2012-08-25_003

Grilled Corn Salad (mason jar mint dressing)

Ingredients:
6 ears of corn
4 leeks, grill and thinly slice
1 pint grape tomatoes, grilled
1 jalapeno pepper, grilled and thinly chopped
1 head romaine lettuce, torn
Mason Jar Mint Dressing (recipe to follow)

Directions:
Soak corn, in husk, in water for 15 minutes. Place on kitchen towel to drain.

grain-fed

Legs. That’s what they called her. She packed the grinder, her six kids and a bag of barley and headed for a hollow in the hills of Kentucky. Three thousand miles and no food save for some milk souring in her oft-trampled bosom. On arrival, she clamped the metal contraption to a beam that held up the dirt floor cabin, fattened the fire. Her upright children whipped the handle one by one to see who could fill a bread pan full of flour fastest. Pancakes griddled on the wood stove. Legs boiled down sorghum from the cane she had harvested in the fields. After feasting, her heavily biceped offspring hoisted themselves through the glassless windows and leapt into the woods.

You Say Pocketbook, I Say Purse

It’s not been until my latter adult life that I learned that pocketbook was the universal term for “handbag”. Either way, a girls gotta have one with her at all times –where else would we store our receipts and change, right? A purse defines your mood and look (I would say “outfit”, but I despise that word).