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Recipe: Cold Glazed Ham

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Originally posted late June, 2016. This was spectacular! I changed up the recipe– from Serve it Cold! A Cookbook of Delicious Cold Dishes (1968)– a bit and I’ll make note. The recipe makes extensive reference to fat– trimming it, skimming it. We just bought a half fully cooked smoked ham, like a Jeno turkey ham

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Recipe: Blood Mary Soup | UPDATED!

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Originally posted late June, 2016. This time I’ll use frozen stewed tomatoes and puree them in the blender.   Created as a dodge for New York’s Sunday morning liquor laws, this zesty, pick-me-upper has become very popular on the brunch menu at the Rainbow Room. This recipe is from Serve It Cold! A Cookbook of

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HI! Revisiting the Heat Index

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Heat index (HI) @10:23am is 94°. Mr. Big Food suggested that we call it a day outside. I feel like a wimp, but agreed. Turns out, some years back I spent three or four days thinking about the heat index and how it’s calculated. Here’s a tidbit. The HI was not even a thing until

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A Song of Long Ago

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Let the fragrant summer breeze,And the leaves of locust trees, And the apple-buds and -blossoms, and the wings of honey bees,All palpitate with glee,Till the happy harmonyBrings back each childish joy to you and me from “A Song of Long Ago,” in Riley Farm-Rhymes with Country Pictures by James Whitcomb Riley (1883)

Recipe: Curried Chicken and Grape Salad

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A HUGE hit! Served with Tomato sambal and toasted pita. CURRIED CHICKEN AND GRAPE SALAD serves 6 3 cups diced cooked chicken 1 1/2 cup thinly sliced celery 1 cup green grapes 2 Tbsp. lemon juice 1 1/4 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. black pepper 1 1/2 tsp. curry powder (use the best sweet curry you can

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About Last Night…

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Mr. Big Food had a radical– and brilliant!– idea to beat the heat the other week: Cook up a big ol’ pot of soup outside on the turkey fryer. As you know, here on Farther Along Farm we love soup. Brilliant! That is Lentil Soup Barracho just getting started at about 5:45. This is a

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Marica Cooks Monday: Baby It’s Cold Inside!

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To celebrate the arrival of that Southern Season known as Summer (as contrasted with Almost Summer which is almost over, and Still Summer which will not begin until September), I have chosen to prepare a cold supper for Marica Cooks Monday. We will begin with Bloody Mary Soup served in “well-chilled, salt-rimmed low high boy

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100%

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Here’s another little tidbit about the Heat Index (HI). There are temperature and relative humidity levels beneath which the Heat Index cannot be calculated. The lowest temperature for which one can calculate HI is 80°; humidity, 40%. Thus… is a freaking lie. I can promise you that with a relative humidity level of 100% it does

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ninety-seven

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“Marica? Pardon me. Do you have a moment or are you otherwise engaged on your clicketyclack machine?” “Ruff?” “Oh, Missy, I always have a moment for you!” “rrruuuuffff!!!” “My Dear Friend, do you mind??” “ruff.” “What’s on your mind, Missy?” “Well, I was wondering about this heat. Does it seem hotter to you than usual

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Copperheads & Tomatillos: Today’s Garden UPDATE!

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I have no photos, though Miss M does have photos of the copperhead that got mangled in the tines of the tiller. I asked her if she wanted to come take some as it was finally just hanging there– hours later– wrapped dead around a tine and she said, “No.” (We are really hoping something

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Why Does Every Disagreement Have to Be a War? Apples and Oranges

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Why Does Every Disagreement Have to Be a War? Apples and Oranges

I’m sure y’all have heard about the war on women, and the war on men, and the battle between the sexes. Now, via Instapundit.com I see there are the grill wars.  It’s a beautiful day. The family’s in attendance, side dishes and beer in tow. Your sister-in-law brought a trunk full of Super Soakers. It’s BBQ

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I feel so isolated out here on the Farm

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I feel so isolated out here on the Farm

where it’s raining like crazy. I swear, they just make this stuff up as they go along. None of the four weather forecasting sites I look at– for fun more than forecast– were predicting rain today. Some still aren’t! Barring something utterly predictable, what they ought to forecast for Mississippi in early August is,  Hot.

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Brined Chicken: Continually Updated

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I was wrong. It’s not brined BBQed chicken, it’s brined smoked chicken. “Stephen Pyles’ Smoked Chicken” to be exact. From a bon Appetite (sp?) feature on Stephen Pyles as he was first becoming famous at the Routh Street Cafe, before Star Canyon.  I’m waiting for supper to finish– the chicken has come off the grill-turned-smoker

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Recipes on the Grill / I Saw It Happen

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Recipes on the Grill / I Saw It Happen

“Georgia Boy Sausages” slathered in chili sauce. Baby Round Zucchini brushed with honey butter while it was grilling. And Ranch Style Beans heated on the grill. big food. (That’s a joke. Ranch Style Beans is a ConAg product.) See. If all you’d grown this year was one measly Baby Round Zucchini plant, and one night

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The Puddle Formerly Known as the Pond

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The Puddle Formerly Known as the Pond

Taken with my Droid this morning You may remember way back when (3/2) when Rocky drug the raft to shore. More than one month later She doesn’t know it yet, but she could walk across this puddle. See? Stay cool, y’all!