The Deadliest Pecan Pie in the South

For Thanksgiving, I was a baking fool. I made bread (using the no-knead recipe I blogged a while back) plus a nice pecan pie. For pecan pie, I use a recipe from Comfort Food by Holly Garrison. Mom gave me this cookbook years ago; it’s my go-to cookbook for really rich desserts and classic American …

Please, sir, I want some more

Italian Sausage and Lentil Stew – L’unico, originally uploaded by avlxyz. Tonight for dinner I made a fabulous sausage stew. I take no credit for the recipe. It comes from Jacques Pepin’s The Short-Cut Cook: Make Simple Meals with Surprisingly Little Effort. (My mom had my copy signed by the great man himself!) It included …