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
Spicy Pork Shoulder: Recipe Testing for Basic to Brilliant, Y’all
My next cookbook, Basic to Brilliant, Y’all: Recipes and Recollections of a Southern Culinary Journey is the lead book for Ten Speed for Fall 2011.
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Happy Mother’s Day: Mama’s Poundcake
Anyone that speaks to me more than a couple of paragraphs essentially knows I love my Mama. I am a Mama’s girl through and through.
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Anne Willan & The LaVarenne Way
Anne Willan Thinking about my career, Nathalie Dupree took me out of my mama’s kitchen. She exposed me to things I had never heard
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Sweet Georgia Peaches: Pork Chops with Peach BBQ Sauce
All about Peaches – How to Pick, Store, and Cook with a Bushel of Great Peach Recipes Peach Country Central and South Georgia are well
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Coca Cola Glazed Baby Back Ribs
Memorial Day is the start of grilling season. I want to share with you an absolutely unbelievable recipe for ribs. The combination of sweet and
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Fried Chicken: A Love Story
Virginia and Meme – photo credit Terry Allen I’ve been cooking as a professional for a little over 15 years, but my passion actually started
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Strawberry Shortcakes
The word “sugar” often becomes “sugah” in the South. The dropping of the r, really pretty unnecessary letter it seems to many. Sugah isn’t
