Spatula Diaries by Maggie Heyn Richardson – Slow and sleepy

My grandmother has spent most of her 90 years dodging the kitchen, and still quips, “I hate the inside of a house. Give me the outside any day.” With that attitude, she got away with mastering only a few signature dishes, my mother reports, including savory vegetable beef soup barley, hash, a loathsome concoction of churned up leftovers and slow-cooker oatmeal, which smelled of cinnamon and was impossibly creamy. More…