Food A Woman Will Love and A Man Will Marry Her For

Peanut Butter Eggs with Dark Chocolate

April 7, 2012

I saw this recipe on Brown Eyed Baker, and I was instantly reminded of the homemade peanut butter and coconut cream eggs of childhood. They were always around at Easter, either sold at the Farmer’s Market or made by one of the ladies in the neighborhood. At that time, no one baked or made sweets [...]

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Local Lettuce, Honey Goat Cheese Salad Dressing

April 5, 2012

It’s Farmer’s Market Season in the Nashville area. Our Franklin Farmer’s Market. The warm weather has hastened the season and last Saturday was like a day in May instead of March. I am excited to bring together three of my favorite local farmers with the creation of a honey goat cheese salad dressing and a [...]

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A Roasted Chicken Cacciatore that Reminds Me of Our Wedding

April 2, 2012

This roast chicken reminds me of our wedding. It was fast and cheap, but executed so well that nobody knew the corners that were cut. I put the money on what was important to me, flowers and food. We feasted on filet mignon at a sit down dinner in a free outdoor venue decorated with [...]

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Savory Chive Cheesecake with Potato Chips Crust

March 29, 2012

I admit that sometimes on rare occasions, my mind wanders during church. Not because our church is boring. Far from it. You know I wouldn’t be at a boring service. Sometimes, the pastor is a bit overly enthusiastic, and if you’ve ever been to a Tyler Perry movie or play, you get the picture. But [...]

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Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting Helps Win Second Place at Cupcake Palooza

March 27, 2012

Books and Cupcakes. Two happy words in a child’s life. This past Saturday, a few of us Nashville Food Bloggers decided to pool our talents and bake several hundred cupcakes for Cupcake Palooza, a fund raiser for Books from Birth of Middle Tennessee. Literacy is something many of us take for granted. But, don’t. Not [...]

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How to Color Coconut for the Prettiest Coconut Cupcakes

March 24, 2012

I just finished making 180 mini cupcakes for Cupcake Palooza. My blog is not a baking blog or a cupcake blog, but I do my share of baking from scratch, and I thought it would be fun to join the community and a few other food bloggers for a good cause. See information below. This [...]

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Green Potato Soup for St. Patrick

March 17, 2012

We know he had two companions, hunger and nakedness, and that the gnawing in his belly and the chill on his exposed skin were his worst sufferings, acutely painful presences that could not be shaken off. From this scant information—Patricius is not a man of many words—we can deduce that the boy had a hardy [...]

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Hunger Games Dandelion Salad with Blood Orange Salad Dressing

March 15, 2012

There is a reason I put the burnt bread with the dandelion salad. Some of you already know. I’ve been thinking about this dandelion salad as much as I’ve thought about the lamb stew. In my last post, I prepared the Hunger Games lamb stew with dried plums because it was the most talked about [...]

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Hunger Games Lamb Stew with Dried Plums

March 7, 2012

Post Edit: This recipe won Hunger Games Lamb Stew recipe contest with Stapleton-Spence. In the third book of the Hunger Games Trilogy, The Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, by this point, a heroine who is mentally and physically flattened, yet not defeated, delivers a powerful commentary on the wonderfulness of comfort food: “I’m starving and the stew [...]

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Best Southern Flakey Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe from a Biscuit Queen

February 29, 2012

The saddest thing in the history of my husband’s family is the lost art of Southern cooking. The memories of Meemaw and her wood burning stove that turned out biscuits seven days a week is so legendary that no one has dared attempt to compete with her, until now. I never met her. I never [...]

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