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Hunt, TX https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2144126c-cfe8-418e-97de-d5694ce005c2/Mayo.jpg Recipes & Stories - Julia Reed's Curry Dip - Make it stand out Poster for my retreat with Kat McTee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0a7cc872-fb0e-411e-a431-890cac02211d/VA2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Julia Reed's Curry Dip - Make it stand out One of Mom’s kiddo photos. Luca at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4ce0f12b-686b-4a99-a369-a021496f699d/VA.jpg Recipes & Stories - Julia Reed's Curry Dip - Make it stand out Luca and Dad on those deathtrap chairs at the V&A! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5df8ded0-4a56-4396-855f-f24414e8048c/IMG_3969+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Julia Reed's Curry Dip - Make it stand out View from the window of my Irish train. Some grazing cows who probably make delicious butter. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/pableauxs-red-beans-amp-rice monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8a20adcf-c10a-4b46-be4e-4d96440c9fa5/bridesmaids.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out Mom with her bridesmaids (including my stepmom, Linda (!), to my mother’s right) in yellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fab89ba6-8e55-49f8-ab0d-427ba7db063c/Pableaux.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out Photo of Dad and Mom taken by our friend Pableaux Johnson. (Story below) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b658ec31-89ab-439f-8d34-23ec9dee97c5/pop+up.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out This meme just showed up on Instagram the other day and made me laugh. Elisabeth and I LOVED Pop Ups! I’m on the right eating one at Elisabeth’s birthday party at Mallette St. I think that’s Charlotte Gill next to me in a Glenwood Gators t-shirt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ee95c886-38e5-422d-847e-7a241614123d/dining+room.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out Mom setting a pretty table with her Wedgwood Florentine in our gold dining room at Mallette St. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9fe5ef02-14ba-482b-95fb-fa5d5efe4d32/Pableaux+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out Pableaux in his natural habitat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2cca5d48-8293-4746-ba7f-5331292b51ed/luca.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out Luca in a yellow outfit that Mom DEFINITELY made at her first birthday party at our ranch in Wimberley, Texas. Look at that view! Sigh. Wish we’d hung onto that house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1eccbc8f-014e-4892-b624-cc54fab85081/beach.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out Me in a yellow romper that someone in my family probably made at Fripp Island, SC with my mom, sister (in a crazy yellow hat?!), and Nonnie in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3fe97f81-ffcb-472f-a9e2-0b6394808188/house.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out A bunch of hippies out back of our Mallette St. house during its yellow incarnation. (That’s Van Quinn in the back left, this is definitely a Chapel of the Cross Choir Sherry, probably Easter.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ac78f62a-d8a7-486e-b462-944f4c6c6c04/yellow+tube.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out Me and my sister, Elisabeth. We got a lot of mileage out of that yellow tube. We loved it! Now kids need iPads, lol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8719f7ad-667e-49e3-bac4-8d95c1d15db5/daffodils.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out Daffodils from my yard in Rhode Island https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2f076e50-f3dd-4c8d-9864-43de76c14ef4/Mom+with.+Michael.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out Mom with MIchael McVaugh in the yellow living room at Mallette St. during one of my parents’ annual New Years Eve black tie parties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/18325885-0bb3-46e4-bb03-84b9a9a68191/devin.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out Me with my boyfriend, Devin, and Nonnie in our butter yellow kitchen at Mallette St. on Christmas Eve in the mid 90s. Just look at that brown fridge, that thing wouldn’t die! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/69e46af8-1325-431f-ac70-9f9928896c4e/mom.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux's Monday Night Red Beans &amp; Rice - Make it stand out Mom with her granddaughters at Christmas in the Carolina Meadows house. Recognize the wall color? And that’s the harpsichord Mom built behind them. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/irish-soda-bread monthly 0.5 2024-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/019fc73e-09fb-4d23-8012-c5a0ff374b66/IMG_0950.JPG Recipes & Stories - Irish Soda Bread - Make it stand out “Hey Baby Que Paso”. Dancing on a chair to the Texas Tornados in Ireland in 2018. I was THAT lady. LOL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/748dbcad-44f1-4599-976c-dcc661995c0a/IMG_0184.jpg Recipes & Stories - Irish Soda Bread - Make it stand out With my buddy Irish writer Sinead Gleeson on an epic night at Whelan’s in Dublin 6 years ago. You haven’t lived until you’ve been in an Irish bar when Thin Lizzy drops! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e4c22d21-54b1-4ca7-84f6-e23999504a74/IMG_0186.jpg Recipes & Stories - Irish Soda Bread - Make it stand out Watching Julie Traymor’s “Frida” on my flight over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0c416f17-4a8b-4a91-8fcd-89a65755f2cf/IMG_9544-preview.JPG Recipes & Stories - Irish Soda Bread - Make it stand out This year's work in Ireland has been surprising me. I'm creating new tarot suits, so instead of cups, pentacles, swords & wands I'm using body parts. I've worked with hearts before and actually have a blog post about that,. (Oddly, I started drawing hearts right around the time Mom got heart cancer – before we knew). I'm now realizing that Frida Kahlo movie must have rubbed off on me. These are also 3 dimensional, which is new for me. I'm sculpting with paper on top of my drawings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e2638d13-62b9-48a2-9f11-1479f2b6d465/5491002e-e869-4a27-b174-b059deb7686d.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Irish Soda Bread - Make it stand out I love this family portrait because I’m in Mom’s belly! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/71d772b7-64d5-40a5-ac3e-0c2dddc209d0/IMG_0191.JPG Recipes & Stories - Irish Soda Bread - Make it stand out Irish Ghost Story: These Boots Are Made For Walking Edition (I’ll explain below) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/15529280-8aa8-41f5-bbf0-6d907948e650/Chris+mom.jpg Recipes & Stories - Irish Soda Bread - Make it stand out Mom and Chris on the QM2. He’s always gonna be family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/387db581-98ce-497f-80de-886f1b83defd/IMG_7916.PNG Recipes & Stories - Irish Soda Bread - Make it stand out Montana family portrait the weekend we got divorced / my birthday. We went thrifting and Luca got that leather jacket and shirt, Chris scored a bitchin' Camaro shirt, and I landed a chic reversible cape! We got in the car and went location scouting, ultimately ending up at a basketball court with a view. There was no discussion of WHAT we were doing, because of course you do a family thrifting photo shoot! That's assumed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/230a45e8-9186-470e-b9be-99d34f08bb09/IMG_0089.PNG Recipes & Stories - Irish Soda Bread - Make it stand out Oof. I didn’t want to leave Ireland. And now I’m back! If you don’t know the song “Dimming of the Day”, here is my best friend Alice Spencer singing it. Heaven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0d95178d-3d64-4abb-b221-b17d43c880bf/00203572325220110309213525759.JPG Recipes & Stories - Irish Soda Bread - Make it stand out I found this photo in Mom’s Shutterfly account. I’ve never seen it before! Not sure why she’s wearing a tiara but I love it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7106afca-748e-4311-8cd6-a69c96a0e46a/00203572325220110309200756590.JPG Recipes & Stories - Irish Soda Bread - Make it stand out Baby Luca with her Gramps at our old house in Wimberley, TX. THE BEST PHOTO EVER! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/401ec515-978d-49fe-babe-13d37ef39e25/00203572325220110309203426728.JPG Recipes & Stories - Irish Soda Bread - Make it stand out Also a new pic: When Mom found out I was pregnant she signed up for a smocking class so she could make beautiful dresses for Luca. This pic is SO HER. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/ripe-olive-spread-lou-anns-pickled-shrimp monthly 0.5 2024-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b01a2c2f-9b9a-45e5-b024-11aa229f71e7/EP.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ripe Olive Spread + Lou Ann's Pickled Shrimp - Make it stand out Me in New England in college visiting the grave of my 8th great grandmother, Elizabeth Peabody, daughter of John & Priscilla Alden from the Mayflower. I promised my Grandma Reed that I would tend the grave while I was in school. (Exactly what every college kid wants to do!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/37cdb650-f190-4faf-b75e-3ffd6050517e/bed+4.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ripe Olive Spread + Lou Ann's Pickled Shrimp - Make it stand out I so love the top photo of Mom and Luca. Luca’s body language of leaning in perfectly illustrates how close they were. Bottom pic is is them with the same photo when Mom was dying in NC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4741f308-38a9-4d4c-a099-7e1ecc9f8489/bed2+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ripe Olive Spread + Lou Ann's Pickled Shrimp - Make it stand out Mom with baby Elisabeth and our cat, Shiner, in NC / Mom with baby Luca at our ranch in Wimberley, TX https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/05b49bf3-2b8a-439a-b48b-bcbe8653b29e/Screen+Shot+2024-06-09+at+1.22.18+PM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ripe Olive Spread + Lou Ann's Pickled Shrimp - Make it stand out I’m back in the Motherland …. RISD Alumni just ran this image of me & Mom from my graduation in 1994. (It’s tradition to decorate your cap, mine was kind of Carmen Miranda meets Medusa with fake fruit and snakes.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d248d992-47a0-4248-9b59-cf809227e3cf/WEDDING.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ripe Olive Spread + Lou Ann's Pickled Shrimp - Make it stand out Me and Chris with Mom at our wedding in Houston, TX. 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/30ffc781-5e15-41ff-983a-67463968b0af/5ba9f7902e9556cc3847556d+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ripe Olive Spread + Lou Ann's Pickled Shrimp - Make it stand out Summer pic of Mom and Dad. Everyone is so tan! This is from a Reed family reunion in Vermont, probably early 1980s. (I am literally having a conversation with Mom in my head as I type this, debating which specific year.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/902b0db7-8d70-4c8f-944a-e562892b917d/GM.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ripe Olive Spread + Lou Ann's Pickled Shrimp - Make it stand out Life goes on. Me and Elisabeth in front of our house in Buckinghamshire, England in the 70s. Our kids there decades later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/881c1e67-d58d-4edf-88d6-78e3e3859f57/MOM+DIE.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ripe Olive Spread + Lou Ann's Pickled Shrimp - Make it stand out Me holding vigil for Mom, waiting for her to die. Chapel Hill, NC. October, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c7919245-d4f0-402f-b4b9-2e82635f4081/PULL.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ripe Olive Spread + Lou Ann's Pickled Shrimp - Make it stand out Mom was my #1 fan and cheerleader. I don’t find this all that spectacular but I’m glad she appreciated it. ha ha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/de9e9ca6-2e5d-4570-8316-705eb77061a3/HOT+DOG.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ripe Olive Spread + Lou Ann's Pickled Shrimp - Make it stand out The infamous AA hotdog. (Story below.). Yes, I realize that was an abrupt transition. That’s how we Reeds roll….. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/234daea5-3412-462e-86bb-cab619cf0bcb/atlantic+16.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ripe Olive Spread + Lou Ann's Pickled Shrimp - Make it stand out Super 70s feral children in a super 70s wood paneled/shag carpet beach house with an adorable, gorgeous Mom in a cool shirt. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/lacy-edged-batty-cakes-amp-turkey-hash monthly 0.5 2023-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/493d8063-2de5-4cc6-9dad-f4a5f0cfe2d2/IMG_4706.JPG Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out The sandlot baseball game at the Trans-Pecos Festival of Music & Love in Marfa, TX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/de11ac5f-2d9e-4007-8cb7-78fdbe6a8680/gT7GmtCw+copy.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out Mom teaching my niece, Leah, how to sew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9af1ded0-cc8d-4251-8768-1e42a6c63253/IMG_4674.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out This batter from Marfa’s Los Yonke Gallos set his beer down to bat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/db4f1427-c2d9-408e-999b-cbbefc17c075/IMG_4730.JPG Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out West Texas halftime entertainment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/13d333dd-2cad-4a0c-9377-b0b1e7a7b911/IMG_4718.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out This batter from Marfa’s Los Yonke Gallos smoked a cigarette throughout the entire process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f8e9a5d7-7713-479e-b5c8-9cc51078dba5/Screen+Shot+2023-09-30+at+12.02.03+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out Continuing Mom’s tradition of sending mail to your kid at school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8a14aa63-fe40-4bd3-a468-dc2a83d140ea/IMG_2707.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out Mom in a different hat and dad inexplicably in a cowboy hat (!) with our friend Geoff Clare somewhere in the South. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/46a80ba3-159d-428f-bfd5-d234b53bb2a8/Modern+Times.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out The Reed women (well, mainly me) in assorted Modern Times clothing (the designer boutique where I worked at in high school). Modern Times clothes were often made from lycra which was a new fabric in the 80s. We called it “underwear fabric” because that is what it was primarily used for. We would buy bolts of it and hand dye it in Lisa, the designer’s, basement washing machine. That’s how I learned color theory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8cb2dfcc-ba0f-4120-a000-5936fade19de/cape.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out I just found these photos when I was home in NC. This is my daughter Luca in some sort of cape that Mom rigged up while visiting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f085b566-e499-48c8-a005-552c92d391f1/5bbc912c8a4667f56b117eec.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out Mom with one of her travel sun hats in Charleston, SC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/eb9d0fca-ccc1-40a4-bad3-1a34107cb60a/IMG_4677.JPG Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out Los Yonke Gallos means The Crazy Cocks! This mascot was a little rough around the edges. It had been a long, hot weekend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f178e719-b0c2-4918-bbaf-3429398380e2/atlantic+13.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out Mom in a Modern Times shirt & skirt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/780796af-c059-4bce-be37-e9fefbab8407/bull+durham.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lacy-edged Batty Cakes &amp; Turkey Hash - Make it stand out Susan Sarandon came into Modern Times while filming Bull Durham and bought this shirt! (And it all comes back to baseball. Boom!) https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/picadilly-cafeteria-carrot-souffle monthly 0.5 2023-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f7df1135-66c6-42ce-b2ed-888b107aab67/Scan+3+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out Me in the library of the Mallette St. house probably in 1995? I was visiting from NYC, I think. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7eba50b3-69ff-44ae-a43f-a9ef3f4fc3f3/Screen+Shot+2023-09-18+at+5.10.09+PM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out I drove by the Mallette St. house on Thursday and it looks to be in good condition. It made me sad to see new people in it. Mom would be horrified because they have no curtains and you could see their TV from the street. I showed this pic to Dad and he said “That’s a lot of electricity”. ha ha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/85859111-0291-4fbe-9669-0b531588ebda/IMG_3314+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out Friday’s pig pickin’ with Dad sampling the meat on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ec15669d-f830-444b-8f7a-c0ddd71323f7/IMG_3318+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out I totally ate it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0d4b60e5-9e05-463d-91e0-d661a77690d3/Screen+Shot+2023-09-18+at+5.09.50+PM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out I closed out my NC weekend with the 11:15 Rite I service at the Chapel of the Cross. I noted today that this church was where I was baptized, went to pre-school, sang in the Junior Choir, was confirmed, and acolyted. Mom sang in the choir there for 40 years and her ashes are buried in the front. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/41a8901d-460a-41b3-a00c-9fb19c8f727c/school7+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out Mom in a dress she made before some UNC graduation in the 70s probably. On the front porch of our Mallette St. house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4ec8a365-d0fb-4f10-b876-6b874efb06aa/robert+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out The name on this image file is “foxy.jpg”. I named it that because Mom is SUPER FOXY in this pic. What a goddess. It’s the day after I was born and I guess they are in Watts Hospital in Durham. (You’ll learn more below.). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/54c00a48-dfcb-43dd-88f9-f318c362e0f4/smoker+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out Mom demonstrating a smaller smoker for the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4c0b5464-6f3a-449a-8f4c-aea27c3ed3b6/IMG_9875+copy+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out Elisabeth and Mom looking long and lean in Oxford, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5f2e0b88-5c3c-430f-9f7d-0f2e827269de/21687546_10155826520055337_1166877002504173207_n+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out At some point this got saved into my “Mom Photos” folder, I think just because it is something that she would totally wear. It illustrates my witchy Mom goddess dream perfectly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/960fcb8d-6a1d-40f2-86d0-08a5a447161f/passport+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out Our first passport photo so we could all go to Israel for the year. I’m sure that my Nonnie and great grandmother, Dee Dee, made those dresses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9f8a83cf-3cb2-47f5-9732-2e5ae5a2e41d/9781469629667+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out Mom and Dad’s NC BBQ book, Holy Smoke. I’ve seen it at the RDU airport several times and it’s always fun to get off the plane and feel like I’m home. The pig pickin’ we went to was hosted by a former UNC student who had studied the book and was bound and determined to cook his first whole hog using Mom and Dad’s method. He invited Dad to come try his effort. I love his bravado! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/89e2a0a0-ebb6-4073-a737-2cf272f81e79/IMG_3194+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out This post is primarily gonna be sassy pics of Mom. Here she is at my Granddaddy’s retirement party from Eastman Kodak (with Granddaddy, Nonnie & Uncle Frank). I love her hair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d4aba620-72c3-44b7-9647-4baf1af1f354/8506db80-5912-49b1-bd28-143d64c51208+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out It’s always important for kids to remember that their parents have their own thing going. Love this photo of Dad & Mom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2cda506c-95aa-4355-a4cc-bceaed444abc/IMG_9878+copy+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out Phaistos on Crete, where we spent a week in a house with no running water. Yikes. Look at me screaming my head off in the stroller. Poor Mom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c2ba51fb-1919-42de-9bf1-37885c1212c8/piano2+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out Mom playing guitar at our Reed family reunion at Conesus Lake in 1979. She could just pick it up and start playing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/20f01cc5-af71-4cf5-8c17-a42cc6e2574a/piano1+copy+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out Mom looking super witchy and badass at the Reed family farm in East Tennessee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b07ce335-89ef-4180-abf4-3a55261032c6/127165336_10159069335159319_1814528336900377918_o+copy+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Piccadilly Cafeteria Carrot Souffle - Make it stand out This was taken at my wedding in Houston in 2000, so 35 years after the previous photo. They’ve still got it! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/barbecue-beans monthly 0.5 2023-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/df12a151-b355-474d-a433-9444acc77f4d/Dale001+%281%29+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out Mom and Nonnie. Not sure where/when but I had that jacket of Mom’s for years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fdcf813d-b200-4703-ac7c-679f29cde66d/Screen+Shot+2023-08-26+at+4.08.05+PM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out Me with my friend Hynden (who wrote the generation quiz mentioned below) in my horribly messy 11th grade dorm room at the North Carolina School of the Arts. I just moved my kid into her dorm room at the University of Texas last week and was telling her what a terrible roommate I used to be. I love that Catherine Aird quote, “If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.” Words to live by. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/98a1c995-a771-4209-bb0d-2d6412ca8072/IMG_2874+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out I think this might be my first grade photo from Glenwood Elementary School. Someone posted it on Facebook and Mom and I jinxed each other by both saying at the same time “what the hell was I / were you wearing?!”. Mom said she wouldn’t have let me go to school in that. LOL. But it was the 70s. My best friend Robin Brown in the red. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ec21a4f5-d88f-4abd-992a-dd49fabec28d/IMG_2633+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out An anniversary dinner party that I had for my parents with their friends the Foldas and the Reeses. The arrow points to the “locked” liquor cabinet in the pantry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ae162ce4-39a4-4eb0-a969-243d5a520284/00203572325220110309204420567+copy+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out This is the weirdest Reed family photo ever taken. It looks like we’re in a cult. Not sure why I’m glowing but I wish I still had that sweater. Taken on the front porch of our Mallette St. house. I was in junior high. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1693178117125-411XSFVR53KNS5M4JJ1A/Screen+Shot+2023-08-26+at+6.15.09+PM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1693178117126-FPE5XOW7NHY5YSDYTVUL/Screen+Shot+2023-08-26+at+5.52.11+PM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1693178117884-O0N3X1VHX1202ZE5SSS2/goth+sarah+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b0ac7e58-ca42-458d-9e38-dae930afa5eb/MONKEYS+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out Hear No Evil / Speak No Evil / See No Evil Me and my sister with Cousin Sara Alther (center) at Conesus Lake. 1979? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f685322a-9d23-4e77-8046-a42f39d47f18/Screen+Shot+2023-08-26+at+6.05.54+PM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out Elisabeth with her cat, Tessa, in my bedroom. The cats liked to hang out in the dollhouse that Mom & Nonnie built us. I don’t remember having a plant in my room??? Mom must have watered that thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/05c0d0e6-ac77-4405-bb6f-ea735831cf9c/Screen+Shot+2023-08-26+at+6.00.26+PM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out This is our beautiful Mallette St. living room which was home to that terrifying “party” when my parents were in India. You can see why I was concerned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5d4d18ab-fdf4-4ad0-ab35-0f4e1c39b30e/Screen+Shot+2023-08-26+at+6.19.47+PM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out Me in my softball shirt with Mom looking pretty in pink and Dad apparently going to graduation. In our back yard – Chapel Hill sometime in the 70s. (Behind us is Mom’s native wildflower garden which gets a mention below.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9da3d041-1b45-4bbb-b13d-b95e7e1a0f5a/IMG_2644+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out Christmas in Kingsport, TN in 1989. Elisabeth and I are both in head to toe Modern Times clothing (the boutique where I used to work after school and in the summers). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6e221de9-a72b-4357-8b1b-7e014d1e8e10/2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out This was from 9th grade when Mom, Dad & I went to Chicago and stayed with our friends, the Breens, in Evanston. Mom took me shopping and bought me some amazing ankle boots and my first Norma Kamali skirt. Despite the side eye given in this photo I had a great time. I always thought this plaid cape of Mom’s was COOL. Where is it now?! BELOW: 3 different ridiculous 80s looks. AKA a wannabe fashionista in North Carolina pre-internet! (To be honest I would still wear all 3 today. ha ha) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e61a89e5-20f2-4630-970c-bafeba54994c/3c11e6a1-cbf7-4b16-a6b5-010204ef1390+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out Beautiful Nonnie in her Fripp Island house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fa46e802-7c6d-4aa2-a4ee-f3144c6ecdc3/aab10a3c-398a-43c3-aeed-819054fbb15e+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out Fripp Island, SC – location of my baked bean story below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f004a942-7e83-42a3-9b7a-26a351a4e26c/Screen+Shot+2023-08-26+at+6.14.20+PM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out Me visiting my big sis when she was at Oberlin. I think I was in 10th grade (and wearing “Hammer pants”). BELOW: My room 2 ways. Me in 9th grade / Elisabeth looking JAUNTY AF in maybe her senior year of high school? Those are stacks of Women’s Wear Daily magazines underneath me. Mom made sure I had all of the cool subscriptions. Also, we collected china from a young age. I picked blue and my sister picked red. We would get pieces for our collection for birthdays and Christmas. I wasn’t that into it at the time but now I cherish my blue china. And, that’s Mom’s old Madame Alexander doll looking like Chucky’s Bride at the top of my bookshelf. Mom sent her off to get a makeover a while back and she’s doing much better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/83a487bc-c2e5-40e5-ab1a-8887ba8452d5/1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out Misc. ridiculous school photos from Glenwood Elementary School. Most people are surprised to find out that I went through a many year long preppy phase. Although the Lacoste sweater in the bottom was a fake. Mom and I kept cutting off that alligator and sewing it to new (not Izod) clothes. Necessity if the mother of invention! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a067a696-5f73-4415-bab7-29d23df932e9/IMG_2631+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out The back of this photos says this was a celebration for Mom & Dad’s 25th anniversary with their dear friends the Turchis and the Foldas. Look what a babe Mom was. She always had that classy bob. At one point Dad started cutting it for her for some reason (I guess because they were traveling?) so we took to calling him “Mr. John”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cae38fad-4b8e-40ea-aa35-c0b3f30af034/IMG_0783+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans - Make it stand out The Reed ladies in front of the Watauga St. house in Kingsport, TN. Mom, me, Jane, Grandma & Lisa. That short haircut of mine was not a good idea on me. Mom looks foxy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1693178318948-WM6XD4QU3VE4UEAI68KO/0012+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1693178319003-541MPFKYIV0D6UCEM549/IMG_2630+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Beans https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/caramel-cake monthly 0.5 2023-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7baf0e36-e9d1-4bc6-befe-5c7e4b12b445/64944718_10157469060294319_6055311813233344512_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Caramel Cake - Make it stand out Flower rings with my daughter, Luca. I think we were at a park in Denmark, maybe 2019? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/db1566be-cfb9-4904-ae24-16a027b8d1a9/collage+copy+small.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caramel Cake - Make it stand out Luca and I have been some places and seen some things! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f2aee78e-168c-44d6-9dd0-1967705476f2/Mom+Luca.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caramel Cake - Make it stand out Mom and her first grandchild, my daughter, Luca. They adored each other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d3dfbd3c-b70c-46a5-9882-36680d49f9e1/zz.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caramel Cake - Make it stand out Luca is our 3rd Amigo, or as ZZ Top would say our Tres Hombre. We’re going to have to figure out empty nest. I’m sure we’ll manage. :) When we were locked down for COVID, my Reed family would gather on Zoom to visit. One time we issued a challenge for everyone to recreate album covers. This was our offering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f69ccb78-9e0d-4826-8022-1e3be91f5267/love+you.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caramel Cake - Make it stand out Young Luca with the iconic Austin “I Love You So Much” graffiti on the side of Jo’s Coffee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1f625981-b82d-4745-91db-ef89cce65642/emily+dick.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caramel Cake - Make it stand out This showed up as a Facebook memory this week. Sob. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/34f416ec-9dc6-4afc-a659-356fb75ada1e/55837830_10157266974234319_811904640357498880_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Caramel Cake - Make it stand out Seriously the cutest little nugget ever! Photo by the amazing Matt Lankes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cde72540-97eb-4f2d-b2b2-f086ef95154f/71596326_10157735769194319_785724765988978688_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Caramel Cake - Make it stand out A Bean family tintype portrait by Lumiere Tintype taken at the Trans Pecos Festival of Music + Love in Marfa, TX in 2019. (Don’t mess with Luca!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6d532a0f-bdd8-49ea-a1c6-22b107fd4bc7/71198364_10157728533354319_8597771309587365888_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Caramel Cake - Make it stand out Mother/Daughter portrait. London, maybe 2012? https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/maharajas-burra-peg-amp-ginger-iced-tea monthly 0.5 2023-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/31c2f778-74d5-4241-9518-c0ef56d634fe/BBQ2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out Christmas at the Reed house in Kingsport, TN in 1989. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9aa27dd4-f00f-497a-865d-e8e37bfe86ce/house.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out From the crazy quilt that Mom made for my sister, this is a digital image on fabric of our Mallette St. house decorated for Christmas with embroidered wreaths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/28a09149-faff-458d-87f7-987ec6d42e1a/62fedbdf-e738-400c-9f4a-7a87137697ec.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out Christmas at the Reed house in Kingsport, TN in 1978. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c99c7d17-070e-4f0e-b6f9-4bc8dbb61c12/BBQ7.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c70c9230-42a3-4be6-aba6-58a140f70bd0/IMG_9693+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out Christmas at the Reed house in Kingsport, TN in 1979. I’m in front with Grandpa, Grandma, Aunt Jane Dad & Mom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/de85f398-dcb7-401f-8ea2-903482b07ef8/heart.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out My second heart drawing. Oil pastel, calligraphy ink & graphite on bristol board. 2017 www.sarahgreenereed.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4ac09037-6afc-4d19-a534-3d17974be4e5/IMG_9686+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out Twister was big in 1979! Christmas at the Reed house in Kingsport, TN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8c8afd5c-5bb6-4f9f-8bfd-b05a8ac4e6a1/dress.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out Mom always loved to get her granddaughters matching Christmas outfits. There would usually be two each year: one formal / one casual. Elisabeth and I tried to keep the tradition alive when she died. The black cherry patterned dresses in the upper right corner of the grid were from December of 2018 (Mom died that October). Each year it was a BIG DISCUSSION! Lots of emails about dresses. This was one of my favorite traditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5cb942e9-2c98-4dbe-b852-a160a94c2102/dresses.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/51847202-e9af-406f-80f9-b929261b3505/IMG_2774+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out My sister Elisabeth’s first Christmas at the Volberg house in Kingsport, TN. Must have been 1969. With my great grandmother, Dee Dee, my Nonnie, Granddaddy, Mom & Dad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/865380f9-f8e8-456c-b0f0-9529fedbebb9/5bb93d0c8a138868468b456b+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out The three amigos. Me, my sister and Mom in Jerusalem for the top image in 1974 (I think?) and then in Northern California for the bottom image. Mom and Dad were at Stanford my freshman year of college and Elisabeth and I went out for Christmas. This would have been December 1990. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1dfa2d44-050e-4bfd-a94c-89cf6e65dd2f/f87d32b6-aaf0-43c8-8c63-bbdd22a89e1b.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b48ef106-58a1-435d-931b-5ef424428fd5/5bb93d0c22336fc5758b48d7.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c56487f8-e0ec-487e-8e73-d8ba842e4ca8/Screen+Shot+2023-08-10+at+10.44.59+PM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out My first heart drawing. Oil pastel & graphite on bristol board. 2017 www.sarahgreenereed.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d40fde79-6935-4e27-b988-f691edb72de9/dVdpk7mQ.jpg Recipes & Stories - Maharaja’s Burra Peg &amp; Ginger Iced Tea - Make it stand out Mom played piano for our Christmas Eve Carol tradition. (top image) Here she is showing some kids the harpsichord she built at a Christmas party at her Carolina Meadows house. Probably 2013 or so. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/provencal-prawns-amp-crab-meat-norfolk monthly 0.5 2023-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c10aa07a-a816-468b-a90e-34de64b96680/IMG_3569.jpg Recipes & Stories - Provencal Prawns &amp; Crab Meat Norfolk - Make it stand out I sent this to my dad and sister on Tuesday, which would have been Mom and Dad’s 59th anniversary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/27ba6cb2-94c9-4b85-a31d-cdb8e5482891/5bb93d0c2cd9afd7368b4a19.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Provencal Prawns &amp; Crab Meat Norfolk - Make it stand out This is just Mom at her absolute best. I sent this photo to my sister this morning to which she replied, “who’s the nerd in the back?”. (It’s her.) This is Mom telling some sort of story in our old kitchen on Mallette St. with our family friend Peter Lee, the former Bishop of Virginia. I think I must have taken this photo. That idea brings me great pleasure. I want to have been in this room, in this situation, just soaking up Mom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fa08238e-ecfc-43aa-a873-5caaa58fbd70/IMG_8581+2.JPG Recipes & Stories - Provencal Prawns &amp; Crab Meat Norfolk - Make it stand out My perch in Maine. Cool and rainy outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/49fa76c5-7235-4175-bc87-a79bab477eef/IMG_3658-preview+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Provencal Prawns &amp; Crab Meat Norfolk - Make it stand out My daughter, Luca, foraging for sea plants and oysters in County Clare, Ireland this week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3ba9607f-88a1-4d94-a1ac-36c985a7bdf2/oyster.jpg Recipes & Stories - Provencal Prawns &amp; Crab Meat Norfolk - Make it stand out Look at this glorious specimen! And, yup, she ate it in one slurp like a pro. She’s definitely John Shelton Reed’s granddaughter! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/da89be01-781d-4e85-82df-f2d43a861f71/739fe4a1-08d5-4ac5-afe0-e45151067d69.jpg Recipes & Stories - Provencal Prawns &amp; Crab Meat Norfolk - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/094b6533-6823-40ff-8138-394a0428606c/IMG_2596+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Provencal Prawns &amp; Crab Meat Norfolk - Make it stand out One of my early intros to seafood. Dad took me fishing with a cane pole. I’m not so sure about it. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/velvety-chilled-corn-soup monthly 0.5 2023-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6ac965d2-2eac-47dd-9b8e-4f97e9ae23cd/-gs1FSfA+copy.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Velvety Chilled Corn Soup - Make it stand out I’ve used this photo before but I love it. This is Mom at Ridgefields in Kingsport, TN after my grandmother (Nonnie’s) funeral. The wall is the color of corn soup. LOL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/85ce288c-d3a2-41c4-8440-881da9154031/24f506fb-3f5f-4d05-80b9-01cccb92d994.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Velvety Chilled Corn Soup - Make it stand out Me, day of high school graduation from North Carolina School of the Arts, where I did NOT get thrown out! (See below for story.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/58f61b0c-9803-41d2-8ba0-1dc566fc7075/0157.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Velvety Chilled Corn Soup - Make it stand out This isn’t related to anything in the blog post but I think it’s hilarious. I <3 the 80s! I’m in the middle wearing my “John Taylor Hat”. John Taylor is the HOT bass player from my childhood fave band, Duran Duran, known for his cheekbones and amazing headwear. I just saw the band in Austin last week and they’ve still got it! Also in this photo are Christine Nuzum on the left and my best friend, Robin Brown, on the right (in the rockin’ Members Only jacket!). This was taken either before or after Saturday morning orchestra practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c521c510-b147-41d0-a5e0-ba722344cf28/comp.jpg Recipes & Stories - Velvety Chilled Corn Soup - Make it stand out These two photos were side by side in my archive and I thought the juxtaposition was interesting. Children in laps! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f232f5c8-e579-49cc-ad05-d15db94b9448/5ba9f78caed4c27d6d8a5f10+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Velvety Chilled Corn Soup - Make it stand out Riffing on photos of summer. Here are Mom and Dad at Lake Champlain in Vermont during one of our family reunions. Mom is rocking a badass Modern Times outfit (the boutique where I worked in high school) and Dad is wearing a shirt from his trip to Indonesia. Who knew that Dad’s glasses would be the eyewear choice of hipsters today?! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5597e09a-b64b-46c2-8d5a-ece3ff5af097/3c11e6a1-cbf7-4b16-a6b5-010204ef1390.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Velvety Chilled Corn Soup - Make it stand out This is my grandmother, Nonnie, looking elegant at her house in South Carolina. She was a painter who hugely inspired me. Not only is the wall behind her the color of corn soup (!) but she also painted that mural. Her houses always had decorative paintings scattered about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/03080660-c24a-4de4-9653-4e604ecc7ec4/IMG_6238.jpg Recipes & Stories - Velvety Chilled Corn Soup - Make it stand out I loved this poem. Talk about holding a grudge! (See story below.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5f1c8284-2a6e-4076-bae5-4ec64cfe6ddd/5bb64a2ad398d005178b456b.jpg Recipes & Stories - Velvety Chilled Corn Soup - Make it stand out Another summer shot. Mom all long limbs and gorgeous at one of my Dad’s summer seminars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3882775d-e87f-44c0-8eac-d5488d9a42b8/5ba980d022336fd57bce7023+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Velvety Chilled Corn Soup - Make it stand out This just showed up in my Facebook memories. The Reeds (minus my husband, Chris, who was working) in the Commodore Club on the Queen Mary 2 for the 1920s themed evening. This was 5 years ago, right before Mom died. It’s so wild how much the girls have grown and how much has changed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1024298d-76c7-4e97-a982-225b43c74b4b/5bb93d0ba57a40eb728b4e09+copy.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Velvety Chilled Corn Soup - Make it stand out And, I’m afraid we’ve lost another family friend. Phil Rees, second from the right, died in May. He was a fixture in my childhood and a really interesting man! I grew up with his kids and we all went to the Chapel of the Cross. He is missed. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/robert-stehlings-sweet-potato-spoonbread monthly 0.5 2023-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/39fa3ac9-2242-49e3-a9cb-01bef7153042/poem.jpg Recipes & Stories - Robert Stehling’s Sweet Potato Spoonbread - Make it stand out This Joy Harjo poem came up in my social media the other day and kicked me in the gut. It’s been a hell of a couple of weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e373607b-f3cd-42c7-b9be-cbfb23fadf65/wedding.jpg Recipes & Stories - Robert Stehling’s Sweet Potato Spoonbread - Make it stand out I just found these previously unseen (or at least unremembered!) photos from my wedding in Houston in 2000. Mom with my college BFF, Missy, in the upper left and with my husband in bottom right. The others with Dad, of course. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4717eeeb-179c-447f-bf99-7d8c75593ae8/henrys.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Robert Stehling’s Sweet Potato Spoonbread - Make it stand out Henry’s Hideout a.k.a. “The Horniest Bar in Texas” and site of my 2000 bachelorette party. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b4ffecd1-64ef-45ea-8a57-deb9cd910e89/5bb93d0d03902354208b456b+copy+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Robert Stehling’s Sweet Potato Spoonbread - Make it stand out It’s not William Morris but it’s a wild print! Mom making her famous Easter Pashka. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9f43069c-5d8d-4d83-8f28-4c64a97da751/IMG_2793+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Robert Stehling’s Sweet Potato Spoonbread - Make it stand out The Mallette Street formal dining room post renovation. When I was younger it was kind of half this size. But, we always had the same table and sideboard. Mom and Dad collected a lot of Empire furniture when they lived in New York. Mr. Phillips (featured in story below) would have parked his car just on the other side of that back wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/00e37a2a-5879-45b4-8eef-242a2889d78c/g+harrison+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Robert Stehling’s Sweet Potato Spoonbread - Make it stand out George Harrison in a William Morris print jacket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2b3b9876-10b8-4cd3-920a-1fae891cb752/cindy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Robert Stehling’s Sweet Potato Spoonbread - Make it stand out Me and my friend Cindy Cecil who just died yesterday. This photo was taken at the original Coyote Ugly bar on First Avenue in NYC in 1995. Back then Coyote Ugly was a crappy biker bar which was only 1 block from my apartment and was therefore “my office” when I was briefly unemployed. (I played a lot of daytime pool.). The bar was nothing like the Coyote Ugly movie which featured model Tyra Banks. The bar’s staff, while techincally female, were kind of mean and scary. Cindy was the sister of one of my college friends, Randy, a Texan. Honestly, Randy is probably responsible for getting me where I am today. When I moved to NYC after college I pretty much only hung out with Texans at Texas type places like the Rodeo Bar and Hogs & Heifers.. At some point I decided I should just cut bait and move to the great state. This photo was from when Cindy visited NYC from Houston. When I finally did move to Houston a few years later I befriended Cindy. She was a part of my ridiculous bachelorette party where we took a white limo to Henry’s Hideout which dubbed itself “The Horniest Bar in Texas” (it had antlers all over the ceiling). Anyway, Cindy leaves behind a husband, two teenagers, a brother (thanks for everything, Randy!) and a slightly less effervescent world. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/bourbon-balls monthly 0.5 2023-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3ac40790-86df-46dc-993e-0cb1c666d2fa/Screen+Shot+2023-02-09+at+11.36.33+AM.png Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Balls - Make it stand out An email from Mom, clearly enthralled with her first grandchild! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/50cc7d1e-8d5f-4997-b3e5-35c6b1387687/Screen+Shot+2023-02-09+at+11.47.25+AM.png Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Balls - Make it stand out Mom was always my biggest cheerleader. Here’s an email from her where she describes me pulling my toy with my mouth as an “example of my early creativity”. ha ha. Bless her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6cda3459-38a9-4c3a-904c-0d505bff7aea/IMG_9731+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Balls - Make it stand out I think Mom is making Paskha for her choir party here. It’s an Eastern European dessert that needs lots of straining so she would put it in a cheesecloth in a colander and put trashy beers from Dad’s poker game on for weight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1cd0f28d-954a-418a-bd03-b68eed29a101/IMG_3945+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Balls - Make it stand out The front of the program I made for Mom’s memorial service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f6573b46-4412-4dd5-88b0-9d3c0e653fd4/IMG_3946.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Balls - Make it stand out The inside of the program featuring one of Mom’s favorite poems by Ezra Pound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cccc2466-9fa2-45ea-a402-1e04c56d6cdc/location.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Balls - Make it stand out I was trying to turn on my kid’s location services because she was traveling and this was the message that greeted me on my phone. “No location found” for Dale Reed. Absolutely gutted me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6a6bea2a-62b5-484a-b1ea-50ee02180ddf/gurganus.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Balls - Make it stand out A note from the author Allan Gurganus after he attended one of my art shows. Mom forwarded it to me via email. More details below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1e52a4cb-dfd2-403d-8fd8-fcdb2442a065/IMG_9737+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Balls - Make it stand out My sister “Elisabeth” (explained below) with our cat, Rosie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/525faea5-4a36-4b6a-9b1e-bcc7c999f839/Screen+Shot+2023-02-09+at+9.32.22+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Balls - Make it stand out I also found this in my emails (from Dad, not Mom) with the intro: “I am sick and tired of hearing about how dumb people are in the South, so I challenge my "smart" Yankee friends to take this exam.” It closes with, “As an added bonus for taking the “REDNECK CHALLENGE,” here’s some southerly advice that may come in handy down the road a piece: Next time you are too drunk to drive, walk to the nearest pizza shop and place an order. When they go to deliver it, catch a ride home with them.” Ha Ha, amazing. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/hot-cheese-amp-olive-sandwiches monthly 0.5 2022-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1d127eec-9b0b-4964-8c98-ba9cee0cff6b/mayo+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cheese &amp; Olive Sandwiches - Make it stand out Duke’s Mayonnaise is the only way to go if you are not making your own (which I rarely do). I suggest following Duke’s on social media as they are pretty funny and people are INSANE. I can’t tell you how many Duke’s themed tattoos I’ve seen over the years! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/54781f69-7be3-4ee7-ba2a-0ae5e3be1019/yoga+art+mayo.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cheese &amp; Olive Sandwiches - Make it stand out My friend Kat McTee and I hosted a yoga and art retreat one year. We served lunch. Both being Southern, there ended up being A LOT of mayonnaise. We had pimento cheese AND deviled eggs and I think something else mayo-based (maybe salad dressing?). Anyway, the next year we just decided to call a spade a spade and rebrand as a “Yoga, Art & Mayonnaise Retreat”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/632aed74-4d3e-4eca-926f-e30a9d316bcd/15110403_10209095213591524_8553188145867470337_o+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cheese &amp; Olive Sandwiches - Make it stand out Look how sassy Mom is in her red tights and houndstooth skirt. Fab! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5f4acdc9-5330-4f3a-9042-6a7829f6aa22/1684_10153878773659319_1770543796098869102_n+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cheese &amp; Olive Sandwiches - Make it stand out The Reeds (minus my husband Chris who was taking the photo) at Christmas at my house in Austin, TX. I think this was maybe 2014? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/462b71f4-a952-4487-b4fc-21b34ecfc143/Dept.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cheese &amp; Olive Sandwiches - Make it stand out This is the sticker that was on the side of the boat at Julia Reed’s sandbar party (story below) in the middle of the MIssissippi River. It amused me so much that I bought one for my husband to put on our boat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/099a5cae-b93d-425e-9aed-3ae24d445e91/IMG_9693+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cheese &amp; Olive Sandwiches - Make it stand out Christmas either 1979 or 1981 (I think 79?) at the Reed family house on Watauga Street in Kingsport, TN. I’m in the weird tuxedo dress on the left. With Grandma & Grandpa Reed and my aunt Jane in the center. Dad is wearing the leather vest that Mom HAND SEWED for him. Sheesh. I remember lots of broken needles. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/pumpkin-chiffon-pie-amp-pecan-pie monthly 0.5 2022-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ca2441e0-9c63-466f-a843-e001dbcc6da1/IMG_5573.JPG Recipes & Stories - Pumpkin Chiffon Pie &amp; Pecan Pie - Make it stand out Came across this online today. Perfect! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2f013160-85a2-4cc8-a3b2-d7a9b8554ce3/IMG_9786.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pumpkin Chiffon Pie &amp; Pecan Pie - Make it stand out Me DIGGING IN to a holiday dinner. Xmas 1997. Note, Dad in the mirror reflection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/170c2386-d0e4-47c3-a1cc-4ff284af431c/Screen+Shot+2022-11-21+at+3.50.48+PM+copy.png Recipes & Stories - Pumpkin Chiffon Pie &amp; Pecan Pie - Make it stand out Mom always set a gorgeous table with her Wedgwood Florentine. (I’ve always coveted that china!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8a98c147-fe41-489c-9848-74d5e53def2b/tube.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pumpkin Chiffon Pie &amp; Pecan Pie - Make it stand out Mom being a goofball in our inner tube on our trashy boat on Lake Hyco in NC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ea0e03bf-6687-40a0-aa8a-53d56436db8a/wu-r8eEQ.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pumpkin Chiffon Pie &amp; Pecan Pie - Make it stand out Dad wasn’t mean to ALL animals. Here is our cat, Rosie. She had a nice life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9e7057bf-9a85-45ef-acf6-2596e5e50bd5/IMG_9788.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pumpkin Chiffon Pie &amp; Pecan Pie - Make it stand out Another year / another celebration. Xmas 1993. I like how it looks like Dad he’s balancing a candle on his head. Parlor trick! (I can light a cigarette lighter with my toes.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a545b3ce-01bc-400e-a6dc-3c42e5fa6395/IMG_9766.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pumpkin Chiffon Pie &amp; Pecan Pie - Make it stand out What happens when you don’t go home to your Mom’s classy Thanksgiving dinner? Thanksgiving with some sweaty dudes at Oberlin, 1990. This was the living room of my sister’s boyfriend’s house. That carpet! ha ha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/28e8b5db-562c-49b6-b37e-b7f69bea06ac/england.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pumpkin Chiffon Pie &amp; Pecan Pie - Make it stand out The Reed family semi-naked classing it up at some park in England. 1978. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2df24ef5-2fc7-4de1-aa84-a4c93923399d/IMG_9807.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pumpkin Chiffon Pie &amp; Pecan Pie - Make it stand out This was Christmas dinner judging by the beads, but Christmas and Thanksgiving menus and traditions were very similar at my house. Elisabeth and her former boyfriend, Kim, on the left. Me and my Nonnie on the right. Mom looking glorious in the center! This was taken at the Mallette St. house in Chapel Hill, NC. 1994. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7c737fbd-d386-4ead-ada5-eda3f86d4512/IMG_9817.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pumpkin Chiffon Pie &amp; Pecan Pie - Make it stand out Me and Mom with my cousins Reed & Mariah. Charlottesville, VA 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/25e23251-5a14-45ab-ae9f-ac1d72772645/IMG_9816.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pumpkin Chiffon Pie &amp; Pecan Pie - Make it stand out Me and Mom at my Aunt Jane’s house in Charlottesville, VA. Thanksgiving 1995. I came down from NYC to meet my parents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0050fb21-ff65-4dfa-83a9-a2a2b820d547/IMG_9696.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pumpkin Chiffon Pie &amp; Pecan Pie - Make it stand out THE MOST HILLBILLY PHOTO YOU ARE GONNA SEE OF THE REED FAMILY. We had a beautiful piece of land, something like 17 acres on a point jutting out into Lake Hyco in NC that we PLOPPED a mobile home up on cinder blocks onto. Ha ha. We never slept there, it was just for changing clothes, using the bathroom, and making lunch. This was early on before we built a big screen porch. I’m in the door leaning on a part of the boat hoist. Dad with his omnipresent pipe, Elisabeth as a teen, and Mom looking adorable. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/hushpuppies monthly 0.5 2022-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/28e7fd89-6516-4309-becc-b74bee7f4d18/49eb7cde-e29d-4047-9a09-901b572b9d98.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out Mom and Dad at the Southern Festival of Books (where I embarrassed myself in the 90s!) promoting Holy Smoke. 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/78dc6e9b-59b9-4a29-9c56-61920a1f1f90/Screen+Shot+2022-11-18+at+2.34.38+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out Facebook post of mine from right after Mom’s death in 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/bd870c7a-1c8d-42a2-8ddc-a71f0871e5cd/0099.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out The cover of one of my Dad’s books, The Enduring South. I’ve always thought the design was super clever. Looks like him! With black eyed pea eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2b9be53f-7a18-4bbc-a0b0-a883a42ff2f1/191424_10150169020019319_2034597_o.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out Mom’s desk. There were always beautiful notecards, embossed stationery, and - of course - Emily Post! The flame stitch desk blotter and pen holder were embroidered by my Nonnie, I think. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c1f200d4-621b-472a-b998-ae24835e98c7/IMG_9822+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out Mom reading from my parents’ book 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About The South. 1996? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/465b4b00-3094-4d82-9889-e322d52d3aeb/13418664_10207833696534386_8056523224027145313_o.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out I found this in Mom’s files and it made me laugh. Tennessee Rib flavoured chips from M&S in England. No notes on how they tasted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/65858121-10a8-4944-8e01-d4bd6bbb8b10/54c3ff51e35d2.image.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out Press photo for Dad & Mom. I forget which newspaper. Taken in our old kitchen on Mallette St. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/48f02ebd-b5d2-4000-9ba9-1605b8d1a4c2/5ba9fa1b4e2c8cd94b4755ef.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out Mom and Dad dancing at the infamous Crook’s Corner where they DEFINITELY serve hushpuppies. Yum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8d46398e-0a32-404b-910a-e0aaf1173ac5/backyard-bbq-01-dla.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out Press photo for Mom and Dad, 2008. Backyard Barbecue Pit. Photo by Derek Anderson for The Independent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2658ef28-e9f8-427e-863c-57fb37f3c488/00203572325220110309204144134.JPG Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out Mom demonstrates how to use a smoker for her book Holy Smoke! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/eb428b1b-0796-4539-bd0d-805b8a8fdd01/194126_10150170067324319_7995915_o.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out Spotted in Mom and Dad’s pantry in NC. Feels like home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2cf5cd03-27e7-461d-93ac-7328757e7312/Screen+Shot+2022-11-18+at+12.09.50+PM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out Profile on Mom and Dad from the South Writ Large website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/379ea3ce-994d-4b84-b2b9-77be5e972c2d/IMG_9841+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out Mom looking cute. Promoting something? Wearing a nametag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5c1ba5c4-b908-4f74-8837-6ba33a482c7f/IMG_9833+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hushpuppies &amp; Chattanooga Cornbread Salad - Make it stand out Mom and Dad promoting 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About The South. Assuming this is in Kingsport, TN since my sister, Reed Grandparents, and Volberg Grandma (Nonnie) are all preening behind them! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/everything-moon-pie monthly 0.5 2022-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d1159b6c-dbaa-44a2-8c64-4ba0481ecd96/40262249_10156740297679319_814013611033755648_n+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Everything Moon Pie - Make it stand out Me at The Winding Stair, my favorite restaurant in Dublin. 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/facba58e-5929-4df6-ac04-7a157c99a532/IMG_9751+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Everything Moon Pie - Make it stand out Me on our balcony in Italy. Summer 1988. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/78cbcd7f-90b9-4e6a-a5c0-bd83d69eccf6/IMG_6214+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Everything Moon Pie - Make it stand out One of my favorites. Mom and Dad in England. I love her skirt. Lady had style! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9504745f-e9e1-4065-9580-d6e7c90024b1/Thatcher+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Everything Moon Pie - Make it stand out Dad and Mom with Margaret Thatcher. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/da071853-ac8b-4637-bdcc-9560bd6928e0/sGcQsycQ+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Everything Moon Pie - Make it stand out Mom next to some English looking body of water. If I were to guess I’d say the River Cam near Grantchester? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1f959e04-c14f-48ac-aa45-dc2ca8fe6cd0/newfoundland+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Everything Moon Pie - Make it stand out Elisabeth sent us this selfie when she finally got to Newfoundland to see Mom after she was airlifted off the QM2. I think they both look EXUBERANT but I bet my sister would like for me to state that she had been traveling for 24 hours. I love this photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/46ab10ae-ca0e-4e74-804f-822b83f1cc8a/Salisbury+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Everything Moon Pie - Make it stand out Mom with Salisbury Cathedral behind her. Mom and Dad rented a flat in Salisbury for something like 5 summers. Great town! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/58a114dc-bcb9-4200-8100-453341d2484e/qbvZs1Ww+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Everything Moon Pie - Make it stand out Mom and Dad shared a love choral music with their British friends the Clares.. Here they are with their dear friend Geoff at the Three Choirs Festival in 2016. The photo was taken by Sue Clare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/80f4688d-2c1f-4434-b7e7-1989fdda8074/40131278_10156740296284319_7040605249698004992_n+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Everything Moon Pie - Make it stand out Me being chased by a bear at The Liquor Rooms, a circus themed basement bar in Dublin. 2018. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/bbq-joint-brussels-sprouts monthly 0.5 2022-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9e1f26de-9ede-495f-a9c1-b69828cc3240/Screen+Shot+2022-10-19+at+12.13.58+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Facebook memory from the day Mom died. October 19, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/531244c0-0759-4755-993a-84e40f04f2fc/hat.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out They tried to stick a hat on me but I was NOT INTERESTED! How the times have changed! I think this is at our old house in Carrboro, NC or maybe Jerusalem? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fcbaaa14-d841-432c-999a-a28dba0cedae/0358.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out The California granddaughter and the Texas granddaughter, my niece and daughter in Austin. Maybe 2008? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6f7a651b-9af9-4c44-80b8-8efab8aa3e64/IMG_3903.JPG Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Me with my daughter and niece at Mom’s funeral. I made sure to wear a fascinator. The Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC. 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/31f5e393-b9d2-487e-b66a-c72178ba10d2/QM2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Mom loved to dress her granddaughters. Here are Leah & Luca on the Queen Mary 2. With my father on the right. 2014. The little girls killed with the QM2 crowd, everyone loved them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b903c5ba-7580-4b0e-89a1-dc7b16d325f5/hats+comp.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Hats on my wall in my junior year college apartment. Photo taken by my mother, I think, since I am in it on the left? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/17170dc7-caed-4de4-be2e-5ebfd353ae96/DAD+CAT.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Dad in a top hat at the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, England. 2012. A stuffed cat with a top hat in a fancy hat shop on Jermyn Street in London. Dad and I went in to buy him a boater hat. (Did you know that the official hat to wear with black tie in the summer is a boater hat?) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/45dd1159-b42a-4427-a160-92404e947006/dervy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Mom and Dad at a Kentucky Derby party. Maybe 2017? Mom made her hat. The ribbon had the music from “My Old Kentucky Home” on it. Dad in his boater from London. Chapel Hill, NC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7755c7b6-25ee-4cca-ad0e-ecb6a0bc3ddb/10446712_10152574448089319_3119961463609296402_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out My husband and me on the Queen Mary 2 before the Royal Ascot Ball. 2014. There was a fascinator making workshop - kind of like a Project Runway Unconventional Materials Challenge - I made this hat out of cards, felt, markers and glue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/242f6627-949d-47f6-b4f9-c05a9b80b122/3ef7eac2-af31-4074-83b5-ff0827d611ee+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Nonnie and Mom in their hats, Easter 1959. Mom looks about 40 but she would have been maybe 17? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a35c1941-2f10-4112-898c-0e9ad7b6063d/MOM+DAD+HATS.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Mom in an ADORABLE fascinator at Uncle Frank’s first wedding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3256117a-d149-4952-af46-b2cd57e9600a/school.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Mom in various Easter hats. Kingsport, TN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e1a63346-402d-4a5e-8498-6dc7f0b909f8/0012.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Me in my junior high bedroom. The hat above me with the blue tulle is the first hat I ever made. (And didn’t everyone have blue china in their teenage bedroom? And a creepy doll? ha ha) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/47493b61-460b-41a6-838f-d1c86f004c08/A9217672-EB90-4917-AFDF-F6EB3F986A71_1_105_c+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out In my element (not). Me looking natural at a RISD Painting Dept. cook out. Providence, RI. 1994. Interestingly, that is international art star, Do Ho Suh on the left. He’s a sweetheart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/da83ed6f-bc86-4b9c-b8bf-4eac0066c413/hats+2+comp+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Me in misc. ridiculous hats over the years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8bd8bfaf-e689-4a31-a7e9-30dd2f74088a/derby.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Me and my husband in the hotel room before the Kentucky Derby. Louisville, KY. 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1ea74543-522b-4197-8e65-7beb9308a466/15c75a64-8523-4b34-9788-74899ae63a03.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out My Reed grandmother in an AMAZING hat in front of our family home on Watauga Street. Kingsport, TN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c34d9523-9112-41a4-b362-2dd583290b75/Dad.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Photo I took of Dad in his hat in Venice. 1988. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/37a059ca-1632-4a0c-8266-7ddd638999db/S+hats.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Me in my charity shop hats from England that have now been upcycled into Demolition Derby Hats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2fdd6223-7171-4179-807a-2d6b201df936/THIS+YEAR.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out My sister, me & Dad at our gathering in Half Moon Bay, CA this year. We were honoring Mom on the 4th anniversary of her death. Note Dad’s Laphroaig hat (story below). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5bf636af-3229-45ea-aabb-c7a24ad2f28f/Screen+Shot+2022-10-18+at+8.39.50+AM.png Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Facebook memory from the day before Mom died. October 18, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2f0ed4e8-9284-4f44-99c1-1a4f4ff9490d/43920c85-48e5-43e3-b1ed-276f67422064.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out At Fripp Island in the 70s. Love Nonnie’s beachy straw hat! Feels very Gilligan’s Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fb9697b1-d498-4cdc-a941-810817b7d545/MOM+LUCA.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out Mom and my daughter in 2006-7 in Austin. Mom and my daughter in 2017 on the Queen Mary 2. (There was a Roaring 20s theme and Mom made her headpiece.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/663bd306-99a7-40a4-bb16-02cbb5aefb98/E.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Brussels Sprouts with Bacon - Make it stand out My sister in my teenage bedroom wearing a jaunty hat! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/malaga-almond-gazpacho monthly 0.5 2022-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ec4396f9-e6f5-4246-8ba8-33d62efaebc9/5ba980d04e2c8c5743475525+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malaga Almond Gazpacho - Make it stand out A fave of mine! Mom on the QM2 the summer before she died, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/32b4eb92-6b62-457f-88fd-ef5076b926e2/39e420f4-e364-4f60-b7aa-6df822f95878.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Malaga Almond Gazpacho - Make it stand out Not sure how old Mom is here. Maybe 7 or 8? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f02631ec-f3f1-47c9-b7a7-5dfc535b7cd1/53f6f31d-4d49-4b50-a203-32da46fc5a07.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Malaga Almond Gazpacho - Make it stand out Mom in Rye, NY in the late 60s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cbc1dcfd-d995-4321-9496-45330fcce829/bed1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malaga Almond Gazpacho - Make it stand out Mom napping with Foxtrot, our borrowed cat, when we finally got her back home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/620ca7ee-346e-435b-812b-e57ede127881/5ba9f78c039023b81ee4e0f7+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malaga Almond Gazpacho - Make it stand out Mom, probably late 70s? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/216485cb-958a-46bc-9893-090bdde850d4/head+stand.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malaga Almond Gazpacho - Make it stand out Same as it ever was. Mom doing headstands with friends in 1948. Me and my sister doing headstands with friends in England in 1978. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/045d5102-b1b3-4312-91ad-e068aa16feaf/84ef9a6c-6f0b-47c9-86e2-d2d1b2eba1c8+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malaga Almond Gazpacho - Make it stand out What a cutie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/feb9f241-dbc2-438d-8486-45f1ae687702/44345697_10156870212444319_97329843032555520_o.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Malaga Almond Gazpacho - Make it stand out My daughter put flowers in Mom’s hair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1b186f4f-1591-4ede-9f4b-b0d8b9e2dac6/IMG_2427.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malaga Almond Gazpacho - Make it stand out Flowers sent by friends when Mom was in the nursing unit at Carolina Meadows. We showed up one morning and Mom asked us to very specifically move them around. She had been staring at them all morning and the composition had been bothering her. ha ha #virgovibes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/90600744-a979-4c03-9265-042835e89b04/IMG_2292.JPG Recipes & Stories - Malaga Almond Gazpacho - Make it stand out Mom’s brother, Frank, visiting her in the nursing unit when we got her home from Newfoundland. This is probably a week or two before she died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e92d15ca-855a-4e7c-b557-15dc9cf79cdf/72533975_10157799553579319_7956183215100657664_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Malaga Almond Gazpacho - Make it stand out My dad, me and my sister in Seattle, 2019. Our first memorial get together. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/lancaster-lemon-tart monthly 0.5 2022-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ea083fe4-518b-4eff-9467-c4e00cb75821/bed3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lancaster Lemon Tart - Make it stand out Mom and Elisabeth during Mom’s last few weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1664997869847-14D3ZP03IZ49M1O1K96Q/0243.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Lancaster Lemon Tart - Me and my sister in our passport outfits. 1973. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1664997867465-PTIWJRUXF733IBHVNLC4/5bb93d0c22336fc5758b48d7.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Lancaster Lemon Tart - Christmas in Jerusalem. 1973. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1664997868135-Y8VOBV2JHDISQJFH4YCB/8c461d17-e4bf-4cff-ace6-6f140949d574.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Lancaster Lemon Tart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1664997867466-0RTA8D544CYL7KOTP9FK/5bb93d082cd9af9d3a8b45c1+copy.jpeg Recipes & Stories - 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Lancaster Lemon Tart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e5a4de10-203a-44b5-adf0-b18edc152fce/IMG_3978+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lancaster Lemon Tart - Make it stand out The Reeds love a photo recreation! Top photo was a portrait commissioned by our father for one of Mom’s birthdays or an anniversary. Bottom photo is our daughters recreating it for Dad’s 75th birthday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3b08ca73-5506-421f-ba45-3b34372f1cfd/IMG_3975+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lancaster Lemon Tart - Make it stand out 1980s versus 2018! Me & my sis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d62f2f1e-ce97-4ea6-8cba-3b31abe5bcbc/0055.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Lancaster Lemon Tart - Make it stand out Me and Elisabeth in Williamsburg, VA in the 80s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8ba9187a-a9bf-4069-a339-3fa5ef3bc71c/IMG_2236+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lancaster Lemon Tart - Make it stand out Photos on Mom’s fridge. Her granddaughters on the left (my daughter, Luca, and Elisabeth’s daughter, Leah) and me and my sister in our English school uniforms on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/148ced00-46f5-4987-9295-c2bfecc1051f/elvis.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lancaster Lemon Tart - Make it stand out Our family loves Elvis. It goes deep. I must have written this Valentine before Elvis died in 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e53f08bd-6fa1-4ca3-8d42-c29042e3322f/5bbc911d8a4667a169118597+copy+2.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Lancaster Lemon Tart - Make it stand out Mom and Elisabeth in the 90s sometime? https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/pasta-alla-puttanesca monthly 0.5 2022-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7150c479-3624-4681-aff9-b7d9b447b0b7/IMG_2506+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Alla Puttanesca - Make it stand out Me and my Irish friend Sinead Gleeson at the Barbara Kruger exhibition that is currently up at the Museum of Modern Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9da6472c-374f-4f26-bc39-3918fc7affc1/keytar+10.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Alla Puttanesca - Make it stand out “No photos, please.” My sister, Elisabeth, gets her “15 minutes of fame” in Upstate New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/314d3c24-5fe4-4e25-8f40-442d62cf29d7/IMG_9754.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Alla Puttanesca - Make it stand out Mom in her creative happy place: her kitchen! 126 Mallette St. Chapel Hill. Maybe late 1980s? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/51020130-0c2b-460a-8b08-5621cac6a6bc/IMG_2676.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Alla Puttanesca - Make it stand out A recreation of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s studio on Great Jones St. in the King Pleasure exhibition put on by his family. (Note: the Breakfast Club is being shown on the TV. Accurate!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c6476c0d-019e-48ca-8ecf-4c2800c31238/Mao+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Alla Puttanesca - Make it stand out Well, I’m not sure she would be supportive of my doing a rude gesture on film, but here is the only photo of the Warhol “Chairman Mao” t-shirt that Mom bought me from our visit to the Corcoran Museum. (This was photo was from an all-nighter my freshman year at RISD. I have part of my sculpture project on my head. I was tired.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9a5bbef0-cfed-44a9-be42-a4759b0f5c88/e4b480b0-f66f-4a8e-8240-f1d67d1efc39.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Alla Puttanesca - Make it stand out I have very few photos of Mom and Dad from their time in New York in the mid to late 60s, but here they are looking adorable in New Jersey! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a864e149-08e8-4894-a2f3-1cee0eec1f6c/IMG_9815.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Alla Puttanesca - Make it stand out Mom playing with Legos. In theory we were helping our cousins Reed & Mariah build something but they were nowhere to be found in this photo! Charlottesville, VA 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a69599f9-099e-41fc-a709-f68b652f6f77/yuliya.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Alla Puttanesca - Make it stand out I got a preview of my friend Yuliya Lanina’s new amazing 6 projector animation installation at Xposed Gallery on the High Line. (It’s not officially up yet, Yuliya literally called the gallery and said “Sarah’s coming over can you turn it on?”. ha ha.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1d64def8-806f-4807-b92b-5598e50d64b3/Screen+Shot+2021-11-30+at+12.03.06+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Pasta Alla Puttanesca - Make it stand out Mom was always supportive of my creativity. :) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b17b102e-4ab3-494e-b2af-fb4ae75fca30/moto.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Alla Puttanesca - Make it stand out Wild! I’ll tell you more below but the short version is that I found a photo of the motorcycle that my Dad bought from Andy Warhol in footage from a Factory party in “The Andy Warhol Diaries” Series on Netflix. (Dad on the bike on the left.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/21878231-c91e-437f-a957-7afe9f06df38/5ba980d0aed4c265668a60f0+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Alla Puttanesca - Make it stand out Mom and Dad take in the Statue of Liberty from the Queen Mary 2. Maybe 2017 or 2018? https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/tarte-a-la-bouille monthly 0.5 2022-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cee2bba0-7ced-4f01-b9c8-bc39b7c005bc/030bb427-db53-42c4-9828-5ff2da53d01c+copy+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Tarte a la Bouille - Make it stand out I’ve shared this before but thought it was appropriate for today’s posting. I’ll bet there’s some Crisco somewhere in that kitchen! Mom pours the milk in this lifestyle photo from the Kingsport, TN newspaper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d60a1248-88f2-457d-b2ad-5809f7084d30/154188cb-9f6d-494d-a1f0-3a778e8d3fae+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Tarte a la Bouille - Make it stand out Mom (on left) playing house with her dolls and neighbor friends. Kingsport, TN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5117813d-aa06-4600-989c-3c1ceb996348/1062.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Tarte a la Bouille - Make it stand out My daughter is introduced to the wonders of cream tea at the Orchard in Grantchester, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2d7ba3f8-97b7-4cc8-9abc-04d279a1dc5b/IMG_9827.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Tarte a la Bouille - Make it stand out Dad looking emo about some article about him or them? Mom looking cute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/79f8bbb4-1b27-4280-87e4-b1c63aa0bb66/D0Lye-Ng.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Tarte a la Bouille - Make it stand out The Reed stockings, many of which Mom made. (You’ll see what I’m talking about in a minute.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/eb8dfa3a-31c6-4fbc-9d98-29408a221fb1/5bac4f91a57a407e17ae22d8+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Tarte a la Bouille - Make it stand out Dad and Mom on the back porch of our Mallette St. house. Chapel Hill, NC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0acfb125-e9a7-410e-89b2-8eecbe61fe94/eaf21644-fa8d-4ace-97bc-0ff293811bf1.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Tarte a la Bouille - Make it stand out Me looking massively uncomfortable in front of the Reed family fireplace at Watauga St., Kingsport, TN. I still have that creche that is in the background. My father and aunt purchased it piece by piece from the 5 and Dime Store with their pocket money when they were kids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/13d00779-50f0-4c37-94f1-026236f79888/bday.jpg Recipes & Stories - Tarte a la Bouille - Make it stand out Another day, another cake. This one was for my 18th birthday at Lake Champlain, VT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9d4e1948-fc99-4289-b27a-09485f322a83/IMG_2453+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Tarte a la Bouille - Make it stand out Elisabeth celebrates 49 in Mom’s room at the Carolina Meadows nursing unit. Chapel Hill, NC. (This was when we had to shut Mom’s oxygen off because of the candles and Elisabeth was taking too long to make a wish so we had to yell at her!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f90249c4-6d1d-459e-b55c-1b049fed53a2/IMG_9715.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Tarte a la Bouille - Make it stand out Me with the kitty birthday cake I requested Mom make for my 10th birthday. The whiskers were licorice strings. I like that Mom served salad with our pizza. ha ha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/bef3f36d-518b-42ae-b34a-76d8e067ea6c/035d34e1-5dff-440b-b3cf-d66a68bcddf3.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Tarte a la Bouille - Make it stand out Gorgeous Mom & Dad on their wedding day with a large, foofy cake! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/35eeca84-f576-4fd5-83e3-7b20b11cf7bd/BBQ9.jpg Recipes & Stories - Tarte a la Bouille - Make it stand out Mom’s captions always crack me up. Lady was both organized AND funny! See above. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/crab-maison monthly 0.5 2022-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/91e3b5cc-0182-43a5-be76-aaa79129aa2c/IMG_2611+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out Mom looking chic as hell in the 80s in our friend’s house in Illinois. I love that cape and wish I had it now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e0928e34-b597-42ff-85b8-8c7f113892d0/egypt.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out This one takes some explaining. The top photo is of my Great Grandmother, Hattie Reed, with her friend “Miss Elmore” (my parents’ Latin teacher) at the pyramids in 1958. My parents went to Egypt with my aunt Lisa and her partner, Ina, maybe a decade ago. Lisa and Ina recreated the photo down to the head scarves. A side note: Dad, Mom, LIsa and Ina took a cruise down the Nile and one of the staff members thought they were all my Dad’s wives. Polygamy is legal there. Ha ha ha ha! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/76befcac-1264-46ce-ba0a-0363a812f872/1167+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out My daughter and Dad in those fun spinning chairs (that are now, sadly, gone) at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (Mom’s favorite museum!). 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9e161aff-2994-42db-a07b-1d1b194e8d0d/IMG_2772+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out Elisabeth and Mom in our friend Toni King’s art-filled house. That’s a Chuck Close behind them and a Rauschenberg (which HEAVILY influenced me as a teen) on the far right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/640a160b-a25f-4249-8101-30bfe3144c2b/windsor.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out Mom, Elisabeth and me at Windsor Castle in the 70s. Me and my daughter at Windsor Castle in 2012. Funny but I never realized these photos were so similar until today! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b93760c1-0156-4858-af74-738c1cf088f6/england.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out My sister and me in London in the 70s. Mom, Dad and my doppelganger daughter, Luca, in London in 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/76a15518-9a11-4ef4-92cf-3e46420230a8/IMG_2702+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out Mom demonstrating something (?) to our British family friend Sue Clare at Clyde’s Critter Crossing in Pittsboro, NC. Mom collected folk art and was a big fan of Clyde’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4ae5a052-829c-4961-a04d-26659a2d4207/IMG_9791+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out Me at my RISD senior art exhibition in 1994. Mom came up and was super hands on. She helped paint the walls red and made her famous Chocolate Fondue for the opening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/63442e01-b4e2-4350-9d49-1e09d8228068/piano7+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out The one time that I got to be concertmaster of my youth orchestra! I was thrilled to walk out and play the “A” for tuning. The woman in the floral top is Susan Black, our conductor, who was also my violin teacher and the violinist in Mom’s trio (below). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/291cef84-516f-49b8-897c-be9889ff5dfd/Moody+copy+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out Mom and Dad came to support me at my first gallery exhibition at Moody Gallery in Houston, TX. 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2c190cca-abb5-4006-a209-ea136d60229c/IMG_9808+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out Me and Mom. Christmas in the 90s. Lots of bling! Chapel Hill, NC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6c4e5d1c-321b-4c41-b439-230f377ca194/IMG_2641+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out Me showing my high school portfolio to my aunt Jane. Christmas in Kingsport, TN. 1989. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ec80fdb5-d834-4abd-97cb-b6cb03efb2f9/piano6+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out Mom’s piano trio with Susan Black (violin) and Leonid Zilper (cello). They performed in Chapel Hill, NC and Fripp Island, SC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8fbe5996-8208-4796-99b9-3dd7d62e982a/Bye+Bye+Birdie+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out I just found this photo of the junior high students that Mom convinced to be in her production of Bye Bye Birdie when she was an English teacher in Port Chester, New York! Mom was probably 24 or so but she was already inspiring people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/217ddd56-8f3c-445d-b352-cde642ae99c1/IMG_2828+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out It passed on to the next generation! Drawings done by my daughter while we sat around with Mom during her last few days. Clockwise from top left: Dad (this one is particularly good, I think), Mom, Elisabeth, me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fe51844c-2828-4646-916f-96346ec2a170/ballet+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out So silly. But, yes, we all danced. Only Mom was graceful. OK, Elisabeth was pretty good, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a05d7c39-30e5-4ede-9cdc-b66650707e57/0157+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out The 80s called and they want their John Taylor hat back. Me in the middle after Saturday morning orchestra practice. With Christine Nuzum and Robin Brown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7ee178ef-ef85-45e5-8469-309f6b03ec5d/IMG_2535+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out Mom with us in Istanbul in front of the Blue Mosque in 1974. Note from Dad: “This would have been August 1974. We had just left Israel to go home, via Istanbul and Ravenna to look at Byzantine architecture. We were in the air on August 14 (just looked it up) when the Turks invaded Cyprus. We landed in Turkey and there were no flights out for a week. That was OK with us, actually, since all the other tourists were at the Hilton trying to get buses out of the country and we had the place to ourselves. We were old hands at wartime blackouts and stuff like that, since we’d just been through the Yom Kippur War. More to be said about that week, but I’ll save it until we see you.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/12da69e3-9c38-480b-b20c-6875b875d430/music+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Galatoire's Crab Maison - Make it stand out Music started early in our house. We used to have instrument parades on our birthdays. Also, Mom used to teach a Friday workshop to all of her piano students called “Class”. We would perform for each other and play games with percussion instruments. Now I realize how cool that was for Mom to offer! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/meatloaf-two-ways monthly 0.5 2022-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3513fcd9-20d1-4a99-a3bb-2f52d26b73d7/2e95aa52-e57f-46fb-a59f-d3cc8af3290e.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out Us in front of the Fripp Island, SC house that Granddaddy also designed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/00a06203-4dee-4372-b5fb-4485ba2942c8/IMG_9666+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out Nonnie and Granddaddy in the den of the Chickasaw Road house. The wood paneling was taken from an old barn. My Dad had a dulcimer made from a spare panel as a high school graduation gift for Mom who he was dating! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0417252d-fd2c-4f25-b2be-1dc1e6210876/IMG_9893.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out Here’s an interior shot of the Fripp Island house designed by Granddaddy. You get a better sense of the inside/outside play with the large windows. Although Dad always brings up the fact that none of the windows actually opened. Granddaddy wanted to LOOK at nature, not FEEL it. They had a kickass AC! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cd9225b1-f4ab-42e8-b9d8-d4c0a8e997d8/IMG_9722.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out The purple childhood bedroom I was trying to move on from (read on and you’ll see). Mallette St. house, Chapel Hill, NC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d82ba8af-cc4b-454e-bae1-a45dbe94f7a0/IMG_9883.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out Nonnie in her backyard / happy place. Fripp Island, SC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/facced20-c5e1-406c-9f7a-d13b62ebcf02/IMG_2646+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out Christmas party in the den of the Chickasaw Road house with me, Aunt Lib (Granddaddy’s sister), Nonnie, Mom and cousin Lee Howard. 1989. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ec546f4f-7508-4b75-bf15-48c96cfa3bd2/IMG_1419+2+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out The Reed house on Watauga Street in Kingsport, TN. It was built by my Great Grandparents. My Grandpa grew up here and then my Dad and his siblings after him. It was in the family until Grandpa’s death in 2010 when it sold to someone out of the family. I took this photo about a week ago. Glad to see someone’s taking care of it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/66474ba6-55e0-4b5e-8ded-367f3224387b/duke.jpg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out Never been seen (by me) photos of Mom her Freshman (left) and Sophomore year at Duke. So dang cute! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8a87b06e-11a8-4217-afe0-65a53df64fdb/Watauga.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out The extended Reed family (pre younger cousins Mariah, Reed, Christine & Wills) in the living room of the Watauga Street house. Christmas 1989. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/170b03b9-7e6e-4dd4-888c-7cdb6d6f01bb/IMG_9691.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out One of the walls of windows in the living room of the Chickasaw Road house. Here we are with Chinese Yo-Yos brought from San Francisco by our Uncle Robert (far right). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fc5b87ce-0e58-4127-9b9b-72f9d1b13b5c/IMG_9690.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out My sister and me playing tennis in front of the Chickasaw Road house. Christmas 1979. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/17ab32ba-75fd-4a74-862f-b5052133308d/IMG_9733.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out Volberg Family portrait in front of the cozy hearth on Chickasaw Road. Early 80s sometime? Nonnie and Granddaddy Volberg on the left. Aunt Lib behind me in the plaid. I wanted that sweater that Elisabeth had so badly that I was about ready to commit some crimes! It was red angora with little mirror stars and moons sewed to it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1080cbda-25e4-4495-a5dc-34c55bbf9668/IMG_1845+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out My favorite birthday card this year! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/369e5c00-c13a-46a9-925d-6a9e37ab1ee7/watauga+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out Me and my sister on the front porch of the Reed house. Early 70s sometime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3942abac-f111-4921-9b0a-4790616c8362/IMG_9895.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out You looked right onto marsh. It was pretty magical. The light changed minute to minute. Being a painter, Nonnie loved it. We sold the house to the author Pat Conroy’s brother when Nonnie died. You can now rent it on VBRO which is super weird but also tempting? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b2e14b9c-b426-4232-8986-c57f532c343f/IMG_1844+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out Elvis’ meatloaf recipe! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/17f3a68e-daee-487a-bdef-dd97cc36763d/IMG_1418+2+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out The Volberg house on Chickasaw Road in Kingsport, Tennessee taken about a week ago. This house was designed by my Grandfather Marshall Volberg. The back had two massive walls of windows looking out into the trees. My grandmother kept it for a while after Granddaddy died until she moved full time to a Fripp Island, SC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fdbfbd42-0df3-4a6c-916d-03674195871e/IMG_1406+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Meatloaf: 2 Ways - Make it stand out Who wouldn’t want to ride for 4 days in the back seat with these pups?! My daughter, that’s who. I guess I can pat myself on the back for establishing good boundaries in her. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/sarahs-sauce monthly 0.5 2022-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c6799125-5121-4186-99d4-909e846f7ce7/Reeds+at+the+farm.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sarah's Sauce - Make it stand out The Reeds at a Family Reunion at Uncle Rich’s house on Lake Champlain in Vermont. Maybe 1982 or so? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6ccad699-02f7-4a38-a24e-0e6ff4641ba0/IMG_0723.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sarah's Sauce - Make it stand out The stairs and newel post in our new (old) 1926 house in Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7e822060-feb8-4e37-9ac4-045747558e51/5e4f32d3-0e2a-43e5-87e2-ef35561ba242.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sarah's Sauce - Make it stand out Dad (middle) at his aunt’s wedding in Rochester, NY. I’ve always loved this pic! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c3ae5030-f8f0-470d-ad98-93a82a1f2472/mom+guitar.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sarah's Sauce - Make it stand out Mom at Conesus Lake, Upstate NY. Summer 1979. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/90a80299-3244-4f8b-a0ef-2f7cce7e5144/IMG_9897.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sarah's Sauce - Make it stand out The Mallette St. house in early renovation stages. Chapel Hill, NC. Probably 1976 or so? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7ad44112-572b-4471-8516-3d3eb8a6d1fc/virgo5.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sarah's Sauce - Make it stand out Mom in Rye, NY when they lived there. 1967 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0d614c78-0292-461e-830a-d1f22870c120/IMG_9801.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sarah's Sauce - Make it stand out Mom with me at my RISD graduation. Providence, Rhode Island. 1994. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0be0a3be-1b1a-4b95-aa14-264a15ef3aee/IMG_9775.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sarah's Sauce - Make it stand out Me visiting my ancestor’s grave in Tiverton, Rhode Island when I was in college. Grandma Reed asked that I tend it. Maybe 1992 or so? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8afb8c55-eecd-42aa-8419-d3f7569d983c/0+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sarah's Sauce - Make it stand out Glamorous Mom in our Mallette St. house in Chapel Hill. You can’t see the newel post, but trust me it’s the same as the one in Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1cef3a17-dfdb-4cf5-8888-1a1f991d2569/img.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sarah's Sauce - Make it stand out We have a whole New England side of the family! My Dad’s mother was from upstate New York. So, we definitely spent some time in the Northeast back in the day. Also, apparently my Great Grandma Greene visited Tennessee and PARTIED! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/classic-lemonade monthly 0.5 2022-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/39964b81-6a11-4878-9b93-a319a3ffd5c9/b0dcda06-6266-484a-a113-ae6688e50bf1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Classic Lemonade - Make it stand out Apparently U-Hauls have ALWAYS been around. And why do we always have to move during the summer?! This was when Mom and Dad moved to New York after they got married. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5f082dda-f1af-4ef7-ac47-832564bbbd7c/0351.jpg Recipes & Stories - Classic Lemonade - Make it stand out For some reason this was in my Mom file?! LOL. If the mechanic in my story wore overalls they at least were intact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9f99547e-39dd-4ed0-b3bf-a6640ccdd4ee/11143094_10204987836949675_3151984069474431310_o.jpg Recipes & Stories - Classic Lemonade - Make it stand out Love this sweet photo of Uncle Frank and Mom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b38a4c10-b58c-4ccf-9e44-be5485e1a5cc/Atlantic+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Classic Lemonade - Make it stand out Mom, pregnant with my sister. Talking about names! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1f4be330-9619-4261-9e42-0906dd4c439b/back+yard+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Classic Lemonade - Make it stand out Could that be lemonade in the pitcher? It’s probably iced tea, but it’s a cute photo. Mom and Dad’s author photo from 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About The South. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7c9415bd-cb36-4883-8c85-39a29d1baa75/87664203-cbc6-494d-b588-02649ea3f1ce.jpg Recipes & Stories - Classic Lemonade - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3e257b8a-1bb9-43c2-8f57-776eba6587ac/24a1b7c7-935f-49d8-b057-c12aa3e617b3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Classic Lemonade - Make it stand out July 4 in Massachusetts! It think this is the time Mom got pneumonia from sleeping on an unheated waterbed. Yikes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8870386d-a2cd-4517-9f3d-4394e37aee24/watauga+4.jpg Recipes & Stories - Classic Lemonade - Make it stand out Love this sweet photo of me and my sister. Taken on the front porch of the Reed family house on Watauga Street in Kingsport, TN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8fddd8c1-c3ee-4d10-9219-ee7ab2a5a70c/1951+or+so++VOLBERG%2C+Phyllis%2C+Dale%2C+Joe+at+Cascade+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Classic Lemonade - Make it stand out The two Phyllises! How do you make that plural? Mom and her mother and uncle. Atlanta in the summer, judging by Mom’s halter top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b5503121-67f5-4940-8fbc-f74188e20bc1/38719a09-77c4-4495-834c-59e888a5d69f.jpg Recipes & Stories - Classic Lemonade - Make it stand out Having a blast on a boat somewhere! Me and my sister. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7c36f57e-bcc1-4e9d-9ffe-6651e7c802c9/volvo.jpg Recipes & Stories - Classic Lemonade - Make it stand out Me and Elisabeth in the back seat of a car. Always. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2b62633a-fe9a-42e7-9462-184f40c8f4d2/4ae84193-bef8-4868-84ad-f43e4c3e2a30.jpg Recipes & Stories - Classic Lemonade - Make it stand out Dad and his cousin grilling in July. Upstate NY. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/cumin-carrots monthly 0.5 2022-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b872a728-75eb-47b4-a855-dc1e87054bde/IMG_9910.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cumin Carrots - Make it stand out The Reeds somewhere in the 70s. I think it’s summer judging by Mom’s outfit. Holy bellbottoms on me! I think the man on the left may have married Mom and Dad?! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3e23b9b2-4ed8-42c8-8d6b-2fa324579380/Screen+Shot+2022-06-19+at+12.17.25+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Cumin Carrots - Make it stand out Our master bath in Marfa. I had this shower curtain made from a photo of Liz Taylor practicing lasso before I knew of any possible Giant connection! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6ae9ceb6-63a8-4543-87d7-4bb330fa3b8c/IMG_9900.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cumin Carrots - Make it stand out Elisabeth and Kay Shearer at the Push Up birthday party. I guess it was hers? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b859590f-a043-4a06-9731-acdfb02ac1c4/IMG_9811.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cumin Carrots - Make it stand out Mom and Dad looking cute at some sort of conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6a996f6a-4585-46e6-95ad-bd5b98b4e8e7/8514666756_8282bfc92f_b.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Cumin Carrots - Make it stand out Rock Hudson on the set of Giant. Marfa, TX 1955 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3bee454c-42cf-4574-87f0-3e3b92f6eca5/15353708-30B0-49EE-87FE-C30A7DCB9427.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Cumin Carrots - Make it stand out A piece of art that we have in our house by Jason Archer from the ‘Marfa Mashup” Series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a43da366-41ba-4923-878a-58fa00b923fa/actor-rock-hudson-poses-for-a-portrait-with-a-lasso-on-the-news-photo-1588306951.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Cumin Carrots - Make it stand out Rock Hudson lassoing himself. What a tall drink of water! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e5bbea96-b27a-425f-b57a-6b60f1a46d1d/IMG_9823.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cumin Carrots - Make it stand out Mom reading from one of the books she wrote with Dad, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About The South. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0941d80f-1de4-4f87-a575-b54cc0a3638e/IMG_9902.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cumin Carrots - Make it stand out My sister and me looking like a football hooligan. I think that’s a window unit behind us! Chapel Hill. Mid 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2e690a95-d3f5-43ae-9740-602a3d1548b4/IMG_9907.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cumin Carrots - Make it stand out Can’t find any photos of the dreaded Chevy Citation but here I am with a mullet and one of our Volvos which was probably also hot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cf1353a1-391f-46d0-8e11-c949171da60d/IMG_9899.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cumin Carrots - Make it stand out Me & Charlotte Gill at the Push Up Birthday Party. Chapel Hill, NC. Mid 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/dc43b16e-8eb6-4020-8c4c-69366edd5acf/IMG_9909.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cumin Carrots - Make it stand out My Great Grandmother, Dee Dee, with her purse at the beach. Lady could party! She was my Mom’s grandmother and she used to scare me. We would watch Lawrence Welk and drink Fresca together. One time I gave her some Hershey’s Kisses for Christmas. She told me she didn’t like chocolate and she exchanged them at Woolworth’s for some butterscotch candies. Who does that?! Her real name was Sarah, I’m named after her. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/mediterranean-chicken monthly 0.5 2022-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ffb4ffe1-5504-42d0-91ae-5fd5d200b442/FD6659F6-5ED8-4A1C-B63C-9802ADCD2CC4_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mediterranean Chicken - Make it stand out The extended Reed Family (we’re on the left) at the family farm in Tennessee. Probably the early 1980s. We might have been eating fried chicken but more likely it was sandwiches made by my Grandmother wrapped in wax paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1583ace2-b449-46c4-850f-28f849a5f211/grandm+greene.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mediterranean Chicken - Make it stand out Dad (in 1970) rocking a look I would have worn in the 80s to Cat’s Cradle! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3e3e4543-491b-44b9-ab22-1c866ef99885/92A85E29-5AD9-4685-8A90-4F9C27FB7A9A_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mediterranean Chicken - Make it stand out Me in maybe 1987 rocking a look I probably DID wear to Cat’s Cradle! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/711992f5-ee35-42c1-b328-7ad2ddb854a7/040035AB-13DC-4EC0-A6D8-59F0DE686CB2_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mediterranean Chicken - Make it stand out Mom in her kitchen. I’m thinking this must’ve been before one of her students’ piano recitals judging by the fruit on the platter and bottle of Kahlua. (Mom would make an AMAZING Chocolate Fondue with Kahlua for her students.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2d4c9216-0c50-4203-aa7c-843328cc796a/f4ee15f1-b6a3-4f7f-81a3-2d15ea2aeb20.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mediterranean Chicken - Make it stand out Mom (in 1967) rocking a look I would have worn in the 80s to Cat’s Cradle! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/89547355-9fc6-442c-abd7-075681a8dc40/IMG_4917.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mediterranean Chicken - Make it stand out Image from my recent dinner party. Vinegar Chicken on a platter that Mom gave me. Dale taught me how to host! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b2548fb1-28b7-4272-80cb-3b8ca56cb836/e4b480b0-f66f-4a8e-8240-f1d67d1efc39.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mediterranean Chicken - Make it stand out Dad and Mom looking cute and happy at Cape May in 1967. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/596cf188-51c5-46e9-bb5c-cdfb6a24be5d/5562BEDF-85F9-4F35-86F7-4EBE1A4BA761_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mediterranean Chicken - Make it stand out Mom and Dad looking cute and happy. Location and date unknown. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/st-clements-posset monthly 0.5 2022-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6b9f3d6a-acfa-4823-9d55-0d9c26c5a2d1/LIBARRY%2B2.jpeg Recipes & Stories - St. Clement’s Posset - Make it stand out Angsty teenage me with Mom and Rosie, the cat, in the library at our 126 Mallette St. house. Mid 1980s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/439d9e5b-e7da-4329-87b1-937bb9597fdd/IMG_9720.jpeg Recipes & Stories - St. Clement’s Posset - Make it stand out Dad’s weekly poker night in our breakfast room at 126 Mallette. Dad in the hat, Fetzer Mills across the table in white. Chapel Hill, NC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4502e376-d787-4c5d-a13d-2d740118fabe/IMG_9920.jpeg Recipes & Stories - St. Clement’s Posset - Make it stand out Back in England! Us with Mom, 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6720fd07-4feb-4b59-827b-febd854c856f/LIBRARY%2B1.jpeg Recipes & Stories - St. Clement’s Posset - Make it stand out Mom looking adorable in our library. The doors would close over the TV making it look like a respectable Dictionary Stand. No TV in our house! ha ha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5961b993-c0e9-4a4d-92bf-12c87ae60af2/a395f74a-a140-4df2-a2e5-5a7ce089499b.jpeg Recipes & Stories - St. Clement’s Posset - Make it stand out One day old with my Momma! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1e37b777-3252-4339-b238-aea7c8b76b19/IMG_9905.jpeg Recipes & Stories - St. Clement’s Posset - Make it stand out My sister and me in the library of our house. Mid 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/bebcc559-6e78-4470-8813-5ca104e7d2af/IMG_9919.jpeg Recipes & Stories - St. Clement’s Posset - Make it stand out Us with Dad. Rowing a boat somewhere in England. 1977 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/be550d7a-aaf8-4bac-b64c-a8d863dd85d4/IMG_9924.jpeg Recipes & Stories - St. Clement’s Posset - Make it stand out Tourist photo with the Queen’s Guard. London. 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8265b957-8276-44a9-ae6e-130036e16a2e/IMG_9875.jpeg Recipes & Stories - St. Clement’s Posset - Make it stand out Elisabeth and Mom in Oxford, England in 1973. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/greek-orange-and-honey-cake monthly 0.5 2022-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8bf6d757-2ae2-4c04-9a1c-7dd13b2f549c/AE91B66B-4F68-4A07-A07E-F8BAB9AAED0D_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Greek Orange and Honey Cake - Make it stand out Me, Cousin Sara, and Elisabeth rocking our matching sweatsuits in Israel, 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2333a748-4c57-44e5-9fbf-a9fed50e7043/0045E5F8-482A-4B94-A725-6DAB01AAB28C_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Greek Orange and Honey Cake - Make it stand out No photos from summer camp, alas, but this is the same era. I’m in the red with Dad and Mom in our back yard on Mallette St. Chapel Hill, NC. Maybe 1979 or 1980? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/87dfd61a-bfac-403e-8d6a-43537ebd47a1/4586196B-0AA7-4226-AED0-0929B1213A08_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Greek Orange and Honey Cake - Make it stand out Cousin Sara, Elisabeth, and me at Conesus Lake, NY. 1979. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d4ff1350-4b93-447c-809a-580b5d37a41c/8F33F291-D0C9-42DF-A674-9F9130A3D45A_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Greek Orange and Honey Cake - Make it stand out Mom looking concerned at Niagara Falls. We did an excursion to the falls during our 1979 family reunion. Mom had a fear of heights so she was not thrilled with all of this. She kept a TIGHT GRIP on our hoodies the whole time! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/18cd8c3f-04ec-4ace-aba4-db02b65f101b/B2D53177-9BC8-488C-AA75-CAE67EED0420_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Greek Orange and Honey Cake - Make it stand out Skipping stones at the family reunion. What could go wrong? I’m in the red socks on the right. Conesus Lake, NY. 1979. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/19959423-5d85-4cf3-b175-4bd713af2c63/5ECBAC8E-0B2D-463C-B99D-60A77B81D403_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Greek Orange and Honey Cake - Make it stand out Me fleeing the Dead Sea! Uncle Rich, Elisabeth, Cousin Sara, and Aunt Lisa in the background. Israel, 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/aa72b18f-103a-4cfd-9ae6-95db5d06c0d2/11F1B363-2695-46D9-9554-9F3AE5A83E03_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Greek Orange and Honey Cake - Make it stand out Elisabeth gets her FACE mended. Yikes. (Story below.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f99303bc-cf60-4540-a981-ad208bf83fe2/54ACE05F-8106-4AFA-9B22-C00F4C16D2BF_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Greek Orange and Honey Cake - Make it stand out Dad and wounded Elisabeth relax at the family reunion. Conesus Lake, NY. 1979. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a9a48022-b420-4557-aad4-f8e46dc5ef66/7EA52C21-674F-43A0-83FD-663B6716D7BF_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Greek Orange and Honey Cake - Make it stand out Us in front of the “Gold Top” (The Dome of the Rock). Israel, 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/db5000c0-a06c-4bc9-bb16-dcf451fa41bb/F43CD563-4964-486D-8137-B7FAF4A4A706_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Greek Orange and Honey Cake - Make it stand out Elisabeth floating in the Dead Sea. 1977 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/51b49320-d5e2-4a92-971e-8ffc002a8022/867FCA42-8D6E-4C69-A412-D3423647FBE6_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Greek Orange and Honey Cake - Make it stand out I’ll bet this is from before or after brunch at Ridgefields Country Club in Kingsport, TN sometime in the 1970s. Dad wore guayabera shirts before they were hip. Some old guy in Chapel Hill died and Dad bought all of his shirts! Mom looking chic in white. Elisabeth on the left and Uncle Rich on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1eb7ec2d-b2d5-4c97-bbcd-3285445ca0e6/BA8AD6BE-4424-400E-9863-003847AAB081_1_105_c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Greek Orange and Honey Cake - Make it stand out Me and my sister, Elisabeth. Not sure what lake this is. That doesn’t look like our boat. Early 1980s. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/holiday-morning-french-toast monthly 0.5 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/09f768fe-68c0-4d93-905e-137020c36fc0/553095_10151095491854319_713859939_n.jpg Recipes & Stories - Holiday Morning French Toast - Make it stand out 3 Volberg ladies at Kettle’s Yard. Cambridge, England. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/99c97465-b85f-4e08-b5e6-7fe11ab5843d/fd6009cf-848d-4644-a7e1-71514eb3cc3c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Holiday Morning French Toast - Make it stand out Mom and Elisabeth on Mother’s Day in Jerusalem, 1974. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ecf2d5b2-27d0-4c55-ac88-87845b78bbda/IMG_2849.jpg Recipes & Stories - Holiday Morning French Toast - Make it stand out This is what happens when you mix a teenager, her grandfather, and Snapchat filters! This is one of the many things we did to pass time while Mom was in the nursing unit at Carolina Meadows. 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2d7d6a84-40fe-4a48-9df1-af4d6a0d2d98/school.jpg Recipes & Stories - Holiday Morning French Toast - Make it stand out More hats! Not Derby but Easter. I’ll let it pass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0d8fe3a0-e845-4866-a5b7-429b131d361a/279905077_10160215090259319_5057432571777490611_n.jpg Recipes & Stories - Holiday Morning French Toast - Make it stand out Kentucky Derby time! Me and my husband this past Saturday. Louisville, Kentucky. 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4dac46e0-a195-440d-acb2-ca66a805daa4/school6.jpg Recipes & Stories - Holiday Morning French Toast - Make it stand out Mom in a fab red fascinator at her brother Frank’s wedding. 1966. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b25eaf8f-907a-484c-a4fe-c1254eff5cbc/IMG_2613.jpg Recipes & Stories - Holiday Morning French Toast - Make it stand out Just a casual outfit in the 80s in Chapel Hill, NC. My sis and me in the Mallette St. living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7a7987f2-330c-4435-b624-e9808590919e/IMG_2628.jpg Recipes & Stories - Holiday Morning French Toast - Make it stand out Dad in a fetching panama hat in Venice. 1988. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4e38981f-9e46-4d36-988e-419da40bfc68/48415914_10157023012239319_3234506713470074880_n.jpg Recipes & Stories - Holiday Morning French Toast - Make it stand out Happy Mother’s Day! Here are 4 Generations of Volberg women when you include the portrait of my Grandmother (Nonnie) painted by her teacher Philip Chesley. Christmas 2017. Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/facfced2-9766-4501-b254-1630eefd7d32/hat+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Holiday Morning French Toast - Make it stand out Mom in her handmade Derby hat (the ribbon includes the music for “My Old Kentucky Home”). 2017? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fbea4e06-a466-4ab8-b652-caf7db160b95/b3770b0a-5c30-4a0e-a78a-add526f805b1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Holiday Morning French Toast - Make it stand out My sister, Mom, and me at Fripp Island before Nonnie and Granddaddy built their house there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7df38534-d81d-4377-bf0e-428be60c2d95/school3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Holiday Morning French Toast - Make it stand out The Reed Granddaughters dressed to the nines by their Grandmomma on the QM2. 2014. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/fried-chicken-with-spiced-peach-gravy monthly 0.5 2022-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/28e4d655-7476-4f46-91bc-b6cecb301bfe/00203572325220110309204454853+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Fried Chicken with Spiced Peach Gravy - Make it stand out Mom with my sister’s daughter, Leah, and me with my daughter, Luca. Tennessee. Maybe 2007? I have no idea why I have wet hair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/71fb676f-da87-470f-ac03-123905490286/5bb93d08039023951f8b4716+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Fried Chicken with Spiced Peach Gravy - Make it stand out The original “tired years”. Mom with us in Greece. Maybe 1977? Can you imagine international travel with a 2 and 4 year old?! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/66fd3c3c-2831-462b-abad-b6b35df2660f/IMG_1654.JPEG Recipes & Stories - Fried Chicken with Spiced Peach Gravy - Make it stand out This poor, tired mama! She’s available for adoption in the Austin, Texas area. This is the image that started it all…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/105f8441-e332-4b49-af0c-b75fa24ad426/b936b99e-a3e0-471f-98f0-2e759e5c839f.jpg Recipes & Stories - Fried Chicken with Spiced Peach Gravy - Make it stand out The” tired years’ are real, y’all. See that weird smile on my face? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c20ae37e-c647-46ae-920f-6c902428a1e4/Luca_tongue.jpg Recipes & Stories - Fried Chicken with Spiced Peach Gravy - Make it stand out I don’t know why you would be tired taking care of this little character! My daughter Luca’s school photo. Age. 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7e26d6eb-ec35-4ed5-9bd2-a49a1c589534/luca.jpg Recipes & Stories - Fried Chicken with Spiced Peach Gravy - Make it stand out Mom and her rambunctious granddaughter, Luca. They had a super sweet relationship! Mom once commented that Luca didn’t just “march to the beat of her own drum, she had her own damn orchestra!”. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/bisquick-sausage-snacks monthly 0.5 2022-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/826ffbb4-52f7-4cf4-a455-0c52f0ed91ab/c99886f7-a429-4c57-aea0-907a7e0ca022.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Bisquick Sausage Snacks - Make it stand out I’m not sure how old Dad during his phone escapades. But, this kid looks like he’s up to no good! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/21682410-356b-4dbf-a279-64cb571af9c1/2021_02_09_08_31.0.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Bisquick Sausage Snacks - Make it stand out The San Diego Chicken! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1e817679-ab37-4482-83da-0a33682e56cd/MONKEYS.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bisquick Sausage Snacks - Make it stand out Me, cousin Sara, and sister Elisabeth hearing no evil, speaking no evil, and seeing no evil at Conesus Lake, NY. 1979? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c233d915-345b-4fc0-9d10-75f3217ac3c7/5e22b458-af45-45e6-9f1c-7f1c48f1f5df.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Bisquick Sausage Snacks - Make it stand out Grandma did NOT name the baby James. She had other ideas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/396181ef-bd14-40ca-b7e1-6d1feb0d1240/5d7d6f6a-8e47-49bb-a9e1-d00c04159756.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Bisquick Sausage Snacks - Make it stand out Mom and Dad rock out the New Year in the 80s. I always loved this photo because Mom is wearing this super cool Modern Times dress which I later inherited AND it looks like Dad is holding up a very festive cocktail! (It actually belongs to the guy next to him.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f4a75901-06ed-4cfb-b0f0-8cd3054625c2/IMG_4228.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Bisquick Sausage Snacks - Make it stand out Ron Stutts with his T-shirts (you’ll understand if you read the post). They had a different drawing and were light blue in the 70s. Same weirdo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/325681d6-8384-4355-a7d4-52c3a71b1cd2/wuTF885Q.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bisquick Sausage Snacks - Make it stand out I’m second from the left next to Mom. Here’s that terrible haircut I mention below. But, look how foxy mom is! Next to me is Aunt Jane, Grandma Reed, and Aunt Lisa. 1334 Watauga St. Kingsport, TN. Sometime in the late 70s/early 80s. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/pfeffernusse-cookies monthly 0.5 2022-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ba6e9b53-0800-41ed-840e-3a0784d80231/M_ZwcrJA.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pfeffernusse Cookies - Make it stand out Christmas. It looks like my niece, Leah, may have had too many cookies! :) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b362509e-9e82-4a40-9d70-0be25ff31104/7619692f-a370-40ea-88af-2db80720a98d.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pfeffernusse Cookies - Make it stand out Baby Dale! So stinking cute! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d6f67306-a112-414f-bd53-33b227f54a5e/abcfb802-99d3-4dff-b66b-a164f99dd31a.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pfeffernusse Cookies - Make it stand out Granddaddy Volberg receives the Legion of Merit in WW2. My stunning Nonnie on the left. Granddaddy was something like the youngest Lieutenant Colonel in the Army? I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fd62e106-250f-47a8-a2f4-fdba7f7d2a49/1072f9a3-5026-4f10-8c14-6b46856e9e0f.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pfeffernusse Cookies - Make it stand out My Mom’s parents’ honeymoon in 1937. I want that dress! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e52f86f1-2a40-4e87-b850-67346417f8f1/ee750665-3a18-4b84-a540-5830bf2b2233.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pfeffernusse Cookies - Make it stand out Mom on the right with her brother, Frank, and their father. They lived in DC during WW2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ffeaced4-b7f8-425b-aa3c-b01bc8232c59/die-toten-hosen-dyw0rj.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pfeffernusse Cookies - Make it stand out Die Toten Hosen, the infamous German punk rock band. Read the story below and you’ll understand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/bf32620c-3484-41fe-a4b3-27cee330a090/42b172ac-07e0-4138-b3e7-2ed367e1ad72.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pfeffernusse Cookies - Make it stand out My Volberg grandparents (Marshall and my “Nonnie” Phyllis) when they were dating. So dang cute! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f21959c4-e0b5-49f8-91dd-7acacd8bedad/QvsXnGgg.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pfeffernusse Cookies - Make it stand out Mom and Dad with their granddaughters at Christmas in Chapel Hill. There definitely would have been some Pfeffernusse Cookies lying around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/15aac77c-b6b2-49b9-97c8-33d384d1d740/ef9fd370-edfc-437c-842f-b9cc5c9617de.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pfeffernusse Cookies - Make it stand out My Mom’s beautiful father, Frank Marshall Volberg. Everyone called him Marshall. He was half German and grew up in Atlanta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2768c182-bffc-4931-834e-bf2cd12a8832/12363198_10206676574847067_3512060757100189037_o.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pfeffernusse Cookies - Make it stand out Dad enjoys a Czech kolache during a visit to Central Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b42d2607-78de-4c71-9932-085838549bdc/64a9d25c-a4f2-432b-9e7c-f8f921c33e26.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pfeffernusse Cookies - Make it stand out The extended Volberg clan at my Granddaddy Volberg’s funeral in Kingsport, Tennessee. 1991. I’m on the right wearing a jumpsuit (why?) and holding a glass of wine. ha ha https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/golden-jubilee-chicken monthly 0.5 2022-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8e0e9157-5c4b-455e-82a4-a49caa075229/aa21bb6c-6f03-4cca-9f6a-5efbee500326+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Golden Jubilee Chicken - Make it stand out Tired Mom. She always worked SO HARD! The painting behind her is one of my grandmother’s, Phyllis Volberg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b5c644fd-e467-4b9e-85ca-24d2e4ff6d1d/560c8d74-082a-44c6-84eb-2ffcbbce8ebc.jpg Recipes & Stories - Golden Jubilee Chicken - Make it stand out My daughter with Dad and Mom at her baptism in Georgetown, TX. Love that silver dress from Grandmomma! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d5700fc4-2cfa-48db-8f4b-c6c6e9179a92/house.jpg Recipes & Stories - Golden Jubilee Chicken - Make it stand out Part of the crazy quilt that Mom made for my sister. (She made 3 crazy quilts in her life!). This one features a digital photo of our Mallette St. house printed on fabric and then decorated with festive holiday embroidery. Mom’s attention to detail was second to none. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ddb4727c-b4c7-471b-ad02-1c0025a4a01b/10407105_10152574446334319_9151281908378339614_n.jpg Recipes & Stories - Golden Jubilee Chicken - Make it stand out Mom always made sure “her girls” (her granddaughters) were set up! Here they are looking amazing on the QM2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/595c749a-2bd2-4dd1-b186-b47e7b8fc59c/Easter+dresses.jpg Recipes & Stories - Golden Jubilee Chicken - Make it stand out Easter in Kingsport, TN. We always had matching dresses. These were made by my Great Grandmother, Dee Dee, I think. We’re pictured here with my Reed Grandparents at Ridgefields Country Club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/847b24b9-7684-4839-9340-619c35f41c06/rhWye6NA.jpg Recipes & Stories - Golden Jubilee Chicken - Make it stand out Mom in her happy place, the cabin window on the QM2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/527c8b81-c4c9-40ea-a4f0-6b451c8fede4/191424_10150169020019319_2034597_o.jpg Recipes & Stories - Golden Jubilee Chicken - Make it stand out Unironic Emily Post on Mom’s desk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b5af3849-fd83-437f-b448-97852cf8d68a/Elderly+People+1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Golden Jubilee Chicken - Make it stand out Mom was funny. This was a sign that tickled her in England. She photoshopped out the background and hung this framed in her kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c776af42-291f-4398-8b4c-4ca6e226ab1a/c6358750-25db-44b7-90de-5c54536fe555.jpg Recipes & Stories - Golden Jubilee Chicken - Make it stand out Mom looking chic as hell at her wedding breakfast in Kingsport, TN. 1964. My Grandma Reed is to the left of her and my Granddaddy Volberg and Grandpa Reed are to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8c163bf5-28e6-41f9-b695-6235d185ec6c/yxOLVObw.jpg Recipes & Stories - Golden Jubilee Chicken - Make it stand out I don’t know what this photo is from. Dad and Mom looking cute! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/hot-cross-buns monthly 0.5 2022-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b1598ac5-2ae1-4951-9242-4030555bf088/1129.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Anything for the grandkid! Mom, Dad, and Luca ride the kiddie train at the Bekonscot model village. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6e2726e6-db69-45c8-a1da-9407efd87ad6/1167.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Anything for the grandkid, part 2. These fun chairs at the Victoria & Albert Museum are, sadly, gone. (Lawsuit, anyone?!). But, the museum remains a fave. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/82109a0d-168d-4f29-9c6e-c07c666404eb/295097_10151084585469319_44540320_n.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out The cutest photo ever! Luca and her Gramps when we went to Hartwell House for tea. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ba9930e3-44ed-42c6-ab8e-b748648c69b1/1159.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Luca with her ancestor, Eleanor of Aquitaine, at the Victoria and Albert Museum. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c2345bc7-926b-4c81-9175-35ccd53a7f40/c3be4b47-0d3a-4102-bb97-9c81e23d7e18.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out A very 70s looking photo with our Linfoot cousins in London. Socks and sandals! (I’m on the right.). 1978. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2db17756-fe8e-4b3d-a189-dff3df6907d2/Screen+Shot+2022-02-09+at+10.14.22+AM+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Mom used to always send us things to “show her little girls”, meaning her beloved granddaughters. Another view of the London Eye. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/72de9bdd-f52b-4846-b4ca-0a26a4785d90/552982_3704540606141_251362576_n.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Luca’s first visit to London. Buckingham Palace? 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cdcbb020-1280-470d-8f08-ddc7cf8b8612/5bb93d0da57a40af738b45e1+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out View from near the London Eye, we celebrated Mom and Dad’s 50th Anniversary at the fab OXO Tower restaurant on the Thames. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/733d9215-ade8-42ed-ba2a-86dc3799d4ce/IMG_8642.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out The St. Catharine’s Choir, Cambridge, perform songs for Lent. March, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d75e0928-c3ac-4ef5-864b-487702a040e8/IMG_8649.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Hot Cross Buns today at Fitzbillies. Boom! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/35f2b227-89c8-4035-b2bb-22fbe14f1d31/10497052_10203241448371052_74567841604395751_o+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Reed Girls 2.0, us and our kids. Same doorstep in Buckinghamshire. 37? year difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/57e2fce6-c7bd-4447-8616-0523f1028a55/1c953034-629a-457b-852b-7eae8fda3b4e.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Why the long face? Ha ha. I eventually sucked all of the die out of the bottom of that tie. Weird kid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cd9b31eb-1410-49f6-a2fd-ccc18647a2f7/1098.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Dad does Dickens at the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, Bucks. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b765b471-bb7c-4983-94c9-1b80ef1725b5/10339533_10152587412119319_6718729573175009423_o.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Mom and Dad rented Goddards in Surrey, an incredible Edwin Lutyens’ house with gardens by Gertrude Jekyll, for their 50th Anniversary wedding party week. We played croquet and drank tea outside while Luca put on shows. There was a huge dining hall and a bowling alley for after-dinner fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ba827a3d-9e8c-4748-8690-7226b5cb6276/IMG_8654+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Dad and Elisabeth rowing in England. 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0d36788e-6e31-4b78-93ed-0d6fdca05ac9/IMG_8657+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Elisabeth and I are in the weird seafoam green turtlenecks with our British school friends. 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e348a78a-f71e-44a7-b748-d8136cf2592e/553095_10151095491854319_713859939_n.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out 3 generations of Reed ladies (or Volberg) at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/21cdb2c9-3fa2-498b-b6c9-b0e5bc72780d/181146_10151066738469319_1320197041_n.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out Mom with my daughter, Luca on the London Eye. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c03a4b66-5e34-4bc3-927d-99a4dddc81b0/1062+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out The Orchard in Grantchester. 2012 and 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/35b3652f-7a12-4c1d-9e60-5c2bf5979ca6/0276.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hot Cross Buns - Make it stand out I love this photo. because my dad dislikes it so much! Ha ha. He claims that I made it look like he enthusiastically joined the earnest Morris Dancers on his own. In reality, we guilted him into it and we are nerdily dancing along, too, on the other side of the camera. Buckinghamshire, maybe 2015? https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/green-beans-provencal monthly 0.5 2022-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/95a6d892-c250-427a-90e3-00136c483109/chevre.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Beans Provencal - Make it stand out Mom’s inscription to me in The New Basics cookbook. (We hate goat cheese.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a875fff4-2a8a-4df0-b318-eef0a6cd5468/IMG_8042.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Beans Provencal - Make it stand out Mom and Dad dancing to the Zydeco Dots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/831c88a9-a784-400a-899e-166ab2bcaad7/IMG_8056.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Beans Provencal - Make it stand out Somehow I missed this smoking monkey at our reception, but my friend the famous photographer Jennifer Shaw caught it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/dd8465b5-942b-4eb9-b097-486575321201/IMG_8038.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Beans Provencal - Make it stand out The sweetest photo of my mom and Chris, right before our wedding. Houston, TX. 2000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/39564cf5-d6bd-4340-b4ee-aaca71e559c1/IMG_8047+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Beans Provencal - Make it stand out My “Green Bean” tattoo, 2 ways. (Wedding photos) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/416f0dbe-f252-4e39-869c-c2b6f6ebe308/IMG_8040.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Beans Provencal - Make it stand out The Zydeco Dots at my wedding reception at the now defunct Blanco’s in Houston, TX. 2000. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/jezebel-sauce monthly 0.5 2022-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a76ea23b-90a8-4db5-b248-bb772e74e306/IMG_7968.jpg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out Can’t find the photos from when Chris and I went to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but here I am in my Saints jersey on Tuesday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b1aa7592-fdaf-4bf6-9939-6e534dabb650/bdaygypsy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out Me as a gypsy in said striped socks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3125baa0-a4a5-4f34-8e22-79e8eb29c0dd/87960248_10158211240994319_1498951407439446016_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out Mardi Gras Dad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/086970dd-a182-4201-8971-9c2f9c896775/eaf3a14d-4c2d-4ee3-a399-0479eeef9ab7.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out My Mom’s parents. I think that was one of Nonnie’s wigs. We loved to try them on as kids! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/de7e6b0c-8bf4-4785-9a40-6e3bbafeadcd/KLSxLtag.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out Mom in Mamou, Louisiana with a friend. Not sure who but I’m sure my Dad will tell me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e654a3b4-426b-4414-9cdc-31afbe83f3fe/SB0VgASw.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out Dad and Mom with their friends at a Mardi Gras Ball in Mobile, Alabama. 2018 (right before Mom’s decline) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5d6f463d-bf0c-4f47-98a6-7b473a8db231/mardi.jpg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out Mardi Gras Mom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2ff69061-f589-46c8-a46b-127f4230af0e/IMG_2337.jpg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out Not gypsies, just ROCKING THE 80s! My sis and me before a NC School of the Arts dance in maybe 1986? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0a5e4412-1cef-4de3-8220-b22a95ada8db/bday13.jpg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out Not Mardi Gras but my sister at Halloween. For years anytime we had to dress up we went as gypsies. I know that’s not PC now. But it is what it is. And, our interpretation of gypsies usually involved a lot of eye makeup, necklaces, and striped socks for some reason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4e0acda0-ef2e-4204-8161-412b6ebd3da7/8118e07c-71bc-4421-a7bf-ec0191f7ebbd.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out Granddaddy Volberg telling a story at one of his parties. This was the den of the house he designed, the rug was rolled back for dancing. I believe that is Nonnie in the back in the black and white dress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/295fd79b-de70-4f35-afcc-fd9412a63404/IMG_4302+copy.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out Granddaddy loved his cocktails! Nonnie is in the back in the yellow dress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e573729c-01ae-468d-a880-0e8a95173e7a/IMG00008.jpg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out Channeling my mother, I made a Fleur-de-Lis 7 layer dip one year when the Saints were in the Super Bowl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/aa787c27-2a8f-4d1b-8549-64058fb8148c/IMG_7969.jpg Recipes & Stories - Jezebel Sauce - Make it stand out For Mardi Gras this year, I made the Galatoire’s shrimp remoulade recipe. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/mac-and-cheese-2-ways monthly 0.5 2022-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/55ff44f2-ee60-4d29-b2fb-1f7e8f7fce08/7e50f67a-f0a7-4186-bfed-ec5f69353859.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mac and Cheese 2 Ways - Make it stand out I’ve shared this one before but it’s a goodie. Mom being a beanik at Duke. PS I think this is a mock protest. Mom really liked Bo Diddley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6baf352e-d682-434e-9f41-d8bdeaae5e43/11143094_10204987836949675_3151984069474431310_o.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mac and Cheese 2 Ways - Make it stand out Mom and Frank as kids visiting relatives in Atlanta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9ec2ef19-50b9-407f-a8e4-76962ddac742/IMG_2782.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mac and Cheese 2 Ways - Make it stand out Mom and Uncle Robert at his New Orleans restaurant, Angeline’s, in Berkeley, CA. Robert unfortunately proceeded Mom in death. He passed away in 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/051c515c-0de0-4cdf-9931-b2af8d09d736/Nonnie+1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mac and Cheese 2 Ways - Make it stand out Glamour City! Mom, my Nonnie and my Uncle Robert at Uncle Frank’s first wedding. Robert also went to Duke after Mom and Frank did. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/001ab61b-6a42-4e0c-8a8c-3d63cf3fa364/58d8cbeb-49f5-4b2d-b810-f837ae6a3cec.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mac and Cheese 2 Ways - Make it stand out Mom with the tambourine in the back row. I think this is the St Dominic’s band? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/560ebe2b-ff51-49ad-950d-51691bcc940a/44684316-2754-4bb8-bd66-a7459b289acf.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mac and Cheese 2 Ways - Make it stand out My father was also in this band but missed picture day. Tragic! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/367f6672-f516-4259-bf0c-e2a0730c43ed/8b3a00eb-faaa-4de6-91a8-f805be11e972+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mac and Cheese 2 Ways - Make it stand out Somewhere there is a GREAT photo of my Mom and Uncle Frank studying together while they were at Duke. It ran in the newspaper. I’ve searched high and low and can’t find it. So, for now, here is Uncle Frank graduating from Duke Medical school and in a Duke sweatshirt with his first wife, Ferne, and their cat. Great name! ha ha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2d975c14-2e96-4a1e-a999-4a887a1d326b/Scan+3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mac and Cheese 2 Ways - Make it stand out Books! Books! Lots of books! Me in the Mallette St. house library sometime in the mid 90s. When Mom and Dad moved to Carolina Meadows they sold thousands of their books! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/499ebd32-3a15-46e2-bce5-6b8d023b0bfd/96163349-d8b3-4e39-a32c-54432489fdba+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mac and Cheese 2 Ways - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9e365563-266e-4ebd-b9e4-1d98c4efff59/5bb2abb78a1388d90b89ef73.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mac and Cheese 2 Ways - Make it stand out Frank visiting Mom in the nursing unit at Carolina Meadows before we got her home. 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/867409f4-12f9-43c6-a709-318956d38046/IMG_2572.jpg Recipes & Stories - Mac and Cheese 2 Ways - Make it stand out My Granddaddy, Nonnie, Mom, and Uncle Frank at my Granddaddy’s retirement party from Eastman Kodak. Look what a babe Mom is! And Nonnie! Frank isn’t bad either. When I was little he lived around the corner from us and at one point had a convertible, a waterbed, and a perm. The 70s trifecta! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/caramelized-apples-with-melted-toffee monthly 0.5 2022-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b167f229-d203-4e6b-a61c-cee42d4c5caa/Mallette+azaleas.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caramelized Apples with Melted Toffee - Make it stand out The Mallette St. house where my family lived for 30+ years. Azalea season. Sigh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/35c31aa1-c076-4497-8c7d-ccfc8e865815/11074646_10153260509454319_2084761363_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Caramelized Apples with Melted Toffee - Make it stand out The most bizarre photo ever. It looks like we’re in a cult and I’m the only one with any intention of breaking free! Mallette St. porch in the 1980s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8038ef34-1c0f-42f5-ac9d-1cc99628a27b/409f8a4e-7760-4687-92b1-57441d69f995.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Caramelized Apples with Melted Toffee - Make it stand out Dad and Mom looking cute. Chapel Hill, NC. 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/75518f1c-ae04-4144-af21-c24b0e4bc7f1/mallette.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caramelized Apples with Melted Toffee - Make it stand out The Reed gals on the Mallette St. porch. Probably late 1990s / early 2000s? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cafc0227-fc1b-45a0-aca1-ad63e3f0c8f2/73504_4767500458324_569816215_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Caramelized Apples with Melted Toffee - Make it stand out The Reed granddaughters take up the Tarheel cause! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1a143788-b664-4f29-b6b2-6fb00937584a/Screen+Shot+2022-02-16+at+5.09.28+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Caramelized Apples with Melted Toffee - Make it stand out How you know you are home. ha ha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ad31131e-80a9-4be9-80e8-6db921fadf4f/24f506fb-3f5f-4d05-80b9-01cccb92d994.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Caramelized Apples with Melted Toffee - Make it stand out Me with my high school senior year degree project at my Uncle Frank’s house in Winston-Salem, NC. 1990. I was 17 in the photo! 17 going on 45. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2b14fba2-9781-4cc5-9dbc-75980253c32d/Marathon+headshot.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Caramelized Apples with Melted Toffee - Make it stand out West Texas, baby! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fb9b17cf-46d9-4785-ac5d-3245a700a1ec/bbbe9308-bde1-48ff-bed4-e744a019f83d.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Caramelized Apples with Melted Toffee - Make it stand out Dad working on the floors of our Mallette St. house. What a project! That yellow trim came with the house and was soon gone, BTW. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/corn-soup-with-roasted-poblanos monthly 0.5 2022-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b946bf64-56ed-4d60-b5b3-27d4736668aa/5aa12fa7-6615-4500-92b5-de1a7e1b5854.jpg Recipes & Stories - Corn Soup with Roasted Poblanos - Make it stand out I’m not sure what they call this room (maybe “the study”?) but this is the room at the Carolina Meadows house which was modeled after the library at the Mallette St. house. It’s where I slept when I was there to help with Dad and Mom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/087f771d-f4d8-4c74-9012-f62d30548415/Screen+Shot+2022-02-06+at+3.56.39+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Corn Soup with Roasted Poblanos - Make it stand out These are different mariachis than the ones in the story, but that’s how we like to roll in Austin! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ba8c6292-720b-45a5-aa00-6e60c8e54fef/5bb64a2ad398d005178b456b.jpg Recipes & Stories - Corn Soup with Roasted Poblanos - Make it stand out Dad and Mom at one of Dad’s summer seminars in the late 1970s / early 1980s? Look how gorgeous Mom was! Keepin’ it classy with the Stroh’s beer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8e76ea53-2e04-4749-b1ba-980ccf5733ff/5ba9f7902e9556cc3847556d+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Corn Soup with Roasted Poblanos - Make it stand out Dad and Mom. Summer somewhere in the 1980s? Perhaps Tennessee? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/972ff01e-0b87-4f5d-a24d-9592de2e72fa/0145.jpg Recipes & Stories - Corn Soup with Roasted Poblanos - Make it stand out Photo I took of Dad in Saxapahaw the weekend before his heart surgery. He ended up using it as his author photo for his book Dixie Bohemia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c6ce2c32-8778-4e7b-81a9-4e50e7bd2552/england.jpg Recipes & Stories - Corn Soup with Roasted Poblanos - Make it stand out My CUTE parents in England. I just found this photo today - I don’t recall having seen it before. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/sweet-and-sour-pot-roast monthly 0.5 2022-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/13cacb09-9747-4a44-85eb-ebe8ac367284/piggy+back2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out Us at one of our birthday parties at Mallette St. Judging by our tans it might be mine (August). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6d60efff-9f03-4800-ba06-28d577ba6101/5ba9fa1b4e2c8cd94b4755ef.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out I love Dad’s glee in this photo. Here they are dancing while everyone ignores them. I’m assuming there was music but who knows?! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/130e231f-c12a-4ef5-b9ce-d90c15b161d1/IMG_3978.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out For Dad’s 75th birthday we recreated the portrait that he had commissioned of us (for one of Mom’s birthdays) with our kids. A horse walks into a bar, the bartender says, “Why the long face?”. WHY THE LONG FACES?, indeed! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fc740289-f59d-48b3-bf42-3ca9b13f1370/hand.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out Apparently competition got stiff in couples’ Foosball and Dad enthusiastically spun, whacked his hand on the ceiling light, and had to get stitches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/34f5afab-9009-4457-af2b-0527e215f138/IMG_2551.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out I have a bowl haircut and Elisabeth loves her toy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8b8d87ec-2cbc-486a-a4cd-a1b268c2a940/IMG_2658.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out Dad makes sure that Grandma Peeler gets some wine. (That bust is now in my upstairs hall. It used to terrify my kid.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4649b580-e226-43f5-91f7-e91941c12f4d/54798599_10157244787309319_5313033493301690368_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out 3 generations of Reeds at the world’s largest Pistachio in New Mexico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/82e7a0eb-4312-413e-adbb-8f1eb0ac08d5/369e0c24-4e0d-453b-b9bd-c41366356309.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out Even my glamorous Nonnie is a goofball. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9138bc59-17fc-4cfa-bd48-7f7d6cfd77aa/IMG_2645.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out Uncle Bill at the Watauga St. house in Kingsport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f4acd5ab-e600-42b2-b320-668218347491/IMG_3975.PNG Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out We love a reenactment! And, I’m so glad I finally stopped wearing eyeliner UNDER my eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fc51ab73-3299-454c-a39f-828508134c2a/luca+camp.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out Guess which one is ours?! My goofy rainbow daughter at camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/70edd3bb-7b18-4ca3-8e0f-bd66eaab823e/keytar+9.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out This caption is pure Mom. ha ha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e3f1a188-3a34-4031-bbef-7b1db630a224/IMG_2581.JPEG Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out Everyone modeled the fur coat that summer at Conesus Lake! Here is Dad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4265666a-f16d-4dec-a00e-301a66e9295e/35267156_10156550040594319_7048059131080474624_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out Dad dancing with my daughter on the QM2. We snuck her into the disco. There’s a good chance they were dancing to Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”. The band would play it when Dad walked into the room because he had requested it so many times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/03e92a33-e3c6-4d11-a1ae-195fb0821747/53921420_10157233312239319_6496696947884163072_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out Dad dancing with a weird Yeti at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fa502c3e-bd23-4f60-bf10-61aa3e7d2652/271652388_10160000466429319_7235665834478704002_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Sweet and Sour Pot Roast - Make it stand out I don’t remember this moment but apparently I once licked an ice sculpture with my roommate, Missy. (She sent me the picture and I was dumbfounded!) This photo is a stand in for the time Dad made Elisabeth lick the treble clef ice sculpture at her graduation from Eastman Conservatory. (She did.) https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/cardamom-lime-sweet-rolls monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/98c5f3e7-2917-4fef-a1ce-424654a57283/dpi48dale398.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Mom with Rosie (Rosemary), who was my cat (although she was really Mom’s). Elisabeth also had a tortoiseshell cat named Tessa. I don’t have a photo of Tessa but here’s another one of Rosie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3186824e-be6f-47c6-91cc-cc76625107a8/5bbc8f7b8a46671968117fbb+copy.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Mom with my sister. 1969 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/56b4e627-4fec-49d8-965e-51fea528872d/5ba9f78caed4c27d6d8a5f10+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Mom and Dad at Lake Champlain, Vermont. 1990. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1e7a2e13-8a42-4ec4-ae19-3e53ed90c151/IMG_2688.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Mom with my daughter in the nursing unit of Carolina Meadows when we finally got her home to live out her last days. 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e8d1dc23-b644-4a43-93f9-350cdd9b98b5/E+baby.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Mom and my sister with my Uncle Frank’s first wife, Ferne, in rockin’ patchwork in the background. 1969 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a65ec9a7-056a-4754-a064-63a37ba44637/IMG_2434.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Family photo in my Volberg grandparents’ driveway in Kingsport, Tennessee. Probably the late 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/256b6480-dac8-4d05-944a-38b7b29d28cd/IMG_2191.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Until the end, Mom was comforting us. Mom with my hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fc6ad6bb-1b80-4719-b000-35e1fb0a9c53/32323360_10156472582634319_4423473709633765376_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out This photo is the ultimate! A baby and a young child WAITING. Oh, Mom. And, she managed to look chic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ed564fea-5ffa-4fb1-bcce-8acc7bacfc34/IMG_3895.JPG Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out The night after Mom’s funeral. Dad being taken care of by his granddaughters. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/210eb960-e4cd-46aa-8578-2e85c09ecfa6/00203572325220110309211044472+copy.JPG Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Mom and my daughter at our old ranch in Wimberley, Texas. i like that you can tell from Mom’s cheeks that she is smiling. 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/034f6b1e-829e-43ab-bc14-616a52c8f92c/3ac58ccf-f8df-4188-8a38-1181cc2760bb.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out My Nonnie and my mom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cb9b6f92-d36f-4dd4-8798-38cf67e4f402/IMG_2713.JPEG Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out My parents with Nonnie at one of her nursing homes after her stroke. I think this one was in Chapel Hill. Maybe 2000 or so? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7125bd20-e968-4590-8176-ec6b5ea5b0eb/5bb93d0cec1003db2d8b470b.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Mom and my sister at her daycare in Jerusalem. 1974 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b94e45c2-0a1a-47da-90b6-00526dd3daf7/00203572325220110309212120762+copy.JPG Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Mom and my daughter in Austin, Texas. I love how Luca just melts into her Grandmomma. 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ed1d69bd-0edb-4272-af4b-c3c49be904ee/31110e65-8447-44b3-9c9f-64f2f4e56c51.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Our cat, “Beamer”. Beamer was still around when I was a young child but she had no tail because she got in a conflict with a Mockingbird and it got infected and had to be removed. We also had a cat named Shiner ("Sunshine”) who probably wished she had no tail because I liked to pull it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/80e8f6ae-3f9d-40d4-adc8-980a6ae938f3/181146_10151066738469319_1320197041_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out My daughter and Mom on the London Eye. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cb7f5836-1587-4a2d-a2a1-085148fdab04/PbG_xoHg.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Mom teaching my cousin Reed how to knit at the Reed Farm in Tennessee. Cousin Mariah to the right of Mom. Date unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/aba33e04-1b7c-4317-a46a-f381bed29eb5/IMG_2618.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cardamom-Lime Sweet Rolls - Make it stand out Mom was such a good sport. You can’t even see her because she is swamped with Reed girls going up and down on the hospital bed! (Mom loved it.) https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/ranch-chili monthly 0.5 2022-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c064fe9c-e9a2-4de3-989d-612ba7d0e99b/1928929_10207155849708639_1385429158253721563_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Ranch Chili - Make it stand out Crank down the AC so we can light the fire! Christmas in Texas. Austin, Texas. 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9d6fdc0c-cbf8-4bd3-9f5f-bf9ef8d90799/408598_10150568437649319_545891876_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Ranch Chili - Make it stand out The Reeds take on the Broken Spoke! Austin, Texas. Christmas 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/969b5f76-d013-4c16-b8a6-e2b3e71b2790/iJzS32Ow.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Ranch Chili - Make it stand out Another Day / Another Honky Tonk. My wedding reception at the now defunct Blanco’s in Houston, Texas. 2000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8749904a-b85e-4a04-8558-56e670c0ba1f/beebe.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ranch Chili - Make it stand out Mom and Dad dancing at the ABGB in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/304eced7-a511-4562-a60b-454b69f7e29c/12363198_10206676574847067_3512060757100189037_o.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Ranch Chili - Make it stand out Dad loves his kolaches! Susie’s Bakery in Weimar, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1bc87ddf-fad6-4b46-adaf-9b58d62cd09e/10915113_10153192184989319_7942011414689980074_o+copy+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ranch Chili - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a7556cad-958f-4095-946c-2ecf8c344b0f/IMG_2746.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ranch Chili - Make it stand out I don’t even know where Mom got a Longhorn shirt?! Here is she with our old dog, Chili Dog, when we brought Luca home from the hospital. Rancho Frijole (we actually used to have a ranch!), Wimberley, Texas. 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6e393f30-9db2-4887-993a-48c87f025447/hospital+baby.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ranch Chili - Make it stand out Mom and Dad finally meet their granddaughter! I made them drive around Texas for a week while we were waiting for her to arrive. Mom is wearing a shirt from Underwood’s BBQ in Brownwood, Texas. Austin, Texas. 2005. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/chipotle-smashed-sweet-potatoes monthly 0.5 2022-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e5dfd255-5736-4b5b-aac8-9a59a11e926f/backyard-bbq-01-dla.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out Another Google Image Search winner. This was a publicity photo from the Backyard BBQ festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f9ee44d7-8381-47b3-ba30-bbf8e460f526/SGR+and+Mom.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out An emo photo of Mom and me just cuz. Italy in 1988. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/dbde33ec-dc5a-462a-984a-086539afe93d/56ee9bc8-be2e-4598-9b05-a9d8e58747a5+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out The wrong kind of Indian but it will do. Dad in 1946. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b6aaa2c4-edef-41ca-9744-0bbf3462d149/IMG_2754.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out Mom, Elisabeth, and Dad is Elisabeth’s old apartment in Oakland. The tin star on the table next to Dad was a gift to Elisabeth brought back from my honeymoon in San Miguel de Allende. The painting hanging over them is an East Tennessee landscape done by my Mom’s mother, my Nonnie, Phyllis Volberg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7f8f1d9a-9944-462f-89b2-c8491e0e3838/FF8D5190-C5F4-4AD3-8565-FE40FBE7AC13.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out My friend Susan and me in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico just 2 days ago! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cbcf0a5a-9eb7-458c-bad1-5633aa54c239/5bc3f4682e9556a74c8a565c+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out I don’t have ANY photos of Mom and Dad in India in 1988 (I’m sure there are some at Dad’s house) but here are they are in an equally exotic location: Egypt! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ca338dda-feb0-4231-9e90-50a70aa5e310/5bbc911d8a4667a169118597+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out A cute photo of Mom and my sister, Elisabeth, just cuz. Belmont Abbey College, NC in the early 2000s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/57f823d9-6410-44d3-a7d2-68751a615097/New+years.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out Happy New Year! Here are Mom and Dad looking cute on New Year’s Eve in 1964. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/72fe142a-cf96-428b-9f75-7de7d4a040ec/54c3ff51e35d2.image+%281%29.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out Funny, it never occurred to me to Google Image Search Mom until today. I’ve never seen this photo! It’s from the Greensboro newspaper. Mom and Dad are in our Mallette St kitchen which was well used and well loved. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/barbecue-joint-black-eyed-peas-and-kampw-sweet-potato-muffins monthly 0.5 2022-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3d3f377e-1677-40fc-8c0e-aa88be29aae4/Screen+Shot+2021-12-30+at+2.59.11+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out This is either my niece’s American Girl Doll or my Mom’s. Mom bought one so that she could make clothes that fit her granddaughters’ dolls properly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1b9c5f92-b67b-479d-a8cc-f204758d1464/10339266_10202786644481239_4925706981563407543_o.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out This was a common scene when we would visit our Volberg grandparents! Breakfast in front of cartoons. The Reeds were more formal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/347a4b74-0536-4631-9f4f-359c53a8539f/leaves.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out Just because we’re cute! Childhood glee. Me & my sis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d03ab830-1fcb-4bca-b909-4a7ab029c75a/COMP.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out Mom was completely charmed by this little girl! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/cf780c7f-c67b-49a6-8f8d-4f787b46e7a1/Screen+Shot+2021-12-30+at+3.00.25+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2889d835-7cdd-4697-a3d0-570d820c0035/1063761_10200720011576708_44713358_o.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out Dad, my niece and sister in Mallorca, taken by Mom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b8093b53-f93c-4991-be42-7ea093037db0/Screen+Shot+2021-12-30+at+3.04.18+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out One of Mom’s Facebook posts. The resemblance between my sister and her daughter is uncanny! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c1bdd29a-3110-49f3-a572-ab9598265b13/doll.jpg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/eb5a59f4-7d8c-44b9-8918-51509db02309/552982_3704540606141_251362576_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out Mom and Dad with my daughter in London, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/609fd455-066c-491c-8567-36febf9e384c/Screen+Shot+2021-12-30+at+2.59.39+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/fee73690-f576-4e45-9ce1-1e237e4c4ca3/Screen+Shot+2021-12-30+at+3.00.40+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/4fafcb73-61ff-40aa-b14f-ee74fe71f846/Screen+Shot+2021-12-30+at+3.03.40+PM.png Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out Photos Mom took in London. She took such joy in kids having fun! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/88af130a-1a20-4118-9e09-91003a4aaca4/288418_3704278279583_368636998_o.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Barbecue Joint Black-Eyed Peas and K&amp;W Sweet Potato Muffins - Make it stand out Another reason my kid loved visiting her grandparents! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/pableauxs-turkey-bone-gumbo-and-hugos-turkey-pozole-verde monthly 0.5 2021-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0c0df261-9ed4-4368-ac3c-a6258f1033c9/toilet.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux’s Turkey Bone Gumbo &amp; Hugo's Turkey Pozole Verde - Make it stand out Dad recently found the real estate listing for my great grandma Greene’s home (where my grandmother grew up) in Rochester, 916 South Ave. We always heard about “916”, as it was called. My grandmother had a habit of putting masking tape on the bottom of collectibles documenting their provenance. So, there were a lot of dishes and the like labeled with “916”. Until last week I had only seen a photo of the outside of this house. With the wonders of the internet, we are now able to see it in all of its 2021 glory. And, well, WOW! Check out this bathroom!!! This is certainly not an original feature. My grandmother would die! I belong to a hilarious Facebook group called “Bathrooms with Threatening Auras”, so I shared this photo. It received hundreds of likes and some entertaining comments, one calling it the “sexiest accessible toilet” they’d ever seen! The Reed siblings also had a funny email thread about this listing. I’m afraid the rest of the house didn’t fare much better. As one aunt said, it looks like a bordello. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/101554be-0812-453c-9aff-a6fbd7a54169/13b63cd4-df52-4e32-8ca4-c036b12878fb.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux’s Turkey Bone Gumbo &amp; Hugo's Turkey Pozole Verde - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/103dd4c1-6552-4e18-9cf3-2c37b4f0bc06/5ba980d0a57a40de75ae1de9.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux’s Turkey Bone Gumbo &amp; Hugo's Turkey Pozole Verde - Make it stand out Christmas at Carolina Meadows with Mom and Dad and my sister’s family. Unsure of year. Maybe 2016? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a7d7e165-4143-421f-b817-842191d1c55b/IMG_2330.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux’s Turkey Bone Gumbo &amp; Hugo's Turkey Pozole Verde - Make it stand out Me at my Reed grandparents house one Christmas. I received a stuffed animal dog that had a radio in its belly. I was thrilled! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/39072ef7-4188-49b1-b9bd-3cfcba63768a/IMG_2774.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux’s Turkey Bone Gumbo &amp; Hugo's Turkey Pozole Verde - Make it stand out My sister Elisabeth’s first Christmas, Kingsport, TN. 1969. My great grandmother Dee Dee (real name Sara Roberts, I’m named after her) on the left next to my Nonnie and Grandaddy Volberg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/25598dbf-ca87-4822-ba5c-243d0a555e9d/2a2a5d29-75b9-41f5-bef3-59a781abd54f+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux’s Turkey Bone Gumbo &amp; Hugo's Turkey Pozole Verde - Make it stand out Traditional Christmas dinner at the Reed family house in Kingsport, Tennessee. Check me out in the all plaid suit! I look like a used car salesman. (Mom on the far left with a perm.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c9bfd82a-0720-4d70-bb57-04d95cc4fa60/eaf21644-fa8d-4ace-97bc-0ff293811bf1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux’s Turkey Bone Gumbo &amp; Hugo's Turkey Pozole Verde - Make it stand out Me in a festive straightjacket, apparently. Looks like the ultimate “I can’t put my arms down” from the Christmas Story. I think my expression reflects that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/22aef485-c151-4b28-8597-d2de66e50643/bf26fef6-6b85-4da1-836f-586a87c92d28.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux’s Turkey Bone Gumbo &amp; Hugo's Turkey Pozole Verde - Make it stand out This is a Thanksgiving photo, not Christmas, so it’s cheating. BUT, I wanted to include it because it shows both my Reed great grandmother and my Greene great grandmother. (Story to continue in next photo.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/100dee65-0e82-4ca7-b1df-e4d746a6d3f4/IMG_2773.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pableaux’s Turkey Bone Gumbo &amp; Hugo's Turkey Pozole Verde - Make it stand out How cute is this?! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/cranberry-chutney monthly 0.5 2021-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f0b25404-4399-48e8-af6c-98e1e419dc65/muffs+low+res+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cranberry Chutney - Make it stand out Left: Me and my sister with beautiful velvet muffs that Mom made and embroidered. We were going somewhere cold for Christmas Eve (perhaps Bethlehem?) and Mom made these to keep us warm. 1973. Right: My daughter with my muff in probably 2006 or so? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/929f2d65-949d-4ed1-858b-156230c8cadf/dresses.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cranberry Chutney - Make it stand out Mom loved getting her granddaughters matching holiday dresses. She would usually buy a fancy one and a more casual one for each year. Here are a few, although I really need to do a deep dive on the photos and find all the rest. They were so beautiful! Mom favored Desigual for the casual look. Mom died in October of 2018. My sister and I cobbled together a last minute look for Christmas of 2018 but it just wasn’t the same. Also, teenage girls with different styles make things more difficult! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/6e66b7b4-576a-4e3b-8298-c99769c91f6f/IMG_2647.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cranberry Chutney - Make it stand out Dad, Mom & Elisabeth on Christmas Eve at the Reed House in Kingsport, Tennessee. 1989. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d47e41b7-916a-4b7f-94f3-b6d0212f9103/IMG_2648.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cranberry Chutney - Make it stand out Christmas morning at the Volberg House. Nonnie, Granddaddy, Me (in my ever present men’s’ pajamas), Mom (in a GROOVY kaftan that I still have), and Elisabeth (in an adorable Modern Times dress that she got as a gift). Mom received a vintage bowling shirt that had “Dale” stitched on it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/50655c20-0c5f-4b57-b219-f22b06a00ec6/IMG_2644.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cranberry Chutney - Make it stand out All of us at the Volberg House in Kingsport, Tennessee. Sometime at Christmas, 1989. I don’t think Dad was pulling a gun?! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7702adde-aabc-427d-a666-38b2542713dc/IMG_2651.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cranberry Chutney - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/16d25fd3-8af6-4be5-a328-a1691b649067/IMG_2650.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cranberry Chutney - Make it stand out Mom with my sweet Aunt Kathy who, unfortunately, proceeded Mom in death. Christmas Day at the Reeds. 1989. (Mom wearing her bowling shirt.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/819d4235-cc30-4b2a-bb20-b1e0730f999e/5bb93d0c22336fc5758b48d7.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Cranberry Chutney - Make it stand out Christmas in Jerusalem. 1973. We made all of our own ornaments that year from egg cartons and the like. I learned later that Mom and Elisabeth would work on this project during my nap time so I didn’t mess things up. The nerve! Ha ha. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/caponata monthly 0.5 2021-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c4c9506c-2119-460e-ac87-1eb7b0926425/V9CRSWAA.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Another tradition? Bowling on Christmas Day! Because you can only eat so much ….. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/40198a98-dea4-49cb-a617-b3f5ad1d2ab2/f87d32b6-aaf0-43c8-8c63-bbdd22a89e1b.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Every year we sang carols on Christmas Eve. I’m rocking a full skirt suit of PLAID with a bowl haircut! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/62a3e1d3-b6e5-4a2c-a902-f7c558ab0da8/51eba38e-56ae-4cbb-8100-822ac8c0cbc2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Mom and Dad with Dad’s siblings (and Aunt LIsa’s husband, Rich). Christmas, 1968. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5673e9f9-7908-4b08-ac8b-0a114bf3e05a/f3aab7a2-e740-4eef-b02e-0efa9d16525d.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Dad and Mom with my Mom’s parents. Christmas, 1968. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9ba1dd5d-7fbb-401a-8d07-50ec8ba8b13f/Scan+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out At the Mallette St. house, Mom used to load up the presents and wheel them into the living room in this Victorian baby carriage. Here I am (looking like a vampire) with my Nonnie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/51fd4d64-f2b6-4757-a3ad-ab68f9372c64/BBQ13.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Mom’s family at Christmas, 1954. Mom would have been 13 in this photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/74b12797-adbe-451c-b1f0-f78039628a54/house.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out A detail from the crazy quilt Mom made my sister with a digital print on fabric of our Mallette St. house decked out with embroidery for the holidays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/82b3671f-0422-4f45-be28-0d173e517624/u_3Gv6_w.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Another tradition! I look totally over it, but it’s probably too much dessert and not my delightful daughter reading out loud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/0e57f66d-2215-4f45-b411-735930b3dfc2/IMG_2576.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out The traditional Christmas Eve dinner at my Reed grandparents’ house. (With me and my sister in matching weirdo shiny turquoise tuxedo dresses). Mom is a babe on the far right. Also featured are my Reed grandparents and Uncle Michael and sweet Aunt Kathy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a6011f19-e275-4b55-a3af-2d11eacd5cb5/D0Lye-Ng.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Mom made special stockings for everyone. I wish you could see the detail. These are all made by her except for the second from the left which was made by my Aunt Kathy and the third from the left which was made by my husband’s grandmother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/f43a4eb7-91e0-4389-8c6c-24f03ff6749d/YDs6WO3w.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Tradition, Tradition! The Reeds love a good Christmas Cracker hat! I’m guessing this is because we spent time in England. Or we are just wankers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1914f32d-9b50-4722-b192-f5d31d3ad927/IMG_6188.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/aeb936d0-c6a7-40ea-9430-2521209fe20f/VWBN6iCw.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Christmas morning crafts with the granddaughters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3ad864d4-f548-4978-a469-59cb1343c725/QvsXnGgg.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Mom and Dad with their granddaughters at the Carolina Meadows house all swagged out for Christmas! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ee5a6dac-aff3-488e-9821-8f82ead5ef3c/volbergs.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Our last Christmas with Mom, 2017. Glad we got this photo of us and our girls with the portrait of Nonnie (Mom’s mother). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8be877bc-d58e-4626-b44c-028764b17367/dVdpk7mQ.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Here Mom shows off the harpsichord she built to some kids at a party (including my daughter just to her right). You can see Mom’s Christmas Carol books tied with red ribbon in the frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a8f5eef1-bfbe-49f4-8523-e37347a554e0/vJcAu3_w.jpg Recipes & Stories - Caponata - Make it stand out Mom would drape beads on everything at the holidays. Here are some hand blown glass ornaments from West Virginia. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/dales-cheesecake-with-beer monthly 0.5 2021-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/12779f46-4072-40fc-bc12-0f17495f01ab/10532780_10205076718611661_9223349359767335870_n.jpg Recipes & Stories - Dale’s Cheesecake with Beer - Make it stand out Mom collected all sorts of pottery. Here is a devil-themed face jug from her kitchen. (Mom sent me this photo as encouragement when I arm wrestled for charity as a character called “She-Devil”.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ead776ca-a227-4a31-a873-240eac6ce991/00203572325220110309204147512.jpg Recipes & Stories - Dale’s Cheesecake with Beer - Make it stand out Mom cooking fried okra with some more of her pottery on the counter of the Mallette St. kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/37b5b3d5-5470-49fd-b9e4-263a2e5b6562/recipe.jpg Recipes & Stories - Dale’s Cheesecake with Beer - Make it stand out The actual recipe! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9a58dab1-1517-4cad-bc82-83e1c228ce6d/5baa0bbdd398d0742be4e06b+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Dale’s Cheesecake with Beer - Make it stand out Mom and Dad’s author photo from 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South with an earthenware jug that Mom liked to serve tea out of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/739f2209-7bce-4828-8766-c270cc5d5391/5aa12fa7-6615-4500-92b5-de1a7e1b5854.jpg Recipes & Stories - Dale’s Cheesecake with Beer - Make it stand out Another face jug on the piano in the “new” library at the Carolina Meadows house. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/bourbon-sweet-potatoes monthly 0.5 2021-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c1231d21-08ec-4c63-a8f7-f869f584b4e8/1647e937-03ae-43aa-b358-5ba77abc54e3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out My sister in the Raggedy Ann dress that Mom made for her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/8938c8f1-f2d3-4b58-ad6f-246c73cfc17a/10365582_10152606871229319_4093452737339527396_o.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out Mom and Dad with their granddaughters on the Millennium Bridge, London, 2014. Mom did not make these dresses herself, but she always made sure the girls had special things to wear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/71d9d2a9-039b-4d3f-9abe-05ad549c5aa1/5bb93d09aed4c2a4128b4b99.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out Mom just looking like a general badass at a friend’s lakehouse. Probably early to mid 1990s? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/81cf68a8-1b63-4647-a5f6-10615420fde8/62fedbdf-e738-400c-9f4a-7a87137697ec.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out It’s hard to see but here we are in the matching denim dresses Mom made for me and my sister with the American Flag and Union Jack hand painted on them. This was the Christmas after we returned from a year in England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1dfe2ddb-2e2e-436a-a482-9cf488e34cb4/DVR.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out My tattoo from Justin Olivier in memory of Mom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/ca7fc0f0-06bb-4643-8d2d-2f4d776c7c30/Nonnie+2+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out A more literal interpretation. Here’s my tattoo in memory of my Nonnie (Mom’s mom, shown on the left). Tattoo by the artist, Annie Mess. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/a9ee6442-6b4e-4135-9535-125d6d11b6cf/51795528_10157193693312884_4558138981815943168_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out Art School! Here I am, second from left, in the Liberty of London dress that Mom made for me my junior year. RISD, 1993. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b2bbfa34-6836-4d09-8b91-fdbbe1690d85/IMG_2564.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bourbon Sweet Potatoes - Make it stand out My sister in one of the blue sweaters my mom knitted for our family in England, 1977. She’s on the left with my cousin Sara in the middle and me on the right, inexplicably wearing my school tie. I think we might have been doing a play. Side note: I eventually sucked all of the die out of the bottom of my school tie, causing it to lighten in color and probably causing me to become a deranged artist. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/eton-mess monthly 0.5 2021-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d99cd404-a92e-4a7c-bf4f-de55d8821f0b/5ba9fa19d398d08c1ae4dfd7%2Bcopy.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Eton Mess - Make it stand out Mom and Dad on the QM2. Maybe 2017? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c18fc713-f48b-43d9-8f6f-13cb08b45ba5/127165336_10159069335159319_1814528336900377918_o+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Eton Mess - Make it stand out Mom and Dad dance to the Zydeco Dots at my wedding in Houston. 2000. Note Dad’s truckstop shades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3b411f1b-86f7-4d44-a310-7b7ca74da5c8/terms.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Eton Mess - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/57ee100f-bb32-46d3-99a7-8dff8f6cbf52/295408_10151093209764319_1845854669_n.jpg Recipes & Stories - Eton Mess - Make it stand out Look at that pinky action! Tea at The Orchard in Cambridge, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7ea33143-ca12-4e70-84dd-ea4d4073c40d/10415644_10152574514774319_5248988576795304761_n+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Eton Mess - Make it stand out My husband did alright! Here he is with my glamorous mother on the QM2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/000d2628-3761-4203-88cf-3ce3308d4e88/710249ed-ed84-4cb1-8a1d-cc2aa7162110.jpg Recipes & Stories - Eton Mess - Make it stand out Mom’s hair! A+. She looks like the elegant Avedon model, Dovima, with that long, graceful neck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/39c8a900-fe3e-4e60-9409-63b8dfbbcd73/cut+off+comp.jpg Recipes & Stories - Eton Mess - Make it stand out Dad in the infamous cut offs at Conesus Lake, NY and in Kingsport, TN with his father and brothers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1fb36f2e-63ef-4be4-bd15-ec0ae03b97c2/ae7b162a-e9e9-4768-bf0d-b94ce38731cf.jpg Recipes & Stories - Eton Mess - Make it stand out This image has come back to haunt my father. Now that he is a fashionista he remarks that you should NEVER see a flash of the waistcoat under your jacket. He has since photoshopped this picture. I give you the original. ha ha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/d4dbeae2-9115-4c7d-b692-62da67e624f5/618114a5-edb4-4a60-bfbd-e0492555add7.jpg Recipes & Stories - Eton Mess - Make it stand out How cute and fresh is she in this polka dot shift?! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/green-chile-stew monthly 0.5 2021-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1b1a0a2e-f462-4eae-b0b2-3fe03baaca15/5ba9fa8caed4c2e86f8a5f2e+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Chile Pork Stew - Make it stand out Everything pig. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/858fba63-af31-40b8-922a-566c6352b060/At+Allen+%26+Son+with+Calvin+Trillin+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Chile Pork Stew - Make it stand out Mom and Dad with their friend, the author Calvin Trillin, at the now defunct, mightily missed, Allen & Son BBQ in Chapel Hill, NC. (Dad also took the author Michael Pollan to Allen & Son. It was our go-to.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/46f12ae7-d400-46b1-aa70-349ff9f4291b/Houston+BBQ-1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Chile Pork Stew - Make it stand out Mom and Dad at Thelma’s BBQ in Houston. This must’ve been when we lived there in the early 2000s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/46efe407-f40d-43ba-8187-e711af4a10dd/hospital.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Chile Pork Stew - Make it stand out Mom and Dad meet their first grandbaby in a Southern Foodways T-shirt and Underwood’s BBQ (Texas) T-shirt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/9274f06e-1808-4ab5-a987-16b17bbe5230/9b591d98-3100-4a02-8bf4-d5d70f46223f.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Chile Pork Stew - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/92d73c8b-b13b-4c8f-8d51-935ba2c7d17f/1400x720-6otyf8xhwRQq6fg0.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Green Chile Pork Stew - Make it stand out One of the baby pigs who talked to me that day at the Cron Farm in Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/048b8210-5543-4020-a3bc-ed0962e10743/00203572325220110309204144134.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Chile Pork Stew - Make it stand out Mom and her smoker, image from my parents’ book about NC BBQ, Holy Smoke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e588ab29-7454-4d52-b08a-c06e9ce59e24/BBQ.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Chile Pork Stew - Make it stand out Mom with photographer friend, Chip Cooper, at a BBQ joint in Mississippi. Full disclosure, I’m not sure this is pork. :) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2b47bc1e-4607-4ca9-9ad6-eab585e9d8c8/903f7f9c-076e-4c32-be8f-530f445a9673.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Chile Pork Stew - Make it stand out Dad and his smoker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/c965a70d-b43c-4552-9d49-3bfecde20474/rancho_frijole_card.jpg Recipes & Stories - Green Chile Pork Stew - Make it stand out My holiday card for 2005. This is when we lived at that ranch in Wimberley, Texas. Our pig, Ed, is on the far left. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/brunswick-stew monthly 0.5 2021-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/2ca1bcdf-6874-4af6-a88d-9bd6c42020f1/dd57bf5c-e659-4ea8-b785-68d8efccd60e.jpg Recipes & Stories - Brunswick Stew - Make it stand out Mom and Dad on their screen porch on Mallette St. Such a Chapel Hill moment for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/7a84087f-a614-4e76-a599-e2bd39e05bb1/IMG_2701.jpg Recipes & Stories - Brunswick Stew - Make it stand out Not basketball, but another sport. We used to attend the Durham Bulls baseball games when I was kid. This photo is from the early 2000s when Elisabeth and I visited my parents for their anniversary (and I had a rockin’ tan!). Mom had just taught herself Photoshop, so she edited Dad into the photograph so everyone could be there. (Dad had taken the picture.) Her skills improved over the years but I think this is rather touching as is! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/057fdb4d-ca45-44c6-b9c0-bae7860fe16d/5ba980d12cd9aff22b8c3d83+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Brunswick Stew - Make it stand out Mom and Dad in front of their door at their Carolina Meadows house, their last place in Chapel Hill together. I think this photo was right after my Dad’s heart surgery (it went well). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/282966bc-0174-4542-b157-3a5c192f3454/north-carolina-james-worthy-1982-ncaa-national-championship-april-05-1982-sports-illustrated-cover.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Brunswick Stew - Make it stand out My “Dream Team”! UNC Basketball on the cover of Sports Illustrated! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/b067c4a3-6991-41c9-b8c6-25b29d6ff609/IMG_5103+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Brunswick Stew - Make it stand out As the song goes, “I’m Tarheel born and Tarheel bred and when I die I’ll be Tarheel dead”. Nice dedication to me in one of Dad’s books. And to Mom, of course. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3a4c3b71-5047-4df4-92d5-09fcf3ee5ea7/5bca6ca32e9556fe7a8b4b4a+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Brunswick Stew - Make it stand out Mom in front of the janky TV where we used to watch basketball in the library. You could close the doors to hide it and there was a HUGE dictionary on top, making it all look very classy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5fd009f0-7716-4361-9e8c-6e44b73f9f3e/IMG_2556.jpg Recipes & Stories - Brunswick Stew - Make it stand out Dad taught at UNC for 30 years! He had to wear his crazy hot robes to the UNC ceremonies. A lot of Chapel Hill was not air conditioned back in the day. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/kampw-cafeteria-baked-spaghetti monthly 0.5 2021-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1634657504444-DSAMFT5MPOQ7KW042NE5/44345697_10156870212444319_97329843032555520_o.jpg Recipes & Stories - K&amp;W Cafeteria Baked Spaghetti - Make it stand out My daughter put flowers in my mom’s hair when she was in the nursing unit at Carolina Meadows. 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1634657226076-GRZ23THENNSYO4YUI2O9/mom.jpg Recipes & Stories - K&amp;W Cafeteria Baked Spaghetti - Make it stand out A hug from my mom right after my wedding. Houston, TX 2000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1634739427715-66RMT059JILMV88M7C9R/448dec14-d339-4b63-8e7d-2eaa83a9112f.jpeg Recipes & Stories - K&amp;W Cafeteria Baked Spaghetti - Make it stand out Me, my mom and sister at my Volberg grandparents’ house in Kingsport, TN. 1973. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1634739563418-INPVP78LXX0YCXADG19I/israel.jpg Recipes & Stories - K&amp;W Cafeteria Baked Spaghetti - Make it stand out Mom visits Elisabeth at her daycare in Jerusalem. 1973. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1634739082837-W2M6B7KJM6NMI2Q2MK3D/6dc6458e-4e9e-48f2-94d1-46eba74b0162.jpeg Recipes & Stories - K&amp;W Cafeteria Baked Spaghetti - Make it stand out Mom throwing me skyward in England. 1973. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/collard-greens monthly 0.5 2021-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633963175858-5B24H6LLAIF5SEAA22FR/AW_t1DRg.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out At the holidays Mom liked to drape beads and glass ornaments around the house. That gold boot on the sideboard is exactly that: a boot painted gold. We inherited it from my Reed grandmother and it would make a festive appearance from time to time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633963485966-VQ7C4BWV5SK0H7L0GB31/5bb93d0bd398d07e178b4658+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out My sister’s bedroom with antique sleigh bed, secretary, and bookshelf. Also featured are Mom’s circus paintings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633963103471-41BSEBMMLRJ6J09DASIS/5bbc91298a1388131e93c504.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out Christmas Eve Dinner in the early 2000s at the Mallette St. house. This photo sums up Mom’s collecting perfectly: Empire sideboard with knife boxes with a Mulberry china platter, low country South Carolina seagrass bread basket, Mid-Century Russel Wright serving dishes, cut crystal water pitcher, Taxco Mexican Silver candle holders, and (by Elisabeth) a Majolica green leaf salad bowl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633966733061-9GCQ8DAU3F9TRAQQVZ32/Scan+1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out Washing dishes at Mallette St. in the mid 90s. My Nonnie is on the left and my boyfriend, Devin, is behind me. You can see some of Mom’s pretty things and I love that her kitchen was also totally functional. She was doing open shelving way before the hipsters were. This photo was taken after our kitchen remodel where they doubled our kitchen size. It’s worth noting that they were able to match the existing kitchen floor with planks taken out of our church, The Chapel of the Cross, when the church redid their floor in stone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633966668247-F9NMIN502E66SIJ6BB64/Scan+3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out Me in the mid 90s in my fave room at 126 Mallette, THE LIBRARY! That red is the perfect shade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633968072506-MY3HZIQC23JX8LDA1500/bbbe9308-bde1-48ff-bed4-e744a019f83d.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out Dad working on the Mallette St house before staining the floors dark brown. Mom and Dad loved dark floors. They also got them at their Carolina Meadows place. This is what I was rebelling against with my junior high wall to wall carpet! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633966458943-H4Q827NT7NL586UBYG4M/carriage.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out Mom and Dad started collecting early. They actually used to push us around in this thing! On Christmas morning, Mom would load up the carriage with gifts from the tree in the breakfast room (where we rarely had breakfast) and roll it into the living room so we could open them in comfort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633963603780-ND1LDAY4Z39MNTVMVWPE/IMG_2790.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out Viewing the living room from the music room at Mallette St. Mom and Dad collected a lot of the Empire furniture early in their marriage in New York. In the back of the photo is the harpsichord that Mom built and gold leafed by hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633963799418-NOSLTKGMQB1OFU594KFK/f7841c0e-83b4-45c4-9a65-0a6bdbad043e.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out The breakfast room at 126 Mallette. That’s the bay window that I drove the car into. I’m actually writing this post from that daybed, which is now in my studio. It was made on one of the family farms. The wood stove on the right was one of three that Dad restored for our house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633966567774-J6R25047O6ZNAWSEXRTW/Scan.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out SOMEWHERE there are photos of my teenage room, but I can’t find them at the moment. So, my 80s music camp dorm room will have to suffice. Lots of Tom Cruise, the Soloflex poster, ESPRIT ads, etc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633963741951-BU224YT43LHA4VM4LCGZ/92b366e3-297b-42fc-a0db-7526ca52b4a7.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out Wallpaper from the Kitzmiller House. HOW FAB IS THIS? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633963548127-01JDR9VRYDN4NBDM9IDF/bed2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out This Jenny Lind bed was in my room when I was a kid. It broke when you jumped on it. Oops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633964342351-5KYEE953DX8XQKFI75NV/hat.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out You know. Just a Sunday afternoon family hang. Taken in the living room of the 126 Mallette St. house. Love the upholstery on that Empire sofa. PS I’m not sure why I didn’t want black in my room when I redid it in 7th grade. You can see I clearly embraced it later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633963720116-42XV8711J8S8MPKOF66P/23de639d-326b-4f67-8fa6-49151f86ff35.jpg Recipes & Stories - Collard Greens - Make it stand out Mom and Dad were always into old, cool things. This is the Kitzmiller House in Gray Station, Tennessee. Mom and Dad tried to buy it but it got torn down. My grandmother painted a picture of it which hung in our dining room for years. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/strata-breakfast-casserole monthly 0.5 2024-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633102073431-NMU5F2PYFT6MKHVXP49G/IMG_2518.jpg Recipes & Stories - Strata (Breakfast Casserole) - Make it stand out I put this in for laughs as this is SUPER NOT our style. My Nonnie took me and my sister to the mall to get our portraits taken and came home with this praying photo of my sister. The photographer had insisted. My mom was horrified! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633102300118-9O8ARVHCUZSQIFJ2QUOI/00203572325220110309204641843+copy.JPG Recipes & Stories - Strata (Breakfast Casserole) - Make it stand out Mom with Salisbury Cathedral in the distance. Lady knew her English churches! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/5513650b-02fd-487d-8146-94dad429b6b4/christening.jpg Recipes & Stories - Strata (Breakfast Casserole) - Make it stand out EDIT: I found the lost “Faux Christening” photo that i mention in the text below! Me with my daughter, Luca, in the Greene family christening dress. Wimberley, Texas. 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633101979347-PQO278DGE0TH1U1D68HF/3ee06fc1-d4f5-4f52-ab1c-8a486318f29c.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Strata (Breakfast Casserole) - Make it stand out Action photo of me with the Right Reverend Peter Lee at my Baptism at the Chapel of the Cross. Note, I am in the Greene family Christening Dress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633102024226-HKSA8VVOWR39M46LE2UL/136bcae5-3359-4397-80b7-be0df499c00b.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Strata (Breakfast Casserole) - Make it stand out Me with Mom in the parking lot of the UNC Planetarium post-Christening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633102319290-VYO4S307RRLSZI7BTHR2/5bc77b1403902351038b45f2.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Strata (Breakfast Casserole) - Make it stand out This is a composite image my dad made. Some members of the Chapel of the Cross Choir came to our house to sing for Mom on her deathbed. This moment was one of the most beautiful things I have ever witnessed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633102040971-LBHOP83ONZJS2FSP4KET/IMG_2543.JPEG Recipes & Stories - Strata (Breakfast Casserole) - Make it stand out Mom and Dad with a bunch of their friends in the 70s. I recognize the Pfaffs, the Reeses, and the Lees, who were all church friends. Also pictured are the Foldas and the Schnorenbergs, (I think?) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633102226395-AB8711U2G4YU3GZFM97P/dress.jpg Recipes & Stories - Strata (Breakfast Casserole) - Make it stand out A walk through the various churches of my parents’ past. The left photo is from their wedding at Broad Street Methodist Church in Kingsport, TN. The right is from my aunt Jane’s wedding (she borrowed my mom’s dress!) at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, also in Kingpsort. Aunt Jane is a ham! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633102287814-PL77UV37810PZ9CF0698/560c8d74-082a-44c6-84eb-2ffcbbce8ebc.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Strata (Breakfast Casserole) - Make it stand out We finally baptized our little druid! Here she is at the ceremony with her beloved grandparents at Grace Episcopal in Georgetown, Texas. Thank you to David Peters, her Godfather, for arranging it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633102261786-96D6RX27BK9IWNE76U0C/80de952c-813d-4d2e-8f76-b382adb2a274.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Strata (Breakfast Casserole) - Make it stand out When I got engaged, I looked for a photogenic Episcopal church in Houston. We settled on Trinity Episcopal and it actually turned out to be a great fit for several reasons. My husband and I attended for a few years. This photo is from our wedding in 2000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633102000895-MLIZE20A67CDCX27QQ8F/5bb93d0c2cd9afd7368b4a19.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Strata (Breakfast Casserole) - Make it stand out Mom, my sister, and Peter Lee in our kitchen at Mallette St. Probably during a Choir Sherry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1633101910907-VK1CPHWIE0I3YGUMISWU/england+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Strata (Breakfast Casserole) - Make it stand out We’ve always been around churches. Here we are in England in the 70s. Look at what a stunner Mom was! I still have that tweed jacket of hers. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/bacon-marmalade monthly 0.5 2021-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1632325504954-MPUCOHFVX92TB91JIP5W/farm+4.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bacon Marmalade - Make it stand out When they redid the farm, they closed in the screen porch making a lovely sunroom. Here is Mom teaching my cousins Reed and Mariah to knit. Also pictured is my cousin Sara’s husband, Brett. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1632325402569-BJMYRVCWUY5CXJK4OBQT/FARM+5.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bacon Marmalade - Make it stand out Look at what a rockstar Mom is! Entertaining the guests at the farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1632325273307-USF5R4BO3JL1BYBZ1C8P/farm+2+.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bacon Marmalade - Make it stand out Mom and my aunt Jane on some of those mean farm horses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1632325450322-UX1AHF70AV6EKJC63UT4/farm+7.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bacon Marmalade - Make it stand out Mom and my uncle Frank’s former wife, Ferne. Look at that landscape behind them! It looks like one of my Nonnie’s paintings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1632325424450-6W04DIYNFQTRDHZVW4LB/farm+6.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bacon Marmalade - Make it stand out I don’t think I’ve ever heard “Acne Blues”. I’ll have to ask Dad for a rendition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1632325381324-L4J7MSLNMCB9DZ69GJ5M/farm+8.jpg Recipes & Stories - Bacon Marmalade - Make it stand out The lawn at the farm. I remember picnicking here and apprehensively swimming in the water. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/harissa-chicken-in-soured-cream-crust-amp-spiced-lamb-koftas monthly 0.5 2021-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1631292722351-J5MUHBT680N5L4A3QR7K/Greece+9.jpg Recipes & Stories - Harissa Chicken in Soured Cream Crust &amp; Spiced Lamb Koftas - Me trying to escape my evil sister! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1631292722262-XQBPUT0PTFI66VQ9K4CO/Greece+10.jpg Recipes & Stories - Harissa Chicken in Soured Cream Crust &amp; Spiced Lamb Koftas - Who is that feral hippie child?! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1631292722811-JMOA9344Y5E41H9BENJZ/greece+5.jpg Recipes & Stories - Harissa Chicken in Soured Cream Crust &amp; Spiced Lamb Koftas - Judging by my shoes, I guess I dressed myself? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1631292586476-POHVQ1ICX8ECWF49JASY/greece.jpg Recipes & Stories - Harissa Chicken in Soured Cream Crust &amp; Spiced Lamb Koftas - That’s the Acropolis, isn’t it? 1973. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1631292586998-04BPJ4773ZLJZZGNK7U9/Greece+11.jpg Recipes & Stories - Harissa Chicken in Soured Cream Crust &amp; Spiced Lamb Koftas - Not sure which mosque this is. Poor Mom did a lot of carrying me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1631292587055-RT8WW4QVGPCQZSV0V6AL/greece+12.jpg Recipes & Stories - Harissa Chicken in Soured Cream Crust &amp; Spiced Lamb Koftas - Us in front of the Church of the Nativity. November 1973. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1631292586414-RDG07M21NOYVOZSI6VO6/greece+3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Harissa Chicken in Soured Cream Crust &amp; Spiced Lamb Koftas - Keepin' it Klassy. Mom changes my diaper at the Acropolis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1631292507564-UJWCW11VD1IHPRSGMYY8/Greece+8.jpg Recipes & Stories - Harissa Chicken in Soured Cream Crust &amp; Spiced Lamb Koftas - Make it stand out Our first passport for our year in Israel. I’m sure my Nonnie and/or Dee Dee made those matching dresses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1631292908525-2Y9G67O52DDKNDBR9X21/greece+7.jpg Recipes & Stories - Harissa Chicken in Soured Cream Crust &amp; Spiced Lamb Koftas - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1631292890424-FG7HEDNH4MX5QNUHUIU7/greece+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Harissa Chicken in Soured Cream Crust &amp; Spiced Lamb Koftas - Make it stand out We rented a house (that word is used liberally) on Crete for a month in 1973. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1631292657930-0AROUI1Z0BWHSJLULECM/greece+6.jpg Recipes & Stories - Harissa Chicken in Soured Cream Crust &amp; Spiced Lamb Koftas - Make it stand out Once a pain / always a pain. My uncle once described me as “Donald Trump as a toddler”. Oof. (This was pre-presidency, but still….) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1631295628639-67IGO3LSTEWCBWFRLX3X/foxy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Harissa Chicken in Soured Cream Crust &amp; Spiced Lamb Koftas - Make it stand out This was pre-Israel so this rockin’ caftan was not from there. But, look how foxy Mom is! (This is the type of thing she would wear to her dinner parties.) https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/w191tkgcnlhgblnv4alrgfkkomflce monthly 0.5 2021-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1630790170355-VJMUGH6PDU1CADOS5UMQ/keytar+8.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cheese Balls - Make it stand out I remember these photos being taken! We had *just* bought the house on Mallette St. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1630787678993-5CZL0WLZX39WQRGVDJ1O/ryan-gosling-la-la-land.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cheese Balls - Make it stand out Ryan Gosling in all his La La Land 80s cover band glory (complete with keytar)! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1630789996331-DFPDNSQTE3JPB2GJFGU1/cheeseballs+4.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cheese Balls - Make it stand out Mom demonstrates the head massager. Christmas gift of the year! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1630790076275-R6EQAQ8R3IN770OBBJ2H/keytar+7.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cheese Balls - Make it stand out The Reed girls cheese out on a boat! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1630790210151-NJDX7D4GMJ0KOZGN8UGI/keytar+9.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cheese Balls - Make it stand out Mom’s caption, not mine. Ha ha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1630790055662-SIF8NZ18VJCW3BMEGPIY/keytar+6.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cheese Balls - Make it stand out Not sure who taught me how to preen like this?! Hello 1980s, though. Designer jeans time! Is my Nonnie wearing nude pantyhose with sandals? I sure hope not. That seems out of character. Look how classy Mom is. PS This was labeled by Mom. The kid is not Michelle Volberg, it’s her brother, my cousin Kris Avedon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1630790228118-VKFFCK4JP8OTBRG2SQXO/keytar+10.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cheese Balls - Make it stand out “No photos, please.” My sis does her best with the paparazzi at Aunt Ruth’s house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1630792369815-7FD2UZCR5IICKCVYVQGR/cheese.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Cheese Balls - Make it stand out Recent sign from Austin’s famous Tex Mex restaurant, El Arroyo. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/malted-milkshakes monthly 0.5 2021-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629838495957-91ZZH8GQQCOXNLFJZGUG/DRINKING.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malted Milkshake - Make it stand out Party time! Neither of these are birthday images, but I like to pretend they are. Left is Mom at a party at Oberlin one summer (she used to attend Baroque camp with my sister). Right is Mom at my Dad’s aunt’s house in Upstate New York for Thanksgiving in 1966. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629838046097-6BE5PFQY51R5CSO61HBI/virgo9.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malted Milkshake - Make it stand out For Mom’s 70th birthday, my sister and I purchased a weekend for them at Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire. When I visited England with my daughter the next summer, Mom and Dad took us back to Hartwell for tea. My daughter clearly(!) ate too much sugar (and Mom loved every minute of it)! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629837930584-CR3PVE61FKSSY32H5XHU/virgo+13.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malted Milkshake - Make it stand out Mom: 2 Ways. I have these photos next to my desk. Happy Birthday, wherever you are, Mom! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629838141173-KBT9TS3PMQ721VF498OA/virgo8.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malted Milkshake - Make it stand out Always a hard worker, here Mom is during her time as a Junior High English teacher in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629838009876-MC3PSH6G0ZOW08QMTDKI/virgo11.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malted Milkshake - Make it stand out Mom’s Virgo instincts take over! She was a great organizer and keeper of the family treasures (and junk). Also, what the hell happened to my room? Where are the Duran Duran posters? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629838185290-SLNMSJ3XDT3PY3CPYXFP/virgo7.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malted Milkshake - Make it stand out Mom wearing her author hat with Dad, promoting their book, Holy Smoke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629838081550-F1AIF36NSINZ89YT9G2L/virgo4.jpg Recipes & Stories - Malted Milkshake - Make it stand out For Mom’s 75th birthday (I think?) we sent my parents to lunch at a fab restaurant in London. They sent us this photo of them toasting. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/hominy-grill-banana-bread monthly 0.5 2021-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629488923263-6V10CS4V7INPDB24XVS8/school6.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hominy Grill Banana Bread - Make it stand out Mom in an adorable red fascinator at my Uncle Frank’s wedding. Dad looking dapper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629489022943-EQZY3CXOUMOOE1DVDUZA/school7.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hominy Grill Banana Bread - Make it stand out Back to School Edition! Mom with Dad in his academic robes. Chapel Hill, NC. Maybe early 1980s? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629488701470-P64W8KBZDAUS0UE70WOC/school.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hominy Grill Banana Bread - Make it stand out More hats! Easter in Tennessee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629488770093-8SKZ2SI375QZJHLEHVMI/school2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hominy Grill Banana Bread - Make it stand out Me on the day of my high school graduation showing off my degree project (I made dresses out of hardware and found objects and took fashion photos of them) in an oversize vintage blazer from Beggars & Choosers in Pittsboro and a hat from Modern Times, where I used to work, in Chapel Hill. I spray painted my shoes (high heel pumps) black. (Every time I wore them I would spray paint them to match. They had been red and silver previously.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629488853152-UEGPT893SEYCEWGJTQSX/school4.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hominy Grill Banana Bread - Make it stand out Me and my sister in our English school uniforms in front of our flat in Great Missenden. Our daughters recreate the photo in the same spot 30 years later! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629488812473-IS5XIGFO34BEEDQVCRZ9/school3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Hominy Grill Banana Bread - Make it stand out On our first family trip on the QM2 Mom insisted on getting the girls dresses with matching hats. They were the HIT of the ship! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/aunt-evas-pound-cake monthly 0.5 2021-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1628868756160-GGQ5KW1XA4LUSOF5KOMH/bday5.jpg Recipes & Stories - Aunt Eva’s Pound Cake - Make it stand out Mom made her headpiece for the QM2’s “Roaring Twenties” party. (My daughter Luca on her left.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1628871345959-7KBBK3PMS5ZO3ZCJRXLV/bday9.jpg Recipes & Stories - Aunt Eva’s Pound Cake - Make it stand out Halloween with our friends Lisa & Tasha Folda. Maybe 1978 or 1979? Apparently it was cold because I don’t think I’d normally rock a turtleneck under a tutu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1628868619726-QCAGI3L1588GLK7B4BXH/bdaycomp.jpg Recipes & Stories - Aunt Eva’s Pound Cake - Make it stand out Left: My 5th birthday party at the Mallette St. house. Right: My 18th birthday at Lake Champlain, Vermont. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1628868715546-7YO4QN2A3J65QWOU3J8S/bday+dad.jpg Recipes & Stories - Aunt Eva’s Pound Cake - Make it stand out “John was a very active Thespian” !!!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1628868683046-0I5V7FAMIJV68IAMK6GD/BDAY+COMP2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Aunt Eva’s Pound Cake - Make it stand out Left: My 2nd birthday at Fripp Island, SC. Right: My sister’s 3rd birthday parade at our old house in Carrboro, NC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1628869073973-56KV9RJJPX3G1WBJJAB7/bday+plays.jpg Recipes & Stories - Aunt Eva’s Pound Cake - Make it stand out Various plays we put on with our neighbor friends. On the left I was portraying our neighbor’s stepdad, Snake, who smoked a lot. (I took creative liberties and substituted a pipe for cigarettes.) We also did several Babar plays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1628896246086-67QBKZSIWJ1YNJ7GD9A1/bday11.jpg Recipes & Stories - Aunt Eva’s Pound Cake - Make it stand out The Club on the Greensward. Chapel Hill, NC, 1982. My sister is on the far right with the pink striped shield. !!! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/chicken-and-dumplings monthly 0.5 2021-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627925583788-P9QRI4F39BMZZBUFD1C7/bed6.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chicken and Dumplings - Make it stand out Mom reclines at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, England. The lady could relax! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627923389776-MUQHBRJM42IY2ATTXCKV/bed+4.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chicken and Dumplings - Make it stand out Top: Mom reading to Luca (perhaps in New Orleans?). Bottom: We looked at a lot of photos when Mom was dying. Here she and Luca are posing with the above photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627923186920-PM7DN7827360UBACRAQY/bed3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chicken and Dumplings - Make it stand out Mom and Elisabeth (photographed by me when Mom was just back from Newfoundland in the nursing unit at Carolina Meadows). This photograph appeared along with an essay by my sister in Maya Stein’s book Grief Becomes You. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627922881750-5GM2PFIQQPBOE28TVN9N/bed2+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chicken and Dumplings - Make it stand out Left: Mom feeds my sister, supervised by Shiner, the cat, on the Jenny Lind bed (which later became my childhood bed). Right: Mom with a VERY NEW Baby Luca at our house in Wimberley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627922606753-42P87Z0GJN18N8Z2CHA8/bed1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chicken and Dumplings - Make it stand out We were able to get Mom home among her pretty things to die. Here she is napping with Foxtrot, the loaner cat. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/lemon-pasta monthly 0.5 2021-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1629904955607-6AF9UJ0VSX6C7ZLIMQ5Y/recital3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lemon Pasta - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627859611635-N5QPS0W50DKRH4A3J583/recital.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lemon Pasta - Make it stand out Newspaper clipping from Mom’s Kingsport, TN recital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627405540407-1ZMCOKGSDVEX86YDT85Q/piano4.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lemon Pasta - Make it stand out My sister reminded me that somewhere there is a recording of this recital. I’d love to find it. In the meantime, I have wonderful memories of going to sleep as a child with Mom practicing piano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627405707663-ZWT7D8JEAQ6A4A8VQM37/piano8.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Lemon Pasta - Make it stand out FASHION POLICE / 80s Edition! Too good to pass up: Here’s me and my best friend, Robin, after orchestra practice in the 80s. Oy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627405516118-AFI3EHFFXLJDRRTN8CMJ/piano3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lemon Pasta - Make it stand out So cute! Mom was pregnant with my sister in this photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627405399209-CQCMCB8PIE2IGMI7YYPV/piano6.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lemon Pasta - Make it stand out Mom had a string trio with Susan Black and Brent Wissick. They played a recital in Chapel Hill and also one on Fripp Island. They performed the Tchaikovsky Trio which has a MASSIVE piano part. Go, Mom! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627405652162-P3MBE8AETP3JU99UOEJO/piano5.jpg Recipes & Stories - Lemon Pasta - Make it stand out Mom was amazing piano teacher! She had endless patience and such a comprehensive knowledge of music. She taught several of my friends. Our buddy, Geoff Dean, referred to Mom as “The Southern Matriarch of Music”. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/deep-fried-ice-cream-balls-with-strawberry-coulis monthly 0.5 2021-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627056073052-N4WGFDGTMJTSAVJYB9B0/WINE+MACHINE.jpg Recipes & Stories - Deep Fried Ice Cream Balls with Strawberry Coulis - Make it stand out Said wine machine at Fortnum & Mason. Pretty cool! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626998800892-AI0QUFLBUXT1M6KWLYH9/belt.jpg Recipes & Stories - Deep Fried Ice Cream Balls with Strawberry Coulis - Make it stand out Another example of genius booze technology! Dad demonstrates his Christmas present, the BevBuckle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626999022887-E89G466IIHR3L8DVJVEG/ConesusMD.jpg Recipes & Stories - Deep Fried Ice Cream Balls with Strawberry Coulis - Make it stand out Dad and Mom looking cool at our Conesus Lake family reunion. Why is Dad wearing a tie and tweed blazer in the summer? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626998724641-PN25HLKSTVHOZ1O6TRJJ/england.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Deep Fried Ice Cream Balls with Strawberry Coulis - Make it stand out Mom’s artsy photo from England. This is the trip where she insisted we check out the wine machine at Fortnum & Mason because she knew I would dig it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1627056049599-QPYKPH2ICS4LQUUUIHLY/S+hats.jpg Recipes & Stories - Deep Fried Ice Cream Balls with Strawberry Coulis - Make it stand out Left: Me having tea at our friends’, the Clare’s, wearing one of my charity shop hats. Right: Another charity shop hat worn for Easter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626999039980-4I3963EH8R439ZHKZBZP/KRA-Z.jpg Recipes & Stories - Deep Fried Ice Cream Balls with Strawberry Coulis - Make it stand out Mom and Dad in their Conesus Lake reunion t-shirts in 1979. There was a contest where we all teamed up to come up with ideas for what K.R.A.-Z! stood for. I still remember the winner 42 years later! “Keep Reunions Awake. - Z (Negative Z) = Don’t Sleep!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626999058151-IED2MH1K68XTTI69YCVE/MONKEYS.jpg Recipes & Stories - Deep Fried Ice Cream Balls with Strawberry Coulis - Make it stand out Me hearing no evil, my cousin Sara speaking no evil, and my sister Elisabeth seeing no evil. Deep. Conesus Lake, 1979. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/atlantic-beach-pie monthly 0.5 2021-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626551484207-WU4LW4ZOAU950SMRMZEZ/atlantic+9.jpg Recipes & Stories - Atlantic Beach Pie - Make it stand out Different babies, same doting mother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626551569576-8UQK6N4KDNBF07AUSMIM/atlantic+16.jpg Recipes & Stories - Atlantic Beach Pie - Make it stand out I had never seen these photos prior to this week. Us at a rental house on Fripp Island before my grandparents built theirs. I love these pics so much! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626551454971-A3JDU9DBULOK7DO16PEB/atlantic+7.jpg Recipes & Stories - Atlantic Beach Pie - Make it stand out Me & my sister on the front porch of the Mallette St. house. I think we had just bought it. I lived in Halter tops in the summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626551413232-9ZY7HOU35Z1PVPHVY5PH/Atlantic+3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Atlantic Beach Pie - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626551351993-6CRE4S42NI0C13UEIGHL/Atlantic+1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Atlantic Beach Pie - Make it stand out Mom’s Duke friends with Dad’s MIT friends. 3 Duke/MIT couples were made. Mom and Dad were the only ones that stayed married, although our families have all stayed fairly close friends. Dad’s new wife, Linda, is in the pink patterned sundress in the center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626551512887-SJHC1EPLTY6YFE8W7Y9X/atlantic+12.jpg Recipes & Stories - Atlantic Beach Pie - Make it stand out Mom was surprisingly good at ping pong! Lake Champlain, Vermont. Summer, 1990. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/pork-bbq-amp-ridgewood-sauce monthly 0.5 2021-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626114281732-NC3OKXVJNN5AIN35XTTZ/BBQ5.jpg Recipes & Stories - CROCKPOT NOT-THE-REAL-THING PORK SHOULDER &amp; Ridgewood Sauce - Make it stand out Mom and Dad one year after wedding (which was on July 11, 1964). I just found this photo yesterday and I love it! Mom and Dad look so young and happy! ”The soft-aired Tennessee night gathers its children in its cupped hands.” - Excerpt from Arrivederci Kingsport by Charles Wright https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626128668886-CCVKZ64E0JX87LKR0R5T/BBQ8.jpg Recipes & Stories - CROCKPOT NOT-THE-REAL-THING PORK SHOULDER &amp; Ridgewood Sauce - Make it stand out No, this is not me in drag. It’s actually my father. My mom notes in my dad’s Ancestry.com listing that he was “quite a thespian!”. My mom’s mother (my Nonnie) must have volunteered for the production because she made this costume and apparently came to really like my father. Dad credits Nonnie with helping Mom to see the light and date him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626128828363-8H7VTHXN6S9B042QUMZ7/BBQ10.jpg Recipes & Stories - CROCKPOT NOT-THE-REAL-THING PORK SHOULDER &amp; Ridgewood Sauce - Make it stand out Mom and Dad, the BBQ Power Couple. Check out their book on NC BBQ called Holy Smoke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626128583653-EK9WLUN4A37E5TEMFWOH/BBQ12.jpg Recipes & Stories - CROCKPOT NOT-THE-REAL-THING PORK SHOULDER &amp; Ridgewood Sauce - Make it stand out Dad, on the left, with his mother (in an amazing hat!) and sister, Lisa, standing in front of the Reed family house on Watauga Street. My great-grandparents built it and my grandfather, Shelton, grew up in it. When he married my grandmother the house was given to them so they could raise their family there. Growing up, I spent almost every Christmas and a good portion of my summers in Kingsport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626128760373-YL7EMS7TTVGQUDTQLUYH/BBQ9.jpg Recipes & Stories - CROCKPOT NOT-THE-REAL-THING PORK SHOULDER &amp; Ridgewood Sauce - Make it stand out This caption cracks me up. Mom was funny. And organized. Who labels their photos in Photoshop?! Mom and Dad got married in Kingsport right after Dad graduated from MIT. The same band played at my Aunt Jane’s wedding 20+ years later (and she wore my mom’s dress)! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626128785632-ZBW5UW7N0RG9CZ3FL7OK/BBQ16.jpg Recipes & Stories - CROCKPOT NOT-THE-REAL-THING PORK SHOULDER &amp; Ridgewood Sauce - Make it stand out I never saw these photos before yesterday. They made me laugh. I’m not sure the images were cause and effect but I’m going to pretend they were. Mom and Dad lived in Rye, NY right after they were married while Dad attended Columbia for grad school. Mom taught Junior High English in Port Chester, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626128622583-UNRTKIBHDIWGHJCPQF61/BBQ14.jpg Recipes & Stories - CROCKPOT NOT-THE-REAL-THING PORK SHOULDER &amp; Ridgewood Sauce - Make it stand out Accidental photo of Mom and Dad together getting a golfer’s autograph. They had been in Kindergarten band together but didn’t become friends (or start dating) until High School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626128699755-M0NLECSLPIMEVHWRJ11E/BBQ4.jpg Recipes & Stories - CROCKPOT NOT-THE-REAL-THING PORK SHOULDER &amp; Ridgewood Sauce - Make it stand out “Big Brother Is Watching You (Lovingly, though, Lovlingly)”. Sweet (and funny!) that Mom kept this photo while she and Dad were dating long distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1626128549705-VDQXR8QWLKML8ZPMJI9M/BBQ13.jpg Recipes & Stories - CROCKPOT NOT-THE-REAL-THING PORK SHOULDER &amp; Ridgewood Sauce - Make it stand out Mom’s family had a few houses in Kingsport when she was a child and this is one of them. Here she is photographed with her parents and brothers. All are gone now except my Uncle Frank, which must feel weird. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/bbc-chicken-fajitas-and-chicken-salad-with-tarragon-amp-green-grapes monthly 0.5 2021-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1625414291733-IA3NBHC8YG49QWEZJ3GE/finger+licking.jpg Recipes & Stories - BBC TV Chicken Fajitas &amp; Chicken Salad with Tarragon and Green Grapes - Make it stand out Like mother like daughter. Me in England, 1978 / Luca in England, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1625414238732-TPB50YFRT47JKZPWKI11/picnic.jpg Recipes & Stories - BBC TV Chicken Fajitas &amp; Chicken Salad with Tarragon and Green Grapes - Make it stand out Us enjoying an English picnic sometime around 1978. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1625414269934-SM8PXUEC2YKSU25RQIL3/orchard.jpg Recipes & Stories - BBC TV Chicken Fajitas &amp; Chicken Salad with Tarragon and Green Grapes - Make it stand out Tea & scones on the 4th of July at The Orchard in Cambridge, England. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1625414345027-IBTETS4MXNRE5FSELCYL/England+4th.jpg Recipes & Stories - BBC TV Chicken Fajitas &amp; Chicken Salad with Tarragon and Green Grapes - Make it stand out A photo I took on the 4th of July at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Cambridge England. Maybe 2014? The cemetery commemorates American servicemen and women who died in World War II. It contains 3,809 headstones, with the remains of 3,812 servicemen, including airmen who died over Europe and sailors from North Atlantic convoys. The inscribed Wall of the Missing records the names of 5,127 missing servicemen, most of whom died in the Battle of the Atlantic or in the strategic air bombardment of northwest Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1625414362006-9J1UZKUUAXJ24YBM9LV5/red+white+and+blue.jpg Recipes & Stories - BBC TV Chicken Fajitas &amp; Chicken Salad with Tarragon and Green Grapes - Make it stand out Probably not the 4th of July but we are certainly RED, WHITE & BLUE and I am Walkin’ on Sunshine in that jazzy plaid number! (I actually think this might have been taken in Israel. Dad? Any idea?) https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/cornbread monthly 0.5 2021-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1625160265189-QHQIXFKIM9M3V8LI2K1K/fish.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cornbread &amp; Corn Pones - Make it stand out That one time Dad took me fishing at Lake Hiko. By the look on my face, I’m not so sure about it. Our lake place was named after Loretta Lynn’s home, Butcher Holler. (Dad called it Holler’s Butcher or something like that. My memory is failing me.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1625160288707-1R4W7FLFXZMW99BRMO41/watauga.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cornbread &amp; Corn Pones - Make it stand out Family sing along in my grandparents living room in Kingsport, TN. I have no idea who the person is on the right, or if they enjoyed hearing us sing! Ha Ha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1625160145515-3Y9J286CUL45BV5H6MIB/bo+diddley.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cornbread &amp; Corn Pones - Make it stand out Mom “mildly protesting” the Bo Diddley Concert at Duke with her folksinging group. Funny because I think she actually really liked Bo Diddley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1625160173154-70VXRV665OF3YIPZ3W5D/cut+off+comp.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cornbread &amp; Corn Pones - Make it stand out Dad in his ever present 1970s/1980s cutoffs. He would only go to pools that would allow him to wear cutoffs instead of swim trunks. The NC Faculty Club Pool was problematic as I rememeber. Dad is photographed on the right with his father and brothers Bill and Michael. I think that Dad wore the Bob Jones University shirt on the right just to be controversial. (It’s a conservative Evangelical school in South Carolina.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1625163078580-DB8QV2G1C9S29C6SJMNI/dulcimer.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cornbread &amp; Corn Pones - Make it stand out Mom on our front porch with her mountain dulcimer, a gift from my Dad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1625160119620-IAGZQ75BVPGTS5FL13D9/mom+guitar.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cornbread &amp; Corn Pones - Make it stand out Mom playing guitar at our family reunion on Conesus Lake, NY in 1979. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/moroccan-baked-chicken-with-chickpeas-and-rice monthly 0.5 2021-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1624283653762-S7GAU5K8X64DW6MRJLE5/piggy+back2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Moroccan Baked Chicken with Chickpeas and Rice - Make it stand out Dad does piggyback double duty at one of our birthday parties. Dad’s yellow reading chair and Mom’s yellow curtain stencil are in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1624283670365-6HUHH9U43BLSD2CXENWU/yellow+mom.jpg Recipes & Stories - Moroccan Baked Chicken with Chickpeas and Rice - Make it stand out Mom at Ridgefields in Kingsport, TN. 2003. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1624283688183-ZWC4ASN44M5Q4YXRPP8Q/quilt+detail2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Moroccan Baked Chicken with Chickpeas and Rice - Make it stand out Here’s a detail from one of Mom’s crazy quilts. She did all of the embroidery and beading herself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1624283711466-S5N55UYDR7JRQ5P1PHSO/living+room2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Moroccan Baked Chicken with Chickpeas and Rice - Make it stand out The living room at 126 Mallette St. in Chapel Hill, NC, the house where I grew up. The harpishord that Mom built (!) is in the back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1624283734427-TOH251IWSP4WGIYQT7DX/Dining+room.jpg Recipes & Stories - Moroccan Baked Chicken with Chickpeas and Rice - Make it stand out The dining room at 126 Malette St. Mom and Nonnie (my grandmother) painted the stenciled border. The floral painting on the left is one of Nonnie’s. The two at the end are by Philip Chesley, Nonnie’s painting teacher. The sideboard was purchased in NY when my dad was in grad school. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/scones monthly 0.5 2021-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1623595554738-ANO6FCEQRSKHK49NYPIY/Chris+mom.jpg Recipes & Stories - Scones - Make it stand out Mom and Chris, QM2. 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1623595501498-PNTGL4TB94GTFJOWUUTX/dad+girls.jpg Recipes & Stories - Scones - Make it stand out Dad and his Granddaughters, QM2. 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1623595523440-OL37BT7JCQ7Y9L052LUN/QM.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Scones - Make it stand out Mom at the Commodore Club, QM2. 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1623595571915-MGFIEEQ08KKRHTGBNFUN/shirley+temple.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Scones - Make it stand out Luca and her beloved Shirley Temple. 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1623595537773-1MLFFRPF8Z9DN40VG7EP/fam.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Scones - Make it stand out The Reeds at the Commodore Club, QM2. 2018. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/shrimp-burgers monthly 0.5 2021-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1623252417002-PVA7Q0KRHFQD7MY5J1YP/Conesus.jpg Recipes & Stories - Shrimp Burgers - Make it stand out Dad and Mom at our Greene family reunion at Conesus Lake, Upstate New York. 1979. We drove there from NC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1623252394523-TNX49BKR14MX1DOCIVEJ/israel+kibbutz.jpg Recipes & Stories - Shrimp Burgers - Make it stand out Me and my parents at a Kibbutz in Israel with my Aunt Lisa & Uncle Rich. 1977-78? This was the trip where we drove around in a van for a month. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1623252438083-J7OAX289A0NMRFFKM3K5/Fripp+beach.jpg Recipes & Stories - Shrimp Burgers - Make it stand out Me and my sister at Fripp Island, South Carolina, where my Volberg Grandparents had a house. We drove there most summers. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/summer-trifle-with-raspberries-and-raspberry-pure monthly 0.5 2021-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1622645520213-3DYEOZX0C76C6UDT5TOJ/Salisbury.jpg Recipes & Stories - Summer Trifle with Raspberries and Raspberry Purée - Make it stand out Mom in front of Salisbury Cathedral. Mom and Dad rented a flat in Salisbury for something like 5 summers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1622645463063-62ZW7KHM60T8NHD6TCZP/Kettle%27s+Yard.jpg Recipes & Stories - Summer Trifle with Raspberries and Raspberry Purée - Make it stand out Dad and Mom at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, England. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1622645489596-KDHGWNLV7IOCITV7PP1X/Missenden.jpg Recipes & Stories - Summer Trifle with Raspberries and Raspberry Purée - Make it stand out Me with Dad & Mom in Great Missenden, England, the year we lived there. 1977-1978. How cool is Mom’s dress? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1622645547285-1Q3S54AKMJWYAMQ16EZH/OXO.jpg Recipes & Stories - Summer Trifle with Raspberries and Raspberry Purée - Make it stand out Mom and Dad’s 50th anniversary dinner at OXO Tower on the Thames with St. Paul’s in the background. Chris, my husband, had to leave England early for a family wedding in Texas. Otherwise, the Reed headcount was complete! This photo was hanging on Mom’s fridge in NC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1622646568635-76W9KMZOSDFSSTVJKMS2/webANXDangerUXBSer.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Summer Trifle with Raspberries and Raspberry Purée - Make it stand out Anthony Andrews in Danger UXB. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/a-slew-of-slaw monthly 0.5 2021-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1622129293520-7DP88EXIYEIAIZEHEYLJ/Tommy+final.jpg Recipes & Stories - A Slew of Slaw - Make it stand out Tommy Edwards, our friend. 1945-2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1622129239382-D3XZJO4SRMPI2H3FULV1/hush+puppies.jpg Recipes & Stories - A Slew of Slaw - Make it stand out One of Dad and Mom’s author photos from Holy Smoke, where I got the miscellaneous slaw recipes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1622129266051-0VTXJLZFRUM2HCCR5AVA/Holy+smoke.jpg Recipes & Stories - A Slew of Slaw - Make it stand out My personal Holy Smoke inscription. Ha ha. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/coffee-granita monthly 0.5 2021-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1621810270347-ZU9K72JUCZQEZAVNR4E6/hartwell+house.jpg Recipes & Stories - Coffee Granita - Make it stand out Mom at High Tea (but I’ll bet she had coffee!) at Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire, England. My sister and I gave my parents a weekend there for Mom’s 70th birthday. They liked it so much they took me & my daughter for tea when we were visiting the next summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1621810069419-FRC8LXMCMMZ53IFJG7QT/milkshake.jpg Recipes & Stories - Coffee Granita - Make it stand out Mom with her beloved granddaughters and her beloved coffee milkshake. She would have one every day when she was dying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1621810295291-4S2RILZWDCU3OH9HET6I/Pogo.jpg Recipes & Stories - Coffee Granita - Make it stand out Don’t give coffee to a kid! (I doubt they did. It was probably sugar. But, this photo made me laugh.). Me jumping on a pogo stick in my Nonnie’s kitchen. Kingsport, TN 1979. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/grillades-amp-grits monthly 0.5 2021-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1621439508346-JR2M5WS57QVIS2AZJ4PK/hamburg+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Grillades &amp; Grits - Make it stand out The passenger list that Mom found for Uncle Albert’s trans-Atlantic crossing from Hamburg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1621439375166-2QRF71QMWNE2UVRK13YN/Albert+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Grillades &amp; Grits - Make it stand out Bull painting by Uncle Albert Volberg, 1895. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1621439393917-KLOGMT2T1X6K1Q5Y6U8V/Trillin.jpg Recipes & Stories - Grillades &amp; Grits - Make it stand out Mom and Dad eating (pork) BBQ at the now defunct Allen & Sons with their friend, the writer, Calvin Trillin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1621439358664-ZNGH0U5PFL5KF1LO5BSD/Albert+1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Grillades &amp; Grits - Make it stand out BEEF! Barnyard painting by Uncle Albert Volberg, 1895. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1621439338519-7PTO6AN51VJHXRSDGD6K/smoker.jpg Recipes & Stories - Grillades &amp; Grits - Make it stand out The Reeds love their meat! Pork, not beef in this instance. Mom in her White Lily flour apron with her smoker, taken for my parents’ Holy Smoke book. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/chicken-country-captain monthly 0.5 2021-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620938178350-ZDJQCOQB3XG5RK520MN9/At+Sea.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chicken Country Captain - Make it stand out Luca & Grandmomma on the high seas! Drinks at the Commodore Club on the Queen Mary 2 before the 1920s party (hence the headpiece that Mom made). June 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620938160333-63DA8D3H2TILRLRABGVN/pirate2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chicken Country Captain - Make it stand out Pirate Grandmomma with a little Luca. Austin, TX 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620938200352-ZKNZ8P149NWZ83KVL9RQ/beebe.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chicken Country Captain - Make it stand out Probably not Shag dancing, per se, but Mom & Dad getting down to the Allen Oldies Band at ABGB in Austin over Christmas break. December 2017. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/sweet-potato-waffles monthly 0.5 2021-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620405578947-JKXJ9V5WGRSTGWYHXCCI/Mom+leah+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet Potato Waffles Mom in Tennessee with my niece, Leah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620405425486-6PLJ342CGUHVMQ6CAHF0/ghan2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet Potato Waffles This photo absolutely breaks my heart. It was taken at a Mother's Day party at my sister’s kindergarten [gan yeladim] in Jerusalem in 1974. Mom noted that they were singing a song with the words "at sheli," which means "You are mine". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620405596724-W5C57N707WK2FI0AILUF/Mom+Krista.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet Potato Waffles Mom was a surrogate mother to many. Here she is with my sister’s friend, Krista, who would often spend her school vacations at our house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620405616107-PRN8V80S0O09KT012LE1/volbergs.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet Potato Waffles Four generations of Volberg women! The portrait behind us is of my maternal grandmother, Phyllis (my Nonnie). It was painted by *her* painting teacher, Philip Cheasley. This photo was taken during our last Christmas vacation with Mom in December 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620405531894-FY4PKCDM7X2I2VHO2WJ7/baby+E.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet Potato Waffles Mom with baby Elisabeth. Being a second child, I’m miffed that there’s no similar photo of me. Ha ha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620405559604-BM4KJGPIW3B7Z8CWFQVL/Mom+luca+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet Potato Waffles Mom absolutely ADORED her granddaughters. She would refer to them as “my little girls”. Here she is with my daughter, Luca in Austin around 2006 or so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620405648909-E8X02W5SO8RV8UCGV38L/israel.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet Potato Waffles This photo perfectly illustrates the sacrifice that is motherhood! Look at my chic momma with a baby and a tired 4 year old! I’m so impressed that my parents didn’t let us hinder their adventures. My mom’s brother, my uncle Robert, is on the right. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/angel-biscuits monthly 0.5 2022-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620226776496-DNV0550UD3KAB9ROVKCI/passport+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Angel Biscuits My first passport photo. 1973. Who knew then that air travel would feature so heavily in Mom’s final days? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620226800494-4UNUIHQMCDFE3BBPFBFH/Elisabeth.jpg Recipes & Stories - Angel Biscuits Mom with my sister in the nursing unit of Carolina Meadows. We were eventually able to move Mom back to her house to die. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620226756653-H3KPNXQ2QEM197DX6H0H/air+ambulance.jpg Recipes & Stories - Angel Biscuits After a week in the hospital in Newfoundland, where Mom received her terminal diagnosis, she was finally able to go back to NC in an air ambulance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1620226734876-9SDKGSBZSEPPJNV6XXWK/airlift.jpg Recipes & Stories - Angel Biscuits Mom being airlifted off of the QM2 by the Canadian Coast Guard. Click here for the video. September 21, 2018.. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/cold-chinese-noodles monthly 0.5 2021-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1619883074367-JJUBFNBFM5COOLZ30SK6/engagement+portrait.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cold Chinese Noodles Mom’s perfect hair engagement portrait. I used to marvel over how that ribbon stayed in place! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1619883550974-CPK97ZY69M8XCAUAZ674/goth+sarah.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cold Chinese Noodles Me with my “not boring” hair in the late 80s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1619883126187-YGDMGH9U1216UXINNVTU/Dad+portrait.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cold Chinese Noodles VERY artsy photo that Dad took of Mom in high school! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1619883394379-DOXC4V0I29JD29GNRRID/hair+comp.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cold Chinese Noodles Left: Mom and Elisabeth at Carolina Meadows after her first hair wash in ages. (She had been life flighted off the QM2 to a hospital in Newfoundland and then air ambulanced a week later back home to NC. I’ll tell that story in more detail later.) Right: My daughter put flowers in Mom’s hair in the nursing home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1619883170894-68S9LXJRPLEPCYRU31G5/Michael+McVaugh.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cold Chinese Noodles Mom was always super put together. Here she is with a rockin’ haircut with her friend Michael McVaugh. New Years Eve, Chapel Hill, NC, sometime in the early 90s. (We got that jacket from a small boutique in NYC when I was touring colleges in 1989. I still have it!) https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/benedictine-spread-amp-hot-brown-sandwiches monthly 0.5 2021-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1619446555887-CRPVCHOT7GHSQ0IZJRM4/hat+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Benedictine Spread &amp; Hot Brown Sandwiches Mom made her hat, it has the sheet music for “My Old Kentucky Home” as the ribbon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1619447495221-2XXFHOVW2ZZR7080C7XY/169085641_10159422602944319_1077152348630392225_n.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Benedictine Spread &amp; Hot Brown Sandwiches We are the Champions! My family at the first annual Kin-tucky Derby, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1619452675042-AU3UW1TBXIBJ35NGSJE1/dervy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Benedictine Spread &amp; Hot Brown Sandwiches Dad and Mom dressed up for the Kentucky Derby, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1619449096920-KONA0RT3WM8ERIJ13F7Z/03_13-CoverStory-WinklerMot.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Benedictine Spread &amp; Hot Brown Sandwiches The infamous Winkler Motor Inn, Winston-Salem, NC. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/chatham-artillery-punch monthly 0.5 2021-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1619185887265-Z09VB5KRFS0UXL0QHSD9/volvo.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chatham Artillery Punch Me and my sister in one of our Volvos. I like how I’m just letting it all hang out with the diaper situation! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1619203574142-36DJ9AZLXOTOY7KXZXOU/triumph.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chatham Artillery Punch Me, age 16, in my beloved Triumph Spitfire! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/trash monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1618759470327-OMS6BRY8X1O6EQ0HPWN3/sock+hop+comp.jpg Recipes & Stories - Trash (Party Mix) Dad & Mom, always the Rock ‘n Rollers. They used to host an annual sock hop in a church reception hall. I always wanted to go. We got to help decorate and then were sent home, which now I understand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1618759338228-22KU278UXFK69HG8GXLQ/elvis.jpg Recipes & Stories - Trash (Party Mix) An earnest Valentine from me to the King. It has to be pre-1977 since that’s the year he died, unless I was just hopeful that he hadn’t. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/ragu-bolognese monthly 0.5 2021-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1618416040189-9RM8SCIN4C34KTFHJWBD/Dad.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ragu Bolognese Dad in Venice, 1988. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1618416023823-YUE2ECN79IN9WGI7IFOX/italy+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ragu Bolognese Scenic overlook somewhere in Italy, 1988. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1618416230301-Y9ECMAUSK0SY6S0D90QK/Italy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ragu Bolognese Hanging in the living room in Follina, Italy, 1988. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/chocolate-silk-pie monthly 0.5 2021-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1618067097059-S0W0GNZ631AQ8CROL0SO/modern+times.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chocolate Silk Pie Nonnie and Mom in front of 126 Mallette St. Mom is in a full Modern Times outfit. This was before Lycra was readily available. It was sold as “Underwear Fabric” and Lisa would buy it in bulk. One of my shop tasks was rolling the fabric, which was suprisingly hard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1618067183696-HFF9A534DMDRPNIJFM1H/hat.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chocolate Silk Pie I actually remember this photo being taken! It’s my first memory of embarrassment. Dad was trying to make me wear a hat I didn’t want to wear. Funny, because now you can’t talk me OUT of wearing a cowboy hat. (Believe me, my daughter has tried.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1618067054630-FA80S33INBXW6IHG9ARG/modern+times+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chocolate Silk Pie The Volberg gals, Mom is in a Modern Times jacket. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/welsh-rarebit monthly 0.5 2021-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1617725418979-ANO9MBA44I2D6WM4GS7M/music+3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Welsh Rarebit Guns for hire! Our family string quartet with my best friend Robin Brown. We played Handel’s “Water Music” at my aunt’s wedding in Tennessee. I’m not sure why we look so miserable. Mom looks SMOKING HOT, though! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1617725390054-8RLBEV18J2HHF5ZD5YNJ/music+1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Welsh Rarebit Mom always kept a basket of percussion instruments around. For birthdays and special occasions, we would each take an instrument and parade around the house and yard clanging away! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/dukes-potato-salad monthly 0.5 2021-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1617140519164-TJRZB94J88B21E4UX18H/graduatin.jpg Recipes & Stories - Duke's Potato Salad Dad in all of his regalia with Mom on the front porch of 126 Mallette St. I recall that he had to wear this every year for UNC’s graduation ceremonies which were always super hot and uncomfortable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1617140488169-FVGJYUJEGRGFYNSDWIJH/potato.jpg Recipes & Stories - Duke's Potato Salad A cropped version of the author photo for Holy Smoke taken on the screened porch at 126 Mallette St. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/shrimp-and-grits monthly 0.5 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616972836031-S56IE7H61VENZHSASM40/Frip.jpg Recipes & Stories - Shrimp &amp; Grits The Volbergs at a rental house on Fripp Island, before Nonnie and Granddaddy built their place on the marsh. I’m the little squinty one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616972866256-LRU4U4KDEUSUX1ACTQGD/Charleston.jpg Recipes & Stories - Shrimp &amp; Grits Mom, the chicest jaywalker in town, in Charleston, SC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616974756998-1GWIQ7KFM3NSS3DRMFBD/preppy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Shrimp &amp; Grits The thrift shop fake Izod sweater in the left school photo, and the Izod birthday cake Mom made for my 11th birthday on the right. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/copper-pennies-marinated-carrots monthly 0.5 2021-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616773851428-213SVLB6GPYFXVWU2SXU/back+yard+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Copper Pennies [Marinated Carrots] Mom and Dad’s author photo for 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South, taken in our backyard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616774047122-AMFC3T0G7WL8DB3LO2ZX/back+yard.jpg Recipes & Stories - Copper Pennies [Marinated Carrots] Me and my sister in the backyard in the wild & woolly 70s. (The structure behind us is the same, trellised one in the photo above. Some things improved with time!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616776621479-N81GIL3NW23YEXEZTDYP/porch.jpg Recipes & Stories - Copper Pennies [Marinated Carrots] Mom enjoying a drink on the porch. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/paskha monthly 0.5 2021-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616467127255-PD8TJCS438MJIPQLB683/easter+1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Paskha Mom with her infamous Paskha at the Chapel of the Cross Choir Sherry that we hosted at our house every year. It took Mom days to make and my sister and I looked forward to this dessert like crazy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1618586367268-0221YMVY526SV83KL78R/Easter+dresses.jpg Recipes & Stories - Paskha Us in our matching Easter dresses with Grandma & Grandpa Reed. Kingsport, TN. Sometime in the mid 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616512220404-13QYWCAR3JAM0XENL439/dresses.jpg Recipes & Stories - Paskha These two photos were on Mom’s fridge. Her granddaughters in matching Christmas dresses. Me & my sister in matching school uniforms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616467223619-409WSLUM1AIFG7GHTM1L/Easter+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Paskha If this date is true then mom would have been a senior in High School. She looks about 40! Why so serious? Love the hats and I always thought that “Curious” was a great dog name. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/shrimp-remoulade monthly 0.5 2021-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616167725573-X1PWO626CUXJ0PPDKWAD/Nonnie+1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Shrimp Remoulade Mom, Nonnie & Uncle Robert at Uncle Frank’s wedding. Pittsboro, NC. 1966. It’s fitting to have a photo of Robert in my Shrimp Remoulade post. Robert had a New Orleans restaurant in Berkeley, CA called Angeline’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616170947248-CWEDCU2R5XFLSLWJ4JXA/Nonnie+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Shrimp Remoulade Mom, Elisabeth & Nonnie. Christmas 1979. Kingsport, TN. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/white-lily-cream-biscuits monthly 0.5 2021-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1615824484021-O1ON0NIVIUFH7FCMRB4T/mallette.jpg Recipes & Stories - White Lily Cream Biscuits The Reed girls at 126 Mallette St., Chapel Hill, NC. This was the house we moved to when I was 4. Mom and Dad sold it in my late 30s. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/al-pastor monthly 0.5 2021-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616466856447-7HFY0YGR5ZPNSY7LF3EO/taxco.jpg Recipes & Stories - Al Pastor Mom in one of her beautiful Taxco necklaces. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/sticky-toffee-pudding monthly 0.5 2021-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1615245844840-5S2F7A126R42BN1JMHJG/Thatcher.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sticky Toffee Pudding Decades later, Dad and Mom meet Margaret Thatcher. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1615245821369-HOYXE44UIT7S97M7ABSL/england.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sticky Toffee Pudding Mom walking a group of us through the village. Elisabeth is in the green in the back, I may be in the red with my head turned. How cool is Mom’s shirt? Great Missenden, England. 1977. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/fried-okra monthly 0.5 2021-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1615062936734-1X9PMYCEHYMRFMW135F1/OKRA.jpg Recipes & Stories - Fried Okra How rare to find a photo of Mom ACTUALLY cooking the dish you’re talking about! Fried Okra prep and Mom’s glorious silver ‘do. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/candied-jalapenos monthly 0.5 2021-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1614701966307-TMYMD3DOGWJ5HF0LOTZP/dancing.jpg Recipes & Stories - Candied Jalapeños The cool kids: Dad and Mom dancing to the Zydeco Dots at my wedding. Houston, TX 2000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1614699194409-RUB0LW8FHROVRTEEKJTK/Mom+and+Dad+dancing.jpg Recipes & Stories - Candied Jalapeños John & Dale boogie through the decades. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/averys-bread monthly 0.5 2021-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1614533125237-FHDH2VR9SJH5VZ8F08BA/14481794_10209228100672469_3368044144032198009_o.jpeg Recipes & Stories - Avery's Bread My sister in the Victorian baby carriage that Mom & Dad bought in New York. Explains a lot about our childhood! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/summer-spaghetti monthly 0.5 2021-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1614356665042-ZRTGPBF97GVD0IBOTEJJ/welsh.jpg Recipes & Stories - Summer Spaghetti Mom modeling a vintage Brooks Brothers raccoon coat purchased at an auction in upstate New York. Conesus Lake, NY 1979. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/olive-salad-for-muffulettas monthly 0.5 2021-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1614053041773-WFFRD4MG1UZI0CW6ULHB/olives.jpg Recipes & Stories - Olive Salad (for Muffulettas) Church of Nativity, Bethlehem, November 1973. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/spinach-spaghetti monthly 0.5 2021-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1613874007944-W53XD3FQSHPH0NIBOS9N/BBQ.jpg Recipes & Stories - Spinach Spaghetti Mr. & Mrs. BBQ! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/not-tayyabs-lamb-chops monthly 0.5 2021-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1613777696629-8GFIXKJ3VLKMUP4QUUL7/wuzzle+copy.jpg Recipes & Stories - Tayyabs Lamb Chops Elisabeth’s birthday celebration when Mom was in the nursing unit at Carolina Meadows (2 weeks before she died). When she was little, Elisabeth couldn’t pronounce her name, calling herself “Wuzzle-beth”. Naturally, Wuzzle became her nickname! We had to cut off Mom’s oxygen in order to light the candles. When it came wish time, Elizabeth was taking a moment, prompting us to yell, “Hurry up, already! Mom can’t breathe!”. Tough crowd! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1613779736581-Q1QL9KO9T86IDSFZM1QN/B006D5E7-CDC3-49AB-9C97-028C26597393.JPG Recipes & Stories - Tayyabs Lamb Chops One of Elisabeth’s early birthday parties. That Raggedy Ann centerpiece made an appearance for many years! Fellow Gators, please note Mom’s Glenwood Elementary School T-Shirt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1616427080636-OVE9OVD353IPKMLWQ124/burning.jpg Recipes & Stories - Tayyabs Lamb Chops Us playing “Fireman” in the backyard on Oleander Rd. in Carrboro. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/chocolate-cheesecake monthly 0.5 2021-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1613274445123-9YPC7R592ZW89WN1AT9D/valentines.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chocolate Cheesecake “What am I, chopped liver?!” Dad reacts after Mom refuses a staged kiss suggested by their wedding photographer. She always had class, that one… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1613277776410-Q8H3HUSHGDAJI1EEUZGB/mom+and+dad+comp.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chocolate Cheesecake John & Dale’s Excellent Adventure https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/limoncello monthly 0.5 2021-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1613071453968-67RF5R61AMHX0W5NSM9L/limoncello.jpg Recipes & Stories - Limoncello Mom at the Commodore Club on the Queen Mary 2, just 4 months before she died. You can see glimpses of her fairy hair! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/chinese-chicken-with-orange-peel-amp-red-peppers monthly 0.5 2021-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1612971908592-FGFZD4TNXK82P36YQ1VL/china+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chinese Chicken with Orange Peel &amp; Red Peppers I believe this photo is from an anniversary dinner I threw for Mom & Dad. I made the Chinese Chicken recipe. The guests are longtime Chapel Hill friends Peg & Phil Rees and Linda & Jerry Folda. Note: the dining room border and harpsichord in background are mentioned in previous posts! The painting was done by my Grandmother Volberg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1612971824070-ASEOQF0O5UYFIWI7ZNHK/china.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chinese Chicken with Orange Peel &amp; Red Peppers Mom setting the table with her Wedgwood Florentine china and a Mulberry platter. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/chocolate-fondue monthly 0.5 2021-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1612811571620-NFQ5NSDUSW8HUIYTKQ3O/violin.jpg Recipes & Stories - Chocolate Fondue Mom accompanying me on violin. I have no idea who the kid in the apron is, but watching me saw away on a fiddle looks like a pretty crap playdate if you ask me. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/indian-peanut-dip monthly 0.5 2021-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1612542958598-CABX11DK6PCT3UQT4DSN/circus.jpg Recipes & Stories - Indian Peanut Dip Polaroids of Elisabeth’s circus bedroom at 126 Mallette St. Sadly, there are no photos of my rainbow room, the jungle bathroom, or the formal living room. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/porcupines monthly 0.5 2021-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1612454323909-OCMAZNS0S1D6S6YC022E/comp3.jpg Recipes & Stories - Porcupines On the left is a beautiful portrait of Mom (commissioned by Dad for an occasion - either a big birthday or anniversary?) by our family friend, Lucy Brooke. When Lucy learned of Mom’s death, she sent us her study photos. The middle image features the mountain dulcimer that Dad had made as a gift for Mom’s high school graduation (they were together even back then!). It is made from leftover pecky cypress wood which was used in the house my Volberg grandparents built. (Note Mom’s cool Capezio shoes!) The right image shows Mom with Rosie, one of our cats. Despite the look on Rosie’s face, they really loved each other! Side note: these were taken on the front porch of 126 Mallette St. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/party-nuts monthly 0.5 2021-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1612294265880-B0VXX868Z523Z6JG628P/mardi.jpg Recipes & Stories - Party Nuts Mom in another “Queen of Funk” dress with her Mardi Gras mask. Most likely taken at my parents’ Swelegant Supper Club (affectionately known as “the Swells”) in North Carolina. Correct me if I’m wrong, Dad! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1612294003615-9ZNE4MAQ8DN1W40KK5Q9/fairy+hair.jpg Recipes & Stories - Party Nuts CHECK OUT THESE TWO PARTY NUTS! Mom rocking her “Fairy Hair” (look closely for iridescent streaks woven into her hair) with Dad at the Infant Mystics’ Mardi Gras Ball in Mobile, Alabama. Taken February 2018. (Sadly, we didn’t know what that year would hold, Mom died that October.) https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/ginger-lime-carrots monthly 0.5 2021-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1612108817850-J3XNGTYTC0X34M0PWXRQ/QUILT+DETAIL.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ginger Lime Carrots Detail from my crazy quilt. The pink in the bottom corner is from an old moire taffeta skirt of mine from junior high. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1612108782281-2PXD49KCRZWWHYH6IVN6/quilt.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ginger Lime Carrots Mom (in front of one of the THREE crazy quilts she made!) teaching her granddaughter how to sew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1612112717289-P4WN4SIFX7TZY8F6P8F2/house.jpg Recipes & Stories - Ginger Lime Carrots Detail from my sister’s quilt. Mom digitally printed a picture of our childhood house (126 Mallette St) on fabric and then embroidered on top of it. The floral print is William Morris, it was Mom & Dad’s bedspread. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/risotto-high-amp-low monthly 0.5 2021-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1611683374935-1CLJUDZYUMCWXD4P67G7/Moody.jpg Recipes & Stories - Risotto: High &amp; Low Me with Dad & Mom at my first solo gallery show. Moody Gallery, Houston, TX 2002. They came from NC. It was such a big deal to me. My grandmother (Nonnie) died before the show happened, but she knew it was scheduled so I have peace with that. Nonnie was a painter and a big inspiration to me. P.S. This is the one time I was tan - glad it’s documented! And, how cute are my parents?! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/minestrone-amp-rosemary-focaccia monthly 0.5 2021-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1611425800382-Q2HCYUHP3RNZ5QYXE4SJ/030bb427-db53-42c4-9828-5ff2da53d01c.jpg Recipes & Stories - Minestrone &amp; Rosemary Focaccia Mom (pouring the milk) with her mother, my Nonnie, and her brothers. Mom learned from the best, Nonnie was another amazing, glamorous hostess! Also, who was the art designer on this?! That cutout is so random. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/frogmore-stew-aka-low-country-boil monthly 0.5 2021-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1611358536592-1VUAS23YE8IKLSESN2RE/IMG_5709.JPG Recipes & Stories - Frogmore Stew (a.k.a. Low Country Boil) When Mom had granddaughters she gave the dollhouse a sprucing up with a new paint job, patio furniture, and fancy new bedding (made with batiks brought back from Indonesia and beautiful, hand crocheted linens). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1611357223719-LYLZQV4JDJ9T17LYHIMA/dollhouse+small.jpg Recipes & Stories - Frogmore Stew (a.k.a. Low Country Boil) My Mom and Grandma Volberg (Nonnie) made us a dollhouse using carpet and wallpaper samples from Nonnie’s decorating business. It was the best dollhouse in town with art on the walls, appliances, bathroom fixtures, and a poseable family! Our cat, Rosie, used to love to climb into that kitchen, knock over all of the furniture, and take a cozy nap. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/cincinnati-chili monthly 0.5 2021-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1611075679527-TQS4MQP4DT63CLJWXMGM/hospital.jpg Recipes & Stories - Cincinnati Chili Mom and Dad (in their BBQ t-shirt phase) checking out their first grandchild! Austin, TX 2005 https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/pimento-cheese monthly 0.5 2021-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1611072120263-4V35MBFJCU72RNZSA8DH/wedding.jpg Recipes & Stories - PIMENTO CHEESE Pre-wedding with Mom. Trinity Episcopal Church, Houston, TX. 2000. How cool is Mom’s dress? It was hand dyed and very delicate. A friend of hers would refer to her “the Queen of Funk” when she would wear things like this. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/magic-grilling-seasoning monthly 0.5 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1610839323932-SPDN40VGY5FQH47PAZHY/harpsichord.jpg Recipes & Stories - Magic Grilling Seasoning Did you know that my mom built a harpsichord? She also painstakingly gold leafed the exterior when it was finished. That crazy lady! She used to tune it for HOURS when I would fake sick and stay home from school. Well played, Dale….. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/pasta-primavera monthly 0.5 2022-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/3da7a9a5-9bab-4e71-b9a3-bfc18693be88/1981+Bellagio+Villa+Serbelloni.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Primavera - Make it stand out EDIT: Found! Mom’s photo of the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1610837112094-P0VXBTY4HT5MRLIMWVT6/Kettles+yard.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Primavera I don’t have any photos of Mom and Dad in Italy with me here in Texas. I need to get home to NC for that. However, here’s a very cute photo I took of Mom and Dad at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, another fave of theirs! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/e075f62e-c84a-4b5c-a1e6-14835f08c704/1981+Bellagio+villa+view+from+terrace+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Pasta Primavera - Make it stand out View from Villa Serbelloni. Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy. 1981 https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/dilly-bread monthly 0.5 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1610829606410-3I4MKPHF7ENWHM02F6WO/ballet.jpg Recipes & Stories - Dilly Bread File Under: What the hell were we doing?! I guess we were going to ballet, but, as you can see, Mom is the only one with true grace. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/stefado-greek-stew monthly 0.5 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1610728505142-HP9XIZQ9DWD1YXR070N9/acrop+small.jpg Recipes & Stories - Stefado / Greek Beef Stew Mom changing my diaper at the Acropolis in Athens, 1973. Now, if this doesn’t inspire you to make Greek Stew, I don’t know what will. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/sweet-potato-soup monthly 0.5 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1610652431544-VBP63GNC3UCUI2M1WL7T/LIBRARY+1.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet Potato Soup Mom in a dress she made with Liberty fabric that she bought when we lived in England in the 70s. She made me my own Liberty dress (different pattern) when I was in college and had stopped growing. I still have it although I can’t say I’ve stopped growing! Mom is sitting on the floor of our library at 126 Mallette - my fave room in the house. Dark red with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves on all 4 walls. Yes, please. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1610652469371-L7A9TMU8MJRWQ8EUE9CA/LIBARRY+2.jpg Recipes & Stories - Sweet Potato Soup Another photo of the Mallette St. library with ME as a sullen teenager, Mom, and our cat, Rosie. I don’t know what I’m so bummed about - that couch was the most comfortable sofa in the world! I always joked I wanted my ashes sprinkled on it when I died. https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/kentucky-derby-pie monthly 0.5 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1610474339410-ZRT1GC9EDGBD7ROTL3NK/hamburger.jpg Recipes & Stories - Kentucky Derby Pie No, this is not a Kentucky Derby Pie! It’s an awesome Hamburger Cake that Mom made for my 12th birthday, complete with fondant tomatoes & lettuce with sesame seeds on top! https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/recipes/proustian-indonesian-pork monthly 0.5 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1610391202684-3HHS198X4TE1F56LRIGS/sock+hop.jpg Recipes & Stories - Indonesian Pork (or other protein) Mom and Dad used to have an annual Sock Hop. We got to help decorate with homemade R&B posters and record label art. Mom made her circle skirt, cinch belt and crinoline (which I remember as being VERY EXOTIC UNDERWEAR!) https://www.daleknowshowtohost.com/index daily 0.75 2024-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffb43bed7c44740fac3d65b/1642005241626-FU59JYJ0QV5QYG8WW29K/blog+6+BW+copy.jpg Recipe Index