When Thanksgiving rolls around, the whole time I’m preparing the feast, my head fills with echoes of Thanksgiving Days long past. I think of my Mom, slinging that ginormous raw turkey into the ancient roasting pan, and my involuntary shivering at the smell of uncooked poultry and its innards. I think of the untold hours …
Cantina Laredo treated me to a lovely dinner, and gave me a gift card to give away, but all opinions are CLEARLY my own. Being a member of the Nashville Food Bloggers has its perks, and recently, we were guests at a dinner hosted by Nashville’s local branch of the Mexican food chain, Cantina Laredo. Cantina …
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 …
Because I couldn’t possibly fit all the wonderful things that went on at the Food Blog Forum in Asheville, NC into one post, I decided to break my account up into a few smaller, more manageable bites. This is the second post in my series on the 2014 Food Blog Forum in Asheville, and here’s …
One of the things I love about Nashville is that it is still enough of a small town, that you can have the kind of experience that I had Sunday morning. All the way home from church, we kept laughing and shaking our heads over the wonder of it.. And driving home was a good …
I participated in the Train Bulletproof Picasso album review program as a member of One2One Network. I was provided a free album to review but all opinions are my own. It’s my pleasure to have the opportunity to review the latest project from the three-time Grammy winning San Francisco band, Train. Their newest album, Bulletproof …
Have you ever had so much fun that it was hard to sum it all up? I’ve delayed writing about my experience at the Food Blog Forum in Asheville, NC, because really, there were almost too many good things to tell! But before the great memories fade away, I decided to try to capture a …
I’ve been noticing lately that everything’s connected in my life. When I take the time to look, events that might at first glance seem to have happened randomly, upon closer inspection, have common threads running through them. When I reflect further, I often find areas where God might be speaking to me – there – …
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 …