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Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Whipped Cream

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 23:35:02 +0000

Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Whipped Cream is a classic fresh strawberry treat with sweet, short biscuits for shortcake, sweetened sliced strawberries and fresh vanilla whipped cream After moving from our hometown of Mobile, AL in 1985, we lived in Central Florida for 33 years before moving to our current home in the Smoky Mountains...

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King Cake with Cinnamon Filling

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 22:24:41 +0000

King Cake is a pastry filled with brown sugar cinnamon filling and decorated with colored sprinkles. The shape and colors of King Cake are symbolic of Epiphany and rooted in Christian history. The cake is popular during Mardi Gras season. Growing up in Mobile, AL, the real birthplace of Mardi Gras in the US,...

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Martha Washington Candy

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 19:00:10 +0000

Martha Washington Candy is a classic hand-rolled and hand-dipped candy that contains a pecan and coconut nougat with a chocolate coating. Researching the history of food is of significant interest to me. I can’t say I’m as interested in researching the food as I am in eating the food, but it’s a close second. I...

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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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No-Bake Banana Split Cake

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:57:36 +0000

No-Bake Banana Split Cake brings together all the favorite toppings you expect to find in a banana split: banana, pineapple, maraschino cherry, nuts, and whipped cream. The base is a no-bake, made from scratch, graham cracker crust covered with a sweetened cream cheese filling. Thumbing through some of my old recipes for inspiration for my...

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Skillet Apple Crisp

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 23:14:26 +0000

Skillet Apple Crisp is an old fashioned apple dessert made with orchard fresh apples and topped with an oatmeal and brown sugar crumble. As the apple harvest rolls in, it’s hard not to dream of all sorts of wonderful apple dishes. It’s no wonder apple leads the way as America’s favorite fruit. They’re as versatile...

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Cherry Pie Bars with Buttermilk Glaze

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:00:44 +0000

Cherry Pie Bars with Buttermilk Glaze is made from an easy homemade soft butter cake and topped with canned cherry pie filling with a drizzled buttermilk glaze. If you’re looking for a pie/bar/cookie/cherry/glazed recipe, stop right here. You’ve landed in the right spot. This one’s got it all. It looks like it’s double crusted. But,...

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Peppermint Bark

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 20:31:17 +0000

Peppermint Bark is an easy and elegant Christmas gift. It’s a cinch to make with only four ingredients and contains layers of semi-sweet and white chocolate. It’s topped with crushed peppermint candy for a festive appearance. I lived through the era of those aluminum Christmas trees that looked nothing like Christmas trees. They had...

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Gingerbread Magic Cookie Bars

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:49:43 +0000

Gingerbread Magic Cookie Bars is a variation of the original Magic Cookie Bars. Gingersnap cookies and orange juice form a crust that’s reminiscent of gingerbread cake. The layers of coconut, white chocolate, cinnamon chips, and toffee chips add a delightful spin to the classic recipe. My introduction to Magic Cookie Bars occurred during the 1960s. ...

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Classic Southern Pecan Pie

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:23:39 +0000

Classic Southern Pecan Pie is a favorite pie made with pecans that are baked in a syrupy filling. One of our favorite things to watch on television are the black and white Andy Griffith shows with Andy, Barney, Opie and Aunt Bea that take place in the mythical town called Mayberry. The show...

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Sweet Potato Fudge with Buttered Salted Pecans

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:49:21 +0000

Sweet Potato Fudge with Buttered Salted Pecans is no-fuss, no-fail when made with sweetened condensed milk. Pecans are toasted in butter, sprinkled with salt and added to the fudge mixture. The older I get, the more I realize the profound influence of Granny’s pantry on my life, food choices, and cooking style. I came to...

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Vintage Raisin Cookies

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 15:56:30 +0000

Vintage Raisin Cookies are adapted from an circa 1940’s recipe appearing in the Akron Beacon Journal. They’re soft, buttery, and laden with plumped raisins and cinnamon and brown sugar. A friend sent me a scanned image of a recipe for Raisin Cookies in an article written by Betty Harvey, Home Economics Editor of the Akron...

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Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cookies

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:40:30 +0000

Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cookies are something you don’t want to miss! Sweet potatoes, warm spices and chocolate chips create a cookie that’s loved by everyone. Sweet potatoes are as much a part of my food heritage as biscuits. A big meal at my grandmother’s house frequently included a baker (baking dish) of sweet ‘taters....

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Apple Dapple Cake

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:00:28 +0000

Apple Dapple Cake is an old hand-me-down recipe that’s been in my files for decades. It’s fresh apples and chopped pecans held together with just the right amount of a cinnamon and vanilla batter. The hot cake is glazed with a fresh, easy-to-make caramel glaze. Some of the glaze gets absorbed by the hot cake...

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No Bake Peanut Butter and Crackers Pie

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 22:27:04 +0000

A long time favorite snack for me is peanut butter and Ritz crackers. Peanut butter is good with any sort of crackers, but I favor Ritz. It seemed right natural to combine the two in a no bake pie. For a real peanut-butter-and-crackery flavor to come through in this No Bake Peanut Butter and Crackers...

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Frozen Berry Cheesecake Salad with Bourbon Whipped Cream

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 17:41:06 +0000

The heat of summer is upon us in the Deep South. Keep plenty of cold drinks, popsicles, and Frozen Berry Cheesecake Salad with Bourbon Whipped Cream on hand. Summer in the Deep South is no joke. Every day is a jam-packed adventure of drenching sweats, frizzy hair, oppressive humidity, and biting insects. I’ve been exposed...

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Southern Pecan Buttermilk Pound Cake

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:28:22 +0000

Southern Pecan Buttermilk Pound Cake is a traditional Southern pound cake with added flavor from pecans. Pound cakes are best know for their dense texture. I love all things pound cake and this Southern Pecan Buttermilk Pound Cake is no exception. I wish I could recall the first time I tasted a pound cake. I...

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Dutch Apple Pie

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 03 May 2017 00:22:38 +0000

In anticipation of a visit from my daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren, I bought a bag of little gala apples I thought the kids might enjoy eating. Well, they ate two. The remainder of the bag of apples, coupled with the fact that I was having my church Life Group over for dinner that night, for...

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Easter Basket Buttermilk Cupcakes

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 22:11:47 +0000

I love the bright spring-like colors of Easter. They always look so fresh and clean. I decided to go with pastels for our Easter Basket Buttermilk Cupcakes this year. My grandchildren loved helping decorate the cupcakes. They especially liked that I had to trim the tops of the unfrosted cupcakes to make them flat. Their...

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Cranberry Upside-Down Skillet Cake

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:15:21 +0000

Cranberry Upside Down Skillet Cake matches the tartness of cranberries against the sweetness of a caramel glaze topping in a simple cast iron skillet cake. Great for snacking and breakfast. Cranberries are something I look forward to each year. The tart and tangy flavor is wonderful in baked goods. Plus, how can you have Thanksgiving without...

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