Featured Recipes

I’m participating in the 2021 Black History Virtual Potluck. A collaborative menu of recipes contributed by 40+black bloggers from around the globe in honor of Black History Month. See a sampling of some of the amazing participant recipes down below. 

Why in the world would anyone add cookie spread to a cookie recipe? Do we need a reason? The reason is cookie spread is fantastic, and we have the right to add cookie spread to anything and everything. Two of my favorite cookies are ginger snaps and chewy peanut butter cookies, and this recipe marries […]

Summer and pasta salad go hand and hand for me; last, the year before COVID, my favorite dish to any pot luck was pasta salad. You can never make a small batch, so it was always perfect for bringing to a cookout. To make things easier, I bring the pasta salad in study plastic container […]

Colorful summer veggies roasted in dijon garlic butter. The summer is filled with sweet breezes, sun, and a rainbow of food. The summer brings this sense of urgency to enjoy every moment and try to fit everything and anything in a day because the days are long and memorable. I want to fill the days […]

I’m participating in the 2020 Juneteenth Cookout Takeover. This initiative was established to encourage the celebration of Juneteenth – a jubilee of freedom to commemorate the end of slavery – and to amplify the food traditions of black culinary creatives. Juneteenth (a merge of the words/date June Nineteenth) marks the date in 1865 that the last […]