Creole Pot Roast with Tomato and Onion Gravy
Not all Creole food is spicy hot, but you can count on it to be well-seasoned and full of flavor, and this insanely easy pot roast is no exception. Laced with Italian seasoning, marjoram, and a hint of ground cloves, I promise you’ll wonder where this pot roast has...
Cajun Chicken Pasta
So it was a rainy weekend, I had a lot of work to do--I’m taking a bookkeeping class, don’t laugh--and I really wanted comfort food with as little effort on my part as I could manage. I often feel that way, I must admit. Anyway, I’d also promised y’all I’d share your...
Apple Cranberry Salad
Hearty fall salads don’t get enough attention around here. I really enjoy getting to cook heavier, richer dishes after the summer heat breaks, but I don’t like to eat that way exclusively. Chilies, stews, braises, long-cooked cool weather vegetables--I love them, but...
Smoked Sausage Burnt Ends
If there is a Nobel Prize for bite-sized bits of pork you can eat off a toothpick, I am going to win it. This recipe was a mere experiment three weeks ago, and that very afternoon I told my girls to get ready, because I was about to be elected Queen of the World. Is...
The Best (and Easiest) Homemade Marinara Sauce
Does anybody else have those weeks where you’ve been as busy as the dickens, busier than a one-armed wallpaper hanger, certainly too busy to cram in one more thing (especially laundry), but you still don’t quite know what you’ve managed to accomplish? If anything?...

