Strawberries with Cinnamon Cream is a simple and elegant fruit dessert for warm spring days. Sweet berries topped with the tangy cinnamon cream are a match made in heaven. And it only takes minutes to whip up! So...Mother's Day is this coming weekend. It won't be long until the aisles of every Hallmark store will be jam packed full of people agonizing over just the right ...
Appetizers
Blue Cheese Roasted Potatoes
Blue Cheese Roasted Potatoes have a lot going for them. Creamy blue cheese and crispy potatoes come together to form the perfect side dish for steak or pork chops. To top it all off this potato side dish is a cinch to put together. One of the best things about being a grown-up, in my opinion, is the ability to enjoy new foods. No longer do our culinary passions revolve ...
Fried Tuna Patties with Yogurt Dill Sauce
Fried Tuna Patties with Yogurt Dill Sauce is one of those rare combinations of cheap, quick and delicious. We must have eaten tuna patties ( or "tuna croquettes" if you want to get real Southern) at least once a week growing up. Embrace the canned tuna and whip up this family favorite! I have a deep, abiding love for fried tuna patties. Isn't that weird? I just can't ...
Muffaletta Style Italian Party Panini Sandwich
A million years ago, a fresh faced 20-something and a curly headed 30-something walked into an Italian grocery in the heart of New Orleans and ordered a muffaletta. Hand in hand, those two love birds shared a wheel of Italian delight stuffed with salty, rich cured meats and cheeses and oozing with a briny olive salad. Even though the fresh faced 20-something was doing her best ...
Black Bean Sliders
These black bean sliders are designed to be a fun dish that could be shared at a party as a heavy appetizer and are a perfect accompaniment to fries and a cold beer. Set them next to the plate of hot wings so that no one’s carnivore-nature feels threatened. If you want to make a Southern carnivore squirm, give them a veggie burger. The veggie burger came to fame in the late ...
5 Minute Spicy Black Eye Pea Hummus
A quick and spicy bean dip with a twist, this Spicy Black Eye Pea Hummus is a creamy and delicious adornment to chips and veggies alike. If you were a good Southerner, you would know that every New Year must be rung in with a bowl of black eye peas. You would also know that somewhere in that bowl of tiny cream colored ...
Butternut Squash Bisque
Smooth and warm and comforting for a winter's day light lunch. Butternut Squash Bisque will warm the cockles of your heart. I have come down with the first (and hopefully last) cold of the season. I'm all achy, my ears have a slight ring to them, my throat is raw and my head is all stopped up. The simplest of tasks has me run down and out of energy. The furthest I have gone ...
Turkey Cranberry Sliders
Let’s be honest. Thanksgiving is delicious and all, but the best part is all of the leftovers. If done correctly, the fridge will be full of meals that I don’t have to work too hard for for the majority of the week. The first couple of meals are generally a similar version of the original meal; swap the virtuous Brussel sprouts ...
Green Bean and New Potato Salad
Life has an amazing way of teaching lessons. We have had so many lessons in the last week. My husband has learned that you should never run with wet shoes on and that broken bones sometimes take a plate and 8 screws to fix. I have learned that it takes 6 minutes to get from our house to the nearest doctor and that we have an astounding amount of friends and family who ...
Saucy Barbecued Chicken Wings
Ladies and gentlemen, I need you to pray for us. I need you to pray that we don’t run out of food or money during the next several years of feeding the bottomless pit that has become my son. I’m not sure when it happened, or who flipped the switch that turned my sweet baby boy into an eating machine but I feel that there is no going back. There haven’t ...
Make Ahead Pork Potstickers
Make Ahead Pork Potstickers are easy to make. Grab a friend and make a big batch to keep in your freezer for a lightening fast meal or appetizer that you can make right from the freezer! Make sure to read the notes to learn how to freeze potstickers for later! If you had told me 5 years ago that my kids would frequently beg me to make potstickers for dinner I would have ...
Gloriously Retro Pineapple Ham Balls
I have a slight obsession with vintage recipes. Just something about the fads and trends of cooking that thought Jello molds and mayonnaise was a good combination fascinates me. I often find myself wondering, what was the mindset of the women (for it was almost assuredly women) who came up with these unorthodox combinations. I think it must have been a little bit ...
Broccoli Bites and the Terrible Hide and Seekers
The game of hide-and-seek is certainly not anything new. As a child, our regular games of hide- and-seek were closely related to black-ops style missions that demanded that the hiders call upon all of their stealth and ingenuity in order to outsmart the usually older and bigger seekers. We would play endless games, making sure to place “base” in some wide open area ...
Wine-y Cranberry Salad
Few things are more controversial in the South than libations. It’s certainly not uncommon for people to be on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to imbibing, and I know convincing people to believe otherwise on the issue is about as effective as digging a hole with a wet noodle. But as this month of thankfulness cruises on, I can’t help but be thankful for wine, no ...
Cinnamon Pumpkin Muffins
You can learn a lot of things from a kitchen remodel. For instance you can learn simple things like, your small kitchen houses no fewer than 19 doors, 7 drawers and 26 pulls that have to be either painted or replaced. You can learn, too, that when picking out the color yellow, there is a fine line between buttery and school bus. You may also learn that the old man who lived ...