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
Fresh, Easy Asparagus Lemon Salad
Can You Eat Raw Asparagus? Yes, You Can! Funny how things work. I never really cared for asparagus, but since I lived for a time
Down-Home Comfort with Red-Eye Gravy and Deadlines
I’ve got a stack of books I’m in love with and can’t wait to share with you – Summerland by Anne Quatrano, Cooking Light’s Global
Atlanta Snow 2014: Heat Things Up with Curried Wings
Atlanta Atlanta got hit with 2-inches of snow and the world stopped. Literally. For 18-hours. It’s been all over the national news and everyone is
How to Cook Winter Vegetables: Rev it Up!
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The Dark Side: Five Recipes for Winter Greens
Vegetable Prep Summer produce is easy. Summer produce is the embodiment of an easy, breezy sunny day. Tomatoes are sliced. Okra only needs a short
The Simple Life with Asparagus Recipes
Spring Vegetables? I came up to Massachusetts for the summer a little over 2 weeks ago. It’s a big shift changing houses and merging lives.
Paris Cookbook Fair: Pulled Pork with BBQ Sauce
Paris Cookbook Fair 2013 Bonjour! Sending out a quick post from the Paris Cookbook Fair, Festival du Livre Culinaire from Le Carosel du Louvre. There
Lady Luck: Black Eyed Peas and Greens
Winter Greens Eating black eyed peas and greens on New Year’s Day is a special Southern tradition, and folklore says it brings luck and money
SPOILER ALERT: Chopped, Nuts, & Ice Cream Fiascos
SPOILER ALERT!! Nuts. There’s the whole nuts thing to begin with… I know you’re glad those are pecans featured in the photo above and not
Sippin’ on Southern Comfort
This week I was in Athens, GA taking classes at the University of Georgia Food Sciences Department.The weather today was glorious. The leaves have all