Caught in the backyard rat trap of two adventurous and skilled culinarians, Mister Squirrel had sustained a broken front leg. His days were numbered, so we decided the most humane thing to do was to eat him. Skinned, gutted, and quartered, I covered the rodent’s haunches with salted water in a restaurant steam pan. IContinue reading “Breaking Bread with Mister Squirrel”
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Fish is Family
My mother, raised without one, vowed to give her two boys the maternal love absent from her childhood. Her love was a bed of eggplant sliced lengthwise to soak up the fatty juices of oven-roasted chicken thighs. Or beef meatballs laced with parsley, layered over Barilla spaghetti, finished with a few shakes of Kraft parmesanContinue reading “Fish is Family”
Dollar Tree Gourmet
After a long soccer game, we walked up to the food truck, grumpy with hunger. A Southern gentleman took our order: Three pulled pork sandwiches with fries. Through the window, I saw him load a russet potato through a hand-cranked French Fry cutter, slice it into long wedges, then dunk them in the boiling fryerContinue reading “Dollar Tree Gourmet”
Table Tales - 150 word stories 