Barb and I used to make picnic potato salad from scratch until my Mom showed us a shortcut: start with store-bought salad and make it better! In a large bowl, combine potato salad, chopped ingredients, pickle juice, mustard and 2 eggs (all ingredients adjustable to taste). Season with salt and pepper. Stir well. Refrigerate for …
Our friend Leslie makes the best creamed corn — for Thanksgiving or whenever. Here is her recipe. Serves 4 people In large sized pot, add milk, butter, cream cheese, seasonings and Jalapenos. Then add corn. Let it sit on stove top on very low heat for about 1 1⁄2 hours (or if you are doubling …
2022 Our Native Daughters, Carnegie Hall, November Amythyst Kiah, Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, October Brandi Carlile, Indigo Girls and Allison Russell, Merriweather Post, August Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens, Wolf Trap, July 24 Norah Jones with Emily King, Pier Six, July 23 Billy Strings, Pier Six, July Bonnie Raitt with Lucinda Williams, Pier Six, June …
Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens, George Mason Center for the Arts, November 5 Rhiannon Giddens with Adia Victoria, Clarice Center, September 27 Tommy Emmanuel with Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, Wilbur Theater Boston, September Elvis Costello with Nick Lowe, Lyric Opera House, July Little Feat with Miko Marks, Maryland Hall, April Sonny Landreth with Cindy …
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Lytic Opera House, Baltimore, Dec. 7 Amythyst Kiah and Maia Sharp, Kennedy Center, Dec. 6 Shawn Colvin, Rams Head, Annapolis, Dec. 3 Chris Smither & the Motivators, The Collective Encore, Columbia, Nov. 22 Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Two Runner at Fillmore Silver Spring, Nov. 16 Kacey Musgraves, Nickel Creek, …
Barb’s famous Apple Cake is adapted from a simple recipe from Stribling Orchard in Virginia where we used to actually go and pick apples back in the 1980s. Over the years she added and adapted the recipe and with Allie’s prompting I’ve tried to capture the end product. For years, Barb would have an Apple …
A running tab of movies and series I’ve seen in theaters or at home, and a quick comment about them. I’ve succumbed to the idea of assigning a personal score for each film. My scale: 2023 Movies | 2022 Movies | 2021 Movies | 2020 Movies | 2019 Movies | 2018 Movies | 2017 Movies Interior Chinatown, Hulu, November 2024. I …
I’m a low-level fan of Hoppin’ John and the tradition of having black eyed peas on New Year’s Day. I’ve tried various recipes over the years and never really landed on one I loved, but this year I stumbled into an easy version that tastes really good, inspired partly by a recent NY Times recipe …
Here’s my White Chili recipe, as best I can resurrect it. Ingredients: 1 – 1.5 lb ground turkey 1 – 1.5 lb turkey or chicken sausage, spiced or flavored OK (cook the sausage first, then slice it relatively thin) 1 – 2 yellow onions, chopped 1 red onion, chopped 3 – 4 green onions, chopped …
David Lindley, one of my musical heroes, just passed away and I feel compelled to gather this appreciation of his life and work. I’ve long admired this adventurous, idiosyncratic, impish, eclectic virtuoso of nearly any instrument with strings. I’ve compiled a pair of playlists, one in iTunes and one in YouTube. In doing so, I’ve …