Sometimes you just need more pie. Especially if you make good ones, people will just start showing up. So pull out the the sheet pans and feed them! Here’s the thing about slab pies, you don’t really need a special recipe. Just double your time honored passed down recipe and breathe new life into it…
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Sheet Pan Chicken Pot Pie
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How many Southern foods have you tried?
I have a seen a few food writing mentors create southern food lists to try and almost every time I find something new. Southern food, with its very complex quilt of origins, has been influenced by many cultures since colonization. It can be often found that recipes in south can vary from town to town,…
Spiced Okra Cake
Chefs are some of the wildest imaginations we have on this planet. And tinkering is what we do. I got a bestie who grows food. It’s the perfect friendship; she grows it, I cook it. Food was how we connected but we stay friends for much much more. A couple years ago she was growing…
Sugar Cookies
This is the perfect sugar cookie recipe I use year round. They hold their shape and are buttery and soft to the bite. They lend well to decorating whether you use icing or imprints. Delicate enough to serve with tea yet sturdy enough to use with kids. I love all cookies but there is something…
Black Farms, Food Systems Disruptions, and COVID-19
When COVID hit it became glaringly obvious the food system was broken. We knew to some degree it wasn’t working, but it took the gears screeching to a stop in our economy. Overnight, milk was being dumped, produce was being left to rot, animals being killed because there wasn’t room to keep them. It wasn’t…
Smoky Persimmon and Bellvue Butternut Squash Soup
From Chef Ashley Rella This is a great recipe to help use up two of those crops coming in right now. If you don’t have any growing at home, be sure to check out local producers from High Spring Orchard and Bakery, Frog Song Organics, and Siembra Farms, Softer persimmons like Haichau or Sajio can…
Yujucha (Tea Concentrate)
Yuja-cha is concentrated Korean tea made from the yuja fruit. It’s bright, sweet, tangy, and has a strong and unique citron flavor and aroma. If you have eaten kumquats the rinds of yuja have a similar taste and numbing bitterness. Fresh yuja-cha is a traditional Korean tea made with yuja (also known as yuzu in…
Fruit Cake Cookies
I know I know fruit cake!? But seriously, these things are addicting. I like to believe that these are what fruit cake should be. These were my great grandmother Monnie’s special cookies that she would always make during the holidays. Passed down through my Grandmother, and then onto my mother, these were made all through…
Garlic- Finding roots through a bulb
How anyone can hate garlic I will never understand. While it was revered good enough as gift for the gods in some cultures, it was not even worth feeding animals with in others. Im not quite sure why I only learned about garlic that my great grandparents grew a few years ago when I have…
Welcome Friends!
I am glad you stopped in for a visit. I have been in the industry for over 25 years. I have worked a variety of jobs in numerous kitchens. I love to cook. I love to make good food and share it with people. I started blogging because I just wanted to record my work….
THE FOOD STORIES PROJECT 