Daily Loaf

I love finding great produce, and was thrilled to find the first corn of the season in the market recently. The good thing about in-season produce is it is cheaper, more flavorful and usually from closer to home.

Roasting the corn for this salad coaxes out all the sweetness. The soft bibb lettuce provides nice contrast to the crisp bacon. The simple dressing of vinegar and cream is inspired by a dressing I had on a salad in France. Adding vinegar to the cream makes a dressing with a nice balance of sweetness from the cream and acidity from the vinegar, a bit like crème fraiche. Be sure to start with a good quality, good-tasting vinegar because it is a prominent flavor in this salad. Read the rest of this entry »

Sooner Holley:  In addition to the constant ribbing I’m getting lately about how “Tebow is Superman – just admit it” and how I better start mining for kryptonite, there’s a more personal Holley-criticism which is coming to me more and more frequently: Apparently, I lack objectivity.  By not admitting that Tim Tebow may as well be Zeus and Apollo combined because he has faced more top 50 defenses than Sammy B. and the Sooner offense, I am failing to recognize some legitimate facts and therefore, am not an objective fan.

Objective….Fan….Objective….Fan….there’s something that doesn’t feel right about that pairing of words.

Oh, it’s that they are completely contradictory.

If you are a “fan”, you have a bias.  That is the definition of the word.  You support a particular team, group, cause, ice cream flavor, grocery store, yada yada yada.  Objectivity doesn’t really have a place in “fandom” or “fannery” or “fanaticism”.  (I think that last one is the correct noun, but honestly, I like “fannery” the best.  It has a nice ring, doesn’t it?)

Example: Read the rest of this entry »