The Guacamento is a sinfully delicious sandwich that is made with equal parts bacon pimento cheese and homemade guacamole, then grilled and eaten in silence with your elbows out, just in case someone tries to steal it from you. This post contains affiliate links When I think of “sinful and indulgent” things in my life, my mind does not go straight to the gutter ...
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Overnight Fruity French Toast Casserole
Overnight Fruity French Toast Casserole is the perfect make ahead breakfast dish. Thick bread is covered in an eggy custard and dotted with fruit, then baked to golden perfection. Perfect for Sunday brunch! When I was a little girl, I had lots of sleepovers. I'm not sure how my momma didn't go crazy with all of those girls in the house all of the time. As a mother ...
Homemade Weekend Waffles
Fluffy homemade waffles perfect for a weekend brunch. Whip up a batch for the kids and stash the extra in the freezer for an easy weekday breakfast! I’ve really let my weekend breakfast game slip for the last few weeks. The kids have been forced to find whatever they can to subsist on until I feel like getting up and making something substantial. I have just been totally ...
Italian Stuffed Peppers Granny Would Have loved!
Italian Stuffed Peppers Granny Would Have loved! These Italian style stuffed peppers are full of Italian sausage, spinach, cheese, rice and lots of flavor! Excellent as a make ahead meal or make a double batch and have a pan of these stuffed peppers waiting in the freezer! I think its about time I got down to some grandma food. It's everyone's favorite anyway. All ...
Best Ever Slow Cooker Beef Stew
Cold weather has been hard for us to come by this winter. And...yes...I am complaining about it. As much as I hate being cold all of the time, I also feel that nature needs that period of rest to recuperate from the ravages of heat and bugs and humidity. It cannot and should not always be Summer. But I have no control over the weather. All I can do is experience it ...
Black Bean Sliders
These black bean sliders are designed to be a fun dish that could be shared at a party as a heavy appetizer and are a perfect accompaniment to fries and a cold beer. Set them next to the plate of hot wings so that no one’s carnivore-nature feels threatened. If you want to make a Southern carnivore squirm, give them a veggie burger. The veggie burger came to fame in the late ...
Rosemary Vegetable Soup
Rosemary Vegetable Soup is a humble soup with lots of warm hearty flavors to keep you warm and nourished this winter. It has been scientifically proven that trying to lose weight during the winter is futile (ok, maybe not scientifically proven, but I have tested this theory on my own) but I tend to not let this knowledge stop me from putting forth a good frustrating ...
5 Minute Spicy Black Eye Pea Hummus
A quick and spicy bean dip with a twist, this Spicy Black Eye Pea Hummus is a creamy and delicious adornment to chips and veggies alike. If you were a good Southerner, you would know that every New Year must be rung in with a bowl of black eye peas. You would also know that somewhere in that bowl of tiny cream colored ...
The 10 Must Have Staple Recipes to Stock Your Pantry
I am a HUGE fan of any recipes from scratch (if you hadn't figured that out by now). While the cost savings of making your own can be huge it's really the fact that I know EXACTLY what is going into my recipes. Also, when you live waaaayyyy out in the country you have to be creative and resourceful. And who doesn't love feeling self-sufficient? (Probably no one, but if there ...
Peanut Butter Marbled Fudge
This time of year is rough on me. I struggle with it emotionally and physically. I'm talking of course about being surrounded by sweets 24/7. I'm struggling to physically get my butt into my pants and I'm struggling emotionally trying to convince myself to not eat all of the delicious sweets that I have surrounded myself with. I'm okay with it for now. January will be here ...
Porchetta Roll with Chimichurri Sauce
I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. I love all of the gift giving and cookie making. I love the get-togethers and all of the twinkling lights. What I don't love is just how dang expensive it is. Every holiday season we struggle to do all of the gifting we want without digging ourselves into a hole of debt that we then spend the next several ...
Spinach and Mushroom Stuffed Shells
Spinach and Mushroom Stuffed Shells is handy freezer meal to have at the ready. Cheesy and delicious and covered in sauce, this dish will make your busiest evenings a cinch. Spinach and Mushroom Stuffed Shells makes for a fantastic family meal that is so easy to make! This is one of those recipes that you can prep ahead of time and freeze, then bake on a busy night, or ...
Homemade Ketchup
I was standing at our local farmer’s market last week talking to David from Riversong Farms and lamenting about my glut of tomatoes and my lack of storage space for the dozens of quarts I had already put up when he made the most wonderful suggestion. “Make ketchup,” he said. ”It’s really good and pretty easy to make.” It was the most wonderful idea I had ever heard. Why ...
Green Bean and New Potato Salad
Life has an amazing way of teaching lessons. We have had so many lessons in the last week. My husband has learned that you should never run with wet shoes on and that broken bones sometimes take a plate and 8 screws to fix. I have learned that it takes 6 minutes to get from our house to the nearest doctor and that we have an astounding amount of friends and family who ...
Slow Cooker Short Rib Pasta in Homemade Marinara Sauce
A few months back, I received a request from a friend of mine. She was requesting a recipe of course, one that would solve all of her problems, one that would make her days easier and her meals more delicious, and of course it had to go in the Crock Pot. And it couldn’t be soup. “And don’t make it too fancy,” she said. “If I have to go to the grocery store to get some spice, I ...