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…

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.…

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…

Strawberry Rhubarb Pop Tarts

Strawberry Rhubarb Pop Tarts

Rhubarb season is upon the Midwest and the South is in an uproar over this unique vegetable. It’s extremely tart, extremely delicious, and extremely difficult to find here! My goal several months ago was simple: make strawberry rhubarb jam. It was still early yet in…

Pesto di mandorle e salvia

Pesto di mandorle e salvia

I had never encountered or even considered a world of pestos outside of basil until Fabrizia Lanza’s Coming Home to Sicily introduced us to what is perhaps my new favorite variety of pesto: almond and sage. This pesto di mandorle e salvia is a beautiful…

Blackberry Lemon Scones

Blackberry Lemon Scones

These blackberry lemon scones have redefined what a scone is for our southern household. The days of dry and caky scones are gone, and this recipe is definitely giving biscuits a run for their money. With cold butter folded in to create delicious layers, it…

Grilled Okra

Grilled Okra

Okra is a vegetable well known to the southern US and Asia. In Indian and south Asian cooking, okra shows up in a variety of stews, stir fries, and curries. Here in the south, surprise surprise– we fry it. Southern okra is usually chopped into…

No-Fuss Tomato Sauce

No-Fuss Tomato Sauce

I so often find myself in need of tomato-based sauces that I have taken to hoarding a full batch of frozen tomato sauce in the freezer, several large cans of crushed tomatoes in my pantry, and our CSA fresh canned tomatoes in the refrigerator at…

Grandmother Phillips’ Fried Okra

Grandmother Phillips’ Fried Okra

I remember my father’s paternal grandmother as a strong, Southern woman. She was a force. I only saw her on holidays but I will never forget her cooking, which we ate at home all throughout the year. She used to freeze her fresh-from-the-garden, hand-battered okra…

10-Step Black Bean Burger

10-Step Black Bean Burger

As a long-time vegetarian I have explored the many meat alternatives available in grocery store aisles. I like a good number of them for their flavor, but always have some concern about the contents of what I am eating. For instance, the fake soy bacon…