My style is to tell a story eventually weaving it into a recipe or two. But today, I am breaking tradition and getting to the point right away. The featured chicken leg swimming in sweet butter in today’s post is gone. No it did not drown, even though it appears to be drowning in butter. [...]

Food is a funny thing. Our relationship to it is well, quite telling of our relationship to the world. At least for me it is. Cooking teaches me a lot about myself. Sometimes, that means learning something or seeing something that I don’t really want to see. Sometimes though, if I watch myself from the [...]

We have already established that I am so not a meat and potatoes kinda person. But how about meat and grits? Slowly, I am being broken into eating Southern. Just when I think I have myself all figured out. You know, the what I will and what I won’t eat scenario, I surprise myself. Okay, [...]

Tomato- Basil Soup served with a good Southern cornmeal muffin was the makings of an early Monday dinner, just in time for basketball. Tomato soup is a close cousin to ketchup in my husband’s mind. He was in the mood for his favorite soup as he was feeling a little under the weather from a [...]

It appears that there are three Southern towns that swear they are the home of the original Brunswick Stew. This is no small matter to joke about either. Brunswick Stew is serious business in the South. And can you blame them? If your home town was famous for cooking a stew made with squirrels and [...]

There is nothing like Mom’s Meatloaf or so I thought….and no you are not crazy. No you are not seeing things. Yes, this is my second post on meatloaf. Well not actually. This is just my second post talking about meatloaf. We are not going to eat another meatloaf. For that matter my husband will [...]

For the record, and you can quote me. This Caramel Buttermilk Cake is the best. I mean the absolute best cake I have ever eaten in my entire life. I am an experienced cake eater who has had her fair share of cakes. I also have a few years and a few pounds of qualifications [...]

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. [...]