Kara's Sights & Bites
Kara’s Sights and Bites: Homemade biscuits make life worth living
By Kara Kimbrough The homemade biscuit, a beloved American icon, is on the endangered species list. I blame it on supermarket biscuits marketing themselves as “homemade,” with an “old fashioned buttermilk taste.” In reality, they’re pale spheres of sticky dough ready to spring from their cans offering little more than synthetic butter. Here’s the main reason…
Read MoreKara’s Sights and Bites: Keep it simple when celebrating spring
By: Kara Kimbrough The official start of spring is this week…this fact alone should be cause for celebration. After all, what’s not to love about spring? We’re in all-too-short balmy window before summer’s oppressive heat descends and stays around until mid-fall. Within that window are several entertaining opportunities, including celebrating Easter, high school or college graduations,…
Read MoreKara’s Sights and Bites: New cooking show yielded inspiration for one pot meal
By: Kara Kimbrough Disclaimer: I haven’t watched Meghan Markle’s Netflix cooking show, “With Love, Meghan.” I admired Princess Diana and have similar feelings for Prince William, as well as his wife, Princess Kate. Stodgy King Charles and Meghan’s husband, Harry…not so much. I assumed the cooking show would be more about Meghan than the introduction…
Read MoreKara’s Sights and Bites: Stay in Mississippi to enjoy March’s main events
By: Kara Kimbrough I’m calling it now…March is going to a great month! Why would I make such a bold statement? For starters, it contains two of my favorite occurrences of the year: Daylight Savings Time begins on March 9 and spring is sprung on March 20. And for those that have children at home…
Read MoreKara’s Sights and Bites: King cakes, Cajun/Creole dishes and French bread…life is good during Mardi Gras!
By: Kara Kimbrough
A sure sign that Mardi Gras season is near are the stacks of packaged King Cakes in supermarkets. Decorated with a thick purple, green and gold sugary icing and filled with …
Read MoreKara’s Sights and Bites: Winter has some good points, especially its food
By: Kara Kimbrough
Call me strange, but I don’t despair during the short period of time in which we experience a rare phenomenon: winter. Chilly temperatures and early nightfall …
Read MoreKara’s Sights and Bites: Take a simple (and fresh) route to a Valentine’s Day treat
By: Kara Kimbrough
Valentine’s Day is almost here and we can’t let the day go by without making a heart-shaped treat of some kind. I know…store shelves are filled with …
Read MoreKara’s Sights and Bites: January trip to NYC brought exciting things…including a famous recipe
By Kara Kimbrough
The northeastern U.S. in the middle of January might not seem like an obvious vacation choice. However, I’ve never been one to follow the rules AND …
Read MoreKara’s Sights and Bites: Time to get your dip on: Super Bowl LIX is near
By: Kara Kimbrough 14 billion hamburgers…12 million pizzas…3.8 million pounds of wings and the snack food without which no Super Bowl party is complete – 28 million pounds of chips – are expected to be sold, prepared and consumed by Americans during the biggest game of the year in a couple of weeks. I…
Read MoreKara’s Sights and Bites: A few things I can’t live without in 2025
By Kara Kimbrough This easy to stir together creamy chicken pesto dish is the perfect, easy meal when time is short. It’s only January, but I’ve already discovered three new products that I can’t live without in the kitchen. As if that wasn’t life-changing enough, I found a recipe that’s quickly becoming my go-to…
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