I’ll admit it. No one is going to come breaking down your door to get at a baked potato. Well, except me maybe. Baked Potatoes are one of my all-time top-ten favorite foods – especially if you add some whole cream butter, salt and pepper, sour cream and sharp cheddar cheese. Do I have your …
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I know you are out there on the internets searching for more Game Day recipes that will suit your crowd! Here’s one that I learned when I went to a cooking class! I know, you are thinking, “YOU went to a cooking class?”. The answer, yes! I love going to cooking classes! There is always …
TODAY friend, I am super excited to give you an awesome recipe for perfect fried chicken. I have searched,no kidding, for a perfect fried chicken recipe for about 25 years…. at least 25 years. I have tried frying chicken every which way there is and I have NEVER been able to develop a thick crispy …
Today we welcome Doug the Kitchen Professor back to Loaves and Dishes! Doug is helping us with How to Cut a Bell Pepper and has graciously included photos and more great information. I hope that you will make Doug feel welcome and go check out his website for more great tips and information.
I know. I know. As you are reading this recipe, you are thinking, “My GOD, what is that woman trying to do to her family and guests with all of that cream, cheese, cream cheese and (gasp) cheese food?” In my own defense, I have to tell you, this began innocently enough many years ago- …
This post sponsored by Bertolli. BUONE FESTE! No. 113 – Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!!! (Where did I learn that? – you will see). Imagine my Tuesday evening: The Time: 5:30 pm. I am Starving (or at least my stomach is saying so very loudly). I have made NO plans for dinner. I haven’t …
Eat the soup! EAT THE SOUP!!! For years I have said, “But, I don’t like Chicken Noodle Soup!” You know the kind I’m talking about, the weak broth, the stringy worm-like little nothing noodles and the tiny pieces of stringy overcooked chicken that are something akin to wet burlap. Yuck. I don’t like it. However, …
Who me? Don’t mind me. I’m just sitting over here munching on my Carolina Christmas Beans just like I’ve been doing for the past couple of days. I thought we might need an alternative to Green Bean Casserole – I mean, I LOVE Green Bean Casserole – but, I’m a little tired of it, aren’t …
Why? Why oh why would I post a recipe for the perfect roasted turkey on the day AFTER Thanksgiving? Am I just being mean? Am I dense? Did someone hit me in the head while I was Black Friday shopping? Is my calendar a day off? Nope. The issue is that 99% of the time …
This post sponsored by Bird’s Eye. Have you ever thought about this? My oldest child (almost 28) loved to be rocked until he was about 3 or 4 years old. At some point, I have no idea when, he didn’t ask to be rocked any more. There was a “very last time”. One day, he …
You might not like me after I say this. I know we are right around the corner from, the Absolute Penultimate Final Pumpkin Holiday of the year, but honestly I can’t even look at another can of pumpkin, pumpkin cookie, pumpkin pie, pumpkin latte, pumpkin….. I can’t. Are you with me? I’m over it until …
I know, I know. It happens to me too! Sweet Hubby doesn’t come home until 6:30 or later. I get off of work at 5:30. I have to pick up the teenager from play practice at the high school which is 15 minutes away from here at 6pm. That means we are all rolling in …
Can we talk for a minute? Isn’t it a shame that comfort food takes such a beating? I mean, here we are on the cusp of one of the greatest comfort food holidays of the year and folks get so judgy. I mean, think about it, we could potentially be faced with mounds of heaping, …
I hope you won’t mind me running a little far afield from talking about the recipe for pumpkin pie with a pecan drizzle here, because frankly I’m starting to have a little bit of an internal freak out. I know that I am supposed to be spending these first few words alluring you with the …
I know, I know – in a world of respectable accomplishments, like the ones you people are doing every day, this seems like the itty bittiest of things to be excited about. However, in MY life, this is a BIG THING. It is HUGE! I have pulled off a dog-gone close recipe for a Pumpkin …
Eggs in Purgatory. What does that even MEAN?? I know, right? I can’t figure out why such a delish dish should be called anything but “Eggs in Heaven”. The name really is bothering me … Not enough that I refrain from eating said egg, but, you know, it bothers me…. some. Today’s post is sponsored …
Occasionally, dinner time around here resembles an episode of “Chopped”. We had one of those nights this week. Halleluiah and DANG! Sometimes those mystery ingredients can turn out a pretty darn good dish! Let me introduce you to Lamburger Gouda Mac.
I am having a ridiculous love affair. It seems so silly to talk about it here, but I thought if I just talked it out a little, then maybe my cravings might lessen and we could all be a little happier, right? That’s how it works? Once you name a thing, it becomes less of …
This Easy Fast Holiday Side Dish Sausage and Rice is perfect for the upcoming holidays, when company visits or for when you need a quick dinner dish! This simple TWO ingredient dish represents everything that was tough about my childhood. OK. I might be stretching it a little. You should check it out though. Just click …
Here comes a type of word you won’t find around here very much…. Galette…. it sounds so….. so FRENCH! Doesn’t it? It doesn’t sound like Stokes County, North Carolina at all! You will laugh when you actually make Rustic Blueberry Galette and see what it is!! It is a pie without a pan!