Visit me at Pantry Confidential

Hey, hey! I'm cookin' over at the always-lovely Pantry Confidential today. Co-founders Hana and Christine stopped by recently to watch me whip up a buttermilk pound cake first created by my long-distance cousin Betty Feezor.

Betty was a beloved talk show hostess in the 50s, 60s, and 70s down in Charlotte, NC--the first Martha Stewart if there ever was one. I never had a chance to meet her before she passed, but I sure don't mind making the recipes she left behind. Come on over for a slice of cake and sit a spell.

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Secret Fetish: Colanders

Colanders are a bit ambivalent, aren't they?

I mean, they'll eagerly contain a lot of the things we crave: Steaming-hot pasta ready for a sweaty straining. Summery, about-to-pop berries needing to be held. Fat, juicy grapes asking for a good, wet rinsing.

But, oh, it's not for long. Nooo. Soon, they'll let things dry up. Get stale. Get mushy. Or get old.

And just when you think you've figured them out, they're back again--all cleaned up and ready to go, eager to be everything you need them to be.

Conflicted colander!

If you weren't so pretty, I'd have rethought this relationship years ago.

Large Fruit Bowl/Colander, $58, zwyner at etsy

Koziol Ole Small White Colander, £2.50, exitinteriors.co.uk

Ole Colander, $150, tivolihome.com

Oyster Colander, $75, DodgeStationPottery at etsy

Berry Colander and Dish Set (Snowball White), $42, baileybowls at etsy

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