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Cant say that I ever saw a leafy green in hash

Greenhouse tomatoes from the ag students at Williams Baptist College, just up the road. Unfortunately, no fresh basil, but the olive oil is basil infused...

It's tuna fish in most Southern areas, in my experience. Dunno where else.

Martin, I don’t know that there’s a whole lot I can offer from the wilds of Arkansas except concern and prayers, but I’m more than willing to chip in on a letter writing campaign, if it will help. Let me know if there’s anything I can do.

Glad to have you here!

FWIW: I don't like marshmallows in anything except hot chocolate. So I leave 'em out, and add more pineapple and nuts. Similarly, you can make an orange salad (vanilla pudding, orange zest, canned mandarin sections); a citrus salad (lemon pudding, whatever assorted citrus you have around), and my favorite, a cherry salad (tart pie cherries, vanilla or chocolate pudding, slivered almonds). None can be considered high cuisine. But they all hit the spot for a quick sweet dish with lunch or dinner. Or for breakfast, or a snack.

Could be. I’m fortunate to have two small chest freezers and two refrigerators with decent sized freezers.

FWIW, I often par-bake dinner rolls, which I bake separated on a cookie sheet so they'll spread out more and rise upward a bit less, so they serve well as sandwich buns), and freeze the par-baked product, which has developed enough of an outside "crust" that it holds shape when frozen. If, for example, your rolls have a 20 -- 25 minute bake, try par-baking 10-12 minutes, let cool, and then bag and freeze.

Adventure dinners are great for a change of pace!

I could not help but get that kid all the macarons he wanted.

Coconut cake.

That dinner is a thing of beauty. My Easter was pretty much a bust. Steamed the ham over some cranberry juice, per a recipe I'd read. Meh. I prefer it baked. Deviled eggs were off because I was out of Dijon and had to use regular yellow mustard. Thumbs down. Corn casserole was dry. Not certain why. Asparagus and fruit salad passed muster. The tres leches cake from the Mexican bakery was to die for, though. We ate half of it and sent another quarter home with kids.

Besst of my recollection is that she used grocery store Italian dressing.

I got a tres leches cake from the local Mexican bakery for Easter. Will report to y'all.

Spectacular "wascally wabbit."

Agreed that barbecue is a process, a method of cooking. From the Central American/Caribbean “Barbacoa,” it denotes cooking a long time at a low temp over indirect heat. It does NOT connote, as many Philistines would have it, “anything cooked on an outdoor grill.”

My stomach has been a bit iffy of late, and for some reason, vegetable beef soup sounded good. I had some leftover rump roast in the freezer, so I diced up a chunk of it, added tomatoes, tomato puree, and frozen mixed vegetables and seasoned. Cooked about 30 minutes to get the frozen mixed veggies done. Turned the stove off, I thought. Sadly, I merely turned it to low, instead, and 30 minutes on low while I napped on the couch was enough to scorch the pan and set off the smoke alarm, which adventure kept me busy until 8:30. I think this is that story. I still want my vegetable soup. The scorched pan is sitting on the back of the stove, awaiting cleanup. I will FIND a restaurant that has vegetable soup today. The closest I could get last night was Olive Garden (ick), whose pasta e fagoli soup is at least semi-decent. But it ain't vegetable beef soup. Hmmm. Maybe I have VB soup in the freezer.

@shain, I have always admired your travelogue photography (as well as your cooking photography). But this trip, you have outdone yourself.

My deepest sympathies on the loss of your father.

Welcome. Lots of great bakers here.

It breaks my heart to hear that Early Girl did you so poorly. When I was there 10 or so years ago, it ranked as one of the top two or three breakfasts I'd ever had. For lunch, or that matter dinner, Tupelo Honey is (or WAS) good. I think it started in Asheville, but has since franchised across the South. We ate at one of the brewpubs, can't recall which, and the ploughman's lunch was good. One dinner was an Indian place -- which I recall as good -- and the other was at a tapas place, which was excellent. Can't recall either name. Highly recommend the winery tour/wine tasting at Biltmore. Not to mention the mansion tour. I lust after that library.

Don’t come down too hard on the “lazy” press. The nature of the beast is that it requires a knowledge base miles wide and a couple of inches deep, even if one works for a large enough publication to “specialize” in subject matter.

Now THAT is a cool birthday cake. My grandson would be ecstatic.

Ham. Corn casserole. Green peas. Asparagus. I might do Jessica’s pineapple. Deviled eggs. Hadn’t settled on dessert but @Heidi has me fixating on coconut cake…

In my house, ice cubes would never hang around for weeks. I use too much ice. I'll rarely empty the icemaker -- except periodically to get "fresh" ice -- but I'll rarely have it full, either. I gew up with ice trays, the metal kinds with levers. Hated them like sin. When Mama and Daddy got a new refrigerator with an icemaker, she wrapped up those damn trays and gave them to me for Christmas, and laughed about my reaction for ages. I usually have enough stuff in the freezer it's not convenient to put ice trays in. Plus, others leaving a tray with fewer than half the cubes in it very nearly led to divorce -- or murder -- more than a few times. I'll take my icemaker, thanks. Preferabky with an ice and water dispenser in the door.