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5 Cup Fruit Salad

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 20:00:05 +0000

5 Cup Fruit Salad is a simple vintage recipe that’s a great make ahead and is perfect for any occasion. As the name suggests, it only contains five ingredients. Chances are great you’ve heard of this recipe. It’s been around forever and a day. So, for many of you, this post will just be a...

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Skillet Roasted Okra

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 03 May 2024 15:14:37 +0000

Skillet Roasted Okra is an easy way to cook okra. As the okra browns, the natural sugar develops and results in a ton of flavor with no slime. Roasting vegetables is nothing new to me. I’ll roast anything thing that tries to move. Recently, it occurred to me that I had never...

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Classic Southern Okra and Tomatoes

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 19:25:05 +0000

Classic Southern Okra and Tomatoes is familiar Southern comfort food. Sauté sweet onions, sliced okra, and diced tomatoes in bacon grease and garnish with crispy bacon. We happened upon some fresh okra at a local produce market that my grandmother would describe as “right pretty”. I would go as far as to say it was...

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Cajun Crispy Fried Onions

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:45:44 +0000

Cajun Crispy Fried Onions are thinly sliced sweet onions, seasoned with Cajun seasoning and coated with a light batter and deep fried in a process that’s much less complicated than the traditional method of cooking onion rings. Onion rings made from Vidalia Onions are one of the best things on the planet. You get the...

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Sweet and Spicy Jalapeno Coleslaw

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:00:58 +0000

Sweet and Spicy Jalapeno Coleslaw is made with a slaw mix and classic mayonnaise based dressing with the right ratio of coleslaw to dressing. The dressing provides a balance of sweet and tangy with a hint of heat from jalapeno peppers. Coleslaw is a familiar dish with lots of variations. It takes trying all...

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Baked Sweetpotato with Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:13:29 +0000

Baked Sweetpotato with Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter is an easy side dish to serve alongside most entrees. The warm flavors of brown sugar and cinnamon are a perfect match for the earthy, somewhat nutty, flavor of sweet potatoes. Sweetpotatoes! Oh, how I love thee. That hasn’t always been the case. I had to grow...

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Buttered Rutabagas

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 20:08:36 +0000

Buttered rutabagas are a delicious and nutritious cool weather root vegetable. Simply boiled and seasoned with butter, they’re a excellent choice for a side dish with most entrees. Rutabagas are a common vegetable on Southern tables. We grew up knowing about rutabagas. However, I was embarrassingly old before I figured out the correct name. My...

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Stewed Summer Squash and Sweet Onions

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:30:07 +0000

Stewed Summer Squash and Sweet Onions is an easy side dish cooked in a cast iron skillet with butter and bacon grease until slightly caramelized. Summer squash seems to be in endless supply. It’s one of those workhorse vegetables that grow well and produces in abundance. The vegetable is easy to prep. The skin...

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Okra Fritters

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 19:05:14 +0000

Author: Rebecca Lang
Publisher: Andrews McMeel

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Baked Sweet Onions

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 23:07:59 +0000

Baked Sweet Onions will remind you of French Onion Soup. Whole onions are peeled, topped with beef bullion, butter, brandy, Worcestershire sauce, and fresh thyme and wrapped individually in foil packets. The best recipes are easy to prepare and impossible to mess up. That’s the case with Baked Sweet Onions. The hardest part is...

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Tomatoes and Rice

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:34:10 +0000

Tomatoes and Rice is an old fashioned, classic Southern family favorite side dish. Sweet onion is sautéed in bacon grease before adding Basmati rice and fresh or canned tomatoes. I don’t know the origin of this dish. It goes back to my great-grandmother, at least, and perhaps farther back than that. Granny and Mama cooked...

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Southern-Style Green Beans and Potatoes with Ham

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 18:25:09 +0000

Southern-Style Green Beans and Potatoes with Ham is an easy, one pot recipe that makes a hardy side or one pot meal. At our house, it’s a rare special occasion that isn’t celebrated over a big bowl of Southern-Style Green Beans with Ham. Not only does it have universal appeal, it’s an easy recipe to...

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Old Fashioned Cornbread Dressing

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 17:20:46 +0000

Old Fashioned Cornbread Dressing is made in the traditional way of using leftover buttermilk cornbread and biscuits. Lots of fresh sweet onions, celery and sage give this dressing an unforgettable flavor. One of the most popular recipes on this blog. I’m stepping out here and ready to make a bold statement. I think I...

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Southern Summer Vegetable Casserole

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:53:00 +0000

Southern Summer Vegetable Casserole is layers of tomatoes, zucchini, summer squash, and Gruyere cheese that sits atop a bed of caramelized sweet onions. Southern summers, especially Deep South summers, bring on weather conditions that seem downright intolerable at times. But those same conditions that try our souls, bring forth a bounty of delectable produce that’s so...

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Grilled Asparagus and Spring Onions with Honey Lime Vinaigrette

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:09:04 +0000

It’s easy to get confused about seasons of the year when you live in Florida. That’s because we don’t have a full set of seasons. We only have a piece of a set. When the rest of the our country thinks it’s winter, we play along for laughs and try not to gloat about standing...

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Carrot Souffle

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 00:01:14 +0000

Light and fluffy with sweetness from carrots and brown sugar offset by buttermilk. Carrot Souffle is sure to steal the show wherever it appears. Serve warm or at room temperature. The more I ponder carrots, the more I realize that my relationship with carrots is a curious thing. I’ve spent my entire life in...

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Simple Roasted Sweet Bell Peppers with Herbed Goat Cheese

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 22:33:56 +0000

This post was sponsored by Fresh From Florida as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central, however all opinions expressed are my own. When the great folks from Fresh from Florida asked me to create a post for them, I was most happy to oblige. We’re a family that consumes lots of fresh produce...

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Slow-Cooker Southern-Style Blackeyed Peas

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 20:55:05 +0000

Slow-Cooker Southern-Style Blackeyed Peas are a part of the traditional Southern New Year’s Day menu and represent good luck for the rest of the year. There’s something about making New Year’s resolutions that just doesn’t work out for me. I know about setting goals. My training in Corporate America and experience as a business owner...

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Hot Toddy Baked Grapefruit

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 23:47:29 +0000

It’s citrus season in Florida. Such a glorious time of the year! We might groan and moan and fuss and complain about the heat in the summer, but this time of the year we are happy Homo sapiens. Our backyard citrus grove has been very, very good to us and has provided satsumas in addition to...

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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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