Category: Southern Food

  • Southern Spice

    After so much time not wanting to turn on the oven or turn on burners on the stove, it is nice to finally get a chance to cook again! Tonight we had squash with cherry tomatoes and basil butter and jalapeno basil pork chops. Just from the recipe names you can see that I had…

  • Southern Thanks

    Thank you for all the prayers and thoughts for my family upon the passing of my wonderful Grandpa, Frank Dicus. The “funeral” was a wonderful celebration of a life well lived. We shared a lot of wonderful stories, some tears, some laughs and in the great Southern tradition, some wonderful food! Thank you to all…

  • Southern Summer Morning

    I’ve already been out to the Farmer’s Market this morning. Lovely tomatoes and Arkansas peaches – YUM! When we go home, I did a quick cleanup of the driveway before the heat get too unbearable. It is going to be over 100 degrees here AGAIN today! I really love Summer, but this is getting a…

  • Southern Figs

    Figs are in season right now and oh, how I love them. I used to have a fig tree. It was a brown turkey fig tree. It would bear a few figs in the late spring and then really start to flourish in the late summer, early fall. I tried moving it around with me…

  • Southern Summer

    Late July and Early August are really hot around here and also very humid. It has been said that the humidity is what gives Southern girls their wonderful complexions! It may also be responsible for some really bad hair days. I don’t even try to fight the curls in the summer. Just not worth it.…

  • Southern Pinks

    It is still really hot here, but I still try to brave the back porch whenever possible. Today, while I was out, a small rain shower moved in and cooled things just a tad. The sun was still out while the rain fell. Norvelle Turner, who helped raise my husband used to say, “the devil…

  • Southern Retro

    First a note to some of you with blogspot blogs. I went to visit several of my friends with blogspot blogs today and they would not allow me to leave a comment.  I’ll try again later. Hopefully, it was just a temporary thing. Anyway, I was thinking back to my younger days today and remembering…

  • Southern Tweaks

    Do you ever tweak a recipe? I do it all the time. As a matter of fact, almost every time I read a recipe, I immediately start thinking of ways to change it! That is, of course, unless it is something I have had and loved and want to try to duplicate. Tonight, for instance,…

  • Southern Grandmother

    One of the great blessings in life is to have a wonderful mother. I enjoy visiting with my own mother and I also enjoy hearing her talk about her mother, my grandmother. I was fortunate enough to have my maternal grandmother on earth until I was in my early 30’s. It is wonderful to have…

  • Southern Herbs

    My friend, Paula, brought me some herbs from her garden today. She brought cinnamon basil, lemon thyme and lemon balm. What a wonderful surprise. I had seen a recipe for cinnamon basil cookies before and that is what I will make with the cinnamon basil that Paula brought to me! You can use Cinnamon Basil…

  • Southern ‘Maters

    Got some great little tomatoes out of my garden today along with a few herbs. I put together a little ‘mater salad. It was really, really good – so it is this weeks entry for Today’s Lagniappe: Christi’s ‘Mater Salad Bake one Pepperidge Farm pastry shell for each serving (you can skip this if you…

  • Southern Fun

    We will be really busy this weekend with our local Red, White and Blue Festival! Can’t wait for all the fun and festivities! As you may know, in the South, we fry everything! Looking at the vendors for the festival I see fried Twinkies and Funnel Cakes and hot dogs and all kinds of crazy…

  • Southern Catfish

    You know, around here, we love our catfish. We love it fried, grilled, baked, blackened . . . okay, so stop me, I am getting carried away. Including the yummy remoulade, there are 3 (or more) recipes here today! One of our favorite ways to have catfish during the summer heat is grilled (as in,…

  • Southern Pink Cake

    I have been looking for something refreshing and summery and a little bit sweet. Maybe something with strawberries. Or raspberries: Then I came across a recipe for Pink Lemonade Cheesecake – doesn’t that sound divine? What are you doing pink today? Today’s Lagniappe:  Pink Lemonade Cheesecake Lemon Cookie Crust 11 lemon sandwich cream cookies, crushed…

  • Southern Friday!

    Friday!!!! I love the word. It has been a crazy, crazy week and I’m looking for a couple of days to regroup! Anyway, for this week I will offer 3 words – Tabasco Praline Peanuts! Okay, just think about that for a while.  We actually have s0me of them here and they are outrageous! Anyway,…