Grandma's Traditional Holiday Glazed Maple & Brown Sugar Ham is a perfect centerpiece for your holiday table. This ham is easy to put together and only has 5 ingredients! When it comes to holidays, I'm a traditionalist. I will never have a hot pink tree. I will never leave Santa tofu bars and soy milk, and I will never serve fish for Christmas dinner.Yes, when it comes ...
Dinner
Creamy Spring Tuna and Sweet Pea Pasta Salad
Creamy Spring Tuna and Sweet Pea Pasta Salad is a wonderfully refreshing springtime lunch or picnic dish. Make it up for your next potluck or whip up a batch to take to work this week! I, like many other people, love to garden. Vegetable garden more so than flower garden (although there are always flowers in my vegetable patch). There is something so satisfying about ...
Sheet Pan Paprika Chicken and Tomatoes
Sheet Pan Paprika Chicken is a quick to put together dinner. The chicken thighs are seasoned with smoky paprika and surrounded with fresh tomatoes and onions for a savory dinner you will love! There are hundreds, thousands probably, of different tools for our kitchens these days. There are a plethora of pots and pans, countertop appliances and new age gizmos designed ...
Spicy Shrimp and Avocado Salad
Spicy Shrimp and Avocado Salad is a light and refreshing lunch or light dinner. Sweet shrimp are sauteed in a spicy cilantro sauce and topped with fresh avocado, onions and tomatoes. In our sleepy, one horse town we have a lone Mexican restaurant called Mi Cocina. It is by far the most popular place to eat in town (because tacos, y'all). And even though we don't go out ...
Roasted Garlic Chicken and Broccoli Pasta
Roasted Garlic Chicken and Broccoli Pasta is a quick and easy family favorite a delicious weeknight dinner. Tender chicken and broccoli is mixed with corkscrew pasta in a cheesy sauce with Parmesan and roasted garlic to make a weeknight winner. When we moved in to our new house nearly 2 years ago, we knew we had found something special in the overgrown mini-farm that ...
Spicy Sausage & Shrimp over Parmesan Grits
Creamy grits, spicy sausage , sweet shrimp all in a tangy balsamic sauce comes together for an amazing quick and easy dinner. Give Spicy Sausage & Shrimp over Parmesan Grits a try tonight! In cooking, as in life, trusting yourself is a big hurdle to get across. Actually, its a hurdle you have to jump over time and time again until it becomes second nature; until ...
Italian Stuffed Peppers Granny Would Have loved!
Italian Stuffed Peppers Granny Would Have loved! These Italian style stuffed peppers are full of Italian sausage, spinach, cheese, rice and lots of flavor! Excellent as a make ahead meal or make a double batch and have a pan of these stuffed peppers waiting in the freezer! I think its about time I got down to some grandma food. It's everyone's favorite anyway. All ...
Best Ever Slow Cooker Beef Stew
Cold weather has been hard for us to come by this winter. And...yes...I am complaining about it. As much as I hate being cold all of the time, I also feel that nature needs that period of rest to recuperate from the ravages of heat and bugs and humidity. It cannot and should not always be Summer. But I have no control over the weather. All I can do is experience it ...
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 ...
Broiled Flank Steak with Red Onion Marmalade
Broiled Flank Steak with Red Onion Marmalade is an easy a fast dinner dish. It's a great weeknight dinner or company dish! Flank steak with a sweet/sour red onion marmalade is an excellent recipe! I don't know if you knew this about me or not...but I cook a lot. And in cooking a lot, there are not a lot of dishes that I make more than once or twice. I just don't have that ...
Fried Oyster Mushroom Po’Boy
Last Spring my dad, my friend Nicole and I went to this awesome workshop where we learned how to put together our own mushroom logs. It was a fun day full of laughs and learning an interesting new skill and we each came home with three of our own shitake mushroom logs with high hopes of harvesting oodles of mushrooms for years to come. We all got so excited in fact that we ...
Sweet Potato Noodles and Moroccan Turkey Winter Bowl
If there was a poster child for the adage “You can’t out run a bad diet” I would be it. For the last 14 months I have religiously gone to the gym. Two or three times a week I let my trainer, Joe, try to whip me into a thinner shape. Some wonderful things have happened in that time. I’m strong enough now to open any jar in the house. I can walk up several flights of stairs ...
Winter White Bean Bake
The temperature has finally fallen to a degree akin to Winter here in the South. It was a long, hot Summer and I am happy to have to bundle up for a change. Winter cooking is really my comfort zone. The extra hours of darkness and cold weather give me so much more opportunity to tinker with recipes and come up with meals that warm the cockles of my heart. My kitchen is ...
Easy Cheesy Sausage Skillet
The holidays bring out all of my stressors. I stress about money, getting all of the gifts finished, making sure the kids are at the appropriate party at the right time, squeezing in a trip or two to visit out-of-town family, and trying not to indulge so much that I have to totally swap over to wearing nothing but leggings and yoga pants before the end of the year. I run off of ...
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 ...