A modern Appalachian woman's kitchen adventures
This semi-homemade Strawberry Cake is a perfect spring/summer dessert! Its bright pink color looks so festive for Spring events. While you can make it any time of year, I definitely recommend holding off until strawberries are in season so that you have the absolute best strawberries to work with. I found this Strawberry Cake recipe…
I’ve written before that I grew up enjoying garden fresh vegetables from our family garden. My parents both worked full time outside the home but still managed to raise a large garden each year. My mom would can green beans, tomato juice, corn relish, etc. Now as an adult, I wonder how they managed it…
You’ve probably seen jar salads shared on social media over the years and wondered “Does anyone actually make these?” I have made several over the years and this one is a favorite. Even my husband who isn’t a fan of chicken likes this one and requests it for lunch. You don’t have to put it…
My friend Candace is a vegetarian. Like many vegetarians, she isn’t bashful about telling you she’s a vegetarian. Unlike many vegetarians though, she doesn’t care for mushrooms. Or maybe that’s not unusual, maybe we carnivores just assume that all vegetarians like mushrooms. Anyway, I found this recipe for Veggie Loaded Breakfast Casserole a few years…
Peaches are one of my favorite farmers market finds! I love fresh peaches in the summer and grocery store peaches ALWAYS disappoint. This week, I picked up a few peaches and thought to myself, “Some peach salsa would be great!” I said this having 1) never made peach salsa or 2) never eaten peach salsa.…
I’ve written before about my great love of fresh peas and how hard it is to find them here. You can imagine my excitement then when I found fresh “picked this morning” salad peas at the campus farmers market on its opening day. So what exactly is a salad pea? Good question. In my growing…
Although the calendar says that Summer is still about a month away, here in Kentucky, it feels like it’s well under way. Due to an unseasonably mild winter, schools are finishing up for the year. My Facebook feed is full of graduations, awards days, and proms. Summer is a wonderful time to be a foodie…
Pea Salad is one of those great side salads that you often see on salad bars in these parts. (The really good salad bars, you know, that have like a dozen varieties of creamy, fatty salads.) I’ve always been a fan but then I’m also a fan of peas. And salad. So pea salad is…
A favorite food blog of mine is SkinnyTaste. It’s a healthy recipe blog where the owner, Gina, creates recipes that taste delicious but are low in fat and calories. One of the things that I like about her recipes is that they use whole foods, and lower the fat content through the cooking technique or…
Roadside vegetable and fruit stands were pretty common when I was growing up. It wasn’t unusual at all to see a make shift stand set up on a open spot near a highway, or even sometimes just a guy with a pickup truck parked somewhere with enough space for a car or two to pull…