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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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Sparkling Blackberry Lemonade and a GIVEAWAY

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 00:56:07 +0000

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Triple Berry Southern Sweet Ice Tea

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:28:20 +0000

Here we are again. Another summer in the deep Deep South. It’s too hot for front porch sipping but we certainly enjoy our sweet ice tea sitting in air conditioning. We’re hitting pools, lakes, rivers, streams, creeks, water sprinklers and the Gulf as often as we can possibly work it out. I mixed up Triple...

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Blackberry Cordial

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:16:51 +0000

Blackberries are a summer crop where I live. I see them as God’s way of helping us through the miserable parts of Deep South summers. In the midst of stifling heat, oppressive humidity, mosquitoes that will tote you off, we have blackberries. Luscious, beautiful, black-purple orbs that bring delight to your lips all the way...

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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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Ginger Peach Sweet Ice Tea

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:46:47 +0000

Ginger Peach Sweet Ice Tea amplifies Southern Sweet Tea with the addition of warm, spicy ginger and sweet summer peaches. Perfect for porch sippin’ material. The summer weather in the Deep South is great fodder for complaining. It’s hot and humid and sticky and steamy and miserable. And mosquitoes just about take us off. We constantly talk...

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Strawberry Limeade Sparkling Cooler

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:09:42 +0000

Hot weather is a favorite topic of conversation for Southerners. We know our summers are hot. They always are and always will be but that doesn’t stop us from talking about how hot is and complaining about it. We do a lot of complaining about the heat. We can’t help ourselves. We listened to our...

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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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Philosophical Differences (recipe: Spiced Tea Mix)

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:49:15 +0000

As a freshman at the University of South Alabama in 1973, I had a part-time job in the Department of Philosophy. The department secretary, (they were called secretaries back then) Ellie, and I shared a space that was also the front lobby of the Department. The faculty would frequently gather where we sat...

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