One of my all time favorite summer songs is DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's SummerTime. It's a head-bobbin', windows rolled down song that takes you right back to the summer of 1991, but is still a jam 20 years later. You know the one:
Summa, summa, summa-time. Time to sit back and unwind...
Here it is... the groove slightly transformed
just a bit of a break from the norm
just a little somethin' to break the monotony
of all that hardcore dance that has gotten to be
a little bit out of control it's cool to dance
but what about the groove that soothes that moves romance
give me a soft subtle mix
and if ain't broke then don't try to fix it...
This year we had a smaller crew together for Thanksgiving, so I pretty much scaled everything back so that we'd end up with a manageable amount of leftovers (read: a lot of stuffing and only a little of everything else!). In the end, our regular corn pudding was crossed off the list entirely. I even…
Yesterday, while doing early morning yardwork, Wolf and I were talking about breakfast.
"You want me to go get doughnuts?" (An offer that's hard to refuse.)
"Mmm, doughnuts. I'm surprised you want doughnuts."
"I thought you might want doughnuts."
After this many years of marriage, yep, we still have these conversations. I'm not usually one to be lukewarm on doughnuts, especially Top Pot, but after a relatively light dinner last night, I thought, we need some real breakfast.If Americans have heard of Bill Granger, they’ve probably either been to his restaurants in Sydney (and now Japan, apparently) or possibly seen his show, “bills food” on the Cooking Channel (Sunday mornings, 9 a.m. ET -- plug plug!). Why Curtis whats-his-name is catching on Stateside and bill remains a secret, I can’t tell –…
Bill's corn fritters with bacon & roasted tomato
as made by Michelle
From Bill's Sydney Food
The bacon and tomato are key - providing salty and acidic counterpoints
to the sweetness of the corn. Would it be fine without? Sure, but what fun is anything
without bacon?
The beauty of it is the filling is 90% of the content. There's only…
