My Purple Kitchen

My mom typically serves various versions of baked brie around the holidays, so I essentially grew up eating it. It's a classic appet...

It doesn't happen often, but tonight I really didn't want to cook. It was the first really cold night (read: cold for Nashville) of...

The past few days, I've been quarrantined at home with the worst cold I've had in years - mainly because I actually haven't eve...

It's going to be really, really hard for me to buy a tub of Ricotta cheese at Publix ever again. Admittedly, I am a snob about buying...

My neuroses surrounding events and parties and all they entail may officially be getting out of control. This is why. All this, plus 40 ...

I wasn't suprised to learn that my favorite go-to lasagna recipe was not Weight Watchers approved. Oozing with melted Mozzarella, whole...

Man. Is it just me, or is it really hard to go back to eating normally after Thanksgiving? All I want are cookies. Alas, I refuse to und...

I have a hazy memory from my childhood involving the '80s cartoon version of Alvin and the Chipmunks and souffles. One of the Chipettes...

On a low-carb diet, even with the vast number of delicious "legal" dishes one can create, there are certainly things one misses, ...

Polenta is a smoother variation on the southern corn-based favorite, grits. In researching the dish, I learned that it was and still is con...

I start out a lot of posts with "I never liked (insert food here) in the past, but..." Aside from the fact that it's the God...

Josh and I spent 21 hours in Chattanooga last Friday/Saturday. It was a whirlwind trip of good people, great sightseeing, and suffice it t...

  This is a standby. I’ve made it for my parents, my grandparents, college roommates, my brother, Italian-food-hating friends, and picky c...