Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake: Just One of the Treasures in a Great Cake Cookbook! If you love sweet treats, beautiful irresistible desserts, simple home-made goodies, and elegant expressions of the professional pastry chef’s genius, you will love Jill O’Connor and her latest cookbook. Entitled Cake, I Love You: Decadent, Delectable, and Do-Able Recipes, this bright, delight-filled…
An old-school member of the chess-pie family, Osgood Pie is a simple stir-up of pecans, raisins, butter, sugar and eggs. No reason it’s been forgotten — let’s fix that by making this deliciously do-able pie! Osgood Pie Needs a Comeback! This old-time treat is in the chess-pie family, made with butter, sugar, eggs, and a…
Extra sparkle from sweet spices give these pumpkin-ginger muffins an irresistible flavor that makes them breakfast-worthy as well as superb snack food. Easy to stir together, they keep well and freeze beautifully. Sweet potatoes instead of pumpkin? Yes, indeed! Muffin Magic For busy morning breakfasts on the go, after-school snacks, and easy goodies to share…
So many good things come from my visits to the farmers’ market — and the fresh, local produce and products are only the start. This substantial, supremely satisfying soup recipe came home with me on a bright, golden-colored piece of paper, shared with me at the Carrboro Farmer’s Market by my friends Portia McKnight and…
This classic cinnamon pecan coffee cake makes an excellent centerpiece for special mornings. It’s a celebration breakfast in my family, because my mother always served it to our family prior to the gift-fest around the Christmas tree. She made it ahead of time and warmed it up gently in the oven, covered with foil. I…
Mangoes come from tropical climes but they fit in anywhere and make us happy in a fresh mango pie. Easy as peach pie – but with mango magic! Mangoes belong in your kitchen repertoire! Growing up , the only fruits I knew about were simple Southern standards: Blackberries, strawberries, peaches, and figs. Raisins were always…
Three simple everyday ingredients and a little time are all you need to make this classic beverage, my easy strawberry shrub! Sweet and tangy, it’s great for cocktails and perfect with club soda for a fruity “soft-drink”. A Shrub: Not what you were expecting, right? When you see this luscious ruby-red syrup slowly flowing into…
Basic to Brilliant! My good friend Virginia Willis is a lot like the title of one of her cookbooks, Basic to Brilliant, Y’all: 150 Refined Southern Recipes and Ways to Dress Them Up for Company. Virginia is basic, as in down-to-earth, real, practical and good; and she is also brilliant, as in creative, intelligent, accomplished,…
