Over a decade ago, my friends, Ben and Ken, had a fabulous fall dinner party in their backyard and each guest was assigned something to bring. I was assigned the soup course. I knew immediately I wanted to bring this soup. Adding apples and carrots creates a sweetness and depth of flavor. Yes, you can …
This soup is comfort in a bowl. I love to soak the beans on a Friday night and make this on Saturday afternoon. It is perfect for game day or any day. This is a huge batch, I believe it made 6 quarts, so be sure to grab your biggest soup pot- or you could …
Today I took a trip down 64 Highway to Gilliland’s, I had heard through the grapevine that the Elberta peaches had been harvested and as it turns out, today was my lucky day. Gilliland’s has been open as long as I have been alive and is the place to go for peaches. You can find …
This is an easy, make ahead side dish. I have found that salads without lettuce are my absolute favorite. Earlier this year, I was researching foods related to inflammatory responses and came across many articles with info on the Mediterranean way of eating. I began to embrace the olive oil, lemon, garlic and oregano goodness …
A quick trip to the local Farmers’ Market Saturday morning resulted in some beautiful pickling cucumbers. My entire family loves cucumbers and we use them in salads, veggie bowls and plain with salt or everything bagel seasoning and our favorite is quick pickles. I grew up canning with my Memaw Young and we never purchased …
Fire Cider is a homemade tonic, unique to each household. There is not really a recipe, just fruit, vegetables and herbs used for medicinal purposes with their goodness being extracted by apple cider vinegar (with the mother). The apple cider vinegar seems to be the only constant in the long list of ingredients you can …
A great way to begin your tonic journey.
If you are from the south, then you grew up eating cornbread at almost every meal. I had two grandmothers Memaw Young and Nannie Logan. They were both excellent cooks and had very different recipes for cornbread. Memaw’s is more traditionally southern, more of a “poor man’s bread” with no eggs or flour, just White …
Yesterday afternoon my throat started getting a little scratchy and by last night I was feeling pretty rough. This morning I’m rallying but still not 100 percent and it’s very cloudy outside. I cleaned out the fridge this morning in an effort to make a grocery list and there was a bag of celery and …
When I first began cooking, my potato soup consisted of boiling a potato and onions and mashing them and adding salt and pepper. I have come along way since then. The one thing you need to know about me is that I have never met a potato I did not like. The second thing you …
