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
How to Make Homemade Caramel Sauce and Apple Dip
Apples dipped in caramel are one of life’s sweetest treats. It’s simple, nostalgic, and tasty, too. Knowing how to make caramel is a key kitchen
Easy Dark Chocolate Bark
Packed with dried fruit and nuts, dark chocolate bark is full of flavor and fun! Making this bark – simply a sheet of rich,
One Bowl Apple Snack Cake
Apples are one of fall’s most iconic foods. Raw, dried, sauteed, simmered, baked, jammed, jellied, pressed into cider or juice, or cooked down into unctuous
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins
Pumpkin and pumpkin spice is everywhere. The flavor has permeated the food and lifestyle scene. From cereal to coffee to candles, it is the flavor
How to Make Buttermilk Biscuits
Look at those biscuits! September is National Biscuit Month. Of course, in my world, this is pretty much every month! And, I love to make
Cooking with Buttermilk: Waffles, Biscuits, and Flatbread
Several years ago a food website interviewed me and asked what I did with my leftover buttermilk. What? That’s like asking me what I do
Healthy-ish Double Chocolate Cupcakes
Chocolate Cupcakes can pretty much solve all the world’s problems. Well, that might be a stretch. Ok, it’s flat out not true. I will say,
Raspberry No-Bake Cheesecake
It’s hot. Need a dessert? “No-Bake” is the way to go! I hardly want to turn on my toaster, much less the oven. I’m sharing
Meal Plan Monday with Creole Buttermilk Chicken on Good Day Atlanta
One-Pan Wonder I love a sheet pan supper. One pan and you are good to go — it makes both cooking and cleaning so much
Fried & Griddled Green Tomatoes
Fried Green Tomatoes are as deeply rooted in Southern culture as a field of kudzu. I have a confession. I am not a huge fan