Southern Pecan Baklava

Southern Pecan Baklava

Baklava is a really cool dessert that has a great history to it. Regionally, it comes from the Middle East, but there are interesting variations all across Europe, Africa, and Asia. The most well-known variant is Turkish and it usually features chopped pistachios or walnuts…

Mission Fig Sea Salt Fudge

Mission Fig Sea Salt Fudge

Originally posted in 2015, updated with new pictures and recipe card in 2019. This will be our first post during the Daniel Fast, and I have to admit- it was very difficult to navigate this new world of food. I was stuck making boring and…

Ginger Spice Cookies

Ginger Spice Cookies

Ginger Spice Cookies originally posted in 2014. Updated in 2019 with new pictures and recipe card. You can always tell when a recipe has been loved and tested many times. Little notes are written in the margins, sometimes with different handwriting. The evidence from years…

Chocolate Pie

Chocolate Pie

Original recipe for chocolate pie posted in November 2014. Updated with recipe card and new pictures October 2019 as part of the Eat Joyfully Vegetarian Thanksgiving Series. I must confess– I have never made a pie before. Pie is not really my favorite thing to…

Sweet Potato Casserole

Sweet Potato Casserole

Vegetarian sweet potato casserole, updated with new pictures and recipe card in October 2019. Originally posted in November 2014, adapted from Damn Delicious. Many people think of winter as being a bad season for vegetables, but there are a ton of delicious veggies that come…

Bahamian Johnny Cake

Bahamian Johnny Cake

Bahamian johnny cake recipe originally posted in 2014. Updated in 2019 with new pictures and recipe card. Bahamian johnny cake is a Caribbean specialty, which I make in my Southern-American kitchen in lieu of cornbread. Growing up, I spent most Spring Breaks and sometimes part…

The Best, Buttery, Flaky, Easy-Peasy, Southern Biscuit

The Best, Buttery, Flaky, Easy-Peasy, Southern Biscuit

What can I say about biscuits that does justice to how wonderfully delicious they can be? What can I say about biscuits that does justice to how incredibly dry and disgusting they can be? A good biscuit is like nothing else in the world. It’s…