There's just something about the starting of a week. Mondays have a way of setting the tone - the turning of the page in your planner, a new rhythm, a quiet invitation to begin again. Around here, food is one of the ways we anchor that feeling. Whether it's a tried-and-true favorite (like the sausage gravy recipe I told you about last week) or something new we're experimenting with (like Mads learning to make her own Spanish Rice), a good meal has a way of pulling everyone together. So today, we're starting something new at Cox & Kin: a weekly series we're calling Monday meals. Every Monday, we'll share one recipe - sometimes a family classic, sometimes a new dish we've fallen in love with, sometimes something simple and comforting that fits right into the flow of everyday life. No seasonal limits, no strict themes. Just the meals we actually cook, enjoy, and return to again and again. Some weeks it might be a cozy dinner. Some weeks a breakfast we c...
Some recipes are written on index cards stained with years of use. Others are tucked into cookbooks with notes scribbled in the margins. Then there are recipes like GG's sausage gravy, recipes that live in memory, passed from one pair of hands to another and stirred often enough that no one needs to write them down. GG, whose name was Dorothy but whom we all called GG or Grandma, was my husband's grandmother. When I think of her, the first things that come to mind are card games around the table and her ability to cook amazing meals without ever measuring a thing. She had a way of knowing exactly how much flour, milk, or seasoning was needed without looking at a recipe. To this day, I still find that impressive. One of the recipes she taught me was her sausage gravy. What makes it special isn't a secret ingredient. It isn't a complicated technique. What makes it special are the memories and love attached to it. I can still remember her teaching me how to make it. ...