Susan's Kitchen

I was saddened to read of the recent passing of Linda Allison-Lewis, cooking columnist in Kentucky Living, the magazine from the Inter County Energy Co-op, and the author of “Kentucky’s Best - Fifty Years of Great Recipes.”
Though Linda and I never met in person, we talked on the phone many times about  recipes. When I wrote my own cookbook, she helped me by writing a very nice article about it, accompanied by a picture of my donkeys and me.

Here are two cool summer salads you will really like, one chicken and one broccoli.  I’ve featured them both in this column before, and they are in my cookbook.  They are recipes I return to again and again.
The Hawaiian Chicken Salad recipe was given to me by my friend Pat Colley (mother of Andy, local radio celebrity.)  I made it this past weekend because my daughters Rachel and Stevie were there, and they both love it.  It’s really delicious, and this recipe makes a lot, so it’s great for a pot-luck.

When I was a little girl, my grandpa’s garden was a magical place, full of delicious things to eat, exotic bugs to study, and if Grandpa was with me, great stories to listen to.
He taught me how to pick the striped bugs off the potato plants, put them in a jar and take them to the neighbor’s chickens. I was sure popular with those chickens. He also showed me how to put a saucer full of beer between rows of lettuce and spinach to lure the slugs, and the next day the saucer would be full of fat, drunken slugs. Guess what I did with them?