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
Recipe Makeover: Sausage and Peppers
Sausage and Peppers have long been a regular meal in my supper rotation. The onions and peppers melt together to create a luscious confit bursting
Pecan Macaroons
These cookies are crispy, chewy, and buttery, yet made with only four ingredients. They’re gluten-free and dairy-free if you need it, and so good you
(Skinny) Chocolate Dipping Sauce
This Chocolate Dipping Sauce was a REVELATION. Chocolate isn’t my Achille’s tendon, it’s my whole damn leg – albeit a more defined and muscular one.
Irish Brown Bread
Irish Brown Bread? Really? Isn’t this supposed to be a WW-friendly blog? Well, yes, it is. Bread can be a wholesome, healthy part of a
Makeover Recipe: Easy Lemon Squares
Lemon Squares are often made with gobs of butter and sugar and well, that’s one reason why they are so good. But, they are
Loaded Baked Potato with Shiitake Bacon
Shiitake bacon is not bacon, let’s get that straightened out from the top. Shiitake bacon is not pork. It is not meat. It is not
Nothing says “I Love You” Like Chocolate Pudding
What other dessert brings out the kid in us more than chocolate pudding? Sometimes Mama would make chocolate pudding after school, and my sister and
Zero Point Chicken Chili
When considering this recipe all I could think was does the world really need another chili recipe? Once I made it, tasted it, and punched
Vegetarian Parmesan Broth Collard Greens
Collard greens are as much a cornerstone of Southern cooking as biscuits and gravy. And, the use of the ingredient has evolved like the
Lemon-Chia Seed Yogurt Cake
Lemon Cakes come in all shapes and sizes, all manners of baking. There are lemon-scented tender yellow cakes topped with rich lemon buttercream, dense