What’s Stu Cooking

Last nights dinner was brought to you by the letter G (and r): Grillades and grits with Southern greens.

Comment if you want to see the recipe posted.

First an apology. I didn’t intend to let this blog slip from my habits, but hey, it happens. I’m not going to beat myself over the head with a soggy turnip over it.

Part of the problem, i think, is down to the format of my posts. It takes up a lot of my time to photograph a dish and then write out an entire recipe. To get myself back into the habit I plan to give myself more freedom in what I publish, so I’ll be posting more than just recipes, in the future.

For example, I might just post a few lines about what I had for dinner one night. This kind of micro-blogging is catching on with formats like tumbler and twitter. The beauty of this format is that it makes publishing so quick and easy that it’s hard not to post. But the danger is that you could end up spitting out garbage that no one really wants to read. Hopefully I’ll find the happy medium.

Oh, and check out the new search feature on the right. It uses Google Custom Search to search only sites chosen by me, so you know that you’ll find a good recipe. For a partial list of sites that are included see my foodie links page. This site is included of course .

I just discovered Culinate via lobstersquad (Ximena did some artwork for the site). This looks like a promising new online magazine covering a whole range of interesting issues about food - its place in our lives and in the world at large. Not only does it have a clean, eye pleasing design that avoids those extremely annoying animated adverts, but it smartly offers RSS and archived content so that you can keep up with the site as well as troll through past publications.