Cooking
It's Always An Experiment
Homemade Cheese Raviolis
Flour on the table, sheets on the rack, and every hand in the house helping – homemade cheese raviolis from scratch, step by step.
Creamy Butter Sage Sauce
Butter, fresh sage, and cream – a three-ingredient sauce that takes as long as the pasta water. Born to be poured over homemade raviolis.
Mini Peach Cobbler Muffins
All the warm, buttery comfort of peach cobbler, baked into muffin cups you can hand to a kid and send outside. Dangerous little things.
Blueberry Cobbler
What happens to the rest of the blueberries we pick every year – a warm, bubbling cobbler that works straight from the freezer stash.
Pork Chop Gravy (Smothered Pork Chops)
No-measurements pork chop gravy made right in the frying pan – and the reason our kids answered ‘Pork chops, rice, and gravy!’ for two years straight.
How to Use a Dutch Oven
Home vs. camping Dutch ovens, where the coals actually go, and how to season and clean cast iron so it outlives you – the complete beginner’s guide.
Simple Pan-Fried Pork Chops
Golden pan-fried pork chops the way we make them – four everyday seasonings, a fork instead of a tenderizer, and step-by-step photos of the whole thing.
Meat Biscuits: The Easiest Sloppy Joe Stuffed Biscuits You’ll Ever Make
Skillet sloppy joe meat tucked inside Grands butter biscuits and baked for 10 minutes – the easiest family dinner we make. Plus a pulled BBQ chicken version.
List of Dinner Ideas
A big running list of dinner ideas for the nights when nobody can answer the eternal question: what sounds good?
Stewing Cooking Method
Low, slow, and forgiving – what stewing actually means and when to reach for it.
Sautéing Cooking Method
The fast, hot skillet method that gets supper moving – what sauteing means and how to do it right.
Double Boiler Cooking Method
Gentle, indirect heat for the things that scorch easy – how a double boiler works and when you need one.
Roasting Cooking Method
Dry heat, high reward – what roasting really means and how to get that golden outside.
Baking Cooking Method
More than cookies – what baking means as a cooking method and how it does its work.
Is Wax Paper the Same as Parchment Paper
They look the same on the shelf, but one of them does not belong in your oven. The difference, settled.
Blueberry Syrup
Homemade blueberry syrup from berries we hand-picked at a local farm – simple to make, keeps 2-3 weeks in the fridge, perfect on pancakes or vanilla ice cream.
Southern Kissed Belle
