The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2012
I love me some cookies. When I heard about The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap I couldn’t join fast enough. I’ve been on a diet weight reduction and lifestyle change plan for the past 5 weeks so I’ve been dreaming about chocolate chip cookies and sour cream and onion potato chips. You may call it self sabotage, ...
Soul Food Sunday – Southern Sweet Potato Pie
Every holiday I can remember growing up involved a homemade sweet potato pie with lots of cinnamon and nutmeg. No we didn’t eat pumpkin pie – it was sweet potato all the way for our household. Before I moved away from home, there were a handful of dishes that my mom made me master- fried chicken, ...
Green Tomato Crostada
Sometimes I see a recipe that I just have to try because it sounds completely amazing. I heard about this recipe on KCRW’s Good Food podcast. Evan Kleiman is a pie a junkie like me and every year she does a Pie a Day Contest. She even has a Pie a Day App. She did an ...
Dulce de Leche Dark Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream
It’s hot in Nashville. A couple of weeks ago, the weather went from uncomfortably warm to hot as hell overnight and frankly I wasn’t ready. I’m not sure anyone can truly be ready for temperatures over 100 degrees. There have been all kinds of heat related illnesses around town – mostly stemming from dehydration and we’re officially in ...
Strawberry and Cheese Coffee Cake
When my new CSA emailed and said they wanted to give us a share of their early strawberry crop, I was thrilled. I’ve had such bad luck picking strawberries at the grocery store, that I was really excited about getting what I hoped would be juicy, delicious, organically grown berries. I’ve been sucked in too ...
Lemon Chess Cake Bars
If you aren’t from the south you may not get chess squares or chess pie. I had never heard of them until I moved here and for years and I didn’t understand everyone’s fascination with them. Every potluck or bakesale I’ve attended here has had some version of them and I’ve always avoided them like the plague. ...
Basic Butter Cookies
A few years ago I went through a cookie and cake decorating phase. I took all of the Wilton classes at Michael’s and bought tons of decorating supplies – bags, tips, food coloring, etc. I had a vision of starting a side business selling decorated cookies and cakes to friends and family. One day I was ...
