A table spread with fabulous food

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females foraging thru fabulous food, friendly conversation and a fresh look on life

Two Kentucky Thoroughbroads — Scarlett and Robyn — sharing recipes, stories, and the kind of friendship that lasts forty years and counting. Pull up a chair. There's always room at the table.

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Our most recent adventure in food, friendship, and finding the good in every season.

Came In Like a Lion
Scarlett · March 13, 2026

Came In Like a Lion

Scarlett’s March birthday always comes in like a lion — cold, wet, and windy. But by month’s end, March goes out like a lamb, celebrated with a fragrant lamb curry served over rice.

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Finally A Happy Valentine’s Day
Scarlett · February 13, 2026

Finally A Happy Valentine’s Day

After years of practical, plug-in gifts, Scarlett treated herself to a full-length black mink coat from Yudofsky’s in Louisville. The best Valentine’s gift she ever received — even if she had to give it to herself.

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January Chill
Robyn · January 16, 2026

January Chill

January is for chilling and pampering yourself. Robyn batch-cooks soups and stews, freezes individual servings, then takes a birding road trip to find the whooping cranes at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge.

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A Pie Full of Memories
Robyn · December 19, 2025

A Pie Full of Memories

A Pillsbury crust, a jar of Nonesuch Mincemeat, and a lifetime of Christmas memories. Robyn’s mincemeat pie tradition — simple, nostalgic, and baked into every holiday since Michigan.

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Turkey and Friends
Scarlett · November 17, 2025

Turkey and Friends

Here we are heading into the end of 2025. The Thoroughbroads are here, and it's a little shocking to consider that next year will mark the 250th founding of our country. This Thanksgiving may be a little different for many of us — how about planning a Friendsgiving instead?

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I Do Declare
Scarlett · July 19, 2025

I Do Declare

Scarlett has had enough of this June and July rain. The garden is strugglin' to make it thru the deluge. Peppers curled up like the letter C, squash plants lost, and carrots beaten to death. But there's still hope — and a recipe for Carrot Chips.

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Starving
Robyn · June 1, 2025

Starving

Robyn here and I am starving! This is the woman who talks about food, writes about food, collects recipes like she is going to live forever. But foot surgery for a detached Achilles tendon has limited her time in the kitchen — and she's starving for her own cooking.

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A Toast to Daylight Saving Time
Scarlett · March 8, 2025

A Toast to Daylight Saving Time

Looking forward to Daylight Saving time, the weather gods give you a last dash of cold, wet, grey, windy days. How about an easy soup recipe that will warm and brighten your mood? In just twelve minutes, you can make a big bowl of Prawn Soup.

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Something New Something Old
Scarlett · October 6, 2024

Something New Something Old

Two Thoroughbroads joined up for a fun week wrapped around food, fun, and a festive writing group event in Bardstown, KY. A road trip to a lavender farm, then to the Claudia Sanders Dinner House — where the fried chicken hasn't changed in 35 years.

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Living Alone, But Not Alone
Scarlett & Robyn · September 11, 2024

Living Alone, But Not Alone

Living alone for the first time in 50 years, Scarlett has a renewed interest in pre-planning meals for one. After 41 years of marriage, Robyn became a widow. Being alone and being lonely are two separate things — and Robyn's advice is to put one foot outside your comfort zone and fly.

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Gotcha Gazpacho
Scarlett · August 2, 2024

Gotcha Gazpacho

With this super hot summer in Kentucky and Alabama, Robyn and Scarlett enjoy a cool summer treat: a chilled gazpacho! They remember the first time they had it in Louisville in the 80s — where a chance meeting on a plane led to a friendship for life.

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Company Is Comin'
Scarlett · November 5, 2024

Company Is Comin'

What a thrill to receive a great testimonial on our trip to Claudia Sanders Dinner House. Scarlett and Robyn will be in Kentucky again in December, and their calendar is filling up fast. Did you know Kentucky has a Paris, a Versailles, and a little town called Monkey's Eyebrow?

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Whoops
Scarlett · June 1, 2025

Whoops

Due to Robyn's surgery and Scarlett's ex-husband coming back into the picture, we stayed so busy that we did not post in April or May. The many trips to safe havens during tornado activity didn't help either. But we are back in full force with stories and new recipes.

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Meet the Thoroughbroads

Two friends. One table. Forty years of stories.

Scarlett lives in Kentucky and Robyn lives in Alabama, but the miles between them have never dimmed a friendship forged over food in Louisville back in the 1980s. They've shared potlucks, costume parties, themed dinners, and now — a blog where they forage thru fabulous food together, even if it's from three hours apart.

Every post is a little bit recipe, a little bit story, and a whole lot of heart. Because the best meals are the ones shared with people who make you laugh until your sides ache.


Meet Scarlett & Robyn

Robyn and Scarlett…
friends for 38 years.
Alabama and Kentucky
are not that far away
for this friendship.