Category: Vegetarian
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Pumpkin Apple Gingerbread
I made this recipe for a demonstration at Le Cordon Bleu’s campus in Scottsdale. An instructional video is at the bottom of this recipe. This is a loaf-style gingerbread, with enormous depth of flavor thanks to molasses and coffee in the mix, lightened and brightened with bits of apple, earthy with pumpkin, and spicy with…
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Cranberry Pumpkin Muffins
I’m famous for cooking with pumpkin, and I use it all year, not just during the holidays. This is a recipe that always brings them running. The sweet spiciness of the pumpkin bread is countered by the tartness of the cranberries. While canned pumpkin is available year-round, fresh cranberries are not. So I buy about…
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MasterChef Green Chili Cornbread
This recipe is adapted from my grandmother’s cast iron skillet cornbread, which is made in true Texas style…course and savory, not cakey and sweet. I love the flavors of roasted corn and green chilis and onion and cheese in my cornbread, so I overloaded this recipe with good stuff. I made this on MasterChef, and…
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Mashed Root Veggies
Mashed potatoes are tasty, but are almost entirely empty carbs. I’ve developed this PHENOMENAL recipe for mashed root veggies that tastes WAY better than mashed potatoes, and it’s healthier for you, too. 1 large rutabaga or 2-3 small turnips 1 bag parsnips (these look like white carrots) 3 sweet potatoes 2 potatoes 1 whole bulb…
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Meemaw’s Skillet Buttermilk Cornbread
My maternal grandmother Meemaw and her mother, Granny Proctor, and her mother, Granny Williams, all used cast-iron skillets to cook the majority of their meals, and they did it right on the top of a wood-fired cast-iron stove. Mom still makes cornbread in the cast-iron skillets she inherited from Meemaw, who got them from Granny…
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Benny’s Legendary Cranberry Sauce
Feed this to your family alongside the Thanksgiving turkey and they will never, ever, ever go back to canned cranberry sauce as long as they live. This stuff is AMAZING. Make a double batch, because the leftovers are brilliant served warm or cold over ice cream, as a filling for crepes or on top of…