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
Southern Recipes: Spicy Pickled Okra
How to Cook Okra and Okra Recipes Of all the Southern recipes and ingredients I might love okra the most. I love this vegetable so
Easy Grilling Recipes: Grilled Gumbo
Get Your Grill On This Weekend! It’s hump day and the weekend is right around the corner — and that means folks will be grilling!
Quick Weeknight Dinner: “NY Times Salmon”
Sustainable Seafood and Wild Alaskan Salmon The handwritten recipe in the photo is one of my favorite dishes. We’ve been buying Copper River Sockeye Salmon
Turning Old into New: Banana Mango Muffins
Tips on Preventing Food Waste – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle — and Rethink! I have a near daily ritual in that I scope out the fridge
Potato Salad Recipes
Bacon, Southern, and Chef-Inspired Potato Salad Recipes Ah, potato salad. The perfect combination of comforting carbs and decadent dressing. So many choices, so many styles!
What’s in Season: Vidalia Onion Dressing
How to Make Homemade Vidalia Onion Dressing and other Great Sweet Onion Recipes A few weeks ago I shot a video making Vidalia Onion Dressing
Most Delicious Deviled Eggs
This recipe is for the most delicious deviled eggs ever. Shh! There’s a secret ingredient.
Blueberry Muffins with Yogurt
Blueberry Benefits and Nutrition Blueberries are the Doris Day of summer fruit – happy-go-lucky, bright bouncing balls of flavor. Blackberries are moody, musky, and complex.
What’s in Season: Asparagus
How to Cook Asparagus, How to Store, How to Trim, and How to Know When It is Done. Spring is starting to kick into high
Easter Dinner: Bourbon Glazed Ham
How did serving ham for Easter become a custom? Mediterranean celebrations, including the Jewish Passover, traditionally call for lamb at spring feasts. However, in northern