at the farmers market: zucchini

There stands the glass
That will ease all my pain
That will settle my brain
It’s my first one to day
There stands the glass
That will hide all my tears
That will drown all my fears
Brother, I’m on my way.
“There Stands the Glass” by Webb Pierce

Some interesting zucchini recipes:
Zucchini Fritters from Simply Recipes
Quinoa and Grilled Zucchini from 101 Cookbooks
Italian Sausage [...]

fried chicken

You want me broken
You want me dead
I’m livin’ rent-free
In the back of your head
Hey, chicken you’re all talk
Hey, chicken you’re all talk
“Hey Chicken” by Loose Fur

I didn’t eat a lot of fried chicken growing up, but I’ve had enough to know what I like. I remember that my mom had the phone number to the [...]

pistachio crusted rack of lamb

They’re really rockin’ in Boston

In Pittsburgh, Pa.

Deep in the heart of Texas

And round the ‘Frisco Bay

All over St.Louis

And down in New Orleans

All the cats wanna dance with

Sweet Little Sixteen
“Sweet Little Sixteen” by Chuck Berry

I love lamb, my wife Elissa does not.  This recipe can be filed under “things to make when the wife is out [...]

skillet baked ziti

Fruitcakes in the kitchen

Fruitcakes on the street

Struttin’ naked through the crosswalk

In the middle of the week

Half-baked cookies in the oven

Half-baked people on the bus

There’s a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us
“Fruitcakes” by Jimmy Buffett

I love PBS cooking shows! One of my favorites in the Saturday morning line up is America’s Test Kitchen.  [...]

fried green tomatoes

Everybody said she needed to move on

That he was all but lost, so deep was his coma

When he finally came to the girl he loved was long gone

She’d married a banker and gone to Oklahoma

He bought a little land with the money from the settlement

And even bought the truck that had hit him that day

He [...]

at the farmers market: green tomatoes

Another rainy day, we’re trapped inside with a train set

Chocolate on the boil, steamy windows when we met

You’ve got the attic window looking out on the cathedral

And on a Sunday evening bells ring out in the dusk
“Another Sunny Day” by Belle and Sebastian

Some interesting green tomato recipes:
Green tomato relish
Fried green tomato BLT
Green tomato pizza

now for something completely different

If you follow my blog, I rarely stray away from the topic of food.  Tonight’s post is a little pat on the back for the students and staff at Live Oak High School.  Thursday was the end of the school year, so I thought this would be a good way to honor everyone at my [...]

cornish hen with artichoke and olive dressing

And lay me down on birds of paradise

It’s pretty womanly in here!

Roses noting every move

Nothing goes on except what should

A vast legacy of good
And I don’t know if I can uphold it on my own

I don’t know if I can uphold it on my own

I don’t know if I’m to be trusted

In our room alone

A [...]

pizza on the grill: caramelized leek, potato and speck pizza with roasted garlic

Cool of a temperate breeze from dark skies to wet grass

We fell in a field it seems now a thousand summers passed

When our kite lines first crossed

We tied them into knots

And to finally fly apart

We had to cut them off.
“Pink Bullets” by The Shins

This is not a ground breaking idea, you can find stuff all [...]

blueberry pancakes

Did you hear about the midnight rambler

Everybody got to go

Did you hear about the midnight rambler

The one that shut the kitchen door

He don’t give a hoot of warning

Wrapped up in a black cat cloak

He don’t go in the light of the morning

He split the time the cock’rel crows
“Midnight Rambler” by The Rolling Stones

If you are [...]