Chicken & grape salad

Chicken & grape salad

Great for picnics and tailgating, chicken salad is a Southern staple. There are a thousand different ways to make this stuff. This recipe is a bit chunkier than most folks are used to. Serve on sliced cucumber or zucchini as an appetizer or spoon into romaine lettuce...
Tomato sauce

Tomato sauce

We have two approaches to this wonderful sauce and it all depends on whether or not we are eating it that day. If you can’t wait, serve this simple sauce over spaghetti squash and enjoy. Our other approach with this is to double or triple the batch and can the sauce...
Dill pickles

Dill pickles

Our canning endeavors always include pickles. My (Charles’) brother Michael grew the most amazing cucumbers a few years ago. We were in Tennessee buying up some of his produce and picked up a batch of the ones labeled “Canning Cukes.” They are great to garnish any...
Basic bread loaf

Basic bread loaf

Bread and paleo don’t really go together. But every once in a while—like the one time I’ve been sick since going paleo— toast just sounded good. Here’s a recipe for those times that you’re wanting a comforting slice of toast but without some of the irritation...
nutty pie crust

nutty pie crust

Whenever my mom would ask me to make “Sullivan’s Apple Pie” for a holiday meal, my least favorite part was making the crust. Not because it wasn’t easy, because it was (we had a super-easy recipe from the Women’s Guild in my hometown). I was simply never a fan of...