Welcome to Cooking with Virginia!
Need inspo for healthy recipes? Cooking with Virginia is packed with real-life tips, cooking techniques, and good and good-for-you recipes.
Each post has easy-to-follow instructions and helpful hints. It’s a mix of indulgent and healthy recipes — food that I eat and make in my own kitchen (and sometimes on TV.)
Here, you’ll find chef-driven recipes for home cooks yet still made with real-life ingredients. Let me tell you what you won’t find. An over-obsession with WW points or restrictive dieting. I believe you’ve got to mix it up. Sometimes you need to eat the ding dang cake. Who wants to eat sad food? Who wants deprivation? Nobody.
Hopefully, you’ll feel like I am by your side! I promise my recipes are rigorously tested and are essential, foolproof dishes you actually want to make and eat.
Because of my own journey with health gain and weight loss, I am an enthusiastic cheerleader for others seeking to make lifestyle changes in the interest of feeling healthier and happier, too!
Bon Appétit, Y’all!
Virginia Willis
AARP: The Best Weight Loss Goal is No Weight Loss Goal
Chef Virginia Willis Talks Life Guardrails, Health, and Wellness in AARP Magazine (ATLANTA, GA) Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sally Field, and Rita Moreno rule
Staying Motivated: Real Life Self-Care and Weight Loss
Self Care and Weight Loss are at the top of the trends in January. It’s a new year and lots of folks are looking for
The Beginner’s Guide to Caramel Cake
Caramel Cakes are an epic endeavor, there’s no doubt. This is a cake you only make for people you love. I love to bake
Easy Appetizer: Zucchini Roll-Ups
Eat cheese, lose weight. Wait, what? YES! Ok, it’s not carte blanche to eat as much as you want or can. However, Feta PDO is
Better for You Baking: Blueberry Banana Flaxseed Muffins
Easy one bowl, dairy-free, oil-free, egg-free, reduced sugar blueberry flaxseed muffins. Wait, what? How can that possibly taste good?! Y’all. They are so good, you
Six Simple Summer Sides
Hot temps call for chill sides. Not necessarily “chill,” as in temperature, but most certainly “chill” as in effort required! Puns aside, keeping the heat
Are Blueberries Healthy?
Blueberries are more than healthy — they are a superfood! They are also joyful, conjuring thoughts of summer desserts like bubbling cobblers, purple-stained crusty pies,
Mixed Bean Glow Bowl
Mixed Bean Glow Bowl sounds a lot sassier than Three Bean Salad, doesn’t it? Retro Three Bean Salads are often a soggy bowl of
COVER GIRL! Virginia on the cover of Woman’s World
Chef Virginia Willis Shares her Culinary Health and Wellness Success Story with Woman’s World Magazine Hey y’all! SO excited to share this press release with
Better-for-You Baking: Maple Pumpkin Bread
Maple syrup is one of nature’s greatest gifts and mysteries. Doesn’t it absolutely boggle your mind to consider who first thought it would be a