cooking recipes
Sausage Breakfast Muffins: Mix Them Tonight, Bake Them in the Morning My husband grabs two of these every morning before he is properly awake, and for a long time I thought that was just because he was hungry. It was not. It was because I finally stopped getting up twenty minutes early to cook breakfast, […]
Party Potato Puffs: 4 Ingredients, 10 Cents Each, and the Best Thing to Do With Leftover Mashed Potatoes Every Thanksgiving I end up with a bowl of mashed potatoes nobody finished, and for years I would put it in the fridge and then throw it away three days later. That was about a dollar and […]
Angel Chicken: Creamy Garlic Sauce, One Skillet, Thirty Minutes to the Table Some nights you want a project. This is not that night. Angel chicken is the meal I make when I want something that tastes like somebody took care of me, and I want it in under half an hour, with one pan to […]
Classic Southern Pecan Pie: The One That Finally Sets Properly Every Time I have made a lot of pies that did not work, and almost all of them failed the same way. The edges set. The middle stayed liquid. You cut into it and watch a puddle of corn syrup run off the knife onto […]
Creamy Chicken Enchiladas: The Only Ones My Kids Will Actually Eat Every family has one. Somebody's mother, somebody's aunt, some version of this that they refuse to eat anything else. For us it is these creamy chicken enchiladas, and it started with my mother doing this exact dish on Sunday nights specifically because nobody wanted […]
How to Roast Turkey in an Oven Bag: Juicier Meat, Less Cleanup, One Thing to Read First I started roasting turkey in an oven bag around the third Thanksgiving of cooking for other people, and I have not gone back. My reason is not that the meat is magically better. It is that it is […]
Alabama Pecan Bread: The Sweet, Nutty Loaf That Tastes Like a Southern Sunday Morning I am not going to pretend I invented this one. My grandmother made a version of Alabama pecan bread every Sunday morning, and by the time I was tall enough to reach the oven rack, the whole house smelled like toasted […]
Crispy Oven Fried Chicken: Juicy Drumsticks With No Deep Fryer Needed Last Tuesday night my husband walked into the kitchen, stopped dead in the doorway, and said, "Wait. Did you order KFC?" I did not say a word. I just pointed at the oven with the serving spoon still in my hand, and the look […]
Cheap Beef and Corn Casserole: The 5-Ingredient Oven Bake That Feeds Four I want to be honest about how this one entered my kitchen, because it was not a decision. It was a Tuesday. I had nothing planned, nothing thawed, and about eleven dollars left in the grocery budget for the week, which is a […]
Christmas Shortbread Cookies: 4 Ingredients, No Mixer, No Chilling Every December, my grandmother made the same thing. She started before anyone else in that house was awake, and by the time the rest of us dragged ourselves downstairs there would already be a tin sitting out on the counter, and that smell would be in […]