A Life in Food by real-life Chef Cheryl Bennett
Tall, flaky buttermilk biscuits with layers that can be pulled apart to be slathered in butter or honey. This is what we all crave when we imagine a good buttermilk biscuit. These biscuits would be great with a bowl of classic chicken noodle soup.
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This dulce de leche tart with popcorn crust was born of my lifelong love affair with homemade caramel corn.
I wanted to put a twist on this most delicious treat and elevate it to something you could actually serve to guests (not that I wouldn’t put out a big trough of caramel corn, but you know what I mean).
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Lemon Tart has always been one of my favorite desserts. Not too sweet, not too tart. Easy, homemade lemon curd fills this from scratch pastry shell. A few peaks of torched meringue finish it off for a perfectly lovely dessert.
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This one is for my Momma. It isn’t anything terribly exciting, just damn good. This is the only meal that my Mom actually asks me to cook for her when I’m home and I am more than happy to oblige. For me, there is no meal more soul-satisfying than roast chicken.
It is without a doubt, my favorite meal. I could have it every week and never tire of it.
The way the house smells when it is in the oven, the sound of the skin sizzling (which is exactly what I’m listening to as I write this…) makes my mouth water knowing that in a few moments when it is on my plate, I will sink my teeth eagerly into the perfect bite.
The crunch of the super crispy skin, the fat oozing out and coating my tongue. This is sublime satisfaction… the look of complete and utter joy on my face.
THIS is the meal you serve to the ones you love.
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This berry slushy is made from 4 ingredients and comes together in about 5 minutes.
With a majority of the country suffering from a blistering heat wave, the thought of turning on the stove is honestly nauseating. I’m sure I’m not alone in this, but when it is this hot I can barely stand the thought of eating anything warm so I decided to raid the freezer to see what I could make that did not involve cooking.
Luckily for me, I had stored a few pints of summer berries at their peak and I had some left-over simple syrup from the Summer Sangria so I was in business.
When I was younger, a slurpie was one of my favorite summer treats. However, knowing what I know now I realize that perhaps all that sugar isn’t the best thing for me so I’ve started making my own version of a “slurpie”. (I still get a frozen coke when I’m visiting home, it’s just a food memory that I can’t go without, but more on that another time)
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