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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Welcome 2014
We have two new cookbooks that Grant’s sister Leslie sent us. As we welcome the new year, we can’t wait to dive in and start trying some of these exciting...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Stay Grounded with These Root Vegetable Recipes
December is such a wonderful time for visiting with great friends and family. Often times, though, the holidays bring some extra stress to our lives making it hard to juggle...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Thankful
Thanksgiving week is upon us. Here it is! Grant and I felt very thankful to get to visit with Dolan’s wife and business partner, Ali Marie, this past weekend as...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: November Feasts & Hangtown Dancehall
We’re a little strange when it comes to holidays. I don’t like having to celebrate things when everyone else is celebrating. It’s just the way I am. I love family...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Harvest Time
Last week was a big week for pumpkin sales. You know, though, they aren’t just for carving. I actually enjoy savory pumpkin dishes as much as I do the sweet...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Miso Delicious
It happened again this year just as it did last year… I bought some miso to make Miso Soup. I thought, “This will be the perfect healthy, quick meal for us.“...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Here Come The Soups!
Dolan & Ali Marie are big fans of these bowls from potter Robert Briscoe in Harris, MN. I love soups. There is a line in the film Juno where the...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Fall’s A Coming…
And I am ready! I’m already to start making some yummy comfort food dishes. Gradually, though, I’ve been trying to cook healthier and healthier so I have been trying to...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Smoked Paprika Obsession
Dolan Geiman, Señor, original collage with handmade reclaimed metal frame I’ve had a little bit of a smoked paprika obsession for awhile now. I’ve been using it so frequently I...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Asian Influenced Southern Cooking
I’m sure many people have explored this concept with much more depth. Although we have been cooking Thai food at home for a long time now, I just recently got...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Easy Summer Eating
Summer makes it so easy to eat more produce and less meat as there is so much good local produce available this time of year. You barely have to even...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Summer Beauties
Besides ART, of course, my favorite gifts are those of the food variety. Having been raised in the South, by a Mother who spends a large percentage of her time...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: June in Nashville
Collard Greens. There isn’t a vegetable that reminds me of the South more. Growing up in South Carolina, with a mother from the Virginia hills, I saw plenty of collards...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Pears, Almonds, and The Mavericks
Whew, we’ve had a busy spring and now the temperatures in Nashville are starting to rise. Summer is just about here. I have a few yummy recipes and food combinations...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Springtime Color & Duets
One thing I absolutely love about living in the South is that there are four very distinct seasons every year. I love how one season gently shifts into the next....
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Spring Is Coming!
After a few winter months hibernating, our A New Turn In The South cookbook club decided it was about time to eat together again. Having celebrated this cookbook together over...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: One Pot Wonders!
Oh winter. More than any winter thus far in my life, I have felt a strong desire to hibernate. I’ve found myself not really going out much but instead choosing...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Eat Your Greens
Hello new year! Time to eat healthy, get organized, and start this year off on a good foot. Lucky for us, there are so many varieties of good fresh greens...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Cookies & Art – A Perfect Union
My favorite dessert has always been cookies but not just any cookies, really good homemade cookies. I don’t eat much sugar so when I do, I want it to be...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Chicago to Nashville
Having lived in several different places over many years now, I’ve come to really appreciate the quality time spent with out-of-town friends. It is hard to keep track of all...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: A New Turn in the South – Cookbook Parties!
It all began quite serendipitously really. Our friend Traci had been remodeling her kitchen and had been sharing many meals with Grant and me, in our kitchen, while hers was...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: That’s Americana!
One of my all time favorite snacks since childhood has been pimento cheese. It’s delicious on celery sticks, crackers, on a sandwich with slices of tomato… I didn’t realize this...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: All I Want Is a Honky-Tonk
Summertime in the South means one thing for sure- hot, hot, hot! With that heat, though, comes some of the most amazing tomatoes imaginable. In our neighborhood in Nashville, that...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Don Williams is a Peach!
Peaches are one of my favorite things about summer. Growing up in South Carolina, I have to say that South Carolina peaches are the best in the world and certainly...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Summer Fruits and Vegetables Y’all!
The ebb and flow of the summer fruits; just as we enjoy the last of the strawberries (over some homemade waffles, thanks Grant!), I spotted the first of the southern...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Simple & Delicious Spring Recipes
I love spring in Nashville. The lightning bugs have just started up and there are already twice as many as usual. It looks like our back yard has party lights flickering...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: T is for Texas
With my husband Grant down in Austin playing at SXSW a few weeks ago and Dolan & Ali Marie down in Texas for some art shows, my mind has been...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Veggie Plates & Chess Pie
One type of restaurant that is very unique to Nashville is the Meat & Three. This concept makes so much sense that I always get taken back when an out-of-towner...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Soup IS Good Food
Regardless of our unseasonably warm weather down here in Nashville this winter, everyone we know seems to have been hit with a cold of some sort. Bronchitis hit our house...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Staying Grounded
Well, hello 2012! I don’t know about y’all but as the new year starts, I just feel an overwhelming desire to get healthy. I always try desperately to shed the...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Holiday Traditions
Some of our favorite family holiday keep-sakes. Here we are in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the holiday stress. I am afraid many years in retail and...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Holiday Feasting
We live in Nashville which is a half day’s drive from my family and in close proximity to many other destinations. In fact, Tennessee borders 8 other states. We have...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: In Praise of Greens
Southerns sure do like their greens. Granted they may not be so healthy when cooked in pork fat but, greens are so good for us! Collards contain compounds that have...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Hot Sauce & Grandmothers
This title makes me laugh because neither of my grandmothers would have ever enjoyed hot sauce. The idea for this post started long ago- about a year and a half...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Herbs & Nuts
Basil tends to grow really well down South… We have an abundance in our garden and every time I walk out into the back yard it just screams, “MAKE PESTO!”...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Southern Tomatoes
If you’ve never had the opportunity to taste a southern tomato right off the vine, then you really never have truly tasted a tomato. I can say this because I...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Sea Life
I was recently reminded of the Seafood Watch List (thanks, Dol!) which is a great list, compiled by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, of which seafood to buy or avoid, helping...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Pickin’ Parties and Potlucks
It’s summer! The cicadas are making their way back underground. Their 13 year journey begins all over again just as the lightning bugs are beginning to light up our evening...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Recipes for Spring
Welcome to Spring Y’all! Spring is rapidly turning into summer here in Nashville. The flowers are blooming, we are all planting our gardens, and the 13 year cicadas are singing...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Happy Birthday Loretta Lynn
This month Loretta Lynn celebrated her 79th Birthday! Loretta is known as “The First Lady of Country Music” and for good reason. There is no one quite like her. At...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Sundays Down South
“The Air Castle of The South,” WSM 650 am, has become my radio station of choice. There is much more than country music in Nashville but this station tells the...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Sweet Potatoes
♬Honky-tonkin’… all night long! ♫♪ Honky-tonkin’ is one of our favorite things to do in Nashville. All the bars down on Lower Broadway have bands that play country music all...
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Cooking with Lady Smokey: Starting off 2011 Right
Happy New Year Y’all! I thought it would be good to start 2011 off with a healthy breakfast post since “eating healthy” seems to make the top five list of...
