It's Valentine's Day next Tuesday, and that, of course, means that you need to know how to make sweet potato tots. Can you think of a better way to show your love than with the delicate crunch of fried potato giving way to its sweet and creamy insides as it's dipped into a cool and smoky sauce - each nugget lovingly shaped between your fingers rather than shaken out of the freezer bag? Homemade tater tots? That's love, man.
Everybody's mama has a recipe for biscuits. Here's mine. Like I said on Tuesday, this one adds a bit of light whole wheat flour without making them taste at all good for you, plus there's much less fat than a lot of recipes out there. So, this is now a semi-weekly treat rather than a semi-yearly one. There is no better vehicle for good jam than a soft biscuit fresh from the oven.
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We had such a nice break. The boys had two weeks off school. Paul managed to take the whole time off too. I lined up activities and pals to play with for every minute of it, and then on approximately the first second of vacation Desmond came down with a cold. And then the next day, of course, so did Felix. So I called the pals. Cancelled plans. And it was just the four of us.
Here in the Jaconi Biery household, we most definitely subscribe to the superstitious tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day. While this has not, thus far, brought us overwhelming prosperity, it does provide a nice healthy kick-start to the year. I consider our New Year's Day feast of smoky black-eyed peas and zesty greens and brown rice and corn bread to be a goodbye to the ridiculous excess (Frozen Christmas cookies for breakfast. I definitely did not feed my children that. Don't tell their father.) of the previous weeks and a hello to the abundance of good intentions that a new year brings.
How about you? What do you eat on New Year's Day?
