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 ...
Recipes
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 ...
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 ...
Overnight Fruity French Toast Casserole
Overnight Fruity French Toast Casserole is the perfect make ahead breakfast dish. Thick bread is covered in an eggy custard and dotted with fruit, then baked to golden perfection. Perfect for Sunday brunch! When I was a little girl, I had lots of sleepovers. I'm not sure how my momma didn't go crazy with all of those girls in the house all of the time. As a mother ...
Homemade Weekend Waffles
Fluffy homemade waffles perfect for a weekend brunch. Whip up a batch for the kids and stash the extra in the freezer for an easy weekday breakfast! I’ve really let my weekend breakfast game slip for the last few weeks. The kids have been forced to find whatever they can to subsist on until I feel like getting up and making something substantial. I have just been totally ...
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 ...
The 5 Best Seed Companies for Southern Gardens
The arrival of seed catalogs in the mailbox is the first sign of Spring in my book. They usually begin to arrive at the beginning of the year and I love nothing more than curling up with a hot cup of coffee, an ink pin, and some lofty goals for the new year's garden. While I am certainly not a master gardener, I do love to tend my little plot of land every year. Each year's ...
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 ...
Berry Scones with Dark Chocolate Drizzle
Berry Scones with Dark Chocolate Drizzle is a delicious morning treat or even an afternoon snack! Tender dough with fresh fruit and a decadent chocolate drizzle. Yum! A long, long time ago, I was a child. And as a child I wanted to get my parents something really special for Valentine’s Day. Of course this would be the late 80’s so the “allowance” had not yet been ...
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 ...
Wild Mushroom Risotto
I have been mushroom hunting for a while now. I don't get out as often as I would like but, when I get the opportunity and mushrooms begin to pop-up around me, I get the urge to go out and see what nature will offer up. I am not always successful, but when I am it is so exciting! But in order to keep the steady supply of delicious wild mushrooms coming in, we ...
The Serious Cook’s Essential Tools
All product links are affiliate links (that means I make a teency tiny bit if you order through this link) but I honestly highly recommend and own these products myself. There are those in this world who cook because they have to, then there are those who cook because they LOVE to. I am the later. Actually, my husband and I both are avid cooks and we have been in the ...
Rosemary Vegetable Soup
Rosemary Vegetable Soup is a humble soup with lots of warm hearty flavors to keep you warm and nourished this winter. It has been scientifically proven that trying to lose weight during the winter is futile (ok, maybe not scientifically proven, but I have tested this theory on my own) but I tend to not let this knowledge stop me from putting forth a good frustrating ...