An easy cobbler made from canned peaches and cake mix.

Cake Mix Peach Cobbler

It's a little early yet for fresh peaches, and thank goodness after a few weather-related bad years, this summer's peaches are looking to be a bumper crop!

I love fresh peaches and the past several years, I've been purchasing peaches from different orchards all across the south, just so that I could get a taste of peaches from lots of regions. It's actually rare for me to buy grocery store peaches, although I will search out some regional peaches at our farmer's markets at peak season.

In the meantime, thank goodness for frozen and canned peaches!

This barbecue sauce made with classic Coca-Cola, is a sweet and tangy finish for all of your smoke and grill cooks as well as a delicious condiment for those burgers.

Coca-Cola BBQ Sauce

Yep. Recipes with Coca-Cola is a thing in the South!

I mean, after all, it is an Atlanta product. The company has been headquartered there since its founding in 1892.

Cola has found its way to recipes from marinades and sauces, to pulled pork, ribs, beans and even desserts and if you want the real deal, the bottled version is still the best in my humble opinion, even better when you have access to cane sugar based Mexican Coke.

Thick cut, bone-in pork chops, marinated in a seasoned oil and vinegar mix and grilled. Pictured here with green peas and sweet potato casserole.

Marinated Grilled Pork Chops

I had these two beautiful bone-in pork chops in the freezer just waiting to do something with!

There were four in the pack originally but since since there are only two of us at home, I used them two at a time. First, to make those fabulous stuffed chops again and I just froze the remaining two for another time.

I thought that I'd do a simple marinade and grill the remaining two.

A simply seasoned ground beef and noodle casserole, tossed in a sauce made with condensed cream soups, finished with shredded cheese and baked.

Amish Country Casserole

Unlike some of you, I can't function in an online world with just a little handheld smart phone. Heck. I don't even know where my phone is half the time, but I watch my son, daughter-in-law and my grandchildren who do everything on their devices with such ease and I'm pretty amazed, but yeah. I still use a desktop, so I'm just Old School I guess!

Anyway... there's a start up page associated with desktop browsers that shows you headlines and featured articles for topics that you've chosen and since my life is so food centric, I often get recipe inspiration from something that appears there.

That's actually where this recipe originated and it popped up on my launch page so many times that I figured it was a sign to make it. Glad I did!

A one pan meal of smoked sausage, potatoes and sweet bell peppers, tossed with simple seasonings and olive oil and topped with pats of butter.

Smoked Sausage, Peppers and Potato Bake

The combination of flavors in this dish is one of my favorites, especially when I'm not much motivated to cook, because it's such an easy dish to throw together.

This version includes a hickory smoked Conecuh sausage, tender yellow potatoes and frozen mixed peppers with onions, seasoned, tossed with extra virgin olive oil, dotted with butter and baked. It's simple, easy, tasty and super flavorful.

Fresh asparagus, trimmed, tossed with extra virgin olive oil and seasonings and air fried.

Air Fryer Roasted Asparagus

I love asparagus and I especially love it roasted and let me tell you, if you haven't tried it in your air fryer, you don't know what you're missing.

Roasting really brings out the sweetness in vegetables and intensifies the flavor and the air fryer is just another great option.

A vintage appetizer made with a seasoned Boursin-style cream cheese filling and pickled okra, rolled up in slices of luncheon ham and sliced.

Pickled Okra Roll Ups

We're going old school here y'all!

I know some of you won't care for these because, well... okra. It's one of those somewhat divisive foods that folks either love or hate. More for me if you're in the latter group, because I love it!

Those of us who do love okra and are of a certain age, will likely remember this party appetizer from year's past. I'm not sure exactly when it became popular, but I seem to remember it from back in the 70s.

Ground beef, chili and beans, spooned over rolls and topped with cheese, quickly passed through the oven and served open faced.

Hot Beef and Chili Bean Plank Sandwich

I'd never heard of a "plank sandwich" before, but apparently it really was a thing because this one was featured in Bell's Best 2 published in 1982, the second in the series of Mississippi Telephone Pioneers community cookbooks. Even still, I thought it was just one of those recipe names that a family came up with.

So, I turned to AI to find out if there was such a thing as a plank sandwich and was told:

A plank sandwich typically refers to a sandwich made using thick slices or "planks" of bread or other ingredients, often layered with various fillings. It can also refer to specific recipes, like a Monte Cristo breakfast plank, which involves dipping bread planks in an egg mixture and cooking them with fillings.

-AI Assist

See? Even us folks of a certain age can still be learning new things everyday y'all!

Skillet Angel Chicken - My Way

My variation of the viral Angel Chicken recipe, made with boneless, skinless chicken breasts, wrapped in seasoned bacon, and finished on the stovetop in a sauce made of chicken stock, cream soup, cream cheese, butter and dry Italian dressing mix.

Skillet Angel Chicken

I'm sure by now you've seen some version of this Angel Chicken recipe, because it's literally all over the internet. It's usually made in a slow cooker, but if you've been around here any length of time you know I'm not a huge user of that appliance in general.

Oh, I like it just fine, especially for those tougher cuts of meat that need a longer cook time. It's not my favorite mostly because it involves advanced planning which I'm not that great at doing! Still, readers here enjoy using a slow cooker, so I've shared a few recipes here and there.

Chicken breasts in the slow cooker though? Those are my least favorite protein to cook in one.

A fully cooked, bone-in, shank portion smoked ham, baked in an oven bag, then opened and finished with a root beer based glaze.

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Oven Bag Root Beer Glazed Ham

It's been quite a few years since I've used an oven cooking bag, though there was a time when they were pretty popular for home cooks. Considering they are still available today, apparently some folks continue to use them, most often I think for cooking holiday turkeys, since they are so easy to overcook otherwise and can be very dry. Better chances with an oven bag!

Initially I bought these to try one of Justin Wilson's recipes - he seemed to have used them quite a bit back in the day - but never got around to that recipe, so I thought why not try one with a ham since at the time of this writing, Easter is right around the corner! Ya gotta admit. That looks really good doesn't it?