Tag: Rosemary

• We are each other’s memories, home-court habits

  “We are each other’s memories,” said my beautiful, silver-haired friend yesterday morning at book club, and with that remark, she grounded me in my world in a way I’ve never before felt. Until I went to college at 17, my mother, sister and I were kept isolated in a very rural setting by my control-freak…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 18, 2015

  Building better habits, Celebrations, Emotional side of weight loss, healthy cooking, Holiday eating, Importance of exercise, Keeping track of what we eat, Roasting vegetables

  cauliflower, healthy eating, Peppers, Potatoes, Rosemary

• C.S. Lewis, gluttony and white bean dip

  For our Lenten reading/discussion, a few of us read C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” (1941). I only made it to one discussion but I did enjoy reading this, especially the devil’s letter on gluttony. Old Screwtape reminds his nephew Wormwood that there are two types of gluttony: Gluttony of delicacy and that of excess. Holy…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 12, 2014

  Appetizers, Beans, Family, Lemons, Lent

  C.S. Lewis, Dips, Gluttony, Olive oil, Oregano, Pita bread, Rosemary, The Screwtape Letters

• Kitchen Roselli, 131 Main and Greek couscous salad

  Something in the Thai Steak Salad dressing at 131 Main in Cornelius (NC) tugged at the corners of my palate. Something familiar but unusual in an entrée salad. A blast of  summery green not usually keeping company with butter-tender bits of filet mignon. They added fresh mint to amp up the beef, mango, noodles and green…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 9, 2013

  Couscous, good food, healthy cooking, Olive oil, Salad, Simple foods, Spring, Tomatoes

  131 Main, basil, Cornelius, Greek salad, healthy eating, Kitchen Roselli, nutrition, onions, Rosemary, Tomatoes, Vegetables, Villa Pozzi

• Gray rainy (grainy?) day quiche

  OK, any day’s good for a well-made quiche, but it seems particularly appropriate on this gloomy-gus Wednesday while we deal with the last of the germs that accompanied us home from our recent trip to Baltimore, Boston and Gettysburg. Quiche is easy to prepare and even easier to enjoy. It’s soft and comforting as a…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 11, 2012

  good food, Quiche, Simple foods

  cheese, eggs, Mark Bittman (NYT), Quiche, Rosemary

• September morn

  Too damp to try out the new horsey short-cut our neighbors cut between pastures this weekend. “You could drive a car through it,” promised Esker T., also promising Amish-made venison summer sausage after he and his wife and son bag their limit this fall, at least partly from the new tree stand installed in the…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 5, 2011

  Exercise, Rural life, Seasonal food, vegetables, Weight loss

  green beans, healthy eating, Rosemary

• Rosemary is for remembrance

  Our Carolina Piedmont springs and falls are almost obscenely beautiful. That’s the swap we make for having to endure the almost unendurable steamy summers. As I write, we’re moving toward Amazonian rainforest temperatures and humidity. The wisteria is trying, once again, to yank the deck from the house. The roadsides are morphing from Monet-scapes of…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 28, 2011

  good food, healthy cooking, Rural life

  cooking with herbs, roasted potatoes, Rosemary