Growing up in the North, pecans were normally just used in my home when Thanksgiving came around. I am sure that part of this had to do with the pecan harvesting season being in the fall. But for the most part, pecans showed up in the allotted Pie and occasional dish that called for them [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]