Recipes

Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies By Jennifer Schefke Who doesn’t love a warm chocolate chip cookie?  I know I do.  It is no coincidence that my favorite character of all time is Cookie Monster, a fellow lover of chocolate chip cookies and the theme of my milestone 50th Birthday party.  I have been using this

Basil Pesto Sauce By Jennifer Schefke Growing up in an Italian home, we had pasta once a week. It was fast, easy, and fed a lot of hungry kids for little money. It was always “spaghetti” in tomato sauce, nothing fancy, but always loved topped with parmesan cheese from that widely recognizable green container. It

Key Lime Pie By Jennifer Anderson I love this man and he loves key lime pie. Todd lived in Miami for more than 20 years and developed a “snobbery” around REAL key lime pie. Here in North Carolina, Todd is always on the search for a “decent” key lime pie. I have watched his disappointment

Sticky Buns By Jodi Erickson My parents are asked to make these for all family/friends’ visits. They took a family recipe for farmer’s bread and modified it to bring in that farm fresh bread recipe (which any good farmer knows, you use eggs, milk and butter in anything worth making) and added cinnamon and sugar

Tini’s Mac n Cheese by Matt May For as far back as I can remember, when I was a child, we always had the tastiest macaroni and cheese on special occasions—followed by cheesecake for dessert. Especially on my birthday. My mother would always ask, “What’s something special you’d like me to cook for your birthday,

Oreo Cheesecake by Matt May For as far back as I can remember, when I was a child, we always had the tastiest macaroni and cheese on special occasions—followed by cheesecake for dessert. Especially on my birthday. My mother would always ask, “What’s something special you’d like me to cook for your birthday, Matt?” And

Grandma’s Crispy Dilly Beans Recipe by Laurie McDuffie Several years ago, Carr came home with what must have been half the farm’s blueberry harvest—pints and pints of them stacked on the counter. For the first few days, we were thrilled, blueberry pancakes, blueberry ice cream, blueberry yogurt parfaits. But by Thursday, we were running out

Blueberry Dutch Baby By Isabel Seifert Several years ago, Carr came home with what must have been half the farm’s blueberry harvest—pints and pints of them stacked on the counter. For the first few days, we were thrilled, blueberry pancakes, blueberry ice cream, blueberry yogurt parfaits. But by Thursday, we were running out of ideas

Creamy Tuscan Chicken By Isabel Seifert When I first made creamy Tuscan chicken, I was really just trying to get my fiancé, Carr, to eat something green that wasn’t our normal go to asparagus or broccoli. I remember stirring the sauce hoping the handful of spinach I’d just tossed in would melt into the background

Shrimp and Grits By Tiffany Crenshaw This is my go-to dish whenever friends visit the South and insist they don’t “do” grits. It never fails—those same skeptics are usually the ones calling me the next day asking for the recipe.  When we hosted a large go-live in my hometown, I invited our project managers, engagement