Amanda Helms

Category: Storied Kitchen

  • Hortense Montgomery, Zombie Hunter, Gets Spiced [partial draft]

    Because I’m lazy/working on getting my site fully moved over to my new host/working on a longer, More Serious post (which nevertheless involves a cartoon), I’m pulling a post that has been languishing in my draft folder for over six months. Maybe eventually I’ll come back to it and do the whole story and recipe…

  • Hortense Montgomery, Zombie Killer, Shares Graham Crackers

    Hortense gave her meat hammer an absent rub as she surveyed the horizon. So far, it remained clear; the ocher rays of the setting sun lit only the barren landscape and not shambling corpses. “These are really good, Mrs. Montgomery,” Johnny said behind her. “Thank you, Johnny.” She didn’t bother to turn; one didn’t, when…

  • Storied Kitchen: Irish Cream Cookies

    Snickersnack* the leprechaun eased the burden of his bag of gold off his shoulders and regarded the far end of the rainbow. Why rainbows? Why was it there that he had to hide his gold? Why not at the edge of, say, the Aurora Borealis? Rainbows just seemed so . . . trite. And that…