Bacon Marmalade

My precious Mother died one year ago today. It is hard to believe I have somehow made it 365 days without her. So as you can expect, Mother’s Day was difficult this year and I fully expected today to be equally hard. Then a friend of mine suggested I do something fun to honor her…

Easy White Sauce

As I begin to harvest my spring English peas from the garden, I have been preparing them in countless ways in order to keep up with the daily supply. One of my favorites is to serve the shelled peas barely steamed and bathed in this delicious creamy sauce. It almost seems like a casserole, but…

Tennessee Strawberries

I love spring and this year, we have been blessed with an abundance of local strawberries. That is not always the case thanks to those last snaps of cold weather that tends to zap the crop just as it is blooming. So I have been grabbing these luscious heart shaped berries as fast as possible….