Between Thanksgiving through to the new year over 144 holidays are celebrated around the world. As the earth settles into rest, and the natural world slows down, cultures everywhere give thanks to harvest, family, health, and spirit. I am blessed to have a circle of friends that broadens my celebrations outside of my own family traditions….
Category: nostalgia
Sheet Pan Blueberry Pie
LOVE blueberry season. My Great Grandmother Lola used to get lost in the woods picking huckleberries; a wild blueberry-like cousin. She would come home with bites and scratches all over, but a pile of berries gathered in her dress. I think about her every time I am picking my weight in blueberries at a u-pick…
The Forgotten Coast and Pickled Squash
Every year the matriarchs of the Gunter family would travel to The Forgotten Coast; a place in Florida far from where the tourists loaded with sunscreen, neck hanging cameras, and mouse ears go. The place Floridians know as “real Florida”. Located in the panhandle, it was a central place between the all the Gunter sisters…
Pickled Beets
When it is beet season many local farmers will have bulk flash sales. I usually will pick up beets carrots and cabbage around the same time and do a big run of pickling, canning and fermenting. Pickled beets remind me of my mothers plate at dinner time. There is reason I still have this underlying…
Bama Poundcake
My cousin Jerry (from Alabama) makes three desserts. This is one of them, the other two are pies. One of the tricks is under-cooking the cake just a smidge. Makes this gooey texture on the bottom that we like. If this is not your thing, you can cook it a little bit longer. The other…
Market Brownies
My first job in the culinary world was at a little deli in a residential town center. We opened early in the morning, served fresh brewed coffee, homemade baked goods, and deli salads by the pound. I didn’t know it at the time but this would be the cornerstone of the career I chose. And…
THE FOOD STORIES PROJECT 