Featuring Southern Recipes and your Favorite Grandmothers' Recipes to the Dinner Table
Lettuce wraps – oh my they are so good!!!! So this Southern Girl never even heard of a lettuce wraps until 1996 when I visited a P.F. Chang’s in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Lets be honest when you grow up in a low income household in the South in the 1960’s […]
So let me start by saying this is not an original recipe! I have always wanted to make authentic Spanish Paella but was hesitant because it seemed so labor intensive and honestly I was scared. But what I found was there is no reason to be scared! What I did find is […]
During the summer I tend to make an overabundance of fresh pesto. If you have ever grown basil, you know that in the right climate it can flourish and produce more leaves that you will ever need. My solution for that is to make fresh pesto and put it in […]
Have you ever eaten a meal and it takes you right back into time to the first time you had it? That is how I feel about beef vegetable soup. Every time I eat beef vegetable soup I think of my husband’s grandad, Harold Mayberry “Grandad”. Grandad was a sweet […]
Growing up in Virginia, I was not exposed to Cajun cuisine. I never had Cajun cuisine in any manner until I met a very special Cajun named Zulma Parks Boudreaux. Zulma’s husband worked with my husband, Carl, and we were introduced by them. Zulma and I hit it off instantly […]
So when I left the house this morning I was pretty sure I was going to need Noah’s Ark. We were in the middle of a flash flood with rivers flowing through our neighbor in Holly Springs, North Carolina. A cold front was beginning to move through (thank you Jesus […]