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Jalapeno Cheddar Tomato Basil Frittata

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 02:05:58 +0000

Jalapeno Cheddar Tomato Basil Frittata is a smooth and creamy egg and cheese recipe topped with pickled jalapeno peppers, sun-dried tomatoes,and fresh basil. Is suited for breakfast, brunch, or as an appetizer. When I’m called on to bring a party appetizer for a gathering, I always seem to overthink it. For some reason, appetizers intimidate...

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Grilled Flatbread Taco Pizza with Creamy Taco Sauce

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 01:20:10 +0000

Grilled Flatbread Taco Pizza with Creamy Taco Sauce is made with naan bread, taco seasoned ground beef and favorite taco toppings. Top with homemade taco sauce. While the scorching hot temperatures and oppressive humidity of summer in the Deep South hang over us like a relentless fog, we look forward to the fall. Not only...

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Oven Roasted Gulf Shrimp with Comeback Sauce

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 01:38:34 +0000

The vast majority of my life has been spent near the Gulf of Mexico. We’ve grown accustomed to lots of fresh seafood. Oven Roasted Gulf Shrimp with Comeback Sauce makes use of myfavorite seafood in the whole big world: wild caught gulf shrimp. Peeling and deveining shrimp does take a little bit of time. Enlist the...

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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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Sheet-Pan Barbeque Pulled Pork Nachos

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:48:14 +0000

Sheet-Pan Barbeque Pulled Pork Nachos. Leftover pulled pork, barbeque sauce, and favorite toppings on a bed of tortilla chips. Bake until cheese melts. Nachos are an outlet for creativity and a vehicle for leftovers. The technique is easy: cover a sheet pan with tortilla chips, add a protein of your choice, throw on the toppings...

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Sweet and Spicy Chili Chicken Legs

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:34:54 +0000

Sweet and Spicy Chili Chicken Legs (drumsticks).Sweet from apricot preserves and heat from hot sauce makes these legs a great appetizer or main course. Chili powder adds additional flavor plus a beautiful color. The popularity of chicken wings is somewhat of a mystery to me. Legs, or drumsticks, are more practical, when you get right...

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Baked Brie in Puff Pastry with Raspberry Jam

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:15:39 +0000

Baked Brie in Puff Pastry with Raspberry Jam is brie topped with raspberry jam and baked in a puff pastry. Serve with crackers. If you’re looking for a simple appetizer that doesn’t look easy, you’ve hit pay dirt. Here it is. Brie has such a mild flavor, it needs help from friends. In this case,...

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Cinco de Mayo Round-up

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 23:43:41 +0000

I enlisted some of my blogger buddies to participate in this Cinco de Mayo Round-up. More than 25 Mexican and Tex-Mex inspired recipes. Just for you. Ole! ⇒⇒⇒Click on the link above the photo for the recipe.⇐⇐⇐ Restaurant Style Salsa with Chipotle Peppers by Syrup and Biscuits Flank Steak Slow-cooker Fajitas from Syrup...

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Restaurant Salsa with Chipotle Pepper

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:29:48 +0000

You’ve got to hand it to Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants. They’ve created a nation of chips and salsa lovers. How many times have you ordered chips and salsa as an appetizer and go crazy eating them to the point you ruin your dinner? Hmmm, yep. That’s what I thought. You can make a high quality...

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Southern Deviled Eggs

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:32:47 +0000

Southern Deviled Eggs are a favorite for any gathering involving food. Made in the traditional manner with hard boiled eggs, the yellow is removed to create a filling of yolks, mayonnaise, mustard, and sweet pickle relish which is used to fill the egg whites. One day, when I was young and foolish, I tried...

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Okra Jalapeno Fritters

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 17:54:37 +0000

Summer in the deep Deep South is no joke. Yes, we have splendid winters and spring is nice but summer is a wee bit challenging. Of course the oppressive heat and humidity gives us something about which to complain. Chronic complainers have no shortage of material. The trade-off is that we harvest all sorts of...

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Rustic Tomato Pie

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 29 May 2015 21:19:53 +0000

Rustic Tomato Pie is a free-formed butter crust with an herb goat cheese filling topped with fresh sliced tomatoes. If I had to consider the rest of my life without homegrown tomatoes, I suppose I would survive. I didn’t say I’d be happy about it. And, I don’t think I’d ever stop thinking about...

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Spicy Pimento Cheese Biscuit Bites

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 18:55:08 +0000

Something happened Thursday that I’ve never experienced and, most likely, will never again. The event was so intense and emotional that I was exhausted by the night’s end. I held the story of my life in my hands. My copies of the cookbooks shipped from the publisher. While I’ve read the manuscript 1,000 times...

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Game Day Roundup – 17 recipes

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:28:20 +0000

If you haven’t figured it out by now, let me clue you in. A lot of folks in the South are a fool about football. I will admit, for fear of having my genuine handwritten, laminated, verified and recorded “Authentic Southerner” name badge ripped from my blouse, I’m not crazy about football. I’m mean, it’s...

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Old Fashioned Popcorn Balls

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:05:20 +0000

Old Fashioned Popcorn Balls are made with freshly popped popcorn with a homemade butteryscotch-y candy coating using cane syrup. When you stop to think about it, there’s a whole mess of food that we associate with fall. Just think of all the food festivals and carnivals that take place this time of year. My goodness....

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Boiled Peanuts

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:58:54 +0000

Yes, ma’am! Boiled Peanuts, also known as goober peas, are the bomb-diggity of Southern snack foods. The origin is disputed. By some accounts, they first came to be during the Civil War. Soldiers boiled them in salty water to preserve them and extend their shelf life. This account is highly unlikely since there’s evidence that...

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Peel and Eat Shrimp

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:29:20 +0000

Peel and Eat Shrimp is unpeeled, raw shrimp boiled in water seasoned with crab and shrimp boil., lemon, and l salt. Served hot or cold. July 10 was a big day around our house. We celebrated by stuffing ourselves silly with Peel and Eat Shrimp. It’s the day I submitted the manuscript for...

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Fried Dill Pickles

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:41:51 +0000

Regular dill pickles rank fairly low among my taste preferences. I much prefer sweet pickles. I do enjoy Fire and Ice Pickles which start out as store bought dill pickle chips and wind up being sweet and sour with a little bit of a kick. Another good way to eat dill pickle chips is to...

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Pickled Okra Deviled Eggs

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:39:55 +0000

Pickled Okra Deviled Eggs is an updated version of the Southern iconic Deviled Eggs. Minced pickled okra is substituted for standard pickle relish. If you grow up in the Deep South, as did I, you eat heaping gobs of deviled eggs. They are part of special occasions, church pot luck dinners, funeral receptions and just...

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Simple Elegance (Recipes: Spiced Pears and Pear Gorgonzola Bites)

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:36:02 +0000

Pears impress me with their elegance. They’re in a class all their own and different, in some way, from other fruits. Maybe it’s the shape. Perhaps it’s the stems. Something about them is special. And elegant. The elegance of the pear makes it a fitting dessert for a fine dinner party, yet, the simplicity will have...

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