A lot of people have a hard time figuring out meals – how to choose side dishes, how to know what goes with what, etc. I get asked how I choose my side dishes a lot; it’s something people seem to have a particularly hard time with. Maybe this will give some insight into how [...]

[Printable recipe at the bottom of the page!] It’s that time of year again – fresh, green, bright asparagus spears are all over the place. I love asparagus in pretty much any form; steamed, grilled, roasted, baked. But every now and then I want something different and new. Tonight I needed a side dish to [...]

Sunday at the grocery store I saw the most gorgeous artichokes on sale for $1.50 each.  It was all I could do to not buy 10 of them.  Have I mentioned that artichokes are one of my favorite things?  I know some people think they’re too fussy and too much work for too little reward, [...]

I can’t remember where I found this recipe, but it’s been saved in my “keepers” folder for a while.  The original recipe calls for leek and a few other things that I didn’t happen to have around.  So I made a substitution, an addition, and … well … yum! The photograph above doesn’t adequately show [...]

I don’t know if it’s the blight that everyone has talked about, spreading this far south, or if it’s been the cool weather, or what, but my farmer’s market has had a plethora of green tomatoes lately. And actually that’s fine by me because I love the tangy tartness of a green tomato – fried, [...]

Collard Green Recipe Collard greens are a uniquely Southern food, I think. Most people who aren’t from the South (or haven’t lived here a while) don’t really know what they are, even if they’ve heard of them to begin with. Usually non-Southerners approach collards with suspicion, if not outright fear, visions of some overcooked, slimy [...]