This is a great old fashioned sour cream muffin base that can be used with a multitude of various fruits. It has a light crumble topping that you can use or skip if you're not into that. It's summer berry season!

  This is a great spicy version of New Year's Black Eyed Peas. The ham is of course optional. This basic green sauce can be added to many recipes or used as a salsa.

This is one of my favorite go to pie pastry recipes. It’s been around a long time. I found it in an old pie book, can’t recall where but I’ve tweaked it a bit here and there over the years. So slab pie is just a pie that is baked in a sheet pan–this recipe […]

Celebrate the season with the flavors of fall! Maple and pumpkin are muffin ingredient winners!

These sweet biscuits can be made with leftover sweet potato puree or pumpkin puree. They are great for breakfast, brunch or dessert. I sometimes split them and make little ham and boursin cheese sammies.

A savory tart fit for a company dinner or a holiday spread.

Delicious and easy coffee cake with lots of streusel topping

These scones are so great for breakfast or brunch or as a savory bread addition to a Southern dinner. These freeze beautifully so they work well for entertaining or for a lazy Sunday morning. Change up the cheddar and the chives with any herbs or cheese you have on hand. Smoked cheeses work especially well […]

Thoughts on Pound Cake… Pound cake, for me, is one of the best classic examples of old school Southern baking.  Although its earliest written history goes back to European roots, this cake has become classically American. Originally, just as the name suggests, pound cake recipes were simply a combination of a pound each of  four […]