Why Pie? Why Now? When my publisher asked if I could write the Mrs. Rowe’s Little Book of Southern Pies Cookbook, I jumped at the chance. It's a natural follow-up to the Mrs. Rowe Restaurant Cookbook: A Lifetime of Recipes from Shenandoah Valley because Mrs. Rowe was famous for her pie. We cou...

Michael Butler makes Chicken n Dumplings Recipe after the break: Ingredients Chicken: * 1 (2 1/2-pound) chicken, cut into 8 pieces * 3 ribs celery, chopped * 1 large onion, chopped * 2 bay leaves * 2 chicken bouillon cubes * 1 (10 3/4-ounce) can condensed cream of celery or cream of chicken soup Dum...

Filed under: Recipes, Pork, Southern States, America, Comfort Food, Celebrations, Holidays, New Year's, Guilty Pleasures, Winter, Festive Family Feasts Happy New Year, all! Hope everyone had a warm, festive Eve and is relatively headache-free and rested post-revelry. Now, there are as many ways to p...

Filed under: Teas, Dessert, Recipes, Leftovers, America, Comfort Food, Non-alcoholic, Guilty Pleasures, Summer Kind little rituals seem to go a long way toward making marriage work, so almost every weekend, I make my husband some sweet tea. He's a Southern boy by birth (Brooklynian by marriage), and...