Here are a few important notes to keep in mind for wine cookery: Wine is affected by unfavorable conditions, by changes of temperature. It languishes, it sometimes recovers. When it has reached its allotted span of life, it dies. Wine is best appreciated in cookery...
CHICKEN STEW Chicken soup is associated with being a bit under the weather for good reason. It’s nutritious, tasty, filling and somehow seems just the thing for when, as Grandpa Joe would have put it, “a body is ailing a bit.” Curiously, I don’t remember Grandma...
A Brays Island Winter Classic: Grilled BBQ Swordfish with Pimento Cheese Grits Heat up your winter season with a dish that is sure to start a conversation at the dinner table. There is nothing quite like a swordfish freshly caught from Atlantic waters, and enjoying it...
SQUIRREL AND DUMPLINGS High Country Comfort Foods: Part 2 Although the grand comeback stories of the white-tailed deer and wild turkey have relegated the humble bushytail to a place well down the ladder when it comes to game species favored by hunters, for several...
HIGH COUNTRY COMFORT FOODS: Part 1 “A body can get the miseries or suffer from mollygrubs most any time,” my Grandpa Joe used to say, “but somehow they seem to come most often in the dead of winter.” He had a bunch of what he considered surefire remedies for these...
Sauces A perfect sauce is always a triumph. A bit of this, a sprinkle of that, a dash of imagination and the most prosaic food is “saucily served.” The preparation of foods so that the most of it is made of natural flavors and textures, that’s good...
Chicken Fried Rabbit The eating of rabbits and hares has a venerable history in Europe. Greeks, Germans, Spaniards and Britons love rabbits and hares, as do Italians in certain regions. they also happen to be the building blocks of any true hunter’s repertoire....
Marinades The word MARINATE comes from an old Spanish word meaning “to pickle,” and it is the acid of the marinade that does the work, adding new flavor, softening tough fibers, increasing their natural sapidity through the action of penetration, lifting...
