Black Pepper Corn Muffins

Black Pepper Corn Muffins , Southern cornbread muffin using creamy corn folded into self-rising cornmeal and coarse ground black pepper with eggs, and a small amount of buttermilk to bind it all together.   Many a meal when I was a girl growing up consisted of a plate of summer vegetables and cornbread.  Some people think that this meal is a poor man's meal, but for us, it was spectacular.  Add some sliced garden tomatoes and garden onion, a little chow chow (a southern relish) and we were in heaven.

Stuffed Bell Peppers + a Low Carb Option {Granny's Recipe}

Stuffed Bell Peppers , succulent red, orange, and yellow bell peppers stuffed with a flavorful ground beef and fluffy rice, topping them with ketchup or a sweet, tangy sauce. My mother enjoyed making Stuffed Bell Pepper as much as she enjoyed seeing my husband eat them. I only remember my mother using the green bell peppers, but the different colored ones are so readily available now that I usually use them along with some green ones too. The yellow, red, and orange ones are a little sweeter, and my daughter, Jennifer prefer them over the green ones.

Curry Rice Salad

Curry Rice Salad , fluffy white rice, yellow curry powder, and bright English peas are the perfect dish to use up leftover rice.     Curry Rice Salad Using Leftover Rice The joy of this recipe is how simple it is to make.  Using leftover rice is always a plus when needing to get a meal on the table in minutes.  If you have no rice cooked, cook it the night before and heat it to make the salad. When I have leftover rice, one of the first things I think about is making this cold rice salad.

Southern Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Southern Cream Cheese Pound Cake , a vintage pound cake recipe, is a moist, tender cake, perfectly dense with a lovely sweet golden crust that melts as soon as it hits your mouth.  My family is a huge fan of pound cake in any flavor.  We adore the rich, dense texture of pound cake.

Cabbage Roll Skillet Casserole {with a low carb option using cauliflower rice}

Cabbage Roll Skillet Casserole , made on top of the stove with all the ingredients of the traditional cabbage rolls with a low carb option using cauliflower rice. Traditional cabbage rolls take time to make.  You boil the cabbage leaves and then roll the leaves up with meat and rice mixture.  They are truly delicious and worth every minute making them, but sometimes I just want them to make themselves...grins.

Homemade Oatmeal Raisin Creme Pies

Homemade Oatmeal Raisin Creme Pies , two soft, chewy oatmeal cookies sandwiched with homemade marshmallow creme frosting.  A copycat of the beloved Little Debbie Cookies in lunchboxes across the country.  A box of these classic cookies never stayed long around our house much less for lunches.  Everyone in the house also loved them for an after school snack.  

Chunky Chocolate Chip Double Doozies

Chunky Chocolate Chip Double Doozies , fluffy  frosting sandwiched between two giant soft and chewy, chunky chocolate chip cookies, a copycat of the beloved cookie found at the cookie store in your local mall. We love the cookies at the cookie store in the mall, and the aroma is so inviting we can't resist sometimes, but they can be pretty pricey.

Creamy Meaty Baked Ziti

Creamy Meaty Baked Ziti, three different kinds of cheese folded in a hearty marinara sauce with pasta.   The perfect meal to feed a crowd or split and make one for your family and take the other to a friend.  Add a salad and some crusty bread and you have a delicious meal.

15 Best of 2015 Recipes from Cooking with K

15 Best of 2015,  a collection of recipes that topped the list of the most pageviews for 2015 on the blog.   It is time once again to reflect on your favorite recipes you have been so faithful to visit, comment and share this past year here on the blog.  I can't express enough how thankful I am for each and everyone of you.  

Old Fashioned Chocolate Meringue Pie {Granny's Recipe}

Old-fashioned chocolate meringue pie is creamy, rich chocolate filling adorned with fluffy meringue in a flakey pie crust, just like grandma makes. GRANNY'S CHOCOLATE MERINGUE PIE There are pies, and then there are Granny's pies. My family has always been a pie fan, and growing up, this chocolate meringue pie was a favorite. Christmas desserts always included my Mother's Chocolate Meringue Pie growing up in the '60s. She made the best.  Always made from scratch, a reminiscence of an old fashioned southern cook. We couldn't decide which one to cut first, her Coconut Meringue or Chocolate Meringue, so we would have a little of both.  Devine... Don't wait for special occasions to make this pie.  Rich, delicious chocolate pie is the perfect dessert anytime. I hope you get to make it real soon.  Enjoy!