I know what you’re thinking, dear readers. You’re thinking that I’ve been a bit slack on the blogging lately. Well, all I can tell you is I’ve been doing double blog duty – just wait until you see all the wonderful Vidalia Onion creations I’ve been making for the Vidalia Victuals Contest!!

We enjoyed making each of these Top Ten dishes in the Vidalia Victuals Contest. The hubs and I picked the top ten for their diversity, their authenticity, and their Vidalia-ness. 🙂 Each one was delicious and will definitely be in our yearly rotation. I cannot wait to see which one you, dear readers, vote for as the winner!

We have really been enjoying our CSA farm baskets these past few weeks. Through the early part of the season, we get tons and tons of fresh greens from the farm. We eat salads through the spring until we nearly turn into bunnies, so it’s a great time for me to make all sorts of fun salad dressings for us to jazz up our daily dose of roughage. Here’s a great one, my own variation of Green Goddess Dressing, based on the famous dressing first made in San Francisco, California, at the Palace Hotel.

This is how my husband likes to make our corn when we’re having a cookout. It comes out so sweet and delicious – perfectly steamed with that buttery, salty goodness all over it! ( I’m drooling as I write.) And if you grill it long enough, it gets just a bit of that smoky, charred flavor on the edges. Once you cook corn this way, you can never go back.

Southern girls know how to whip up a cobbler without looking at a cookbook. One of my favorite things to do during the summer months is to eat fresh berries, peaches, and fruit baked in a cobbler after dinner. Um, and for breakfast on top of my oatmeal, too . . .

This wonderfully moist zucchini bread was a staple in our house growing up. My mom got the recipe from a friend who she used to volunteer with about 30 years ago. I decided to add a bit of pizazz to to this tried-and-true recipe by adding some chocolate chips. Delicious!!!

Fresh Blackberry Vinaigrette

Here is an amazingly flavorful chicken recipe from my friend Ashley. We loved the freshness of the basil with the sweet sun dried tomato and the tang of the creamy goat cheese. This is the perfect upscale weeknight dinner!

Look for more of my bread recipes over the next several weeks as I gear up to sell some at our local farmers’ market next month! There’s just nothing like a fresh, home-baked loaf of bread, ya know?

This is a moist and chewy bread with lots of body. The whole grains give it a lot of flavor and texture, but they are light enough to not weigh the bread down too much. The fine texture of the grains makes it a perfect sandwich bread – or perhaps a piece of toast with butter and jam?

I started bookmarking recipes using kale about a year ago now. We get tons of it in our weekly CSA baskets, so I wanted to be prepared for this season. Lucky me, kale has grown very popular over the past year or so and is touted as one of the healthiest foods you can eat these days! So it was easier to find some great recipes out there using kale than it had been in the past.

Well, it’s a good thing I had done my recipe research because what was in our very first basket of the season but a huge bunch of kale! With my new arsenal of recipes (other than just stewing it with other greens), I went to work.