Bessie&Co.'s Let’s cook 👩‍🍳 Collection on LTK

Let’s cook 👩‍🍳

By Bessie&Co.

🍑 Easy Southern recipes + family favorites from my kitchen to yours 🩵

My mama’s old-fashioned chocolate pound cake… with a little Easter twist 🐣🤍

This is one of those recipes that’s been in our family for years—rich, chocolatey, perfectly dense, and topped with the most dreamy fudgy frosting. This year I added a little fun with Cadbury mini eggs (half whole, half chopped) folded right into the batter and sprinkled on top while the frosting is still warm… and y’all… it is SO good. That little crunch with the soft cake is everything.

If you’re looking for an easy Easter dessert that feels nostalgic but a little elevated, this is it 🤍

I’m sharing the full recipe in the comments below so you can save it for your Easter table!

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Chocolate croissant sourdough might be my favorite loaf yet 🤎
Flaky, buttery layers with melty chocolate in every bite… and yes—it’s as good as it looks.

Linking my everyday kitchen favorites + my go-to sourdough tools 🥖✨

Recipe:

Rich, buttery sourdough with delicate, flaky layers and ribbons of melted chocolate
Makes 2 loaves
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Starter Feed
   •   125 g warm water
   •   125 g flour

Mix and let rise until doubled and bubbly.
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Dough
   •   200 g active starter
   •   650 g warm water
   •   50 g olive oil
   •   1000 g bread flour
   •   4 tsp salt
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Chocolate Layer
   •   1–1½ cups chocolate chips or chopped chocolate
(semi-sweet or dark works beautifully)
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Instructions
1. Activate Starter
Feed starter and let rise until doubled and bubbly.
2. Mix Dough
In a large bowl, combine active starter, warm water, and olive oil.
Stir well, then add flour and mix until combined.
3. Rest
Cover with a tea towel and let rest in a warm place for 1 hour.
4. Add Salt
Sprinkle in salt and mix thoroughly until fully incorporated.
5. Second Rest
Cover and let rest another 45 minutes.
6. Stretch & Folds
Perform 4 sets of stretch and folds, 30 minutes apart.
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Create Croissant-Style Layers
7. Gently stretch dough into a rectangle on a floured surface.
8. Sprinkle chocolate evenly across the dough.
9. Fold dough over itself (like laminating), layering chocolate between folds.
10. Shape into loaves.
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Final Rise
Cover and let rise until puffy and airy.
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Bake
   •   Preheat Dutch oven to 475°F
   •   Score dough
   •   Bake 25 minutes covered
   •   Lower oven temp to 450 , Remove lid, bake additional 20 minutes until golden brown

👉 Place a cookie sheet on the bottom rack to prevent over-browning on the bottom
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Finish
Cool completely before slicing (if you can wait 😉)
Notes

Expect a tender, buttery crumb with light layering—reminiscent of a croissant with a rich chocolate twist.

Bessie & Co.
Southern Roots • Modern Plates
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One of my go-to easy spring dinners — pineapple grilled chicken marinated in zesty Italian dressing and pineapple juice. Simple, flavorful, and perfect for warm weather grilling. 🍍

Dinner on the Grill 🍍

Chicken (or shrimp)
Canned pineapple slices + juice
Zesty Italian dressing

Marinade

1️⃣ Put chicken in a ziplock bag
2️⃣ Add Italian dressing + pineapple juice
3️⃣ Marinate several hours

Pineapple

Marinate slices with
½ bottle Italian dressing

Grill chicken + pineapple
on medium-high until done.

Serve with honey mustard 🤍

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Grilling weather is here! Here’s one of my favorite things to throw on the Blackstone 👇

Dinner on the Grill 🍍

Chicken (or shrimp)
Canned pineapple slices + juice
Zesty Italian dressing

Marinade

1️⃣ Put chicken in a ziplock bag
2️⃣ Add Italian dressing + pineapple juice
3️⃣ Marinate several hours

Pineapple

Marinate slices with
½ bottle Italian dressing

Grill chicken + pineapple
on medium-high until done.

Serve with honey mustard if you like 🤍

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I’m going to start sharing what I eat most mornings for breakfast.

Because during the week — when we’re trying to get out the door — quick, easy, healthy, and delicious can feel like a tall order.

Truth is… I eat some version of eggs and sourdough toast almost every weekday of my life. 🥚
When you have fresh eggs from your girls, you use them.

Weekends are for biscuits around here.
But during the week? This is it.

Same simple foods. Just prepared in different ways to keep them interesting and still so good.

This plate comes in around:
• ~500 calories
• ~40g protein
• Balanced carbs + healthy fats

It keeps me full for hours and feels like real food — not a diet.

If you’re watching fat intake, skip the olive oil and use a light spray.
If you’re watching carbs, leave off the sourdough.
It’s flexible and easy to adjust to fit your needs.

Linking my everyday breakfast staples — favorite skillet, Maldon salt, olive oil, and sourdough tools 🤍

Healthy. Flavorful. Simple

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I focus on getting my protein in every day — and I start at breakfast— but not in a boring way.

This simple breakfast comes in around 500 calories with almost 40g of protein and keeps me satisfied for hours.

2 whole eggs + 2 whites
½ cup 4% cottage cheese (or tangy goat cheese)
1 slice sourdough
Cherry tomatoes
Drizzle of EVOO + Maldon salt

Linking my favorite sourdough tools, olive oil, Maldon salt, and everyday kitchen staples 🤍

Healthy and flavorful can absolutely live on the same plate.

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Cozy slow cooker dinner → next day sandwich magic 🤎

This Mississippi Drip Dip Sandwich is one of those cozy, melty, gravy-dippin’ meals that feels like Sunday supper all over again.

I’m linking my crockpot, favorite chuck roast seasonings, skillet, and a few of my everyday kitchen staples I always reach for when making this recipe.

If you love easy slow cooker dinners that turn into next-day magic… this one’s for you.

For the Mississippi Pot Roast:

• 3–4 lb chuck roast
• 1 packet ranch dressing mix
• 1 packet McCormick Onion Gravy mix
• 1 packet McCormick Au Jus mix
• 1 jar sliced pepperoncini (reserve juice)
• 1 stick butter
• 2 cups water

Place roast in crockpot. Top with dry seasonings, butter, half the sliced pepperoncini, all of the pepperoncini juice, and water.

Cook on LOW 6–8 hours until fall-apart tender. Shred and keep warm in the juices.

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For the Sandwich:

• 6 onion rolls (or your favorite sandwich roll)
• Mayonnaise
• 6 slices Provolone cheese
• Extra pepperoncini
• French fried onions

Toast rolls in a skillet with a little butter. Spread with mayonnaise, add provolone, pile high with pot roast, top with more pepperoncini and French fried onions.

Serve with warm pot roast gravy on the side for dipping.

Enjoy 🩵

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🧡 Sweet Potato Biscuit Sandwiches — Sandwich Edition

I’ve shared my sweet potato biscuits before, but this is the revised version made specifically to hold up to a sandwich.

Still tender.
Still slightly sweet.
But sturdy enough for Boursin cheese, country ham, pepper jelly, and French fried onions.

Made with my biscuit staples — White Lily flour, Crisco, and Mayfield whole buttermilk.

Full recipe below and all my biscuit-making essentials are linked here. 🤍

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🧡 Bessie & Co.’s Sweet Potato Biscuits
(Sandwich Edition – Sturdy but Still Tender)

Ingredients
• 1½ cups White Lily self-rising flour
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup sugar
• ⅓ cup Crisco
• 2 cold baked sweet potatoes, skins removed
• ¾ cup Mayfield whole buttermilk (plus 1–2 tbsp if needed)

Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 425°.
2. Whisk together flours and sugar.
3. Cut in Crisco until crumbly.
4. Mash sweet potatoes; stir in buttermilk.
5. Gently combine wet and dry just until mixed.
6. Pat dough ¾–1 inch thick.
7. Fold in thirds like a letter, turn and pat out again. Repeat fold-and-turn 3 times total for structure.
8. Cut biscuits and place touching in buttered pan or cast iron skillet.
9. Bake 15–20 minutes until golden.
10. Rest 5–7 minutes before slicing.
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Bourbon Caramel Sauce 🥃🤍

Silky, rich bourbon caramel made with Carnation evaporated milk — the kind you drizzle on cheesecake, spoon over ice cream, or honestly just eat straight from the jar.

Simple, classic, and a keeper.

👇 Quick recipe 👇

Bourbon Caramel
• 1 c sugar + 1/4 c water (cook to deep amber)
• 4 Tbsp butter
• 3/4 c Carnation evaporated milk
• 1–2 Tbsp bourbon
• Vanilla + pinch of salt

Tagging the ingredients + tools I used 🤍

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My newest sourdough bread experiment turned into my favorite loaf yet 🤍

During shaping (after bulk fermentation), I gently flattened the dough, layered in completely cooled roasted potatoes + onions, added crumbled Boursin, then folded and shaped tightly. Cold ferment overnight in the fridge and bake in a preheated Dutch oven as usual.

It baked up soft, flavorful, and perfectly structured.

Tips for bread baking with inclusions:
• Make sure fillings are fully cooled
• Avoid excess moisture
• Don’t overfill
• Seal your dough well during shaping

Linking my sourdough starter tools, bread baking tools, bannetons, lame, and Dutch oven here 🥖✨

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If you’ve ever eaten at a barbecue place anywhere in the South, you’ve probably seen a hickory tater on the menu 🤍

Here’s how we make them at home…

Big baked russet potatoes, chopped smoked pork (or grab some from your local BBQ spot), shredded cheddar, and that creamy dressing piled right on top.

It’s an easy dinner idea, perfect for BBQ night, game day, or a cozy weeknight meal.

I’ve linked the kitchen tools and favorites I use to make it simple.

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Back in the kitchen after a little break 🤍
There’s something grounding about sourdough — slow, simple, and so worth it.

Sharing my go-to sourdough recipe (makes two loaves), plus the tools I use every single time. Nothing fancy, just good bread made at home.

Save this one if sourdough is on your list 🍞

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Bessie & Co.’s Simple Sourdough

Makes 2 loaves

Feed Starter (until doubled):
• 125g warm water
• 125g flour
• Let rise until bubbly and doubled

Mix Dough:
• 200g active starter
• 650g warm water
• 50g olive oil
• 1000g bread flour
Mix, cover, rest 1 hour

Add Salt:
• 4 tsp salt
Hand mix until smooth
Rest 45 minutes

Stretch + Fold:
• 4 rounds, 30 minutes apart
Let dough rise until doubled

Shape + Cold Proof:
• Divide into 2 loaves
• Shape, cover, refrigerate overnight

Bake:
• Preheat Dutch oven to 475°
• Score, add parchment + ice cubes
• Bake covered 25 min
• Uncover, reduce to 450°, bake 20 min

Golden, crackly, perfect every time ✨

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Supplies I Use (tagged below)
• Digital kitchen scale
• Dough whisk
• Large mixing bowl
• Proofing baskets
• Bread lame or sharp knife
• Parchment paper
• Dutch oven
• Bench scraper
• Tea towels

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