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Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:45:44 +0000

Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix is a dry mix of cocoa, powdered milk, powdered sugar, expresso powder with a hint of cayenne pepper. The chocolate flavor gets a boost from semi-sweet chocolate chips. Keep this on hand during winter months. Guests love it and it makes great gifts. Chocolate. Saying the word is about all it...

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Readers’ Favorite 2017 Southern Cooking Recipes

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:07:19 +0000

Top 10 Syrup and Biscuits’ readers’ favorite 2017 southern cooking recipes I look forward to this round-up every year. It’s a chance for me to learn something new about you and reinforce what I though I knew about you. As always, some of your favorites this year weren’t a surprise and some were. This is...

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Southern Buttermilk Cornbread ( AKA Eggbread)

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:04:04 +0000

Southern Buttermilk Cornbread is an iconic food in southern US cuisine. We have definite opinions about bread. Biscuits are biscuits. Hushpuppies are hushpuppies. We don’t refer them as bread. We do call Hush Puppies shoes but this is a food blog not a fashion blog. We are talking about the edible hushpuppies. Sliced loaf bread...

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West Indies Salad

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 16 May 2017 12:11:01 +0000

The original post was published April 2011. I’ve update the post with new photos and recipe tweaks and republished. There are a couple of phrases in our American English idiom that stick in my craw. The first it, “It may or may not.” Now, exactly what are you saying when you say something “may or...

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Christmas Morn Casserole

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:20:53 +0000

A make ahead casserole of eggs, sausage, and cheese that’s perfect for a hectic Christmas morning. Christmas Morn Casserole is assembled the night before and popped in the while Christmas morn activities take place. Traditions play an important role in my life. Whether the traditions relate to family, religion or culture, they are the...

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Cheese Grits Casserole

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 18:46:42 +0000

The original post was published March 2011. I’ve updated the embarrassingly bad photographs and made the recipe instructions more clear. I didn’t change the recipe ingredients. They were then, and still remain, perfect. It’s not at all uncommon to have regional food favorites. Sometimes those favorites are only appreciated by folks in a particular...

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Beef and Bean Chili

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:12:06 +0000

Beef and Bean Chili is a down home, soul comforting dish made easy with canned beans and canned tomatoes. This family favorite is loaded with sweet onions to offset acidity from tomatoes and has just the right amount of chili powder for a powerful punch of flavor. On Sunday, 9/11/11, I proudly wore red, white...

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Fire and Ice Pickles

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:05:17 +0000

Have you ever had a vision of ancient Greek citizens sitting around with their friends discussing the latest toga fashions and noshing on pickles? Some historians believe there is evidence that Aristole praised the pickled cucumber, not only for it’s taste, but for it’s healing powers. Hmmmm…wonder if they had sandwiches, chips and Barq’s root...

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Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 19:00:57 +0000

Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya. A one pot meal . Chicken, sausage, vegetables and rice seasoned with Cajun seasoning, cooked in a cast iron skillet Abiding by my grandmother’s teaching to make good with what you’ve got, all the ingredients for Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya miraculously reported for duty. That’s the way it happened...

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Blackberry Cobbler

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:40:37 +0000

Blackberry Cobbler is an icon Southern dessert made with a sweeten blackberry filling and a biscuit like topping. This recipe is a Blue Ribbon winner. It started with blackberries that grew by the railroad track in Geneva, Alabama just down the street from my grandparent’s house in the Cotton Mill Village. I spent a lot...

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Rosemary Peach Lemonade

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:49:49 +0000

Rosemary Peach Lemonade is fresh squeezed lemonade that gets a flavor boost from a hint of rosemary and fresh peaches. Heard often in the culinary world of late are phrases such as “This will take your cooking to a whole new level” and “Kick it up a notch”. To my understanding, these phrases perhaps...

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Lime and Thyme Rhyme(Recipe: Lime and Thyme Marinated Flank Steak)

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:40:07 +0000

As I juiced the lime and washed the thyme for this recipe, a thought rattled around in my gray matter, “Do all foods that rhyme go together?”. So, all alone in my kitchen with my wee little brain, I merrily began thinking of rhyming foods and their flavor compatibility. You’ve got potatoes and tomatoes. Yes! Greens...

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Graduation Day! (Recipe: Graduation Party Menu)

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:19:07 +0000

We did it! We graduated the last of our chickens from college. I’m not literally speaking of chickens. I’m talking about “chilluns” or “churrins” or “young ‘uns”. The last one. We’ll be empty nesters as soon as that whole job thing kicks in. Congratulations, Tyler! I planned a menu for the graduation party that could...

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A Close Second (Recipe: Slow-cooker Split Pea Soup)

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:51:14 +0000

As with most Southerners, I have been eating peas and butterbeans all my life. We wait all year for them “to come in”. The food that Southerners call peas are a summer crop and are distinctly different from the English pea or garden pea variety. Since my history with this Southern delicacy is long, I...

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Slush Punch, versions 1 and 2

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:19:41 +0000

Punch is a favorite party beverage for Southerners. We love parties and we love to serve punch at our parties. There are as many variation for punch as Carter’s has little liver pills. It usually has a fruit juice base and we throw in all sorts of other things such as ginger ale, tea, milk,...

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Dotted Swiss for Easter (Recipe: Easter Dinner Menu Suggestions)

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:26:43 +0000

Long before the religious significance of Easter had meaning for me, the holiday was all about colored eggs, the Easter bunny, baskets filled with goodies, egg hunts and dotted Swiss. My two sisters and I always got new Easter frocks which my Granny sewed. Dotted Swiss, a smooth fabric with tiny raised dots, was my...

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Shrimp and Crawfish Etouffee

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:02:11 +0000

Southern cuisine has a famous first cousin. It’s called Cajun and it’s a welcomed member of the family and follows the principles of authentic Southern food: unpretentious, made from local ingredients and flavorful. The biggest difference is in the heat level. Cajuns definitely have more of an affinity for hot peppers in their everyday food....

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Simple Fruit Salad

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:07:06 +0000

Simple Fruit Salad is fresh fruit chopped and dressed with citrus juice and honey. Choose your favorite seasonal fruit. It’s hard to define and recognize a cuisine in today’s mobile society. People move about and take with them dishes from one cuisine and mesh them into another. The lines have blurred. Cajun and Creole...

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Groundnut Candy (Recipe: Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle)

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:00:20 +0000

When a craving for peanut brittle hits you, there are plenty of places you can go to that sell the commercially prepared product. It’s packaged as peanut brittle and has all the ingredients of traditional peanut brittle. You can find it at any big box retailer, grocery store, convenient store and probably some hardware stores....

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