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One Bowl Colonial Brown Bread

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:02:44 +0000

One Bowl Colonial Brown Bread is a slightly sweet, hearty quick bread made with whole wheat flour and brown sugar. No yeast, eggs, or kneading required. Serve with salted butter and jam. Quick breads are tasty and satisfying. You get the pleasure of making bread without all the extra steps that go along yeast: proofing,...

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Resurrection Biscuits

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:00:40 +0000

Resurrection Biscuits is a recipe that’s an edible lesson that teaches the Easter Resurrection story. The hollow biscuit represents the empty tomb. Because it’s almost Easter and because this recipe for Resurrection Biscuits is a fun way to teach children about Resurrection Sunday, I’m sharing a recipe from my cookbook, BISCUITS: Sweet and Savory Southern...

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Strawberry Pretzel Salad

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:00:35 +0000

Strawberry Pretzel Salad is a vintage layered salad which comprises a pretzel crust, cream cheese layer, and strawberry gelatin layer. This layered strawberry gelatin, cream cheese, pretzel crust dessert represents so many things I love about the South. For one, we do love flavored, highly sweetened gelatin. Always have, always will. We don’t...

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Shrimp and Crab Gumbo AKA Seafood Gumbo

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:54:44 +0000

Shrimp and Crab Gumbo, AKA Seafood Gumbo, is an iconic Cajun stew made with roux, shrimp, crab, smoked sausage and lots of vegetables, including okra. Served over rice. Of all the wonderful Cajun inspired recipes, and there are many, Shrimp and Crab Gumbo is a family favorite. The ingredient list appears rather lengthy, and the...

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Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:13:22 +0000

Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter is an easy compound butter to whip up. Use it on biscuits, pancakes, toast or sweet potatoes. Compound butters are versatile and easy to make. There’s just as many savory varieties as sweet. Simply choose your favorite flavor profile and mix it into softened butter. Despite its simplicity, compound butters are...

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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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Zucchini Chocolate Chip Brown Sugar Muffins

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:11:17 +0000

Zucchini Chocolate Chip Brown Sugar Muffins are moist, flavorful, and easy to prepare. Warm flavors from brown sugar, cinnamon, and chocolate compensate for the somewhat grassy note of zucchini and makes for a nutritious , handheld choice for breakfast, brunch, or snack. Summer gardens overflowing with ready-to-pick produce is a wonderful, beautiful thing....

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Pumpkin Pie Biscuits

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 21:12:49 +0000

Pumpkin Pie Biscuits have all the flavors of pumpkin pie rolled into an easy to make, tender, flaky biscuit. People love good biscuits. That’s a fact. Tell them you’re serving homemade Pumpkin Pie Biscuits and they’ll follow you around like little puppy dogs. So….be prepared. Canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie spices are incorporated...

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4 Ingredient Sweet and Tangy Chicken

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:49:12 +0000

4 Ingredient Sweet and Tangy Chicken is a go to family friendly recipe and one of the most popular on our site. The chicken cooks in a delectable sauce made from common pantry items. I remember the day Angela told me the menu she’d planned for our church Share Group meal. The entree was a...

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Christmas Cranberry White Chocolate Sour Cream Biscuits

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:09:24 +0000

Christmas Cranberry White Chocolate Sour Cream Biscuits are the perfect balance of tart and sweet. Sour cream makes the texture as light and fluffy as air. No rolling or cutting required. Christmas morning breakfast is as special to me as Christmas dinner. It’s a time to stop for a moment and enjoy some peace amidst...

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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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Sage Onion Biscuits

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 23:39:38 +0000

Sage Onion Biscuits are a great addition to the buttermilk cornbread in Traditional Buttermilk Cornbread Dressing. Sage, onion, garlic and black pepper also create a dinner biscuit that goes well along side poultry and pork. For a little extra special touch for this year’s Thanksgiving dressing, I’m making homemade biscuits that play off the...

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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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Homemade Basic Tomato Sauce

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:52:51 +0000

How we love our summer tomatoes. And spring tomatoes. And fall tomatoes. Our backyard tomato growing season in central Florida is spring and fall. It’s hard to keep our tomatoes going through the harshness of summer. Perhaps I’m actually a tomato instead of a person. I have a difficult time throughout the harshness of Florida...

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Comeback Sauce

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 17 May 2017 18:14:40 +0000

The original post published in May 2011. I’ve updated the photos to spare myself some embarrassment from the total lack of photography skills in the early days of blogging. Ask anyone from Mississippi if they know about Comeback Sauce and they will look at you shocked for even asking the question. Of course, everyone in...

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Blueberry Cream Biscuits with Blueberry Lime Butter

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 01 May 2017 11:25:22 +0000

Blueberry Cream Biscuits with Blueberry Lime Butter is an easy biscuit recipe that’s sure to win the hearts of many. My husband and I have a bowl of berries with our breakfast almost every morning. The composition might change, somewhat, according to what’s available. We love our berries fresh without any added sugar or...

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Barbados Tea with Lime and Simple Syrup

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 17:26:50 +0000

For 22 years prior to my husband’s retirement, we traveled to Barbados annually for his company’s Board of Directors’ meeting. In anticipation of the trip each year, I looked forward to many things. It probably comes as no big surprise that chief among my most anticipated favorites were food related items: Barbados Tea with Lime...

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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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Wedge Salad with Buttermilk Blue Cheese Dressing

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 18:55:23 +0000

My husband is an iceberg lettuce fan. You’re not going to convince him to give it up for some of the more nutritional salad greens. I like a wide variety of greens including salad greens as well as cooked greens like collards, turnips and mustard. No, I didn’t accidentally leave out kale. It was on purpose. ...

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Jalapeno Cheddar Cornbread Fritters

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:22:51 +0000

Jalapeño Cheddar Cornbread Fritters. Pickled jalapeño peppers, cheddar cheese and sour cream folded into a cornbread base and fried as a fritter. Take popular toppings for chili such as sour cream, pickled jalapeño and cheddar cheese and turn them into a cornbread fritter. That’s where I got my inspiration: from a bowl of chili. Southern cooks can fritter anything and...

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