Honey-Roasted Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie (No Bake!)
Proof that pies don’t need heat to be spectacular. I challenged myself to create a pie—a decadent pie—highlighting the multi-talented Vitamix® blender (in fact, I’d...
Homemade Cookie Dough Oreos
Cookie dough has officially hit the big time. Giant shall-be-left-unnamed food brand (rhymes with shmoreo) has released a new flavor. I’ll give you 3 guesses...
Whole Wheat Macaroni and Cheese with Spicy Garlic Swiss Chard
What can be said about whole wheat pasta? Before now, not much. Because I never bought it. Fervently avoided it, in fact. And I’m sure...
Chocolate Whiskey Bundt Cake with Whiskey Caramel Sauce
Last week was Taylor’s birthday. I had the day all planned out, an afternoon screening of Anchorman 2 and a nice dinner afterwords, but considering...
February Kitchen Challenge: Old-Fashioned Fudge
Kitchen Challenge is BACK, y’all! And we’re starting off with a bang, with a challenge that’s been haunting me for years. I may be kicking...
Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookie Bars
Is there a feeling worse than the hole that overtakes your soul when you are craving a decadent peanut butter dessert, only to discover you...
Sweet Tea-Brined Hot Chicken Wings
If you had to name one food that was truly Nashville, it would have to be hot chicken. Originally created by an angry woman trying...
Homemade Salt Water Taffy
I got myself into a bit of a sticky situation. In more ways than one. First of all let’s not even mention the fact that...
Homemade Fresh Breakfast Sausage
You’d think, after writing an entire cookbook about it, we’d be fresh out of breakfast for dinner ideas. That, or we’d be completely and utterly...
Persimmon Salad with Blood Orange Vinaigrette
I may as well just put it out there: I’m totally and entirely infatuated with persimmons. An affair of the tastebuds, if you will. We’ve...
Raspberry Papaya Smoothies
I fall in and out of love with smoothies on a regular basis. And I think I’ve determined that the best way to stay “in”...
Baked Panko Fish Sticks with Lemon-Caper Mayonnaise
Fish sticks are kind of my guilty pleasure, my go-to frozen snack when Taylor is out of town. He thinks they are gross. Especially when...
