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Cook the Book: 'Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant'
I eat alone a lot these days. I've been divorced about a year and haven't felt the urge to settle down and cook for someone. I've got 2 kids and we experiment and play around with food, but we eat a good deal of pasta, eggs and variations on tacos. I don't really fret with the big inventive meals I used to prepare in hopes of pleasing someone who couldn't be pleased. I go home for lunch now and my house and kitchen are completely quiet. Sometimes I fix a sandwich or reheat leftovers. Sometimes I start marinara sauce or make pico de gallo or whatever prep I can do to shrink dinner prep time to allow me freedom to help with homework or whatever. The thing is - it's so quiet then in my kitchen at lunch. There's no drama or fighting just me existing in the right now or getting something ready for the future. I love it. I'm sure I will eat so many great meals alone, but I'm positve that the meal will never be crow.
Meal Planning - Does anyone still do it?
I'm a planner, too. I sit down every Saturday night and make out a plan of the what we're having. I plan the whole week but leave 2 nights free. Then I sit down with my kids and they each plan a meal. We go shopping on Sunday morning and generally stick to the plan. My son wants to cook through Julie Sahni's Classic Indian cooking. Sometimes we can find the ingredients he needs (we're in small-town Mississippi), and sometimes we just make do. My daughter is cooking from a Disney cookbook so... well...we're having fun.
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I'm going to have to say that Spooney's in Greenwood, MS is the best barbecue I've ever had. Spooney is a gregarious, verbose, suave man who opens his establishment and fires up his oil drum grill when the spirit moves him. He offers ribs, rib tips, chicken wings, hot sausage and bologne as available. It's a beautiful thing to make a drive-by and see smoke coming from his grill. The true magic is his sauce - made with love. Truly. As Spooney tells it. He moved from Mississippi to Kansas City with his wife and was in "love, love, love." Spooney got a job working at a bbq joint there and was loving life until his wife left him. He spent weeks crying alone in his house until one night the recipe for his sauce came to him. The sauce mixed with his tears and was perfection. He bandaged his heart with bbq, moved back home to Greenwood and opened his eponymous restaurant. It's good, good, good I tell ya.