cooking
The Challenge of Cooking Over Fire
Fires and hearths are what I’m thinking about this week as I put together my talk for the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello on Sept 21st! …
History Dinners at Indigo House for Summer, Fall, and Winter 2019-2020
Jiggery-pokery with calendars and lists has been my work this week. I am delighted to announce the scheduled dates for my Indigo House History Dinners for this summer (June), Fall (September and October) and for the coming winter (February and…
Celebrate Black History Month with Dinner at Indigo House
Celebrate Black History Month this year with a Southern Sunday Supper on a Saturday Night. On Saturday, February 24th, 2018 this dinner for eight will feature iconic African-American and Southern dishes. After a 1st course of “Pot Likker” soup accompanied…
Monticello Hearth Cooking at the Heritage Harvest Festival 2016
This coming Friday (Sept 9th) culinary historian Michael Twitty will join me at the Monticello kitchen hearth for a celebration of enslaved cooks Edith Fossett and Frances Hern; their skills and their lives. We will prepare a menu of recipes…
Roasting Garlic for our summer eating
Once in the spring and then once again in the fall I buy a big mesh tube of garlic heads and roast those suckers all on the same day for my quart of roasted garlic that lives in my fridge…
IN WHICH WE MAKE PIZZA IN OUR HOME BUILT WOOD BREAD OVEN
Yesterday our family had the delicious fun of making pizza in our wood oven for the first time in the yard out by the picnic table under the oak tree. The wind was chilly even though the sky was bright…
