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Sweet Potato Casserole

A few years ago I got my tonsils out.  And when I say a few years ago, I don’t mean as a child.  I mean as an adult.  It was an awful experience.  On more than one occasion during the two weeks that I was completely incapacitated, a friend would walk into my apartment to [...]

Fresh Cranberry Sauce

When I was a kid, I was completely horrified by cranberry sauce.  Mostly because I associated all cranberry sauces with what comes out of a can.  Which, is horrifying.  I don’t trust the way jello-like things move.  It weirds me out.  But, in adulthood, I’ve come to appreciate the made fresh cranberry sauce.  It’s tart, [...]

Mashed Potatoes

After the divorce, my parents worked really hard to keep our lives as normal as possible.  My mom, for instance, still makes a completely homemade dinner every night that one of us is home.  However, one day in the late 90′s, she took some bad advice from a friend and tried to pass boxed mashed [...]

Rosemary Biscuits

I really like Maryland, I do.  At first I hated it.  For starters, it’s very cold in the winter.  Never the less, over the past four and a half years, it’s really grown on me.  But the first thing I do everytime I go home is go to Bojangles (which has the best slogan ever- “Born [...]