I was a bit confused by the sheer number of roast chicken recipes that Ina gets credited for. In the Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, her first, ...

  Did the exclamation point help?! ;) I know Sugar Snap Peas with Sesame does not, at first glance, sound like the perfect Super Bowl food, ...

  Ina says that soup is perfect for Sunday lunch. Just make a big salad too and you're done. Maybe fruit and cheese for dessert. And eve...

 Before Ina owned the Barefoot Contessa, she would spend hours making hors d'oeuvres for a cocktail party. After, she found it more impo...

So how can you be a student of not cooking? Look around you! Base your cooking on ingredients that come from local sources . The Locavore...

  In the introduction to her first cookbook, Ina Garten explains that when she bought the Barefoot Contessa in the 70s, American cooks (incl...

  Martha Stewart wrote the foreword for Ina's very first cookbook, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook . In the foreword, she extols Ina'...

  In her first cookbook, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook , published in 1999, Ina thanks a host of characters: Frank Newbold - High-end real ...

  It all started when I wandered into my local Barnes & Noble when a friend was delayed for lunch and I needed to kill time. They were a...

I already have a go-to quick-and-easy taco soup, so this Steak Fajita Chili from Cooking Light magazine seemed perfect to round out my...

Have you ever made an Instant Pot recipe out of desperation? We did tonight. We have been working through our stash of community cookbo...

I have been buying too many old(er) cookbooks at estate sales lately. It's interesting to me how little directions some of the recipes g...

I found the perfect recipe for the last of my #upinfarms cucumbers... (or I found the bones here anyways). It was yummy! (Now I'm ready...

I've tried artichokes stuffed, roasted, steamed, boiled and the list goes on, but the best crockpot recipe I've discovered in q...

I had ordered a three-pack of Bob's Red Mill Low-Carb Bread Mix on Amazon, so I had some extra for experimentation. (I didn't have m...

The Poet's Occasional Alternative by Grace Paley From Begin Again I was going to write a poem I made a pie instead      it took...

Eva Davis had a radio show in Vicksburg about cooking - and published this cookbook collection, Mississippi Mixin's , of her recipe...

1 lb ground bison 1 lb ground Italian sausage (mild or hot) 1 small purple onion, diced 2 tsp minced garlic 16 oz. bag baby carrots, sli...

Pastry for 9-inch deep-dish pie 1/2 lb Jimmy Dean hot sausage 2 cups peeled diced eggplant 1 can diced tomatoes, rinsed and drained 1 gr...

Even when you know the recipe won't look like this at your house in the end, it usually starts with a picture . On the Internet or ...

Yesterday was National Oyster Day - and we went to Drago's in Jackson to recognize the observance (of course). The waiter was not a...

I'm cooking my way through How to Cook Like a Southerner and Live to Tell the Tale! Next up: Marinated Red Onions. Marinated Red Onio...

In my Re-Collected Recipes blog , I share handwritten and clipped recipes I find in the old community cookbooks I love to collect, but th...

My husband loves blackberries. So for Father's Day (and for his father on Father's Day), I spent some time finding some new bla...

This squash salad is adapted from a recipe in  Festive Fare , which was a cookbook published in 1995 with proceeds benefiting St. Jude's...

In the New York Times , Martha C. White writes about Kraft revealing their new recipe - after selling 50 million boxes basically unnotice...

2 tablespoons   seasoned almond "breadcrumbs" 1 tablespoon   chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley 1 tablespoon   finely ...

1 egg 1/2 cup seasoned almond flour/meal 3/8 cup freshly grated Parmesan 2 thin pork chops Salt and pepper 3 tbsp olive oil Whisk the...

1½ pounds lean ground beef 1 egg 2 tablespoons pizza sauce, any kind, plus more for brushing on muffin tops 2 tablespoon diced red onion...

Many years ago, a woman named Robin Chapman from Ripley, Miss., made a pot roast in her slow cooker. Now known as Mississippi Roast, it...