I hear all the people at LaVergne city hall are aliens. Stay far, far away from there.

You are a totally talented hack, thank you very much.

ivy - i don’t get to lavergne much. now i have a bonafide reason to fear the town…

mary - i’m just willing…

Claudia:

I finally got caught up with something else, only to find that I’m way behind on the food blogs–and then you add a few more–Oy!!

The good news is that my kitchen is finally beginning to look like a room instead of a junk pile. I was given a four burner, apartment size stove by a friend who just renovated one of his rentals.

Damn, I hate it when that happens.

As I was saying.

Someone just gave me a small range that I can use until I get the real one. Of course I have to run some gas pipe first, but that’s fairly straightforward.

Me! Me! FixinSupper.com

Laura,
I want me some of those cheese grits you keep talking about.

Newscoma:

You know about Cincinatti 5 way (chili that went very, very wrong)? Well, maybe you could have a Nashville “3 way” with cheese grits, deepfried cheese curds (a Wisconsin item, I think) and that delicious Philly Steak Velveeta cheese sauce. Ummmmm, gooey!

demo - ewww. i mean really….

laura - of course i am very familiar with your blog, i just see other assorted topics on it more than i see food or cooking. you’re a hybrid!

sorry i left you off.

Claudia–I almost added that as a caveat to my comment. I can’t seem to restrict myself to just food….I have so much to say….

Claudia, you list has a good chance of making me a lot fatter.

And then Mary had to go and make it worse by heading off to Florida where we’ve been going recently and finding a fabulous restaurant we never knew was there.

Oh, and you are not a hack. You are a phenom.

jim - that restaurant sounds excellent. i think you’re going to have to go…

laura - keep saying it, girl!

demmo - perhaps it’s time for you to start a food blog… if you’re going to be cooking, i want to hear all about it!

Thanks for including Kitchen Confit on the list. We’re still pretty new at this, but it’s good to know there are other food bloggers in Nashville!

Ooooh, deep fried curds. Yummmmmm.

Thanks for listing me, C, and especially for highlighting my age in carbon-dating. Now what is this about cheese grits — y’all know you can’t make them anymore, cuz there’s no Kraft Garlic Cheese roll . Go on, Google it.

fluffernutter is way younger than me so I doubt carbon dating is required.

But there may be an old-fashioned way to make cheese grits - you know, like pre-velveta. I’ve got a few old cookbooks from the 40s (bought them on eBay, thank you very much).

Hey Jim, they could just chop off our legs and read the rings…

You always look at the cheerful side of things.

This is going to shock some of you [and make Claudia cheer], but I have slowly been eliminating all canned and heavily processed foods from my diet and cooking repertoire. No more Velveeta. No garlic cheese roll. No canned green beans. No Campbell’s soup. Nada.

I even quit drinking Diet Coke [again! wish me luck!] just yesterday. I may have to post on this effort over at Fixin’ Supper, come to think of it. It is not an easy path.

But what will you do for excess salt intake?

And sugar? Surely not.

processed food is NOT good so i applaud you laura. it is what’s screwing with our health on so many levels. ingredient lists should be very short. abyway - blah blah blah - you know alla this. keep up the good work. buy local as much as you can. eat close to the earth. bake banana bread. eat fresh veggies. revel in the fact that it’s spring.

ps - i had lunch at ombi and in lieu of a glass of wine, i had a diet coke. not proud… but once in a while it hits the spot. i make it the exception…

So does this dietary change thing include the extreme of *shudders* doing without high-fructose corn syrup?

Jim, actually I have been getting rid of the hfcs for a lot longer. It is the devil, in so many ways. It’s especially difficult with kids — the stuff that the media tells them to want is pumped full of it. So that’s a full-out assault at my house. I will try to write on all of this tonight. You all have me thinking.

Thanks for including me in the list Claudia. It is an honor to be recognized.
I would also like to thank the Academy… Oh wait…

Claudia, Thanks for the blogroll. I think I’ll add them all to my bookmarks.