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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I had a choice last Sunday afternoon on my only day off till the 27th of July. My choices as I saw it were; clean the house, take a nap on the porch, read on the porch, write for awhile, go shopping with my daughter, garden or cook for the afternoon-in my new kitchen. If I didn’t make a [...]

Pimeno Cheese affectionately called by Southerners was the first food to earn permanent status in my Southern Kitchen Larder. This is where I hope to highlight the important foods and ingredients for Southern cooking. As I learn and discover they will be featured here along with any sources. Hopefully you will find this useful and [...]

The best food that comes out of a hot oven is homemade bread. Well maybe not the best, rather a tie between all my oven favorites. Choosing a favorite would be just too hard as I like bread period-they all have their place in the kitchen and at the table. I grew up eating only [...]

What could I have possibly been thinking by ignoring Crispy Buttermilk Biscuits and Sugared Bacon all these years? I must have been out of my mind, well before menapause set in I confess. Thank God I have come to my senses.
Wanting to start off this chapter of my life with something special. I decided I [...]

Southern Baked Eggs with Cream & Bacon are on the menu today for Sunday Brunch. For clarity A Yankee in a Southern Kitchen post was written almost two weeks ago when the circumstances in my life were much different than they are today. That being said, I am most grateful for the early morning wake-up [...]

A week has passed since I first wrote the un-posted draft A Yankee in a Southern Kitchen. What I didn’t expect was the urgency of God’s early morning wake-up calls which the forthcoming post will talk about. Last weekend at work we had a few Trunk Shows that would require a caterer. [...]

I love Sunday’s for a multitude of reasons. First it is a day of rest in my heart, a gift from God to slow down and give thanks though I seldom fully take advantage of it. Sunday’s are for lingering over coffee in the morning, going to church for spiritual nourishment, having a great breakfast [...]