Gran's Best

Heirlooms & Discoveries

Persimmon & Fennel Salad

December 22, 2016 Gran

From Blue Apron, a beautiful and unexpectedly delicious combination of ingredients. Getting acquainted with fennel has been a bonus of our Blue Apron meals. I was especially pleased to discover that the word "narthex", a favorite of Dick and mine since our time at Binkley … [Read more...]

Recipes, Salads, Sides, Vegetables

Best Steel-Cut Oatmeal

December 3, 2016 Gran

From Cook's Illustrated. 3 cups water 1 cup whole milk 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1 cup steel-cut oats ¼ teaspoon table salt Many supermarkets sell prepackaged steel-cut oats, but we found they were often stale and always expensive. A better option is to purchase them online … [Read more...]

Breakfast, Miscellaneous, Recipes, Rice and Grains Cook's Illustrated

Corn Elote

July 14, 2016 Gran

This delicious corn dish is adapted from I’ll Bite, the blog of Kathleen Purvis of the Charlotte Observer. She got the recipe from Fried & True: More than 50 Recipes for America's Best Fried Chicken and Sides, by Lee Brian Schrager andAdeena Sussman, with … [Read more...]

Recipes, Salads, Sides, Tex-Mex, Vegetables Adena Sussman, Atlanta, corn, Kathleen Purvis, Lee Brian Schrager, Tex-Mex, The Original El Taco, Whoopi Goldberg

Fred’s Really Tomatoey Gazpacho

July 5, 2016 Gran

My first gazpacho recipe came from Serendipity, a café in Cary that sold delicious lunches and desserts to SAS employees in the days when one had to leave the office, not yet a "campus," to find lunch. In fact Serendipity is still in Cary. Serendipity's gazpacho recipe was … [Read more...]

Recipes, Salads, Sides, Soup, Vegetables Fred Vultee, Kathleen Purvis, tomatoes

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 Gran likes to watch things grow. Grandbabies, bread dough, pepper plants, and stacks of books are a few of the things growing around here.

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