Fresh green beans full of flavor and soul! Simmered in smokey broth with lots of garlic, onions, and red pepper! Visual learner? Watch me make these Soulful Green Beans from start to finish! My grandmother grew a lot of vegetables in her garden. The variety would change every year but one thing that remained were those fresh green beans! I have fond memories (and she
“This fun, fruity sparkling champagne punch recipe is easy to make and super refreshing! Great for any celebration and easy to change the flavor and color of this punch! This punch is so doggone easy it’s ridiculous. I can’t even tell you how many times and in how many different colors and flavors I’ve made this champagne punch. It is always well received, I mean
“Homemade sweet potato cake recipe with marshmallow glaze and topped with pecan crisp. It’s like a sweet potato casserole in cake form! “ I had some sweet potatoes that were about to sprout on me so I needed to use them up ASAP. I asked you guys on Facebook which sweet potato recipe you wanted and sweet potato poundcake won by a landslide! I couldn’t
“Southern baked smothered turkey wings recipe slow baked in the oven and covered in creamy gravy full of sautéed fresh onions, peppers and celery. A true southern, soul food favorite” Smothered baked turkey wings take me back to Sunday dinners as a child. My grandmother cooked a soulful spread every Sunday and the entire family would come over and eat. She had many different Sunday
“Creamy homemade mini pumpkin pie bites with a scratch-made buttery, flaky crust . Easy to make recipe! Perfect portable fall dessert ” My husband has been asking me to make a pumpkin pie all month. He even created a Pinterest board called Pumpkin Pies with over 45 pins of pumpkins pies and pumpkin inspired dessert and sent me an invite. Really? I love him though.
“Creamy, southern-style creamed corn made with fresh roasted corn, cream, milk, sugar, and topped with smokey bacon” Have your parents ever told you what your first food was? Mine was creamed corn. My mother told me that she gave me a bite of her creamed corn when I was 7 months old and I nearly attacked her entire plate trying to get more. I still
“Made from scratch, moist, fluffy pumpkin spice cake recipe with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. Easy to make recipe and perfect for the holidays!” I’ve been wanting a homemade pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting all week! My grandmother makes the best from-scratch pumpkin spice cakes and sells them around the holidays. She even uses her own fresh pumpkin puree. (Here’s the recipe for homemade
Something about the words “apple crisp” just makes me feel all cozy inside. I immediately think about colorful fall leaves, comfy sweaters, and crisp autumn air. Probably because the only time we had apple crisp growing up was in the fall time when fresh farm apples were everywhere. I could always tell when apple crisp was in the oven from that signature buttery, cinnamon apple
“Easy oven baked BBQ beef ribs that are well-seasoned to the bone, slow baked, tender, juicy and fall off the bone perfection!” For some reason, it never fails that my sister and I get stuck making the beef ribs for family functions. Maybe it’s because we make really great oven baked beef ribs. Truth be told, we have no clue what we’re doing and
You asked for it, so here it is!! Yayyyy for another salad dish!!! (say yayyy!…. SAY IT!!!) I’m in rare form today so bare with me. “I been drankin, I been drankin” just kidding. That Beyonce song has been in my head all day. Anyway what were we talking about? Ah yes broccoli salad!!! Broccoli is one of my favorite veggies so it’s no surprise
Me and cookie bars are like THIS *crossing fingers* Baby I love a good brownie/bar cookie recipe!! Matter of fact, you guys are probably gonna get tired of bar cookie recipes this summer because I have several that I’m going to be listing back to back as I prep for a bake sale. I’ve got key lime pie bars, pecan pie bars, butterfinger cookies bars,
Chocolate and peanut butter. Peanut butter and chocolate. Why do they go so well together?? It’s like a match made in heaven, these two! If something is peanut butter and chocolate there is a 95% chance that I’m gonna love it. Such is true with these chewy chocolate peanut butter chip cookies! These cookies are like the beautiful offspring of a chewy homemade brownie and
My red velvet cake recipe is one of the most popular recipes on this blog. Recently I used my red velvet cake recipe to make red velvet cupcakes and wasn’t too thrilled with the texture anymore. (I get bored quick with a lot of things) They were too light and fluffy, yes that’s totally possible. Great for a cake, not so good for cupcakes baked
When I was pregnant with Ethan I craved white chocolate covered pretzels like nobody’s business! I went to the mall to get those pretty little gourmet pretzels and was left highly disappointed. The pretzels were stale and the chocolate crumbled off with one bite. I ended up just getting a bag of Flipz to satisfy the craving. Had I remembered just how freakin easy it
OMG I LOVE this strawberry margarita punch so much! Ok I LOVE margarita ANYTHING! Maybe it’s the hidden lush in me, but I can down about 4 cups of this stuff back to back. It’s so good and refreshing. Sweet, tart, fizzy, and full of delicious strawberry margarita flavor! Be warned though, this strawberry margarita punch is…how do I say this…dangerous!! The alcohol really hides
