Butternut Squash Beef Soup with Black Pepper Cornbread Islands

Butternut Squash Beef Soup with black pepper cornbread islands, hearty, comforting, and a delicious winter soup.  Center a portion of your favorite cornbread in the middle of a bowl and ladle a generous scoop of the soup over the cornbread. One of the versatile things about soup is all vegetables are a go in soups, like butternut squash, potatoes, carrots, lima beans, corn, green beans, and hearty winter vegetables.  

Weeknight Supper Meal: Baked Chicken and Dumplings

Weeknight Supper Meal ideas is here again.   A weekly  meal feature to help with an idea for one of your meals for the week. Baked Chicken and Dumplings will soon become your go to dumpling recipe. Layer the ingredients...don't stir and bake...what comes out is truly magic dumplings!  

Crispy Roasted Sugar Snap Peas

Crispy Roasted Sugar Snap Peas,  fresh, healthy, delicious and quick to make.  These peas are not shelled but roasted whole in the pod until tender and crispy.    I have always enjoyed eating sugar snap peas served on a vegetable tray, but I must say, my new favorite way to eat them is roasting them!

Weeknight Supper Meal: Roasted Hamburger Steak Dinner

Weeknight Supper Meal,  a weekly feature here on Cooking with K to help with an idea for one of your meals for the week.  Planning meals can be daunting at times, but planning meals ahead is the secret to less stress, overspending on groceries, and having more family favorites at your meals. I love simple and easy meals on busy weeknights.  These Roasted Hamburger Steaks are cooked in a sheet pan with the vegetables all roasted together and just before serving add a pat of butter for the finishing touch.

Top 10 Recipe of 2016

Top 10 Recipes of 2016 , always exciting to see the post you have selected as the top ones for the year.  I am humbled and grateful for all your comments, shares, and support throughout this year.  Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart! No. 10   Easy Homemade Buttery Shortbread Crust

Christy Jordan's Sweetness! Chocolate Snack Cake

Chocolate Snack Cake , a little vintage chocolate snack cake but with all the bells and whistles of flavor that a large snack cake has.  The cake is rich and intense with chocolate using, butter, sugar, eggs, self-rising flour, chocolate syrup, and chocolate chips.  Did I say rich and intense chocolate flavor? I am thrilled to share with you a  recipe from Christy Jordan's cookbook, Sweetness.  It is filled with her favorite recipes from family and friends as well as heartwarming stories of her grandparents and great grandparents.

Cranberry Breakfast Cake

Cranberry Breakfast Cake  scrumptious breakfast cake using butter, sugar, sour cream, and the star fresh cranberries.  A hint of almond flavoring makes this cake sing on Christmas morning! I love cranberry breakfast cakes, and I have a few secrets to share when making them. The secrets are in the use of ingredients.

Decadent German Chocolate Brownies

German Chocolate Brownies , a German sweet chocolate bar in the brownie layer topped with a gooey coconut pecan layer and frosted with a luscious chocolate frosting.  A decadent dessert for the holidays! These German Chocolate Brownies start with a brownie mix.  Yes, they are rich, gooey, decadent, amazing, and they are made with a mix.

Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies

Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies , soft melt in your mouth chocolate goodness made with yummy Nutella and loaded with dark chocolate chips.   It is time to start thinking about getting my Christmas treat boxes ready for gift giving.  I wanted a new recipe for a chocolate cookie.

Southern Style Collard Greens {Granny's Recipe}

Southern Collard Greens ,  a delicious Southern dish served in most households all year long, especially around the holidays.   In the south, we generally cook large amounts of greens at one time, referring to them as an ole' mess of greens. My Mother's recipe for collard greens is the best.   Her recipe brings out all the secrets to the perfectly cooked greens.