Bev’s New Year’s Beans, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Bev’s New Year’s Beans
By Beverly Hicks Burch

Every year after Christmas I usually have a ham bone leftover. I like to leave a little meat on the bone so I can make a big ol’ pot of bean soup shortly after New Year’s. My favorite ham to use is one of the spiral-cut hams because [...]

His, Mine & Ours – Part 1, by Beverly Hicks Burch

His, Mine & Ours – Part 1
By Beverly Hicks Burch

Here’s a picture of a little bit of the fruit of my labor of the last few days.

This is a bookcase I’ve decided to use in the kitchen to house cookbooks…his, mine and ours. Yes, you read it right. Tall & Handsome had his [...]

Ouch, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Ouch
By Beverly Hicks Burch

Tag sale…yard sale…car boot sale…garage sale…rummage sale…what ever you may want to call it, Tall & Handsome and I have just survived our first one together. We held it at the end of a rather hectic week of getting ready for this move. Yes, “the” move.

It seems like this move has [...]

The Last Widows of the Confederacy, by Beverly Hicks Burch

The Last Widows of the Confederacy
By Beverly Hicks Burch

It happened on the Friday before Labor Day 2007. Tall and Handsome and I were driving back to Knoxville from another lovely Southern city. We’d been in this city for about two weeks…well at least Scoot, AKA Watson the Wonder dog and I had been in this [...]

Hatched…It’s Not an Egg, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Hatched…It’s Not an Egg
By Beverly Hicks Burch

Well, it’s finally happened. You know that green chilies have becomes a really big thing when Southern Living, the Bible for all true GRITS (Girls Raised In The South) does a six page full color spread in their magazine with accompanying recipes. I on the other hand [...]

Starvation, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Starvation
By Beverly Hicks Burch

After watching on the news for the 1, 789, 377th time a tidbit about Americans getting fatter and proudly pointing out Southerners are the most rotund of all Americans, the broadcast then followed up with a video clip for the one billionth time of perky, blond, very thin Miss Teen South [...]