When Great-Grandma Eva left behind her cookbook, she left recipes for everything from her famed pies to cakes, roast beef to something called "Shrimps on Toast". In the cakes section, she had not one, but two...
Every time it snows, everyone goes on autopilot and panic-buys 4 things (okay, 5 if you include adult beverages): Bread, milk, eggs, and toilet paper. Inevitably, French toast becomes one of those meals that we have...
The great thing about cold weather is the excuse to eat all the comfort food. Today we woke up to one of those blustery days that feel like it's already evening from the moment the sun...
Recipes from the Past In her heyday, my Great-Grandma Eva was the Great Bambino of baking. She was a ninja with a rolling pin, a master of pies, and the churchiest of the church ladies. Her handwritten...
A little while ago, my good friend Alicia gave me an amazing cookbook called Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat. It's a copy of the first cookbook by an African-American Chef.
Mrs. Mildred Binkley's Golden Cornbread When I found this recipe alphabetized under "G" in Mildred Binkley's recipe box, I thought, "Now there's a woman with a good memory," because there were no other cornbread recipes in her...
Cook along with The Bread Lady as she makes her Gruyere-crusted Savory French Toast with Tomatoes. For this recipe, Sarah Bread is using a crusty bread as opposed to a soft brioche as it it lends...
One of my favorite things of all time is receiving recipes. Whether it's a box of old recipes or someone gifts me with one from their collection, it's better than receiving almost any other kind of...
Now that it's officially autumn, it's soup season. Actually, as soon as we get our first cold front in the South, it's soup season because we've been craving it since they put out the Halloween candy...
My favorite thing about the beginning of fall is it's the start of Eating Season. When the Halloween candy comes out and everyone prays for the first rainy day where a sweater can be worn...
