I have been visiting my family back in the South and have been motivated to cook some of my Southern favorites.  When I walked through the farmers market, I saw field peas, boiled peanuts, mustard greens, and collard greens.  So I decided to make my Southern Collard Greens recipe along with a crispy pork chop…

My Cincinnati Style Chili If you are not familiar with Cincinnati style chili, you need to try this recipe.  I grew up in Kentucky, so we ate Cincinnati style chili.  I really didn’t know that there were other types of chili until I was an adult.  When I first served my chili to friends in…

I am choosing cheese cake as the desert of the month.  When I think about cheesecake, I remember my first time eating New York deli-style cheesecake when I lived in Maryland.  I couldn’t stop eating it.  So I knew I would have to find out how to make this style of cake.  I searched and…

Fall is one of my favorite times of year.  As the weather starts cooling and the leaves start turning, it is time to think about our favorite fall recipes.  We also need to figure out how we are going to use up all of our vegetables and tomatoes before frost.  You will want to give…

Easy Puttanesca Sauce is a simple Italian dish loaded with flavor that you will want to make part of your routine meals. The word Puttanesca translates as “in the style of the whore.” It is believed the sauce has that name because the ladies of the night during the World War II era would lure…