Welcome to Cooking with Virginia!
Here you will find delicious and doable, seasonal, chef-driven recipes for home cooks along with tips, techniques, and stories. Each post features mouth-watering food photography, easy-to-follow instructions, and helpful hints for well-tested recipes from Southern chef, Food Network Kitchen Instructor, and James Beard award-winning cookbook author Virginia Willis.
You’ll also find Virginia’s signature stories chronicling formational childhood experiences gained baking in her grandmother’s and mother’s kitchen, her extensive professional experience from working in patisserie in a Michelin-starred restaurant, to the hot lights of food television, and her culinary centric far-flung travels. The recipes build on this practical knowledge and are written so that the reader feels that Virginia is by their side in the kitchen, as she walks the reader through surefire recipes that work every time. The recipes are rigorously tested and are essential, foolproof dishes you actually want to make and eat!
Bon Appétit, Y’all!
Virginia Willis
Kentucky Hot Brown Vidalia Onion Bites
Kentucky is world-famous for the Kentucky Derby, held the 1st Saturday in May, fine bourbon, and thoroughbred racehorses. The Blue Grass state is also known
Strawberry Buttermilk Cake
Strawberries are some of the first fruits of spring in Georgia. I love them and when they are in season, I eat them nearly
Recipe Makeover: Sausage and Peppers
Sausage and Peppers have long been a regular meal in my supper rotation. The onions and peppers melt together to create a luscious confit bursting
Small Bake Pecan Macaroons
April is Pecan month, believe it or not. I’m not sure who decides what food is celebrated in what month, especially considering the pecan harvest
(Skinny) Chocolate Dipping Sauce
This Chocolate Dipping Sauce was a REVELATION. Chocolate isn’t my Achille’s tendon, it’s my whole damn leg – albeit a more defined and muscular one.
Irish Brown Bread
Irish Brown Bread? Really? Isn’t this supposed to be a WW-friendly blog? Well, yes, it is. Bread can be a wholesome, healthy part of a
Makeover Recipe: Easy Lemon Squares
Lemon Squares are often made with gobs of butter and sugar and well, that’s one reason why they are so good. But, they are
Loaded Baked Potato with Shiitake Bacon
Shiitake bacon is not bacon, let’s get that straightened out from the top. Shiitake bacon is not pork. It is not meat. It is not
Nothing says “I Love You” Like Chocolate Pudding
What other dessert brings out the kid in us more than chocolate pudding? Sometimes Mama would make chocolate pudding after school, and my sister and
Zero Point Chicken Chili
When considering this recipe all I could think was does the world really need another chili recipe? Once I made it, tasted it, and punched