We got a little carried away. What with all this Wednesdays at noon livecast Double Americana nonsense, and all this Rumbly Tummy food blog every first Wednesday silliness. We forgot, with all these self imposed deadlines and goals and new projects and release dates and what's nexts, to stop, look around, see where we are, and say "Hello." Hello! We are in the middle of it all. A little past the middle of the year, sitting in the middle of Wisconsin in the middle of the co

It's tradition! And one of our favorites. Since becoming vegetarian, Mallory has been making Hoppin' John's (or, if you prefer, Hoppin' Jane's) every New Year's Day. Seeing as her previous tradition of pork and kielbasa and sauerkraut wasn't going to cut the new dietary restriction, The R&T has been enjoying this spin on a classic Southern good-luck dish for the last five years. Brown rice topped with spiced black-eyed peas topped with sauteed collard greens topped with s

Listen, it was all going our way, really. We had our camper back! We were sleeping in our own bed again. We were eating our own food and had our independence (even though we were so grateful for the houses that had opened up to us when we were without our camper) and were flying high all the way from Tennessee to North Carolina to West Virginia to... well, that's when we got to Pennsylvania. You may remember those couple years ago, the sad scary day when Butter was hit by