Launch of Nicole's Kitchen

I have always loved cooking ever since I was a little girl. I remember growing up, I would sit in the kitchen and watch my great grandmother knead dough. Weekends were always memorable as a little girl. I would always wake up Saturday mornings with homemade biscuits and grits, or pancakes. Those were the best!!!

Me and my great-grandmother above. 

As I got older as a young teenager, I would go out to the fields with my grandfather or grandmother and pick fresh produce. We would buy bushels of snap peas, or corn, or potatoes, and then go to the peach plantations and pick the sweetest, juiciest peaches. I loved going back home afterwards to clean the vegetables and bag them up in the freezers. I wasn't really into the going to the mall at that time and I really loved just pulling up a chair onto the front porch, peeling the ears of the corn and snapping peas, watching the day pass by.

I guess you can say food has always been a part of me and I always wanted to know how to make all of the things my family made. I'm 23 now and already have a signature recipe I bring to every family function (they always insist that I make it everytime we are together), Banana Pudding. Don't worry I will post the recipe for you all. I cook almost every night and try to make a fresh loaf of bread every week.

I just love to cook. Oh yeah, if you have any dogs, they will be lucky too! I make my little Dachshund his very own doggie treats. He loves them so I'm sure yours will also.

My little Doxie Dude...he's my world!!

Cooking is definitely a passion I have and will continue to have for a long time. I am glad to take you guys on the journey inside my kitchen and learn some of my recipes that I love to cook.

What is in store for you:

• Each week I will try to post my weekly menu. I have been making a weekly menu for the past year now. I have found it very easy when its time for grocery shopping.
• Photos for each dish I make
• Occassional photos of me doing my everyday thing.