Mary Reporting. This morning as I breezed through Juniors at a local mall, I stopped dead. A large cardboard poster featuring a drawing of a teen in jeans proclaimed in large letters: WANNA BETTA BUTT? The text continued: YMI No kidding. With specially designed contour seams to help you achieve a flattering, firmer look, these […]
Shrimp Creole This is the best version of Shrimp Creole I’ve ever tasted. A perfect dish for Fridays during Lent! This recipe is adapted from Rouse’s magazine. To devein shrimp, run a small knife down the back and then remove the veins and rinse. Making a roux creates a particularly rich tomato-based dish. Enjoy! INGREDIENTS: […]
Helen reporting. Martinique on Magazine Street in New Orleans makes a powerful wake-me-up drink—Milk Punch. This mix of milk, vanilla, bourbon or brandy—your choice—with a sprinkling of nutmeg is delicious. It’s the very same intoxicating beverage heroine Renee Desselle enjoys at the Collins Garden Party in The Willing Widow. The competition for William’s attention is […]
After a positive experience making Sally Lunn Bread, I decided to take on my grandmother’s dinner rolls. Where she learned to make these, no one knows. She made a batch of these at least once a week, so dinner at her house always meant freshly baked rolls. Like Sally Lunn Bread, Grandmere’s rolls contain eggs […]
Reader Charles Padgett asked what sort of pets Americans owned during Victorian times. Short answer—birds, dogs and cats—in that order. Settlers arrived in America with dogs, cats and a penchant for caging songbirds. The first two served useful purposes on the farm. Caged birds provided entertainment indoors. By the second half of the 19th century, […]
