Sweet Hoecakes with Blackberry Rum Sauce*

It has taken me a long time to perfect my hoecakes. I made many recipes from the likes of Paula Deen to Alton Brown…but none of them were perfect. I tried more cornmeal, less cornmeal, and even all cornmeal. I couldn’t figure out what was missing…what flavor wasn’t there…and...

Chocolate Peanut Butter Mug Cake*

Hey!! Wait, don’t click away! I swear, unlike all those mug cakes of the past this one is actually really tasty! It took me a long time to figure out what was wrong with all the mug cakes. I would see people making them and would try them again...

Herbed Goat Cheese Soufflé*

Hi, my name is Jessica and I haven’t had a soda in the past 20 minutes. I fell off the wagon. Hard. I was doing SO good with not buying soda to drink at home and only having it occasionally when we went out to eat. But we are...

Buffalo Chicken Salad with Voskos Greek Yogurt*

I have a love for EVERYTHING Buffalo flavored, but I can’t eat buffalo wings. We have talked about it before, but I just seriously can not eat meat off a bone. This is the main reason I know I could never go on to judge something like Top Chef....