The ritual celebrations of the Asian and Indian holidays feature a lot of common elements, so you will see this menu work with those profiles.

This week-long menu highlights much of what is local and in season here in the place that I live and love. If you are South like me, you will find that everything is super easy to get your hands on.

Despite having 2 meats on the menu, this week is decently light. It will provide a good amount of healthy vegetables and balance it out with a dallop of indulgence, which works for me. You can’t be good all the time.

here are a lot of places in this menu where you can make easy substitutions, and also where you can clean up the fridge.

A weeks worth of lunch and dinner for a family of four for under $75. Smart planning home economics…

I was once in conversation with a woman who was lamenting that her daughter had become a vegetarian. Now, it wasn’t the fact that her child had given up meat that was the problem. She promptly followed this declaration with an eye roll and a sigh, proclaiming that her kid was putting on weight because she was actually a “carbatarian”.

That night I ate the cheese, folks. I ate all the cheese and my pants didn’t give me shit for it. Which is as it should be.

Yes, Felicia, those pants make your ass look fat. Are they comfortable? Buy them anyway. And then sit around and eat some damn cake.

This, folks, is one of my worst nightmares. And let me tell you, now that he knows, it is one of the man’s as well.

Do not pretend that your vegan “cheese” is cheese. Your gluten free “biscuits” are not biscuits. Your vegan “pizza” IS NOT PIZZA

Eat the bread, people, eat all the fucking bread.

I want a time machine to go back and slap that little-girl me in the ass and say, “Enjoy it now, kiddo, because one day….one day…..”

Some women miss the waistline, or complain about their ass, me, I can handle that. Its the tits, y’all. Just…..Jesus.

I have in my hand some sort of cookie that has jam in it. But as I am trying to eat it, the jam begins to replicate itself until it is spilling down my arm and puddling on the table.