Archives: 2010 October

Apple Butter Anyone?

Monday, October 25, 2010 at 2:36 pm Duchess Food 8

I've been threatening to do it for years. Every Fall I say this is the year I go apple picking and make apple butter. I think I started this little charade seven years ago. Well 2010 made me an honest woman. I made apple butter - mounds of it - towers of it.

Cooking Like a Celebrity

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 7:39 pm Duchess Opinions 3

I'm having a Seinfeld-moment... let me explain. This morning a friend sent me a link with the tag line "Not good. Not good at all." It just so happens that the not-so-good situation she was speaking of was Paula Deen's new line of cookware that looks like - wait for it - buttered popcorn. Wasn't expecting that either huh?

Comfort Food, Duchess-Style

Monday, October 4, 2010 at 2:41 pm Duchess Food 9

When I invited friends for dinner over the weekend, this wasn't the meal I had planned. I was going to make a much more sophisticated, complicated, and unique meal. Then, on Friday, I got bad news and it shook me hard. I was tempted to tell my friends not to bother coming over, the wind was knocked out of my sails and I felt deflated. But my husband, the wise Jedi that he is, urged me to cook and have our friends over. He knew it would make me feel better and of course, it did.