Kroger to offer Boar’s Head

I just got off the phone with Michael Storey, the store manager for the Kroger at Crosstown. He said that beginning Wednesday, June 11, his store will open a Boar’s Head deli, selling a full line of Boar’s Head products, including meats, cheeses, hotdogs, bacon and other pre-packaged items.
Kroger will join two other stores in [...]

Gourmet Onions

I was flipping through a cookbook I gave my mother for Christmas in 1985 called “A Grand Heritage,” compiled by Heritage Academy in Columbus. According to the tag inside the cookbook, I bought it for Mama at The Kangaroo Pouch in Oxford (I don’t think that shop is there anymore. I used to go there [...]

Comeback dressing

I got a phone call yesterday from former Daily Journal sports writer and outdoors writer Mark Beason, who wanted to share a recipe with me. I fondly call Beason “Ladle Boy,” because he has a ladle fetish. There’s no telling how many he has in his collection. There’s no finer gift for him for any [...]

Worst food in America

From Today’s Health segment … Think about these before you go out to eat this weekend …
The worst food in America
Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing
• 2,900 calories
• 182 g fat
• 240 g carbs
Worst pasta
Macaroni Grill Spaghetti and Meatballs with Meat Sauce
• 1,430 calories
• 128 g fat
•  207 g carbs
• 5,290 mg sodium
Worst [...]

Authentic Italian

On Wednesday, I spent four hours with Luisa Arico in Oxford. Originally from Italy, Luisa will be the featured Cook of the Week on the Food & Dining cover next week.
I should mention that I would like to spend a whole week in the kitchen with this woman. If I could learn how to make [...]

Easy fudge

Co-worker Mona Gardner bought a new cookbook recently called “Hungry Girl Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World.” She gave it to me to peruse during my lunch hour and pointed out a recipe for fudge she had made this weekend that she said was fabulous. The best part? It has [...]

Early pickings

My husband and I hit the grand opening of the Tupelo Farmers’ Market about 6:30 Saturday morning. The Brewers’ had lots of stuff. We bought a basket of new potatoes the size of marbles, a carton of English peas still in the shell and a big ziptop bag of green leaf lettuce. The total was [...]

Old recipe resurfaces

One of my “stretch goals” for 2008 is to organize the six years’ worth of Cook of the Week recipes and recipes I’ve written about in my column, Speaking of Food, so that it takes me less time to find them when readers call or write asking for them.
Today, I’ve been working on recipes from [...]

Joe Joe’s sample menu

Joe Joe’s Espresso on Main Street in downtown Tupelo has revamped its menu for a third time. Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find now:
Sandwiches (served with choice of chips, baked potato salad, cole slaw, deviled eggs or fruit)
Southwestern: Roasted Salsalito turkey, bacon, melted Pepper Jack cheese with chipotle mayo and crisp green leaf lettuce [...]

Vidalia Onion Cheese Dip

Vidalia Onion Cheese Dip
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
3 large Vidalia onions, coarsely chopped
2 cups shredded Cheddar or Swiss cheese
2 cups mayonnaise
1/2 teaspoon hot sauce
1 garlic clove, minced
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat; add onion, and sauté 10 minutes or until tender.
Stir together shredded cheese, mayonnaise, hot sauce [...]