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By Jill Davis Doughtie
Bloody Marys are a long standing Christmas morning Doughtie tradition. We spend our Christmas mornings together, and now that I’ve joined the clan, we make Bloody Marys two ways: the hard core Clamato version, which is a recipe handed down from G’s mom, and the Spicy V-8 version, which comes from a [...]
Posted in Food on Mar 14th, 2008
By Jill Davis Doughtie
“Would you like some peanut butter cookies?” I asked the kids one day. I’d made them from my mom’s recipe. They’re one of my favorites.
“No thanks!” they both said politely.
Hmmm. I now had a whole plate of cookies to myself. This was good in some ways, but bad in others.
A few weeks [...]
Posted in Food on Mar 12th, 2008
By Jill Davis Doughtie
Hot coals on the barbeque
This is based on a James Beard recipe G’s mom found years ago when G was still a kid. They liked it so much, they called it Platonic marinade, and it’s been a family favorite ever since. G barbecued chicken for me with it when we first started [...]
Posted in Food on Mar 11th, 2008
By Jill Davis Doughtie
These chocolate chip muffins are adapted from Deborah Madison’s Basic Buttermilk Muffins recipe in Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. Her recipe offers lots of fruit variations and doesn’t suggest using chocolate chips. Ritzy Chicken never uses up an entire 32 fluid oz. carton of buttermilk, so in the weeks that I make that, [...]
Posted in Food on Mar 10th, 2008
By Jill Davis Doughtie
Chris and Jack can be pretty selective about what they’ll put in their mouths, chew up and swallow.
I was no exception as a kid. I used to pick every possible fiber of fat out of any chicken I ate, strand by strand, with my fingers. Chicken fat revolted me. I wouldn’t eat [...]
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