The muscadine season in Georgia lasts just a couple of months in autumn, but like it is with the sweetest watermelons of June or the juiciest heirloom tomatoes of August, it’s worth the
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Rice Pudding, for Cheryl
Here's a popular story from the first incarnation of A Cook and Her Books. It's the simplest dessert I know, rice
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Luscious Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake (for National Pound Cake Day)
I'm not sure how or why there is a National Pound Cake Day, but here it is the 4th day of March, in the holiday lull
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On Valentine’s Day, Bake Biscotti for Those You Love
On Valentine’s Day, we celebrate the ones we love and what better way to celebrate than by baking? Chocolate is
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Not My Mama’s Black Eyed Peas & Greens
This recipe first appeared on my blogspot blog December 26, 2010.
Visit my mom’s house on New Year’s Day and you
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Crispy, Sweet Date Candies
Anyone else remember these sweet treats from their childhood? I'm revisiting the Christmas treats of my youth this year,
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A Grapefruit Drink from Chef David Tanis
I’ve come to believe that home food is best, but it’s not often an opinion that you will hear expressed by a world-class
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Favorite Southern Christmas cookies
“Oh Buddy, I think it’s fruitcake weather,” goes the opening line to one of the best short stories ever written (and
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Around the Thanksgiving Table
I’ve never set a place at the Thanksgiving table for my father-in-law. He died a few years before I met my husband., so
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Classic Apple Dumplings, With an Appearance by my Evil Twin
Apple dumplings just sound good. Ever since coming across a picture of apple dumplings in a 1970s Southern
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