easy recipes · Farmers Market recipes · Healthy recipes · seasonal recipes · Uncategorized · vegetables · vegetarian

Heirloom tomato salad with fresh basil and goat cheese

I love a fresh, cool salad in the summertime. I like to try new salad combinations, and I came up with one recently that I think is special enough to share with you. Check it out!

baking · breakfast · Breakfast and brunch · southern food · Uncategorized · what southern folks eat

Sweet Southern Mornings: Peaches and Cream French Toast Casserole

“What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?” ~ Anthony Bourdain Breakfast, as everyone’s mother says, is the most important meal of the day. This isn’t just a Southern-ism; this is practically universal among family matriarchs. While her intent was and is to fuel your body so you can work efficiently,… Continue reading Sweet Southern Mornings: Peaches and Cream French Toast Casserole

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baking · chocolate · Uncategorized

Red velvet-chocolate chip cookie bars

I believe that love can be created in the kitchen. Well, maybe not love, itself, but expressions of love certainly can be. When I look back on the gifts my children have given me over the years, the most memorable and valuable ones to me were the things that they created, wrote, or worked to… Continue reading Red velvet-chocolate chip cookie bars

chocolate · desserts · easy recipes · holidays · seasonal recipes · southern food · Uncategorized · what southern folks eat

Southern salted caramel-praline fudge

This easy-to-make fudge is so pretty that it just begs to be given away as gifts in pretty boxes, but it is incredibly delicious, too, which is the most important part!

easy recipes · pasta · Quick recipes · skillet suppers · vegetarian

Mama Steph’s winter vegetable-ricotta pasta

On a rainy night, a warm one-pot pasta meal hits the spot. Our soup…it does, too! Here are some recipes for both, including a new recipe for winter vegetable-ricotta pasta!

cast iron cooking · comfort food · Quick recipes · skillet suppers

Skillet supper: Chicken thighs with butternut squash-mushroom sauté

Skillet suppers have everything I want in a weeknight meal – flavor, warmth, simplicity, and quality ingredients. This flavorful combination takes advantage of fall vegetables that have some of the prep already done, to speed things up even more! Come take a look…

comfort food · cookware · easy recipes · italian · le creuset · soup · vintage

Chicken & tortellini soup, plus my latest vintage find

A perfect soup for fall, full of Italian herbs and spices, tender cheese tortellini, vegetables, and flavorful chicken. Also, I have a new vintage treasure to share with you…a piece of Le Creuset cookware! Come check it all out!