Today’s vegetable post is brought to you by…Broccoli & Cauliflower! In an effort to eat more vegetables at home, I’m making a lot more veggie-centric recipes on the KY Proud Kitchen, which is super easy, given the produce in season right now. This Broccoli Cheese Soup actually tastes and looks like broccoli, versus the neon [...]

Do any of you celebrate Father’s Day with brunch or breakfast in bed?  This is a no-brainer when it comes to Mother’s Day, but Father’s Day, at least in our family, usually entails some sort of cookout or lobster boil.  Feel like spoiling Dad with brunch instead?  Here are a few hearty recipe ideas that [...]

To me, berries are the prized jewel of the fruit world.  They’re delicate, pretty, and expensive to boot.  Any restaurant that includes them in their fruit cup, along with the obligatory filler fruit of melon and grapes, gets major bonus points in my book.  I buy berries all year long, but when they’re in season [...]

…with Sherwood Acres Beef!  Jon Bednarski from Sherwood Acres popped by The KY Proud Kitchen for a visit, bringing along some locally raised and truly delicious flank steak and strip steak.  We also kept some of his burger patties, Italian sausage, and beef breakfast sausage to use in recipes down the road. I so enjoyed [...]

Memorial Day is coming early this year, which is fine by me.  The long holiday weekend typically marks the beginning of grilling season, when I’m more than happy to relinquish the cooking duties to my husband, who is over-the-moon-in-love with our Big Green Egg.  We often find ourselves hovering around the affectionately named “Baby Sinclair,” [...]

In the last several years, I have become obsessed with tea.  For most of my life, hot tea didn’t interest me much, despite growing up in a traditional Vietnamese household where Mom, Dad, or Grandma was brewing a cup of tea every day.  Now that I live in Kentucky, where we get actual seasons and [...]

My mom is behind my love of food and cooking.  The only time I get to cook for her is when she comes to visit me.  When I come home to see her, she still spoils me with all my favorite meals.  She and I used to bake quite a bit together and if I [...]