On my kitchen stove today, I was tenderly frying red russet potatoes, onions and garlic in Jack Daniel's whiskey from the Tennessee distillery close by. It is October now, and while I was working on a hodgepodge of sweet simmering vegetables some people just call hash, the autumn sun was casting a golden light through the wide kitchen window. The warm house heater roared while I rambled softly - “Whiskey Hodgepodge … no, maybe Autumn Hash…. Hmmm, Red Russet Goulash” Trying to decide what I would call my fried up work of culinary art, I took down some plates from the rickety old kitchen cabinets that I hope to soon replace, and spooned my recipe onto plates for my daughter and I. All the alcohol in my recipe had evaporated with the heat on the stove earlier.
Whiskey isn't just a vice in the Deep South. New mothers slid it on their teething baby’s gums. Grandpas gargle with it to keep ailing bacteria at bay and of course cooks, like me, like to lace deserts and spice up hash with the drink.
Warm, happy fall foods like red russet potatoes, pumpkin anything, cobblers, apple and peach pies are all twice as wonderful with comforting baking scents enhanced by the cool mountain zone air in North Alabama.
My daughter and I watched the movie Vertigo, starring Jimmy Stewart, while we enjoyed our Hodgepodge of vegetables. Jimmy Stewart is one of our favorite actors. Somehow he reminds me of my husband with his quiet, sweet side intermixed with an almost cranky but charming gentleman's air.
I noticed silky red walls in a restaurant that Jimmy Stewart’s Vertigo character, a romantic lead, is meeting beautiful Kim Novak in for dinner. (Mr. Stewart was 50 or so in the film Vertigo playing a romantic lead man most convincingly) “Oh, that restaurant is so… Oh, Wow!” my daughter’s eyes twinkled watching the film. Yes it was, and for a moment I think solid about adding the alluring red restaurant of Vertigo, seen several times in the film, somewhere in my home's decor. But I certainly would not work it into not the room I am working on now - my kitchen. My kitchen is too small for something so glam, though it is endearing.
If all goes as planned, my kitchen will have all the simple, dreamy vibes of a great Jane Eyre classic made into a film that some people state was perhaps one of the most captivating films ever made - that film being the 1972 version of Wuthering Heights. If you don't remember this version of Wurthering Heights, you haven't seen it.
Whiskey isn't just a vice in the Deep South. New mothers slid it on their teething baby’s gums. Grandpas gargle with it to keep ailing bacteria at bay and of course cooks, like me, like to lace deserts and spice up hash with the drink.
Warm, happy fall foods like red russet potatoes, pumpkin anything, cobblers, apple and peach pies are all twice as wonderful with comforting baking scents enhanced by the cool mountain zone air in North Alabama.
My daughter and I watched the movie Vertigo, starring Jimmy Stewart, while we enjoyed our Hodgepodge of vegetables. Jimmy Stewart is one of our favorite actors. Somehow he reminds me of my husband with his quiet, sweet side intermixed with an almost cranky but charming gentleman's air.
I noticed silky red walls in a restaurant that Jimmy Stewart’s Vertigo character, a romantic lead, is meeting beautiful Kim Novak in for dinner. (Mr. Stewart was 50 or so in the film Vertigo playing a romantic lead man most convincingly) “Oh, that restaurant is so… Oh, Wow!” my daughter’s eyes twinkled watching the film. Yes it was, and for a moment I think solid about adding the alluring red restaurant of Vertigo, seen several times in the film, somewhere in my home's decor. But I certainly would not work it into not the room I am working on now - my kitchen. My kitchen is too small for something so glam, though it is endearing.
If all goes as planned, my kitchen will have all the simple, dreamy vibes of a great Jane Eyre classic made into a film that some people state was perhaps one of the most captivating films ever made - that film being the 1972 version of Wuthering Heights. If you don't remember this version of Wurthering Heights, you haven't seen it.
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