There is nothing like homemade cookies to make your week brighter. Especially if they are accompanied by the pleasure of watching your loved ones dive head first into the cookie jar-over and over again. Cookies have a great smell as they bake in the oven and the smell continues to linger as they come out [...]

The fact that I adore butterbeans might come as a surprise since I have shared my lack of affection for lima beans without hesitation. As odd as this might sound, until you have tried fresh Southern butterbeans you couldn’t begin to understand me on this one.
Lima beans are so loathed by me that shuddering is an instantaneous [...]

As the summer bounty of fruits and vegetables are slowly coming to an end. I find myself preparing as many dishes as I can, cooking and baking with my favorites. I also find myself, continuing to schlepp my bags back and forth to work even though it is too hot to schlepp anything except myself [...]

Continuing with my “I eat my veggies theme”; a trip to the Farmer’s Market mid-week landed me with a few ears of corn and the makings of a good meal. My daughter bunked in for a few days to share in the respite & bounty of my days off. It is a pleasurable experience while [...]

Figs, oh how I love thee, let me count the ways.
Just as you are- picked from a tree, ripe and lucious. I dream of the day when I can enjoy the pleasure of your company leaning against your trunk for all it’s glory. You are my favorite of all the fruits and my prayer is-God, [...]

It was a toss-up which dish from Virginia Willis’s new book Bon Appetit, Y’All: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking I was going to share with you next. This was a hard choice, because so far-all that I have made from Virginia’s book is grand to say the least. But ultimately the Heirloom [...]

Whipping up a few dishes using ground meat is easy if I were cooking anywhere but the South. Coming up with a Southern recipe was a challenge and luckily, I found a grand solution to my soon to expire meat dilemma-a curried meat custard dish called Charleston Hobotee.

The South is full of hidden and almost [...]

This settles the dispute between what is the number #1 soft drink in the world. Coke rules, or more like it Virginia Willis rules for yet again, another mouth watering recipe from her new cookbook Bon Appetit, Y’All: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking.

Even the husband gave me the rare and coveted [...]

Hot of the press………well actually hot out of the oven is more like as we just ate this for a late breakfast. We devoured without a second thought. The French Toast Casserole was so good, I had all I could do to stop myself from having seconds. The only reason that we resisted temptation is that in [...]

 
Being awakened by the smell of breakfast in the kitchen while I got ready for school was an everyday occurrence. My entire family sat at the table together for breakfast and then again for dinner. In today’s fast passed lives most families don’t even sit at the same dinner table anymore.

Breakfast has always been my [...]