comfort food Archives

When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemon Bars

by Darcy Wiley | Jan 10, 2015 | Buttons & Thread, Pocket Change, Sweet Tea

This holiday season, we were singing the “Twelve Days of Sickness” instead of the “Twelve Days of Christmas.” What started in mid-December with puke buckets and snot rags continued all season long and made us wonder if Christmas would happen...

Comfort Food for the Trampled Soul

by Darcy Wiley | Jan 23, 2012 | Pocket Change, Relish

We pull our chopsticks from their wax paper wrappers, snap them apart and graze them against one another, like twigs starting a fire or iron sharpening iron, to smooth out the splinters while our food steams and cooks in the kitchen. I turn the English and pinying...