A modern Appalachian woman's kitchen adventures
I’ll admit to judging books by their cover but please don’t judge this cake by the poor photographs that I have of it. I didn’t try to do a step-by-step photo spread because it didn’t seem necessary. And I didn’t think that either the chocolate batter or the chocolate frosting would show up well. This…
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…
Back before she got so orange and loud and over-the-top with the butter thing, I really loved Paula Deen. The early episodes of Paula’s Home Cooking on Food Network featured some really good, down home cooking. Like many of Food Network’s cooks, she wasn’t a trained chef which made her very relatable to people watching…
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…
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 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…
I got such a great response to my last post about my new electric pressure cooker that I decided to do a follow up. Because when it comes to pressure cooking, folks seem to have a lot of questions and a little bit of fear too. I’ve gotten several questions both online and offline…
Happy New Year everyone! I didn’t get a lot of blogging done during Christmas mostly because I felt like crap for most of the weeks leading up to it. A mix of cold, allergies, sinus issues and this crazy Kentucky weather had me on the struggle bus. I finally gave in and went to the…
I love Chinese food. My first experience with it came in the late 80s/early 90s when a Chinese restaurant opened in a town that neighbored my hometown. Chinatown of London, Ky was probably the first Chinese food that many people in my our area ever tried. Maybe it’s because it was the first but no…