Sunday, June 14, 2026

Meal No. 4121: Bacon & Cheese Sandwiches

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Dateline: Fri 05 June . It was a terrific three days up in Richmond the first week of June, conducting a Project CRISS training for another ...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

Lemon Meringue Pie

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Dateline: Mon 01 June . Coming in at just about the most perfect I've ever made it, the dessert at the start of the month was the glorio...
Friday, June 12, 2026

Meal No. 4120: Pork Medallions with Ginger-Soy-Shiitake Cream Sauce

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Dateline: Mon 01 June . The new month was welcomed on its first day with the happy return of Amy and Gern to the dinner table. And a long-ti...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Meal No. 4119: Pork Chops and Two Sides

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The final day of May occurred a week ago Sunday, and it was a standard meal of a meat and two sides. I took advantage of the sous vide immer...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Vanilla Texas Sheet Cake & Chocolate Frosty Ice Cream

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As May wrapped up, the Roediger House found itself in a celebratory mood with all of its favorite locals on hand for a movie-watching extrav...
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Meal No. 4118: Sheet Pan Nachos for Movies Day

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The final Saturday of May was an all-day movies event at the Roediger House. The afternoon was horror flicks and the evening selection was a...
Monday, June 8, 2026

Meal No. 4117: National Coq Au Vin Day

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The final Friday of May was National Coq Au Vin Day , and at the Roediger House, we celebrated in style. Yep: reasonably authentic for a sou...
Sunday, June 7, 2026

Meal No. 4116: Fried Chicken Fingers

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With a mix of ideas in my head and not enough sense to follow somebody else's recipe, I made chicken fingers on the final Thursday eveni...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

Meal No. 4115: Grilled Chicken & Bacon Spicy Ranch Sandwiches

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When Amy was here for her final-Wednesday-of-May hang-time last week, I braved the suppertime sprinkles to grill seasoned chicken breasts, t...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Meal No. 4114: Seasoned Chicken Breasts on Salads

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Unpleasant weigh-ins at the end of May caused small bursts of restraint to govern some kitchen activity. On the final Tuesday of the month, ...
Thursday, June 4, 2026

Sumner & Scarlett Get Down with Homemade Dog Food

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The Harris Teeter at which I regularly shop had an oversupply of boneless skinless chicken breasts on Memorial Day and they were marked down...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Meal No. 4113: Chicken Souvlaki on Homemade Flatbread

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I'm kind of proud of the dinner served up to the Holly Avenue Collective on Memorial Day last week: grilled chicken souvlaki skewers on ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Meal No. 4112: Creamy Chicken Marsala

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A long overdue evening with Amy and Gern occurred on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, and we sat right down to a dinner of delicious crea...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Copycat J. Alexander's Carrot Cake

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When UNC buddy Chris was here for an evening visit on Saturday a week ago, dessert was included to help make the reunion complete. On that o...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Meal No. 4111: 2 x 2 Soup in Bread Bowls

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With the return of Chris (a UNC chum and fellow Argonaut of the Order of the Golden Fleece) back on September 23rd, the occasion fell alongs...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Meal No. 4110: Pa Arley's Tacos

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In a rare move, I brought back Pa Arley's tacos Friday a week ago. It's how my father-in-law liked to make 'em: toss some oil in...
Friday, May 29, 2026

Meal No. 4109: Chicken Fried Rice

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A recent gathering of the Holly Avenue collective on a stormy Thursday evening last week featured a necessary menu choice, thanks to the acc...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

Meal No. 4108: Grilled Ribeye Steaks

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The somewhat decent sale (relatively speaking) on a value-pak of ribeye steaks helped make the call for my supper plan on Wednesday evening ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Meal No. 4107: General Tso's Chicken

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I reckon I was feeling pretty adventurous on Tuesday of last week, because I decided it was high time to try to make General Tso's chick...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Key Lime Pie Bars

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Monday night's fine supper for the Shenandoah superintendents was not really complete until dessert was served. On that evening, I broug...
Monday, May 25, 2026

Meal No. 4106: Baked Chicken Thighs & Two Sides

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After I'd started down a particular prepping path, I pulled out my packages of chicken and discovered they were bone-in skin-on chicken ...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Groundhog Vanquishing No. 1

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Oh, gentle readers: this post comes with a warning if you are on the more skittish side of the natural world's cruelty line. But the RoH...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

No Doubt: Thomases Hit the RoHo!

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You'd have to harken back to those halcyon glory days of college life at Carolina to trace the roots of my friendship with Tim Thomas. W...
Friday, May 22, 2026

Meal No. 4105: Caesar-Dressed Spring Mix with Roasted Salmon

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Sunday evening was the start of the latest visit from the marvelous Shenandoah Valley superintendents I worked with and then also befriende...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Meal No. 4104: Wildly Ambiguous Chicken Philly Cheesesteaks

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Very little about Saturday evening's supper for four would be recognizable as a traditional Philly cheesesteak, even though it attempted...