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10 Comfort Food Recipes for When You Need a Hug in a Bowl
Dinner
10 Comfort Food Recipes for When You Need a Hug in a Bowl
Some days you don’t need a recipe. You need a hug. And when a hug isn’t available — because you’re an adult and nobody hugs…
10 Holiday Baking Recipes to Fill Your Kitchen With That Smell
Baking
10 Holiday Baking Recipes to Fill Your Kitchen With That Smell
December in my kitchen smells like cinnamon, butter, and mild panic. Between cookie swaps, teacher gifts, neighbor tins, and the family dessert table, I bake…
8 Bake Sale Recipes That Sell Out First
Baking
8 Bake Sale Recipes That Sell Out First
Every September my phone lights up: “Ana, we need bake sale items by Friday.” Four kids means four schools means approximately seven hundred bake sales…
6 Southern Salads That Aren’t Sad Lettuce
Recipes
6 Southern Salads That Aren’t Sad Lettuce
When I say “salad” I don’t mean sad lettuce with ranch. I mean the salads that anchor a cookout — the ones people line up…
8 Homemade Bread Recipes (No Bread Machine Needed)
Baking
8 Homemade Bread Recipes (No Bread Machine Needed)
There is nothing — nothing — that makes a house feel more like home than bread baking. Not a candle, not a diffuser. Actual bread,…
10 Potluck Recipes That Won’t Come Home in the Same Dish
Bringing Food
10 Potluck Recipes That Won’t Come Home in the Same Dish
I have a reputation. When I walk into a church supper, people look at my dish. When I sign up for the school potluck, people…
6 Muffin Recipes That Aren’t From a Box
Breakfast
6 Muffin Recipes That Aren’t From a Box
Muffins are the MVP of busy mornings. Not pancakes — those require griddle standing. Not waffles — waffle iron cleaning. Muffins go in the oven,…
10 Recipes to Bring When You Don’t Know What to Bring
Bringing Food
10 Recipes to Bring When You Don’t Know What to Bring
There’s a moment every Southern woman knows — something happens and your first thought is “what should I bring?” New baby. New neighbor. Someone sick….
12 Southern Desserts Worth Every Single Calorie
Desserts
12 Southern Desserts Worth Every Single Calorie
Life is short. Eat the cobbler. That’s my philosophy and I’m not apologizing for it. Every dessert on this page has been baked in my…
8 Casserole Recipes That Feed the Whole Family (and Then Some)
Dinner
8 Casserole Recipes That Feed the Whole Family (and Then Some)
A casserole is just a hug in a baking dish. One pan, one oven, one shot of “dinner’s ready” and everybody shows up. I didn’t…
12 Southern Side Dishes That Steal the Show
Recipes
12 Southern Side Dishes That Steal the Show
In the South, the sides ARE the meal. The main dish is important, sure, but nobody remembers the chicken. They remember your mac and cheese….
10 Chicken Recipes We Make on Repeat in This House
Dinner
10 Chicken Recipes We Make on Repeat in This House
Chicken is the workhorse of this kitchen. Not because it’s exciting — plain chicken breast is the beige of the meat world — but because…
10 Easy Breakfast Recipes the Family Will Actually Wake Up For
Breakfast
10 Easy Breakfast Recipes the Family Will Actually Wake Up For
Morning in this house starts one of two ways: either somebody is crying about socks, or the kitchen smells so good that four kids materialize…
10 Southern Cookie Recipes That Disappear Before They Cool
Cookies
10 Southern Cookie Recipes That Disappear Before They Cool
I have never once shown up to a church supper, school event, or neighbor’s front porch without cookies. It’s not because I’m a better person…
10 Crockpot Dump-and-Go Meals That Basically Cook Themselves
Dinner
10 Crockpot Dump-and-Go Meals That Basically Cook Themselves
There are days — and if you’re a mama, you know exactly which ones I mean — where the idea of standing over a stove…
Sunday Supper Pecan Pie
Celebrations
Sunday Supper Pecan Pie
I do not arrive at a Sunday supper without bringing something. This is a rule I have held since I was old enough to bake….
Neighborhood Graduation Sheet Cake
Cakes
Neighborhood Graduation Sheet Cake
When a kid on this street graduates from anything — kindergarten, high school, anything — I make a cake. This is that cake. I don’t…
Neighbor Birthday Layer Cake
Cakes
Neighbor Birthday Layer Cake
I have a list of my neighbors’ birthdays. I bake a cake. This is not something I planned to do. It is something I do….
Thick Bake Sale Rice Krispie Treats
Celebrations
Thick Bake Sale Rice Krispie Treats
I have sold these at three different school bake sales. They sell before I have finished setting up every single time. There is no elaborate…
School Fundraiser Brownies (Makes 48)
Brownies & Bars
School Fundraiser Brownies (Makes 48)
My kids’ school knows me by name at the bake sale table. I have made forty-eight brownies the night before three years running. The school…
Get Well Chicken Noodle Soup (Deliver in a Jar)
She Brings Food
Get Well Chicken Noodle Soup (Deliver in a Jar)
When I hear someone on the block is sick, I make this. It takes half an hour. I leave it on the porch. I always…
New Baby Meal Train Chicken Soup
She Brings Food
New Baby Meal Train Chicken Soup
Every time someone on my street has a new baby, this is what I bring. It reheats in three minutes. There is a note on…
Mini Pound Cake Loaves (Makes 6 Gift Loaves)
Cakes
Mini Pound Cake Loaves (Makes 6 Gift Loaves)
Sometimes a hard situation touches more than one family. One batch, six pans, everyone gets something. That is why I own six mini loaf pans….
Sympathy Pound Cake with Glaze
Cakes
Sympathy Pound Cake with Glaze
There is a reason Southern women have always shown up with food. Sometimes you cannot say the right thing. But you can bring this cake….