A Southern Life: my take on traditions, food, sights and more.
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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,…
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Southern Sunny Table
It is hot, hot hot here! As I write this, the heat index is 101 – down from 105 today! So, summer is in full swing. What makes me think SUMMER? The sunflower! Earlier this week I posted this pic of a sunflower about to bloom. Now it looks like this: I love those colors…
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Southern Neighborhood
Today, we were out and about visiting clients. I’ll have to tell you more about these clients later. I think you will enjoy hearing about them. In the meantime, we usually drive through this neighborhood on our way out to the bypass. I love some of the sweet gardens that people have. As I have…
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Southern Little Bites
When you live in a small town you don’t always have access to everything you think you might want. I was looking for some little fillo cups the other day and found out that they are only available at my favorite grocery store around the holidays. Okay, I better stop here and think about the…
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Southern Sunflowers!
Sunflowers just always seem so happy with their heads turned to the sun and their bright yellow colors. I wanted to use sunflowers to decorate. I found an little old bench that had seen better days and painted it with sunflowers! I had instructions on painting sunflowers before. Wish I could remember the name of…
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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…
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Southern Saturday
I love Saturday’s! Even though I often work on Saturday’s it is just more relaxed and laid back. I like to get up early and have coffee on the back porch and read a good book. Here are some of the sites from my perch on the porch. I also have a lovely view of…
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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…
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Southern Fiesta!
It’s time for a fiesta out on Mama’s screened in porch! She even sent along her recipe for Taco Soup. Thanks Mama! Let’s see what she has done: So that is Mama’s addition via A Southern Life for: Today’s Lagniappe: Mama’s Taco Soup 1&1/2 lbs lean ground beef spices to taste: taco seasoning Adobo seasoning…
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Southern Clouds
Wow, getting this post done during a break from the storms. We were a couple of hours East of here today meeting with clients and when we got back there were small branches in the road and a shutter of a neighbor was broken off. We have had lots of lightening and thunder and rain…
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Southern Pairings
Been thinking about some pairings that would taste good and trying to come up with creative ways to do it. How about: Brie and hot pepper jelly Blue cheese and rosemary Parmesan and basil Cheddar and parsley I am going to experiment with some different flavors and see what I come up with. Of course,…
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Soutnern Metamorphosis
What a wonderful weekend we have had, celebrating our nation’s independence. We definitely need have some people to thank for our continued freedoms and that would be our military! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have posted about my nephew (the Marine) before. It is a different kind of metamorphosis to be sure. But,…
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Independence Day!
You know I always use the word “Southern” in my post titles, but not today. Just didn’t seem right. Today is Independence Day in the United States. God Bless the USA! It is also Sunday so we will join Chari at Happy to Design for Sunday favorites and Charlotte and Ginger at Blogger Spirit for…
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Southern Summertime Pinks
Here are some of my favorite summertime pinks! The list could go on and on and on . . . What pink do you love this:
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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…