Minestrone with Pesto and Garlic Bruschetta is such a great soup for the colder months! Winter hasn’t QUITE given up the ghost in these parts, so how about a delicious soup, packed with vegetables to nourish your body, beans for heartiness, pasta to comfort your soul, and bacon to add that sumpin’-sumpin’ that only bacon …
This recipe for Bacon-roasted Buttercup Squash with Rosemary Honey is your gateway dish into seeing winter squash as a source of delight, not duty. Honest!!! What Can I Cook with a Winter Squash? My CSA provided me with a winter squash that I’d never cooked with before, and quite honestly, didn’t know the name of. …
Grown-Up Grilled Cheese Sandwiches combine the made-for-each-other flavors of wine, cheese, and bread, in a somewhat sophisticated sandwich. And, if you like, you can add a sweet note by spreading those sandwiches with some slow-simmered apple butter. What a luscious delight of a bite! Cheese, Wine, and Bread As you may know, I’m a complete cheese-hound. …
This recipe for Homemade Lasagna plus a “How to” Video is different from my other lasagna recipe, for the World’s Easiest Lasagna,World’s Easiest Lasagna, in two ways. First, it’s made with a homemade tomato sauce, whereas my other recipe relies on jarred sauce. Second, since I came up with this recipe while partnering with Red …
This recipe for a Fabulous Frozen Fruit Smoothie is super simple! It’s my very favorite blend of the frozen fruits I try to keep in stock in my freezer, plus a hint of citrus for zing, and sprig of refreshing mint. A few years ago, I tried eating “raw” for a week, in …
There is so much depth of flavor, packed into this one simple cookie, that Browned Butter Brown Sugar Cookies will blow your mind! I am thrilled to be able to share this recipe with you! My Love For Brown Sugar: As a kid, I loved putting brown sugar on my cereal. Not plain old white …
Pumpkin Soup with Apple Cranberry Relish, and Spicy Pepitas is a delicious recipe for fall or winter – especially for when your soul needs a little comfort food. It’s the perfect thing for the winter weather that’s on our horizon. When the weather outside looks frightful, there is nothing that warms the soul and lifts …
Made on the stove top, and Southern to their tips, this recipe for Green Beans and New Potatoes is just like Grandma used to make! (More or less.) In the South, eating a big plate of these is also known as sitting down to a “mess of beans and taters”. We try to incorporate lots …
Roasted Butternut Squash, Leek, and Ricotta Lasagna with Pine Nuts is the best thing I’ve ever done with those butternut squashes that show up in our CSA boxes or produce departments come fall. The recipe just shouts “autumn”, not only due to its ingredients, but also, because of its seasonal colors and flavors. The Third …
Ever wondered what the actual voice of the writer sounds like? Here’s a video that my friend Richard Chisum shot of our family, and of me, preparing one of our family’s favorite dishes, Goat Cheese Macaroni and Cheese with Roasted Garlic. Hope you like it!!! You’ll find my recipe here, The original recipe I got from …
Five Ingredient Maple Dijon Chicken is an easy and delicious weeknight recipe you can throw together in a flash. What is a Desperation Dinner? Five Ingredient Maple Dijon Chicken is on my short list of recipes I think of as Desperation Dinners. Desperation Dinners are dinners that occur because 5:00 has unexpectedly rolled around AGAIN, …
There is a story behind this recipe for Mimosa Fried Chicken Biscuits, and it all started on my recent trip to Asheville, NC . The Highland Brewing Company in Asheville While I was in Asheville, I went to the Highland Brewing Company, where I met the owner, the incomparable Oscar Wong. I don’t throw that …
I have been accused, from time to time, of writing recipes that are (and I’m whining the accusation here, because that’s how I hear it in my head): “Tooooooo haaaaaaaard.” Well, honey child, help is on the way. For all ye who are culinarily faint of heart, yet unafraid of a few puns, I have …
In the South, we love our tomato sandwiches, and at my house, my husband and I are no different. Wait. That’s a lie. While it may be true that in the South, we love our tomato sandwiches, in this house, we are a house divided against itself on the topic of Tomato Sandwiches. I hope …
In this post, I’ll offer you seven basic tips that I used to help myself be a better cook. My Nest is Nearly Empty So many of my friends are finding, as I am, that as our kids get older and begin to leave the nest, we have more time in our days than we …