
(stock photo)I sat in the library at Jones County Junior College awaiting a counselor to set a class schedule. To kill time, I took out the twenty-six year old college transcript from The University...
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Mayree's Mental Moment of Muscle
I'd arrived Thursday morning at JCJC Bobcat Fitness Center to (hopefully) become instructed on the proper use of cardiovascular equipment. Mr. Lavon was manning the desk and couldn't fit an...
View ArticleThe Only Thing to Fear...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his 1933 Inaugural address said, "The only thing to fear is fear itself." He was facing a presidential term with an America in the throes of Depression, its people lacking...
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Part Two: Why I Don't Work On Sundays
I told myself "You're not actually working. Think of it as maintenance." The words of childhood came back "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy...
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Things They Don't Teach In Culinary Arts
I learned so many things the spring semester as a student in the culinary arts department at Jones County Junior College in Ellisville, Mississippi. I've discovered just this evening, though, that...
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Mama's (very large) Pecan Pie. 'Nuff said...
Last week I had an order for a pecan pie for an almost-family friend. The recipient is the sister to a sister-in-law. It was her birthday and she didn't want any sort of cake so her sweet spouse took...
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Elephants In the Kudzu
Take a drive anywhere through the South in the summer and you'll become aware of mile after mile of a vine imported by the highway department in the early 1900's to control erosion of the roadways....
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"Moore" is Better: A Small Tribute
She can be an emotional sap but it's passion that drivers her every thought: true Otherworldly love for a child, unfathomable loyalty and devotion to family and friends, and ambition to affect...
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...Lived to Speak Another Day
Lots of you know (and some of you don't) that I'm a middle-aged Deep Southerner in a second year of pursuing a degree in Culinary Arts Technology at Jones County Junior College. It's a second go-round...
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July 4th in the Deep South: As American as Cubed Watermelon?
It occurred to me the other day that I hadn't written a blog post in a very long time. Not really having a bunch of anything newsworthy, the thought was dismissed; until tonight, that is. I was...
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The Twinkie Cake That Wasn't: How to Make Do
Grandmama, grandmother to The Fellows on their other side of the family, used to make this cake (she may still). I don't know where the recipe came from, Google, perhaps could tell, although Grandmama...
View ArticleChristmas Rant
Christmas Rant? Are you serious, Mayree? Well….. Yes.And before anyone reads any farther to only get offended, this is a singular Christian perspective. I’ve never professed to be anything but a...
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A Rose Is A Rose is a Swirl Rose?
Yep. See? I hope to get back on schedule of a blog post a week, now that the requirements for an associates in applied science culinary arts degree have been finished. While decorating the 'Frozen'...
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Good Night and Good Bye 2014!
Last sunset of 2014I hear the youngsters in the neighborhood popping bottle rockets with the occasional high-dollar canon exploding. A wonderful cold spell just right for December has the stars...
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