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Chocolate Chip Cookies
This isn’t a typical chocolate chip cookies post where I tell you I have the best recipe. Because I just don’t. There are not only tons of recipes, but people love these cookies in very specific ways....
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Ginger Snap Cookies
In the fall of Florida cane sugar growers take to the field to harvest cane stalks to make annual batches of cane syrup, the sticky coffee-brown southern cousin of molasses. On the outside of east...
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How many Southern foods have you tried?
I have a seen a few food writing mentors create southern food lists to try and almost every time I find something new. Southern food, with its very complex quilt of origins, has been influenced by...
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Sheet Pan Chicken Pot Pie
Sheet Pan Chicken Pot Pie Ingredients: 2 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts, pulled 4 cups mixed vegetables (carrots, peas, corn, green beans), frozen or fresh 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup all-purpose...
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Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese
Tomato soup and grilled cheese. While I would gladly eat this year round it really shines in the colder months. Less is growing but all the work put into canning a tomato harvest and processing basil...
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Squash and Chicken Tortilla Soup
The puree of squash in this helps to add a hearty consistency to the broth while also sweetening just a tad. If you are going to freeze this soup (I recommend doubling this recipe just for that) omit...
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Food Writing: Hawthorne Creek Creamery
On the back end of Covid I took a trip out to a local creamery where Kevin and Shelby Lussier and their crew have been steadily producing cheese. And they come by it honestly, the family dairy farm...
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Tarragon Peach Mustard
It was peach season and it was impossible not to pick them up by the pound. But that also meant I had to cook them in everything. And I did. This is a really great condiment you’ll keep reaching for...
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Slab Pies, Get on board!
Sometimes you just need more pie. Especially if you make good ones, people will just start showing up. So pull out the the sheet pans and feed them! Here’s the thing about slab pies, you don’t really...
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Country Ham Scones with Pecan Cane Syrup Butter
Basket of scones headed to the annual Smith Family Cane Boil Nothing pleases me more as a chef then to immerse myself into culinary culture. I created these scones to highlight cane syrup, one of the...
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Latkes for Hanukah
Between Thanksgiving through to the new year over 144 holidays are celebrated around the world. As the earth settles into rest, and the natural world slows down, cultures everywhere give thanks to...
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Sheet Pan Blueberry Pie
5 gallons of blueberries laid out on the floor to cool them down before freezing. LOVE blueberry season. My Great Grandmother Lola used to get lost in the woods picking huckleberries; a wild...
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Southern Peach Berry Cobbler
This is a crowd favorite cobbler. Southern style biscuit like batter baked around bubbly sweet fruit and topped with vanilla ice cream. Anything leftover will cause a fight about who gets to take it...
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Miso Tahini Whipped Sweet Potato Bowl with Spiced Beans and Broccolini topped...
Miso Tahini Whipped Sweet Potato Bowl with Spiced Beans and Broccolini topped with Brown Sugar Toasted Pecans This is a great vegetarian dish that can easily be made vegan. But it is far from lacking...
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Banana Pudding
Does anyone really have to sell you on banana pudding? The classic southern dessert on potluck, barbeque, cook out tables for any celebration under the sun. I have made this a number of ways but this...
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Sheet Pan Pecan Pie
Sheet Pan Pecan Pie When you need to feed a huge crowd, this is what you want on the dessert table. Pecan pie is loved by southerners old and young. Sheet pan desserts can be cut small into bite size...
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Gooey Butter Cake
Hurricane Milton showed up this week. To calm the nerves I baked. Fortunately my area of Florida was spared. So as the storm moved on, in the new cool morning temp, I sipped a lavender latte and had a...
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Food Writing: Preserving Tradition
Exploring the Time-Honored Tradition of Florida Cane Boils from Farm to Bottle The Florida Cane Boil: Liquid Gold, Labor, and Legacy In the backroads of North Central Florida, long after summer’s...
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Food Writing: Honoring My Aunt
The Culinary Influence on My Life If you ever have the chance to tell someone how deeply they have impacted your life, take it. Say it out loud. Write it down. Let them know while they are still here...
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Food Writing: Mama Rella’s Sauce & The Meal That Held Us Together
The variations of this sauce that have moved through my family are expansive. They began with my grandmother Rella—a complicated woman who never approved of my mother, had a tumultuous relationship...
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