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
Holiday Cheer: Bourbon Apple Cider
The smells, sights, and colors of fall are brilliant, vibrant, and comforting. However, once the leaves change and the days grow shorter, to many it
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Lesson Learned: Quick and Easy Pear Tart Recipe
Several weeks ago, my mentor and dear friend Nathalie Dupree and I hosted a cooking class fundraiser for the Atlanta Community Food Bank. We had
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10 Reasons Cooks Have to Give Thanks
This Thanksgiving week I have been considering the abundant changes in my life and the many things for which I am thankful. I’ve traveled all
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Living Well: Whole Grain Recipes
Several weeks ago I was asked by Dr.Oz’s website to do a 7-day Vegan challenge. I approached it with a plan of eating as many minimally
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My Day in NYC on 9-11
NYC on 9-11 This picture of my sister was taken in August, just a few weeks before the horrible tragedy in 2001. In 2010, when I
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Save the Flavors: Easy Summer Ratatouille
A recent evening’s garden harvest rewarded me with the ingredients for a vibrant, tasty, and easy summer ratatouille — as well as the realization that
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Salmon Fishing in Alaska + Salmon Recipes
For the past two weeks I have been on a working vacation in Alaska. I was offered the opportunity to be the guest celebrity chef
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How to Fry Chicken – Southern Fried Chicken
When my dear grandmother was alive and I would come home to visit, it did not matter if it was 2:00 in the morning or
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Eat Wild: Elderflower Cordial
Recently, I’ve been studying a couple of foraging books and trying to use more wild food in my kitchen. Serving locally foraged ingredients has become
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Frozen Treats: Avocado Popsicles and Coconut Ice Cream
Homemade ice cream and sorbets are some of my favorite summertime sweet desserts. (Peach is undoubtedly my favorite!) I like ice cream, I mean who
