Happy New Year!
It sure doesn’t seem like it was one year ago that we celebrated the new year. Gosh, time flies by so quickly it’s a little scary to me. We really need to savor each moment because as soon as we turn around good, another year has passed.
Speaking of savoring, y’all savored good stuff to eat in 2015. Each year I look forward to looking back at the most viewed recipes. Some I might have guessed, some surprised me. For the past four years, Comeback Sauce has been the favorite. This year, it lost out to Fried Apples. Simple, ordinary Fried Apples. That just goes to show the simplest things really are the best.
I was really surprised that y’all didn’t pick a dessert as a favorite. I believe this is the first year that one of my Southern desserts didn’t make the top ten. Oh, well.
So here’s the top viewed recipes for 2015.
- Fried Apples
- Comeback Sauce
- School Lunchroom Hamburger Soup
- Sweet and Tangy Chicken
- Oven BBQ Country-style Ribs
- Cheesy Creamed Spinach Casserole
- Country Baked Beans
- School House Rolls
- Christmas Morn Casserole
- Slow-cooker Brown Sugar Pork Chops
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We’re included in the Top 100 Southern Favorites from FaveSouthernRecipes.com. You will certainly want to view all the recipes in this great round-up. Here’s our recipes that made the list:
Granny’s Chicken and Dumplings
Mobile Bay Magazine thought our Bacon Cathead Biscuits are one of the best things they ate in 2015 and included them in their Top Recipes of 2015 collection. Be sure to check out all the recipes. This recipe is from my cookbook Biscuits: Sweet and Savory Southern Recipes for the All-American Kitchen. Mobile Bay was so kind to include a fantastic article titled Mastering the Biscuit featuring the book in their June 2015 edition.
So, there you have it. No doubt about it, Southerners know how to eat good. Leave me a comment and let me know what you’d like to see in 2016. Desserts? Breads? Entrees? Sides?
We wish you a blessed 2016!
Best of 2015 https://t.co/COPhe8Rwdl pic.twitter.com/hcc8Wwj12f
— Jackie Garvin (@syrupnbiscuits) January 1, 2016
Jill Van Vlack says
Jackie I just love your news letters along with your recipes, and what would a recipe be from you without your stories attached to them? Oh and to me, fried apples is a desert! Thank you for that recipe, we makimple is the best! Maybe you don’t get thanked enough for the hard work that goes into making your news letter and facebook page and keeping up with twitter, but you are appreciated
Jackie Garvin says
Jill,
You are such a dear person. I always love to read your comments. They uplift me. I wish you lived next door. Happy New Year!
tumbleweedcontessa says
I love these year in review posts. It amazes me all the great ideas which are shared. Tumbleweed Contessa is hosting a Best of 2015 round up party. I’d love for you to share this.
Wishes for tasty dishes in 2016,
Linda
http://www.tumbleweedcontessa.com/blog/best-of-2015/
Jackie Garvin says
Just linked up. Thanks for the invite!
Martie says
Well it looks like you had a good year! Isn’t it funny how we get surprised by things? If I expect folks to really like a blog post that I’ve worked really hard on, it doesn’t get much love. Let me throw one up on a whim, and it gets views for days! Lol! Just the way of the world, I guess. Love your blog, love your recipes! I’m diving into those chicken and dumplings next!! 🙂
Jackie Garvin says
Martie,
Happy 2016!
Some of the popular posts do surprise me, especially the ones with my beginning photography attempts. My photos were awful in the beginning. Some are down right embarrassing to me but it doesn’t seem to deter folks from reading the articles. This flies in the face of what many “experts” will tell you. They say you must have great photo images. While my photography has improved since I started food writing in 2011, those old posts with horrible photos are still some of the most popular. Go figure.