Joshua Kennon

Tonight’s menu: Chicken simmered in white wine butter sauce over steamed rice and broccoli with mashed potatoes aligot stuffed with garlic and mozzarella cheese.  It was really good.

My mom brought by a batch of homemade lemon cupcakes she made, along with some raspberry-filled lemon cupcakes, because she is trying out some new recipes.  A few moments ago, as I paused before going back to work on the book and the regular About.com updates, I decided to enjoy one with a glass of milk.  Given that I ate a wonderful, and large, steak earlier today with Aaron’s family, it is now abundantly clear that I’m going to have to hit the gym tomorrow.  I’m so not looking forward to that … (more…)

Seriously, I am not running a food blog but those of you who know me keep calling and asking why I haven’t posted each day’s food selection because you want to know what we are having so you can try it yourself.

I know we eat, and live, extremely well but I really don’t like having to drop everything to go grab a camera before enjoying a red wine coq au vin from Julia Child.  I’d like to get back to sitting in the dining room with my nightly stock reports and studying as I eat, not worrying about getting food shots for the blog (which is mostly my life, which is mostly business, investing, finance, politics, music, and other things) so I have to return my focus to more germane matters.

Don’t worry (and don’t call me in a panic) … I’ll still continue to post our breakfasts, lunches, and dinners … just not to the point that I look like I’m an employee of The Food Network.

Last Christmas, my sister put in her Christmas list request and wanted a Crock-Pot (seriously, this is how I knew we had all reached full adulthood).  She says it was the best gift I ever gave her.  Ordinarily, I just go to the Chanel counter at a specific, well-known department store and buy a complete line of perfume products for each of the women in my life, so this year was a deviation from the past pattern.  (Kelsey was always Chanel No. 5 whereas my youngest sister was Chanel Mademoiselle.  My mom, on the other hand, is a Marc Jacobs fan.).

Anyway, she decided to create her own barbecue ribs recipe for Easter dinner and let me tell you something … it was phenomenal.  I even went upstairs a few hours later and ate more.  I mean, restaurant good to the point the barbecue ribs fell off the bone with almost no effort and melted in your mouth.

My sister made homemade barbecue ribs in her Crock Pot and they were amazing. It was definitely one of the best holiday dinners we ever had, even compared to the more traditional hams, turkeys, etc.

This is another one of the unique breakfasts we had last week. It’s a cinnamon apple french toast that was baked in the oven with wheat bread base and apple butter glaze, fresh slices of apple, and cinnamon. The side dish consisted of “fried” sweet potatoes, which were really prepared in a pan over open flame and served to replicate sweet hash browns without the use of sugar or artificial sweeteners.

This breakfast reminded me of the food we ate during college as we toured the southern United States, including North Carolina and South Carolina, which I fell in love with thanks to the people.