September 27, 2015

January 2015 – Page 3 of 3 – Cooking With Vinyl

The food: Sometimes you just want to clog your arteries a bit with a big, juicy steak topped with butter and cheese. When that mood strikes, make it worthwhile with a fatty bone-in ribeye and decadent gorgonzola compound butter (mitigate your guilt by adding a healthy side, like grilled asparagus). When indulging in a last-meal-worthy dinner, you must also drink a full-bodied red wine, preferably[…]

The food: There’s nothing—and I mean nothing—like your grandma’s cooking. Try as she might, your mom can never perfectly replicate her mom’s recipes. There’s just something about the love our grandmas put into their food. Or at least, that was the case with my Grandma Gertrude (or Dirty Gertie, as some friends called her), who made the best down-home Southern meals and desserts. Visiting her in the Ozarks meant[…]