Fruits and Vegetables Archives

Fruits and Vegetables are the star! Good and good-for-you recipes – with a smattering of indulgence – for fruits and vegetables from James Beard award-winning cookbook author, chef, and weight loss success story Virginia Willis.

Are Blueberries Healthy?

Loaded Baked Potato with Shiitake Bacon

Vegetarian Parmesan Broth Collard Greens

Southern New Year’s Day Food Traditions

Fried & Griddled Green Tomatoes

Summer Tomato Recipes

Plant Forward BBQ: Sweet Heat Pulled Butternut Squash

Butternut Squash and Ground Turkey Gratin

Cooking with Virginia: How to Cook Dried Beans

What’s in Season: Winter Squash

I'm Virginia Willis, a French-trained Southern chef and James Beard award-winning cookbook author.

As a post-menopausal woman, I lost 65 pounds and have kept it off for 4 years. Good and Good For You Living is my real-life approach to health and wellness initiated by lifelong struggles with weight and body image. I quit dieting and changed my life.

True health and wellness is thriving in your body, brain, and spirit. (It takes all three.)

Each Good and Good for You newsletter shares encouragement and support to help you thrive with real-life information, motivation, and tactics that work.

If I can do it, you can, too!