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Cheesy Taco Soup
For years, I’ve had this fantasy where I move to Vermont and live in a farmhouse (a modern farmhouse because it’s a fantasy and I get what I want) and write and bake bread all the live-long day....
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Steaks au Poivre
Steak au poivre was one of the first “grown-up” dishes I learned to cook. It was a favorite of my dad’s (though he butchered the pronunciation more than the cut of meat itself), and once I tried it I...
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Red Wine and Honey Brisket
Shortly after we moved back to the U.S. from France (some ten years ago) my kids befriended our new-to-us neighbors. In fact, as luck would have it, our two families hit it off; and it was often there...
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Barbecue Sauce
Last year my mesquite-loving husband bought a tabletop grill. It’s been the hit of the household ever since. It uses less charcoal (but still gets insanely hot), takes up less room, easily fits food...
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Balsamic-Glazed Radicchio, Fennel Sausage, and Mozzarella Pizza {and a...
I love it when widely accepted food myths get busted. Like butter turning out to be a good thing (did we really doubt Julia Child there for awhile?). Or finding out that eggs don’t cause heart disease....
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Marinated Lamb Kebabs with Mint Chimichurri
As you might have noticed (or worse, not noticed), we’ve kind of dropped the cooking ball lately. Both of us have been suddenly inundated with outside (read: non-food) work, while Cookbooks365 quietly...
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Throwdown-Winning Chicken-Fried Steak
Cowboy cooking is my weakness. Round up all those frontier favorites—big sky, crackling campfires, ponies, and men who cook—throw in some good story-telling, and I’m ravenous. Maybe it was those few...
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Mexican-Style Beef Tip Tacos
Move over Joy of Cooking, because I have a new cookbook crush, and it’s no passing fancy. It’s a sizzling flavor-packed fiesta of recipes, color, art, and taco trivia that make my cheeks hurt from...
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Iceberg Wedge with Smoked Bacon and Roquefort Dressing
Salads are a lot more complicated these days, at least compared to when I was a kid. I love microgreens and sprouted seeds just as much as the next girl, but I’m not always in the mood to massage my...
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Chicken-Fried Short Ribs
You can take GRITS out of the South, but you can never take the South out of GRITS. We GRITS (Girls Raised In The South) seem to recognize each other instantly anywhere in the world, and more than...
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