A Skirt Garden 2024 - Spring To Fall, Susan Nuyt - Flower Fly CollaborationChambray dress sold here. … [Read more...]
“Delusional” Thinking
I'm keeping all my secrets a secret.I shall, I will, plant an entire lawn of clover for my favorite wild animals.Nobody knows that you can be reclusively famous. The power of a hidden name while you're thought of as, "a nobody".It's "delusional" thinking of people who label you "stupid" and "uneducated"--remember that.People don't know what they gave up when they gave me up. … [Read more...]
Fried Chili Kimchi Corned Beef
Fried Chili Kimchi Corned Beef-- Photos, recipe illustration and cooking arrangement by Susan Nuyt, My Father's Foods; exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen, All Rights … [Read more...]
Stewed Beef & Barley Soup
Stewed Beef & Barley Soup by Susan NuytI have a true appreciation for vintage appliances and dishes, old rusty things and anything beautifully vintage that's in excellent condition, such as this Crockery Chef slow cooker. It screams old-fashioned beauty along with superb performance that doesn't let me down.Included in my sweet collection: charming salt & pepper … [Read more...]
Pineapple Casserole Dessert
Pineapple Casserole From Southern Living recipes, adapted by Susan Nuyt - This comes without warning, without expectation; perhaps a hopeless dessert because it's so simplistic and humble. It's not an elegant fine dining extraordinaire but it can be elevated into a pleasant surprise.It's homespun and probably too easy. It's a southern dish, and complete with its own … [Read more...]
Alabama Pecan Pie
Alabama Pecan Pie adapted by Susan Nuyt from The Southern Heritage Pies and Pastry Cookbook This is an excellent cookbook from long ago. And it's symbolic to the Americana way. You know, civilization and culture during a time in our Country when values mattered a lot more than they seemingly matter, now, and have in the past ten years. American history, even architecturally, … [Read more...]
Run the Race
Hopeful uplifting words just in case you need them--Have to fail to move forward. We all do."But some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all, in which case you fail by default." - J. K. Rowling "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." … [Read more...]
Cards Revisited & Made Again
These are Skirt in the Kitchen cards revisited and made again; improved and years later now marketed...Then new ones to add.These turnips were fried in butter with only mint and salt. My father's knife.I chose the cooked with the uncooked; the very contrast and thought for this picture.Many summers ago--my mother's salmon patties recipe that she often made for us. I cling to … [Read more...]
Café Cup Full
Psss... Come 'ere. I'm in a coffee shop, all by my comfortable-lonesome-but-not-lonely. The coffee is freshly pressed with its wispy aroma; and the pie is delish!!I'm celebrating.What, you may ask--A café cup full of lessons; life experienced and learned. Still leaning into more learning steps of excitable discovery this remaining year going into 2023.Where is time that we … [Read more...]
