Grab your best flowery hat and a mint julep, we're off to the Kentucky Derby! Derby Pie is a storied pie perfect for Derby-Day gatherings. The recipe just might be as Kentucky-authentic as it gets. It's quick to make but rich - good thing small slivers are plenty. Here’s a pie that has almost as many names as slices. Confederate Pie is one. “It’s just like Kentucky Pie except swiy-ter,” it’s been said in a thick southern accent, so that’s another. One more? Jefferson Davis Pie. A reader (hi Barb!) calls it "Back Home Pie" and her dad always said, "I don't care if it is called 'Dirty Pie', it's a good one!" The recipe comes from my long-time real-life friend Lisa of My Own Sweet Thyme who is a Kentucky girl by birth and she got it from her Aunt Hen. For a long time, Aunt Hen worked for the folks that got to be famous for Derby Pie. But whenever someone asked her for the recipe – and people will ask for this recipe, trust me on ...

My Canadian family's "signature" recipe for lemon curd. It's made with brown sugar, not white sugar. The brown sugar adds memorable nuance and dimension to lemon curd: in side-by-side taste tests, people always prefer Brown Sugar Lemon Curd. I'm sharing two recipes, one from my dear Auntie Gloria, whose refrigerator was always home to a tub of lemon curd, perfect for scooping out by the spoonful or filling a lemon tart or two when a friend stopped by for tea and a visit. The second recipe is my variation of her recipe, it's less sweet and less rich and to my taste, extra-lemony and delicious. Homemade Lemon Curd, Made from Scratch. A Long-Time Family Favorite. A Vintage, Easy Tried-and-True Recipe. Mere Minutes to the Table. A Summer Classic. Budget Friendly. Weeknight Easy, Weekend Special. Great for Food Gifts. Easy DIY. Vegetarian. Naturally Gluten Free. What're you waiting for?! So Good!!

Our latest dessert addiction, a refreshingly simple, ridiculously easy strawberry riff on the Cuban cocktail called the mojito served with white rum or our favorite, a "virgin" NA (non-alcoholic) treat. Your berries, your call! Memorable Homestyle Whole Food, Simply Prepared with Just Six Ingredients. Little Effort, Big Reward. Mere Minutes to the Table. Extra Welcome When "Supper's a Little Skimpy". Not just easy, Summer Easy . Budget Friendly. Weeknight Easy, Weekend Special. Perfect When Cooking for One or Two . Not just vegan, Vegan Done Real . Naturally Gluten Free. So Good!!

The approach of Easter has me feeling nostalgic for old-time recipes. This Ham Loaf comes from my Aunt Myra, a woman I may never have known but feel connected to thanks to her recipe — and helps use up leftover ham after Easter. ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ Remembering Aunt Myra All families have one. Ours was Aunt Myra, an aunt by marriage when she hitched up with Great Uncle Edward after his first wife passed on. Did Aunt Myra and I ever meet? It’s hard to say. Even my father remembers her little. So when my cousin LeAnne sent me a recipe called “Myra’s Ham Loaf” and said it had been her mother’s and our grandmother’s recipe, I just knew the recipe came from this almost-forgotten aunt. As food and recipes increasingly come from celebrity chefs and noted cookbook authors and even food bloggers like me, we lose a part of our own heritage, the connection to long-gone or recently lost members of the family who passed their best recipes from one generation to the nex...