Southern Baked Mac and Cheese

Southern Baked Mac and Cheese

This is supposed to be a side dish. At my house it has never once been treated like a side dish. My family has no boundaries around this pan and I’ve stopped trying to enforce any. Southern Baked Mac and Cheese — three cheeses, custard base, golden breadcrumb...
Southern Biscuits and Gravy

Southern Biscuits and Gravy

I serve this for dinner sometimes. My family responds better to this than most things I cook for an actual evening meal. That’s the thing about Southern Biscuits and Gravy — it’s classified as breakfast but it has never been limited by that classification...
Southern Shrimp and Grits

Southern Shrimp and Grits

I made this for a dinner party and three people asked where I trained. I said my own kitchen. They still didn’t believe me. Southern Shrimp and Grits looks like restaurant fare. It tastes like someone who went to culinary school made it. It takes 30 minutes from...
Southern Salmon Patties

Southern Salmon Patties

My grandmother made these every Friday. I didn’t plan on doing the same. And yet here I am, making salmon patties on Fridays, my kids at the table waiting for them, the cast iron heating on the stove. Some patterns carry forward without you deciding to carry...
Creamy Homemade Tomato Soup

Creamy Homemade Tomato Soup

My youngest calls this the red soup. She has requested it by name since she was three years old. We oblige every time. Creamy Homemade Tomato Soup — rich, creamy, deeply tomatoey — is the cold-weather soup my kids ask for and the one that proves, definitively, that...