A couple of months ago, I started a Substack subscription newsletter all about cooking for one. Serves You Right: Recipes REALLY for One is a weekly Substack newsletter devoted to the art of cooking for yourself. Every recipe is developed specifically for one person. No scaling recipes down. No week of leftovers. No complicated meal-prep plans. Just fresh, satisfying, … [Read more...] about Butter Chicken For One from Serves You Right: Recipes REALLY for One.
Vanilla Bean Mini Muffins with Blueberry Dip
The Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis is known as the South’s Grand Hotel. And it is grand, with its marble lobby complete with of fountain to which ducks are paraded in and out twice a day. The Peabody was restored and re-opened in 1981 after a storied history of decline and resuscitation. I have been to many events at the Peabody, from wedding receptions to conferences to … [Read more...] about Vanilla Bean Mini Muffins with Blueberry Dip
Pimento Cheese Tomato Pie
I published Pimento Cheese: The Cookbook 12 years ago, which seems like a lifetime. I have published two more books since then, put up countless posts here and started a new Substack newsletter, Serves You Right. As a food writer with a lot of balls in the air, I am always looking to the next recipe, so I sometimes forget about the ones I have already published. Well, … [Read more...] about Pimento Cheese Tomato Pie
Fresh Corn Yeast Bread
People ask me all the time what my favorite recipe is. I hate that – I don’t publish anything I don’t think is really good. Of course, there are things I like better than others, as we all do. If absolutely pushed though, I could work on a list of some of my top recipes. And for me, Fresh Corn Buttermilk Biscuits would be on that list. They are classic buttermilk … [Read more...] about Fresh Corn Yeast Bread
Chewy Zucchini Pecan Blondies
Summer means we are looking for ways to use the bounty of produce available. Those recipes that usually come with the caveat that they are perfect when you have one zucchini hanging around, or a glut from your garden. But I would happily buy a zucchini just to make these unique, chewy, crunchy treats. Rich brown sugar makes them sweet, grated zucchini makes them moist and … [Read more...] about Chewy Zucchini Pecan Blondies



