Waking up to a hot and delicious breakfast is one of those wonderful pleasures of life. However, if you're the cook in your household, this doesn't happen very often unless you do the work. Since room service is not an option, prepping your breakfast before you go to bed and letting your slow cooker do the work while you sleep is a perfect solution! With ingredients as ...
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Shrimp and Grits
Yes, I was raised in the South. Yes, grits were served at almost every major family breakfast. Yes, they were a favorite food staple of many of my family members. But, I have to be honest with you, I was NOT a fan of grits. Bland, sand-textured mush was not my idea of delicious...no matter how much butter you puddled on top. Occasionally I would find a bowl of the more gourmet ...
Easiest Biscuits Ever
My great-grandmother Tiny (the actual name on her birth certificate was "Tiny Margaret Keach") died before I was born. She was an incredible woman that had 11 children, raised 9 to adulthood, helped run a very successful family farm, made all of her children's clothes, and managed to cook and create amazing dishes that still cause people to drool when they remember ...
Breakfast Focaccia Biscuits
My Mema used to make the best sausage and cheese biscuits every Christmas. I can remember the absolute chaos in her kitchen as she and her three daughters (one being my step-mother) created the amazing feast for our Christmas meal with at least a half dozen rowdy kids running around enthusiastically. Some of the foods they prepared came from the garden on their farm. In ...
Easy as Cherry Pie Oatmeal – a family favorite breakfast treat!
My kids are growing up too fast. All at once my heart feels both proud and broken. My Max recently reminded me that he will be turning “double digits” this year. Ugh, that is quite the milestone for both of us! This week I needed to cut the grass and Max enthusiastically said he wanted to help. I was only cutting our front yard with the push mower and laughed inside as I ...
