Kara's Sights and Bites

Kara's Sights and Bites: Search for pound cake recipe stirs up pleasant memories

By Kara Kimbrough I’ve shared my love of pound cake before. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I recently spent a few...

Kara's Sights and Bites: Ending Souptember on a delicious note

By Kara Kimbrough It’s been entertaining, to say the least, to watch grownups bicker on the internet this week over whether or not...

Kara's Sights and Bites: Our ancestors were healthier and here's why

By: Kara Kimbrough Here’s a sobering thought. The overall quality of life of Americans living in the previous century compared to...

Kara's Sights and Bites: Fall - and my favorite comfort food - is on the way!

By Kara Kimbrough The advent of fall is still a couple of weeks away. However, that hasn’t stopped me from looking through my recipe...

Kara's Sights and Bites: It's not too late for one last summer vacation

By: Kara Kimbrough Just like the old adage that white shoes can't be worn after Labor Day, there seems to be a misconception that...

Kara's Sights and Bites: Never forget: Red Lobster gave us Cheddar Bay Biscuits

By: Kara Kimbrough It’s always a sad day when a longtime restaurant closes, especially one that gave us a genuinely good menu item that...

Kara's Sights and Bites: Retro foods can (and should) be revived

By Kara Kimbrough Just when I thought I’d seen it all, an online group of over 250,000 fans of Carnation Breakfast Bars has joined...

Kara's Sights and Bites: Summer survival tool: the Crockpot!

By Kara Kimbrough As much as we’d like to be able to enjoy hearty bowls of chili, gumbo, taco soup and beef stew year-round, it’s just...

Kara's Sights and Bites: Recipes I almost didn’t try

By Kara Kimbrough I have no shame about sharing this: I often peruse social media sites when looking for recipes that: A. I haven’t yet...

Kara's Sights and Bites: 30 minute meals make summertime cooking doable

By: Kara Kimbrough Overheard in the supermarket: “ I don’t cook anything with more than five ingredients!” I waited for the inevitable...

Kara's Sights and Bites: Dak’s ‘home,’ BBQ, books, sports and shopping await in Frisco, Texas

By: Kara Kimbrough Elements of home in the form of Mississippi State University alum Dak Prescott’s large presence in the Dallas Cowboys’...

Kara's Sights & Bites: 48 hours in Grapevine: ‘Christmas Capital of Texas” is the perfect getaway

By Kara Kimbrough Describing the unique features and sights of charming Grapevine, Texas in a few hundred words is an impossible task....

Kara's Sights & Bites: Three new things to love about the Mississippi Gulf Coast

By Kara Kimbrough I've always loved the Mississippi Gulf Coast for its unending natural beauty stretching as far as the eye can see…among...