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Homemade Egg Salad

Homemade Egg Salad

Egg salad sandwiches are my go-to picnic food. They are especially delicious with a nice, cold limeade! This homemade egg salad is extra fun with tips to include your kids in making it. I honestly do not know how “Southern” egg salad is, but it…

Parmesan Flatbreads

Parmesan Flatbreads

These parmesan flatbreads, inspired by Smitten Kitchen, are crispy crackers elevated with a little thyme and honey. Top with flaked salt for an extra crunch. They have very few ingredients and are SO quick and easy to make. In fact, this was the first recipe…

Stamped Cheese Crackers

Stamped Cheese Crackers

Have you ever thought to yourself: I need an art project that I can also eat? No? Well, your kids certainly have. These stamped cheese crackers were a total experiment and we are pumped that they worked out! This is essentially a cheese dough (like…

Lemon Ginger Tea

Lemon Ginger Tea

Winter is arriving late in Alabama this year and with it a myriad of lovely illnesses. People everywhere are hacking and sneezing and touching things with their germy hands. Yum! That’s when I know it’s time for this lemon ginger tea. It has tons of…

Quick Toffee Bark

Quick Toffee Bark

This quick toffee bark (AKA “Christmas crack”) is as addicting as the colloquial name implies. It is fast to make, with few ingredients. It also allows for some improvisation as far as the toppings go. We love crushed pecans or flaky Maldon salt! For toddler/child…

Pimento Cheese Spread

Pimento Cheese Spread

Pimento cheese spread is a Southern delicacy. The Master’s made it famous, and tea-sandwich-filled luncheons have kept it in style. Like any good Southern spread, it’s got mayo in it. Like any good Southerner, I have to say it is best made with Duke’s Mayo.…

Everyday Dinner Rolls

Everyday Dinner Rolls

It is my belief that a solid recipe for everyday dinner rolls should be in any home cook’s back pocket. At most holiday meals families will have this staple on the table, regardless of other food traditions. I will confess that until about a year…

Honey Lavender Sweet Rolls

Honey Lavender Sweet Rolls

I decided to make these honey lavender sweet rolls when I was going through old posts and saw this beautiful memory with a lovely tangelo sweet roll recipe attached. We announced our first baby on the blog with that post, and I realized we never…

Super Carrot Muffins + Cooking with Toddlers

Super Carrot Muffins + Cooking with Toddlers

This recipe for super carrot muffins comes with tips on cooking with toddlers because it was the first cooking experiment I did with BOTH my two year old and one year old actively “helping” me. Needless to say, there were many lessons learned the day…

Creamy Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Creamy Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Some recipes are tried and true wonders of good, home cooking. This creamy broccoli cheddar soup is one of those. See the iterations written in various handwriting in a well-worn cookbook? See the page splattered with who-knows-what (but probably delicious) things throughout the years? That’s…

Oat and Wheat Bread

Oat and Wheat Bread

This oat and wheat bread is a simple, hearty sandwich bread that is easy to make with a kid’s help as it isn’t temperamental to the practice-kneading of a toddler just learning to bake. It is also egg free so if they really want to…