Bright green stalks of asparagus are popping up all around lately – at our local farmer’s market and in the produce department at my grocery store. I keep kicking myself that they would also be shooting up in my garden right about now if I’d just have planted them a few years ago when Read More
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What is it about pasta? I could eat it every day of my life and be a very happy girl. You’ll always find a stash of great pasta in my pantry including lasagna, linguine, angel hair, fettuccine, farfalle, elbow, fussilli, and penne are the most common you’ll see on my shelf. Each type can Read More
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One of the Mr’s favorite things to eat is turnip greens. Add roast beef, skillet cornbread, and maybe even some mashed potatoes and his rating of supper would most certainly be a 10. The other night, I decided I would make his favorite meal to welcome him home for a long week of meetings, meetings Read More
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A delicious, quick-fix recipe for braised cabbage with bacon that is the perfect addition for a hearty, weeknight supper.
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Succotash is a dish that always makes a welcome appearance on our table. Full of the delicious traditional vegetables of lima beans, corn, butter beans, I step it up even further by adding bacon, onion, garlic, and hominy for a recipe my family thoroughly enjoys. My succotash recipe definitely elevates a standard weeknight meal with Read More
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Pin It One of my husband’s very favorite salads is this Chef Salad. Full of vegetables, different proteins, and wedges of cheddar cheese, it’s really easy to see why he loves it so much. Luckily for me, it’s one of those salads that really is so simple to make, especially if you plan ahead for Read More
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If you’d told me when I was a teenager that I would actually one day love spinach to the point that I planned a meal around it, I would have thought you were crazy. But, here I am all grown up with a love for spinach that still surprises even me. My Daddy would always Read More
I’ve told you all about how much my family loves my Aunt Ellen’s sweet potato pies. I start thinking about those pies as soon as the leaves start to turn from their bright green shades of summer and start picking up hints of their bright fall colors. Well, last week I made my Aunt Ellen’s Read More
Pin It As the weather starts to get cooler in the evenings and the sun sets a bit earlier, I start craving hearty meals of soups and stews and casseroles. In other words, I turn to comfort foods, my favorite always being those from treasured family recipes. It reminds me of a time when Little Read More
When I was a young girl, I hated asparagus. Literally hated it with a passion. My Mother would seldom fix it because we made such a fuss about it. Also, if you didn’t grow it in your garden, then it wasn’t as readily available at our neighborhood grocery store. It just wasn’t one of those Read More
Sauteed squash is one my go-to side dishes all year long, but especially now as my garden is giving me an abundance of the cute little yellow sweethearts in a steady stream right about now. Each day I picked all the squash that needs to be picked only to go back the next day to Read More
If there is one thing we love in early spring and summer in the South, it’s our green tomatoes. I honesty think we may enjoy them almost as much as our ripe tomatoes. Almost. It’s really no wonder we like them so much though. If you’ve ever tasted a fried green tomato then you know Read More
Growing up during the summer, I loved spending time on my Grandmother’s back porch stringing green beans, shelling peas, and sometimes even shucking the corn. We’d sit for hours chatting about her life as a young girl, favorite books we’d read, and talking about just every day things. She always sat patiently and listened to Read More
About this time of year, zucchini becomes quiet abundant around these parts. We use it salads, roast it in the oven, and include it in kabobs throughout the rest of the summer. But there is one way that I love to use zucchini that is always a crowd-pleaser – zucchini bread. This recipe makes two Read More
Beef stir fry is one of my favorite quick-meal dinners to make on busy evenings. With baseball season beginning for us, the quicker the meal, the better. If I know I have everything ready to make a delicious, homemade meal at home, we’re less prone to pull through a drive through out of desperation Read More
I am so honored to be one of fifty food bloggers participating in the virtual progressive dinner Share Our Strength’s Share Our Holiday Table campaign for No Kid Hungry™. When I was asked to participate, I couldn’t wait to bring recognition to this wonderful cause. No Kid Hungry™, an unprecedented, five-year effort designed to end Read More
Homemade turkey potpie is a perfect way to show your family you love them. No, I’m serious, it’s a simple and delicious recipe that is full of good stuff. Vegetables are in there, lots of ‘em. They are all nestled inside a double blanket of a flaky pie crust with chunks of turkey and a Read More
We absolutely love caprese salads. They are fresh, deliciousness make a wonderful beginning to your dinner. A caprese salad is especially delicious with a perfect, juicy steak. But sometimes I like to quickly assemble a serving of caprese salad as my light lunch or dinner. It’s a versatile little salad with a big taste. The Read More
Homemade vegetable soup is simple and easy to make. On busy days, I can put a pot of this soup on and know that my family will have a delicious, nutritious meal without a lot of fuss on my part.
Grape salad is one dish I could always guarantee would be served at our family reunions when I was growing up. Usually, it … [Read More...]
There is a frozen fruit salad that my aunt always made when I was growing up. It was far from my favorite. Green with pecans and pineapple … [Read More...]
I grew up being the official taste-tester when my Mama made her potato salad. I'd pull the kitchen stool as close to the area of the bar … [Read More...]
Being able to quickly convert measurements of recipes is a fairly important task when you are cooking. In the early days of my marriage and beginning in the kitchen, a phone call to my … [Read More...]
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