Category Archives: Comfort Food

Old Fashioned Lard Pie Crust

I’ve been fiddling around with making pie crust for quite a while now.  I love pie and it took me years to start getting the hang out of making crust.  I used to buy those boxes of crust mix and … Continue reading

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True Grit(s). Is it Polenta? Or is it Grits?

There’s an old hayseed saying, “nothin’s gooder’n grits”.  I’ve always loved grits with breakfast—except you pretty much never want to order them at your favorite breakfast joint because they’ll probably be instant grits.  But real grits–with egg yolk running into … Continue reading

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Cheap Bastid’s Savory Homemade Salisbury Steak

Remember mystery meat?  Brown, rubbery, almost tasteless gunk sitting on the bottom of the main dish aluminum section of the “Hungryman” Swanson’s TV dinners you buy when you’re starved and want something which at least resembles meat but you don’t … Continue reading

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Homemade Gravy, Just a Country Boy at Heart

My father had a favorite “endearment” for me, his youngest son, when I was a kid.  At various times, he’d look at me a say, “you’re just a gravy sopper”.  This was especially true when Mom would cook pork chops … Continue reading

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Easter Dinner–Grilled Turkey Breast

You know, I don’t think I’ve ever done turkey on Easter before.  It’s just not a “turkey holiday”, which is kind of a ridiculous way of putting it, but I’ve never thought about it before.  Anyway, my grocery store had … Continue reading

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