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A collection of easy recipes for busy families, including pictures of each dish and some fun background on how one set of working parents, one teenager and one dog manage have fun in the kitchen!
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Aug 15
Okay, so this is the time of year I start to get panicky about my herbs. I have these great whiskey barrels right outside my kitchen door, and every Mother's Day weekend I plant them full of basil and rosemary and parsley and thyme and sage and tarr (read full article)
Dinner, easy to make, garlic, Grill, parsley, steak
Aug 12
I'd like to introduce to you my new best friends, which are these adorable little doughnuts. I mean muffins. I mean doughnuts. They are a little bit of both...the basic batter that goes into making those old-fashioned cake doughnuts, but instead (read full article)
Dessert, Doughnuts, Jelly, muffins, snacks
Aug 11
Okay, this is a special announcement. Hear ye, hear ye.Now you KNOW how much I do love my kitchen and everything that goes on in there. But everyone needs a break now and then, and for my, that break comes on Saturday nights, when the Southern husb (read full article)
Aug 10
Every now and then I wake up on a weekend morning, and I just NEED a poached egg. I need one. Not want. Need. Which for a while was a problem, because the only person I know who can actually make a poached egg with only water and a pan and an egg (read full article)
Breakfast, butter, eggs, Kate's favorites, lunch, Toast
Aug 08
Those of you who have been reading this blog lately know that I have developed an alarmingly close relationship with my muffin pan. I blame the French Toast muffins that I made a while back. They turned on a little lightbulb over my head, one that (read full article)
cheese, cupcake, Dinner, lasagne, Pasta
Aug 05
Lately I seem to be all into the little individual servings of things. Macaroni and cheese cupcakes. French toast muffins. Banana bites. So when I spied this recipe for little individual chocolate coconut cream pies on the always fabulous Baking (read full article)
Chocolate, coconut, Dessert, Graham Cracker, pie, snacks
Aug 03
Okay, so ever since I made those French Toast Muffins a little ways back, I've been strangely obsessed with things I can make in my muffin pan. I don't know if it is the whole portability thing, or just the fact that anything with the word "cupcake" (read full article)
cheese, cupcake, Dinner, lunch, Macaroni, Pasta
Jul 31
I've had this recipe for about one million years, and I both love and make it so much that the Southern husband gets that beef barley soup look in his eyes when I pull out the recipe, which is an interesting combo of "I like that soup!" and "wow, she (read full article)
Avocado, crab, cucumbers, lime, Soup, yogurt
Jul 29
I do love baking with bananas. But somehow, I always seem to fall into a banana-baking rut by making the same old thing over and over. Banana bread, right? You see those, um, aging bananas on your counter and your mind goes blank except for the ba (read full article)
banana, cupcake, Dessert, peanut butter, snacks
Jul 27
Panzanella! Isn't that a great word? And if you saw it actually being said by my pale, freckled, Irish girl self you would laugh your head off, because it really needs to be said with a fabulous Italian accent to get the true benefit. But no matter, (read full article)
basil, bread, ricotta, salad, tomato
Jul 25
Here we are smack dab in the heart of summer. It's hot, hot, hot out there, and while I do my share of complaining about the hazy hot and humidness, I secretly love it, and will take it over February any day of the week.We are also happily right in (read full article)
corn, Dinner, lobster, lunch, salad, tomato
Jul 22
Oh, I have so much to say about this fabulous, not-your-usual-hamburger recipe. First of all, the burger itself is made of a scrumptious meatloaf mix, including fabulous stuff like chopped Vidalia onion, Worcestershire sauce, garlic and mustard, jus (read full article)
barbeque, burgers, cheese, corn, Dinner, Grill, meatloaf
Jul 20
French toast is the teenager's all-time favorite, and I make it a LOT. I can almost make it in my sleep at this point, that's how often she comes into the kitchen with those puppy dog eyes and says, "Mommy, can you make me french toast?"It's the "Mom (read full article)
Blueberries, bread, Breakfast, brunch, caramel, eggs, french toast, raspberries
Jul 18
I have to say, I paused a bit on the idea of this salad. Shrimp and...watermelon? In the same bowl? Possibly ending up on my fork in the same bite? Really?Really.It's one of those things that sounds like it might not work, but trust me, it does. (read full article)
basil, Dinner, feta, lunch, salad, Shrimp, tomato, watermelon
Jul 15
Now this is one of those recipes that has a backstory, so hunker down. A few weeks ago, we celebrated my parents' 50th wedding anniversary. We had a wedding cake and great music, and many many friends and family, and it didn't rain. Thank you, Lord.T (read full article)
Blueberries, cake, cream cheese, Dessert, jam, Sweet
Jul 13
Coconut! I am a devoted coconut lover. Coconut cake. Coconut cookies. Coconut ice cream. A few days ago I made individual chocolate coconut cream pies that will be appearing on this blog as soon as I sit down and write the post. I love 'em all. But c (read full article)
bean sprouts, coconut, Dinner, Pasta, scallions
Jul 11
Okay, so I've been very good and patient -- I haven't posted yet another recipe for shrimp and grits in ages and ages. Well, not since May, when I put up the post on shrimp and grits with artichoke hearts. But I can't help it. I'm married to a Sou (read full article)
cream, Dinner, garlic, grits, Sausage, Seafood, Shrimp
Jul 10
Don't you just love it when you eat something somewhere, you fall in love with it, and you just KNOW in your heart of hearts you are going to be able to figure out how to make it yourself in the comfort of your own kitchen?Such was the case with that (read full article)
bacon, Bagel, bruc, brunch, cheddar, cheese, lunch, Panini, sandwiches
Jul 08
Ladies and gentlemen, it's HOT outside. I love my kitchen as much as the next girl, but at the end of a sultry afternoon I come home and look at the stove and I just...can't...do it. That's when it is handy to have a nice pile of sandwich recipes (read full article)
apple, brie, ham, lunch, sandwiches
Jul 06
Blueberries...did you know that there is a gigantic poem by Robert Frost all about blueberries? Here's a teeny piece of it."You ought to have seen what I saw on my way To the village, through Mortenson's pasture to-day: Blueberries as big as the end (read full article)
Blueberries, cream, Dessert, Sweet, vanilla