A Big House with a Bigger Table

Hello all! Welcome to Big House, Bigger Table! My name is Kelli Casagrande aka Kelli Bighouse (see where the name came from 😄). I’m a wife, mom to Everett (6) and Caroline (1), a daughter, a sister, and a culinary enthusiast. There are only a handful of things that bring me pure joy. One of those is watching my family and friends eat a meal at our dinner table. I love to take classic recipes and put my own twist on them. I always keep things fresh, simple, and easy- letting the ingredients shine on their own.

Cooking runs deep in my family. I remember watching my great grandmother, Momma Bea, fry the ultimate fried chicken on our family farm in Bowling Green, KY. She served it with freshly sliced heirloom tomatoes and cucumbers from her garden. Food imprints on you. Not just with its taste or smell but with the special moments it creates in our lives. It gives our life soul.

It also allows us to blend our cultures and influences together to form new and exciting approaches to how we use and appreciate a meal. My husband, Dan, is a New England born and northeast bred German Irish Italian. You blend that with a girl raised by a blue collar family with a farm to table appreciate to southern food and you get our family. This is where the Big House, Bigger Table community was created.

We invite you to our Table and we invite you into our BigHouse family. I hope you find comfort here and maybe, just maybe, take something away to the people at your table.

-Kelli BigHouse