About Me

Welcome to Pantry To Table! I’m Carrie, the author of pantrytotable.com. Here you will find delicious recipes – some classics, some with a little flair, but all FULL of flavor. Here you will find recipes that were put together with imagination and passion. My hope is that my recipes keep you coming back for more.

My pantry is one of my favorite places in my house. It is not a huge room as you’d find on HGTV, but it is my place… my place to spark my most creative thoughts. My pantry contains the familiar staples, but what makes it interesting is it goes beyond basic necessities to bring flavors as wide as the world, down to my home state of Tennessee, then finally arriving at my own family dining table. My pantry is what brings my family together for special dinners with smiles and memorable conversations (any many, many laughs).

Look into your pantry and dream. Feel like you’re in a rut sometimes? Peruse my website and see if something sparks an interest.

One of my favorite hobbies is grocery shopping. Seriously. I am always looking for unique ingredients, whether at my local chain grocer or a farmers’ market. Sometimes a single item will spark an idea, something that looks intriguing and challenging. I just might eavesdrop on a conversation if I hear some people talking about food. I’ve been known to peek into someone else’s shopping cart and ask what they’re going to create. You can meet like-minded foodies if you just look around.

As I said, I am the author of Pantry To Table, but I am not in this alone. I have an amazing group of men and women behind me… supporting, encouraging, pushing and helping me through it all. My husband and 3 children are my biggest supporters, not to mention my taste-testers and best critics.

My husband encouraged and helped me begin this site, and I am ever thankful. Our oldest son is a photographer in East Tennessee who is excellent at what he does. Our youngest oldest son is a United States Marine. I am truly a MoM. Our youngest child is our daughter who helps manage a local beauty store, the largest beauty retailer in the US.

At the beginning, I had a group of amazing young ladies in my life that are lovingly named “C³”, named after the Chocolate Coma Cake I made for our first dinner. They happily volunteered to come to my house for a huge food party. The only stipulation is that they had to be completely honest with their opinions and make suggestions to help me make better recipes. You have them to thank for some of my recipes that went from really good to Wow! They helped build Pantry To Table.

If you’re wondering, I do not use AI. I avoid AI at all costs. I write my own drafts and create my own recipes. I photograph my own food with my DSLR and edit my own photos with Lightroom. I write each post, which my husband will proof read for me. Occasionally, I use Grammarly, but not their AI. You can be assured everything on my site has my creativity, heart and soul in it, none of which AI can produce.

Enjoy!