Butterscotch Pie

As you may have noticed if you’re a regular around here, I am very fond of pie. It’s not as mainstream, it seems,  as cake or as trendy as cupcakes but to me, pie is the quintessential Appalachian dessert. My mom makes delicious made-from-scratch cream pies like chocolate and coconut. She doesn’t have a recipe…

Checking In…2017 so far

I decided that for 2017 I’d occasionally sprinkle a few updates of my life outside the kitchen into the blog. Here’s my first one. The year started out pretty big for me because I turned 40! It’s still sort of hard to believe. Most days I feel like I’m still that young whippersnapper that I…

Pea Salad

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…