Country Ham Breakfast
Gentleman Caller and I just returned from a weekend trip to Nashville for his granny's 80th birthday bash. We ate so much of the kind of food that lingers around your waistband, as proof of down-home cooking. GC comes from a long line of good cooks. For the six years that I've known him, I've heard tales of his Granny's country ham breakfasts. Sunday morning, I had my first taste of this legendary breakfast. A platter of country ham and bacon, red-eye gravy, about two dozen fluffy biscuits, honey, cherry preserves, scrambled eggs, hash browns, sweet cantaloupe and sliced tomatoes, all this for five people! What a feast! This isn't an everyday breakfast, but for special occasions like Christmas or Easter or days when you can push yourself back from the table and shuffle over to the couch to sit and stay a while. And unbutton your pants.
Dinner tonight: sauteed chicken with sweet potatoes and pears; artichokes