Featured Community Members: Chilly and Wanda

Written Friday, December 18th, 2009 by Penny Hawkins

Half Hour Meals members Wanda and Chilly are a husband and wife team who live in Georgia and co-author a friendly, home-spun blog dedicated to sharing their favorite recipes. Home cooking is always on the menu at Wanda and Chilly’s, and this dynamic duo makes you feel right at home from the minute you arrive on their page. Read on to learn more about Wanda and Chilly:

Your blog, 1 Blog and 2 Sides, has a great down-home, friendly feel and makes me want to sit down with a cup of coffee and have a chat! What inspired you to start your blog? Thank you for the compliment on our blog.  Please feel free to chat anytime you want.  We would both enjoy it.  :-)  Both Chilly and I enjoy cooking, trying new recipes, and learning new recipes from friends and family.  We enjoy sharing our recipes with others. 

What inspires you in the kitchen? Smells, smiles, and satisfaction.  We enjoy experimenting with different flavors in unexpected dishes.

Name your favorite southern ingredient and tell us how you like to use it. This is a hard question to answer.  There are many foods of the south we enjoy. Chilly  -- Cracklins used in corn bread. Wanda -- I can't say a particular southern ingredient but a southern food would be collards or turnip greens along with some of that corn bread.

Tell us what your signature dish is and how you came up with it. Chilly -- Sausage Squares and was passed on to him by his grandmother. Wanda -- Fried Chicken and it was with a lot of trial and error.

Name the 5 ingredients you can’t live without. Chilly -- Sugar, tea, ground pepper, flour, and olive oil. Wanda -- Sugar, tea, flour, salt, and butter

Walk us through a typical day in your kitchen. Some days there is nothing going on in our kitchen.  Other days there are vegetables prepared to cook throughout the day or meats that take longer.  Since we are both diabetics, we have simple snacks and less complicated meals.

Since you both cook, how do you divide meal preparation responsibilities at your house? Do each of you have a specialty? I prepare the majority of meals but Chilly does do a lot of the prep. work with cutting up vegetables or shredding cheese, stirring, etc.

Your friend Catherine’s recipe for Pumpkin Crunch Cake looks tempting and delicious. What is your absolute favorite dessert recipe? My friend Catherine's recipe is delicious and very simple.  I hope you will try it.  I'm going to make the same recipe with sweet potatoes instead of the pumpkin. Chilly -- Favorite dessert is any kind of fudge. Wanda -- Favorite dessert is German Chocolate Cake

Do you see yourself still blogging several years from now? We both love the computer and cooking so I believe we both will be blogging years from now.  We've met lots of wonderful friends thru blogs and hope to meet more. 

Why did you join Half Hour Meals? We were looking for some different recipes and something to make quick when we found Half Hour Meals. 

What's your favorite thing about the site? Half Hour Meals is laid out very well and very easy to use.  The administrators are very helpful when there is a problem.

Have you tried others' recipes from Half Hour Meals? Yes, I've just recently tried the pork chops and cooked apples.  We both enjoyed the recipe.

If others were to ask you about Half Hour Meals, how would you describe the site to them? Half Hour Meals is very easy to use with a wide variety of choices to pick from.  The administration is very helpful if needed.

Thanks for sharing with us, Wanda and Chilly! I hope you all will stop by and visit their pages at Half Hour Meals, and be sure to check out their wonderful blog as well!

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