Category: Southern Food
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Southern Sandwich
Nothing fancy today. I was inspired by this beautiful Arkansas tomato and the basil growing in my garden. I toasted some thin white bread and added some good mayo and a couple of slices of avocado (since I had it I may as well use it!) and voila! A tasty little lunch! Added some cold…
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Southern Basil
I worked in my herb garden yesterday. I love working in the herb garden. It is like aromatherapy. The smells of the thyme and rosemary and basil are heavenly. I am always happy to run across recipes that use these herbs in simple ways. One of my new favorites is those lemon and thyme cookies…
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Southern Goodness
I saw a recipe for a bacon, lettuce and fried green tomato recipe. It looked yummy. Of, course, I wanted to put my own spin on it. Okay, so first you make the remoulade. Remoulade: Use in amounts that suit your tastes Zatarains creole mustard Mayonnaise Red chili sauce (not much) Horseradish Worcestershire sauce (a…
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Southern Flashback Foodie Friday
I’m joining Kitchen Bouquet today for Flashback Friday and Designs by Gollum for Foodie Friday. I’m flashing back to remember one of my Daddy’s favorite dishes, chicken fried steak! His mother, my grandmother made this and my mother learned how to make her recipe from her and now my mother has taught me. This chicken…
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Southern Roses in the Snow
As, you all know, Mother’s Day is this coming Sunday. If you’ve been visiting here for a while, you’ve gotten to know my Mother a bit. If you haven’t met her yet, put “Mama” in the search bar on the right and you can meet her and read her guest posts. I know you will…
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Southern Breakfast on the Porch
One of my favorite community cookbooks is Louisiana Entertains – A Complete Menu Cookbook from the Rapides Symphony Guild in Alexandria, Louisiana – copyright 1978. The first 54 pages of this cookbook are devoted to breakfast and brunch. These menus offer a Southern breakfast at its best! I’ve set the table on the porch for…
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Southern Porch Party
Today, I’m joining Barb at Grits and Glamour for her porch and patio party. You may be wondering what happened to the series on Southern food. Well, it’s still here. You see, porches and Southern food go together like greens and ham hocks. Back in the day, they didn’t have air conditioners. So, Southerners would…
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Southern Gracious Plenty
Southern Food and Southern Cornbread – More than just something to eat! (The first in a series on Southern Food) One of the things that really defines the South is the food. It is one thing that has always brought us together. Whenever a family suffers a tragedy, the Southern community goes into action to…
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Southern Cooking Legend
8 days til Spring! Yesterday, I was in my home office looking for one of my gardening books when I came across Mme. Begue’s Recipes of Old New Orleans Creole Cookery. I had forgotten having this little gem. It is copyrighted @1937. The price on the inside cover was .60 but it was marked out…
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Southern Party
Oh, the Mardi Gras party was fun. We had lots of great food and drinks. My friend Darlene made 2 kinds of hurricanes, the traditional and a blue hurricane. We had mint julep punch and the winner of the drink category was boozefish sangria made with homemade strawberry wine by Debra Alexander. We had jambalaya,…
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Small Town Southern Man
Great song by Alan Jackson. Enjoy! Amazon.com Widgets Happy Wednesday everyone!
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Southern Monday
Ah Monday – again. Hope everybody had a restful weekend. As for me, I did cleaning and more party planning. I’ve been looking for recipes for the Mardi Gras party. I got a Mam Papaul’s king cake mix. It includes the praline filling, decorative sugars and even the baby. I’ve heard they are really good.…
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Southern Mardi Gras Plans
My neighbor and friend Darlene and I are planning a Mardi Gras party. We have formed our own Krewe. Since we are located in Arkansas we are the Royal Krewe of RazorBacchus. We are doing a toned-down version of the Cajun Courir where the revelers go from house to house begging for ingredients for the…
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Southern Sunday Lunch
I remember Sunday lunches when I was growing up fondly. When we got home from church we would set the table with the good china and all gather round the table. Often, we would have company and spend 2 or 3 hours at the table visiting. I remember one occasion when my mother had put…
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Impromtu Southern Party
When you need to entertain at the drop of a hat, what would you serve? For some crazy reason, I think about this a lot. I have a vision that 12 people could show up unexpectedly on my doorstep and I could entertain them beautifully without blinking an eye. In real life, I might could…