As some of you know, Whitni, my daughter, and I take turns writing a weekly post for the
Red Dirt Chronicles' blog. This is how we got into that.
A college sorority sister of mine, Julie Allgyer, also writes a
weekly post on the RDC and sent me a link to her stories. Being from Oklahoma, red dirt country, I became interested in the blog and started following it.
Sometime last fall, Kelly (aka Red Dirt Kelly) the blog's creator, put out a call for someone to cook through a cookbook. More specifically
Stockyards City Cookbook, kind of like a
Julie and Julia type thing. After several weeks Kelly still didn't have any takers, so I tried to talk Whitni into doing it since she is in Oklahoma City. She was hesitant, afraid she wouldn't have enough time. So I told her I would contact Kelly and see if she was interested in the two of us sharing the responsibilities even though I no longer lived in Oklahoma. Kelly seemed happy that we were willing to do this project and said it didn't bother her that I didn't live in OK because I had ties to the state.
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| Kelly, Whitni, & Jani |
So in October, at an Oklahoma State University football game, Whitni and I met Kelly for the first time and got our cookbooks. Kelly is a sly one! If I figured right, at one recipe a week, it is going to take us almost three years to cook through the Stockyards City Cookbook. I have to admit I am enjoying it and I am pretty sure Whitni is too. My family likes it because they are guaranteed at least one home cooked meal every two weeks!! Almost all the recipes I have prepared have been easy and good. I have only had problems with one recipe and you can read about that
here. I still haven't figured out what is wrong with that recipe!
I want to invite you to check out the Red Dirt Chronicles and some great stories written by those "with connections to the great state of Oklahoma".
