Onion & Bacon Irish Soda Bread

I know that the baking enthusiasts took one look at the title and said Irish Soda Bread is supposed to have raisin and be sweet. This is my savory twist on an Irish classic. I love soda bread and give the Irish a salute the for this great bread. It is quick and I mean quick. It took me 70 minutes to make this loaf of bread and that includes 60 minutes of baking.

As I have said many times there is something about the heavenly smell of fresh bread that brings instant calm and comfort. I also believe in the healing power of fresh bread. Hot out of the oven, nice steamy and warm with some butter melting in the nooks. I have seen spirits lifted in minutes, headaches forgotten about, and people feeling loved. If you have someone that needs some comfort, love and there spirits lifted then make a loaf of this bread and their world will feel better.

Onion Bacon Irish Soda Bread

Meatball Subs

Meatball subs, now is that comfort food or is that comfort food. I do not know many people that don't like a good meatball sub and I'm one of them. The classic meatball sub is very very high on my list of favorites! I am an Italian food slut as it is so don't get me going about meatball subs. I have many rave reviews about my meatballs so give this sandwich a shoot. I know you will live it!

Meatball Sub - Ultimate Comfort Food!

Egg Bread

The smell of fresh baked bread has such a calming and healing effect, I love fresh baked bread! This is one of the first breads I learned to make and I really like it. Of course you will hear me say that many a lot! What I like about egg bread is the light airy and of course that great egg taste. Plus egg bread is great for french toast!

Egg Bread

Rustic Backcountry Raisin Scones

I woke up this morning in need of something light, flaky, and sweet to put me in a comfortable place for a busy day. I started looking around we had some heavy cream left over from the French Silk Pie and some raisins from the Coconut Curry Chicken and it came to me, Scones! This a recipe that my great grandmother handed down and it is really taste and most importantly it is easy. Give them a try you'll love them!

Rustic Backcountry Raisin Scones

French Silk Pie

This is a slice of heaven that brings instant comfort. This is one of my all time favorite desserts. I first learn to make this during my pastry chef training and have loved it ever since. This is a great dessert for any meal and is should to be a crowd pleaser at any get together. 

French Silk Pie

Southern Style Bacon Wrapped Roasted Chicken with Roasted Sweet Potatoes Part 2

This is part 2 of our Southern Style Bacon Wrapped Roasted Chicken with Roasted Sweet Potatoes dinner, you can find part 1 here to learn how to brine a chicken and get a great brine recipe. Let us continue with our southern style chicken dinner because I'm getting hungry just thinking about it!

Southern Style Bacon Wrapped Roasted Chicken with Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Mad Man Molasses & Oats Whole Wheat Bread

This is bread has a nice sweetness along with a nice flavor from the oats and whole wheat. This has one of those perfect combinations to bring instantaneous comfort when eaten. Warm from the oven a slice of this bread with some sweet butter and all your cares will melt away. Lets make some bread.

Molasses & Oats Whole Wheat Bread

Red Beans & Rice

I am really missing the south so I need an injection of southern comfort food. One of my favorite southern comfort foods is Red Beans & Rice, yum yum for the tum tum! The herbs and seasonings form a perfect combination that bring on instant comfort that heals the mind body and spirit. I'm hungry so let make some Red Beans & Rice!

Red Beans & Rice

The KISS (Keep It Super Simple) Chicken Caesar Salad

It is Friday and I needed to keep it simple for dinner so I decided to take the KISS philosophy and Keep It Super Simple with a Chicken Caesar Salad. A nice healthy, nutritious, and flavorful! It is very comforting in the fact it is easy to make and I really love Caesar salads.

Chicken Caesar Salad

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There is always love

As I look around I find it astonishing how much fear is floating around our beautiful planet and the destruction it is doing to our society. I just don't understand how people that have experienced love and the various great feelings and emotions that come with love. Simply decide to live their lives in fear. Do they not understand how destructive fear is to ones life. Do they realize how fear in many cases ends up being self fulfilling prophecy that can destroy your life.

15 bean Chicken & Chorizo Soup

I am a huge lover of beans and 15 bean soup is a favorite of mine. The addition of chicken and chorizo makes it that much better. The bean lovers in your family really enjoy a bowl of this delicious soup. The combination of the beans, the spice of the sausage, and the chicken flavor along with the spices will induce comfort almost immediately. I hope you enjoy the soup as much as I do.

5 Grain Blackstrap Bread

I had the baking bug today and had a taste for bread. I developed this recipe this afternoon and if I do say so myself it turned out to be very good. It has a nice sweet nutty flavor with a nice grainy texture to complete the all around flavor experience. This is a variation of J's Oatmeal Bread that can be found here. This is a good bread for toast, french toast, and great for any kind of nut butter and fruit spread sandwich, like peanut butter and jelly, or almond butter and jam. Enough gabbing and lets make some bread.

5 Grain Blackstrap Bread

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Southern Classics

ADD TO CART

• Buttermilk Biscuits & Sawmill Gravy
• Charleston Shrimp & Grits
• Southern Style BBQ Ribs
• Maple Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Creole Classics

• Shrimp Creole
• Crawfish Etoufee
• Red Beans & Rice
• Shrimp Gumbo

Italian Favorites

• Seafood Bavette
• Italian Sausage Sandwich with Onions and Peppers
• Porcini & Sausage with Campanelle
• Bruschetta

Cooking For Friends

If you've been reading the blog you'll know I'm in the northeast looking for work and have had to leave my home in Augusta, GA. I have been writing this blog to help keep my sanity and keep my spirits up. Well, I've been doing a lot of comfort food cooking for the blog, the cook book I just published, but most of all for me.

As I have been going through these recipes and doing all this cooking. I remember all the great times I had cooking many of these dishes for my friends in Augusta, GA. Having cook outs with Becks, having great conversations about blues music with Marion (Who happens to be a walking encyclopedia on the subject). Spend great times at Tire City Potters discussing art with all the incredibly talented artists. Having drinks at bee knees with Rachel & Kelly. Tom with dry british wit and chiggy attitude, stephanie, maddie, sadie, ben, jonathan, corey, shashir and his beautiful family, the list is long.

I really have some great friends that I miss so dearly and love so much. I have had many great times cooking for them, with them, and them feeding me. It is times like these that remind me of what a powerful combination that love, food, and friendship makes. How it can transform people, places and events. I wish everybody on the planet could experience the love I have. It might be a much better place, less fear, less hate, less judgment, and more treating people as they should be for who they are.

I hope a day comes, and comes soon that I will have a job and home again so I can go see my dear friends once again and experience the love they give the world.

I love you all!!