Category: Breakfast-brunch

• Shakshuka! What? It’s OK — you know the ingredients even if you don’t recognize the name

  The name for this Israeli dish sounds like a ’50s doo-wop group but learn it anyway. The name has its origins in the Arabic word for mixture and came to Israel with Jewish immigrants from North Africa. It’s a tasty, healthy meal with a kick. Also easy, did I mention that? The most challenging part…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 26, 2017

  Breakfast-brunch, Cancer prevention, Cooking from the garden, healthy cooking, Israeli food, Middle Eastern foods, Seasonal food

  cooking from garden, eggs, Garlic, healthy eating, Kale, onions, Tomatoes

• The new normal; chard-crab quiche

  I was diagnosed with breast cancer just before Christmas (yeah, Happy Holidays!), and that’s been my excuse for everything I don’t feel like doing ever since. Like eating well or exercising or going to bed at a reasonable time. “I oughta be able to do this — I have cancer!” Obviously, that’s not going to…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 29, 2017

  Aging, Appetizers, Breakfast, Breakfast-brunch, Building better habits, Cancer, Cooking from the garden, Falling off healthy eating wagon when discouraged, Fish, Maintaining weight loss, Seasonal food, Seniors and weight loss

  chard, cheese, cooking from garden, Crab, eggs, healthy eating, Quiche

• And then…

  Anne Lamott describing her usual Sunday School class for youngsters in Stitches: “Then we pray to try to be good and kind to one another. We read a short passage of Scripture, talk about it and try to learn something together about our lives and God’s love. And then, as in all great religious traditions, we…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 1, 2014

  Anne Lamott, Breakfast-brunch, Cake, Celebrations, Desserts, Southern food

  Daleville VA, Deep-fried Oreos, restaurant eating, Stitches, Sweet potato fries, Three Little Pigs Barbecue

• Ham d’lites

  To my horror, I found out yesterday that my oldest daughter has never eaten a ham d’lite. What kind of southern mother was I during the 10 years or so she lived in North Carolina? So, now, guess what we’re having for Easter dinner. I can live with her never going to Cotillion but no…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  February 19, 2014

  Appetizers, Breakfast-brunch, Ham d’lites, Party food, Southern food

  cheese, Ham, King’s Hawaiian rolls, Mustard, onions, Poppy seeds

• Off to see the wizard, bacon-herb cupcakes

  Well, it’s here — reunion time. Can I hang onto myself, my grownup self, in the midst of all this nostalgic whoop-de-do? I don’t remember a half century ago through a scrim of fondness. Life at home was such that I remember thinking, I wish I could feel something, anything! (It was much safer not…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 9, 2012

  Baking, Breakfast-brunch, Food addiction, Handling anxiety without food

  Bacon, Baking, Cupcakes, Herbs, High school reunion

• Seduced and abandoned

  Spring, that brazen hussy, sashayed through the open windows yesterday without a care that soon we’ll be ravaged by summer’s awful heat. Every year I forget. Every year I throw open those windows and smell the turned earth, the pear blossoms and the cows. Every year I hear the meadowlarks and the peepers and think, “This…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 15, 2012

  Breakfast-brunch, Family, good food, healthy cooking

  cheese, eggs, Leeks, Mushrooms, Ricotta

• Vegetarian vacation

  As wonderful as it is when the children come home, it stinks when they leave to go back to college or work or both. Our youngest drove off in pouring  rain this morning, leaving the house feeling chillier and duller. We had a wonderful time, saw 9 movies during the 8 days and 9 nights she…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  December 27, 2011

  Breakfast-brunch, Desserts, eggs, Family, Holiday baking, Holiday cooking, Holiday eating

  Brunch, cheese, eggs, Green chilis, Vegetarian