Sausage and White Bean Soup is an easy dinner for cool nights! Packed with creamy white beans and hearty smoked sausage, this meal is sure to please just about everyone. When the weather turns chilly, nothing warms you up like a hearty bowl of soup. Sometimes though, soup can be an all day affair, but this Sausage and White Bean Soup is not only filling and delicious but ...
Thanksgiving Turkey Roulade
Thanksgiving Turkey Roulade is an impressive alternative to the giant Thanksgiving bird. Sweet and savory filling surrounded by juicy turkey is a wonderful centerpiece for a more intimate holiday meal. The holiday season is upon us once again. It's the time of year that we begin to contemplate just what will be gracing the table and no dish is as important as the ...
Italian Baked Chicken with White Beans and Tomatoes
Italian Baked Chicken with White Beans and Tomatoes is one of those dishes that surprises you with just how good it is. It's comfort food that seriously fulfills it's duty as a blanket of warmth and savoriness for your belly. Chicken quarters and humble white beans are a match made in heaven. So, I originally posted this recipe in 2008. It was probably the third or fourth ...
Fried Grit Cakes
Fried Grit Cakes are a delicious way to serve up cheesy grits and are delicious covered in marinara sauce and a little Parmesan cheese. Fried grit cakes are ubiquitous in the South. They are a natural progression of cheese grits for dinner to leftover cheese grits for dinner again. That's because whenever you make grits, two things are bound to happen; 1 - you will make way ...
Bratwurst and Potato Soup
Easy to make and delicious to eat, this Bratwurst and Potato Soup is the perfect stick-to-your-ribs fall or winter meal. What to do with bratwurst besides stick it in a bun and top it with peppers and onions, is a question that I have thought to myself on more than one occasion. I love using bratwurst as a delicious change of pace from Italian sausage. We love our ...
Easy Pumpkin Pie Pancakes
These pumpkin pancakes are perfect for the season. They taste a lot like pumpkin pie which is an endearing quality in any breakfast item. A few walnuts on top add just the right amount of crunch. Give them a whirl on your next lazy morning. Pancakes are second only to waffles in our house, and I don't drag out the waffle iron very often ( and who does, ...
Easy Rocky Road Candy
Easy Rocky Road Candy is a quick, fun gift from the kitchen that can be made in a flash! Perfect to make with your kids and as a gift for teachers and friends! I'm always astonished to find myself at the beginning of October thinking about the impending holiday season. It always sneaks up on me. You would think that after nearly 40 years on this Earth I wouldn't be ...
Easy Orange Julius Recipe
Channel your inner mall-rat and whip up a batch of Orange Julius! Perfect for your 80's and 90's themed party (or Stranger Things marathon!) Ok, full disclosure....I am a child of the 80's and 90's. I spent a HUGE amount of time at the Bellevue Mall in Nashville when I was a teenager. I shopped at the Gap, I got my ears pierced at Claire's and every single time we ...
Cheddar Cheese Grits with Italian Sausage
Cheddar Cheese grits with Italian sausage is a stick-to-your-ribs meal that's not only delicious but quick and budget friendly as well. I see a lot of tourists at my day job. Many of them making their very first trip to the South. They ask me where to find all of the typical southern foods while they are in Nashville. Foods like the best BBQ (Peg Leg Porker), the best ...
Best Back to School Lunch Containers
This post contains affiliate links. The best lunch containers for back to school is probably a decision that you didn't think would be that hard, until you are staring at a wall of them in the container aisle at Target wondering if the $20 dollar lime green plastic contraption with all of the compartments and little snap lids is worth it. Especially since you are going to ...
Holiday Butter Cookies
My children, like many of today’s children, are spoiled rotten. It’s a plague throughout our society in which many children are flooded with anything that their little minds can dream up without having to work very hard to get it. My husband and I fight this fight every day and it is especially hard this time of year, where my children’s birthday and the onslaught of ...
Grilled Veggie Sandwich
Impress your vegetarian and vegan friends with this healthy and filling grilled veggie sandwich! Grilled Veggie Sandwiches are something I never thought I would catch myself eating when I was younger. Of course, I also subsisted on fried chicken sandwiches and cheeseburgers, so...what did I know? These days, I actually crave veggies and I'm smart enough to understand ...
What No One Told Me About My Late 30s
Today is my 37th birthday. An age that, as a child, seemed like it would be forever in getting here. As a matter of fact, I thought there was a good chance I would never see it, because it seemed so impossible to get to this age. But here I am. 37 years old. There are a few things that I have discovered on my journey through my 30s. The first of which is that your 30s zip ...
10 Make Ahead Sandwiches for Your Lunchbox
Here in the South we start back to school at the beginning of August. Why? I guess because its too dang hot to be outside, so you might as well send the kids on back to school. But, back to school means back to early mornings and packing lunches and not just for the kiddos but for the adults, too. When it comes to packing the adult (or very open-minded teen) lunch box, a ...
Keto Spinach Artichoke Chicken
Long before keto entered our life, we ate the ubiquitous boneless, skinless chicken breast a lot. Probably (if I'm honest) more than I ever wanted to. But being relatively cheap and quick to cook made a bigger difference many nights than whether or not it actually tasted delicious. Since discovering keto over a year ago, slathering a bland and boring chicken breast with ...