Jill Cooks Here--In and Out of the Kitchen with the Editor
Last Updated February 22, 2017
LIfe, love and laughs converge in editor Jill Melton's kitchen. Follow along.
Jill's Carrot Cake
This is the carrot cake I've made for years—35 to be exact. It has the perfect balance of pineapple to carrot to cream cheese frosting. It was my husband's birthday cake of choice for years. In fact...
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Banana Walnut Muffins
These tender muffins get plenty of sweetness and moistness from mashed bananas...and the sprinkling of sugar and coarse salt make a delicious and unusual topping.
Spring CSA with Delvin Farms
Wonderful spring veggies in my CSA box from Delvin Farms make it easy (and delicious) to think outside the box!
Dutch Baby for Breakfast or Dinner
When the cupboards are bare and you're too tired to order out, this puffy pancake is just the thing. Eggs, flour, sugar, and butter are all you need. And a hot oven proof skillet. Whisk in 1/2 cup...
Hummus with Spring Veggies
The third week of my CSA from Sugar Camp Farm brought carrots, radishes, baby turnips, kale, lettuces, spring onions, and kale. With radishes from a friend's garden I had a bountiful harvest and...
Chicken, Seafood, and Sausage Gumbo
You don't make a pot of gumbo for yourself--you make tomato soup or chicken noodle soup for yourself. According to Paul Prudhomme, gumbo is "a taste, a feeling, a party." And who would know better? A...
Sweet and Spicy Kale and Tofu Curry
In February I eat a lot of kale. With a little forest of it in my yard, I eat it all year, but with little else in season in the winter, I rely on it more. It goes great in most any soup—...
Red Velvet Cake
This is the cake I started making when I was twelve. It has what I consider the real frosting, a delicate yet rich buttercream. The procedure is a bit finicky. You make a sauce from flour and milk,...
From the Editor's Archives: The Birthday Chocolate Cream Pie
From Jillcookshere.org, a blog written between 2008 and 2012
From the Editor's Archives: Crackerflitters A Breakfast Tradition
My mom is not a cook. Nor was her mom. But she does have a few dishes that were passed down to her, that became part of our family...
