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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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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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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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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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Christmas Morn Casserole

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:20:53 +0000

A make ahead casserole of eggs, sausage, and cheese that’s perfect for a hectic Christmas morning. Christmas Morn Casserole is assembled the night before and popped in the while Christmas morn activities take place. Traditions play an important role in my life. Whether the traditions relate to family, religion or culture, they are the...

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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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Beef and Bean Chili

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:12:06 +0000

Beef and Bean Chili is a down home, soul comforting dish made easy with canned beans and canned tomatoes. This family favorite is loaded with sweet onions to offset acidity from tomatoes and has just the right amount of chili powder for a powerful punch of flavor. On Sunday, 9/11/11, I proudly wore red, white...

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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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Upside Down, Inside, Outside Turkey

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:50:08 +0000

Upside Down, Inside, Outside Turkey. For turkey that’s always moist, use this fool-proof method. The white meat is just as juicy as the dark meat. Countless numbers of turkeys have been sacrificed for a grand feast only to wind up so dry you can’t even swallow the meat. Some people have been eating, or attempting to...

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Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 19:00:57 +0000

Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya. A one pot meal . Chicken, sausage, vegetables and rice seasoned with Cajun seasoning, cooked in a cast iron skillet Abiding by my grandmother’s teaching to make good with what you’ve got, all the ingredients for Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya miraculously reported for duty. That’s the way it happened...

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Egg Custard Pie

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 00:58:12 +0000

Egg Custard Pie only requires one mixing bowl and makes its own crust. This post was originally published April 20, 2011. I updated the photos and made a minor adjustment to the recipe. In the mid to late 1960’s, my grandparents were finally able to afford a washing machine. That simplified their lives to some...

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Slow-Cooker Girl Scout Baked Apples

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 12:06:14 +0000

Slow-Cooker Girl Scout Baked Apples. Granny Smith apples, cored and filled with a mixture of butter, brown sugar, raisins and cinnamon and cooked in a slow cooker.A version of baked apples I learned in Girl Scouts. Baked Apples have always been Girl Scout apples to me because I learned to make them in Girl Scouts...

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The Urge to Cook(Recipe: Braised Lemon Rosemary Chicken Thighs)

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:18:21 +0000

Delighting in our first crop of Meyer lemons, my little brain immediately went to work deciding how they were to be used. All sorts of sweet concoctions swirled in my head. They kept swirling and swirling and swirling. I was gaining weight just doing the thinking part. Certainly, some of those prized lemons will find...

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Blackberry Cobbler

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:40:37 +0000

Blackberry Cobbler is an icon Southern dessert made with a sweeten blackberry filling and a biscuit like topping. This recipe is a Blue Ribbon winner. It started with blackberries that grew by the railroad track in Geneva, Alabama just down the street from my grandparent’s house in the Cotton Mill Village. I spent a lot...

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Perfect Potatoes (Recipe: Grilled Rosemary and Garlic Skewered Potatoes)

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:21:59 +0000

I could go on and on about the food/memory connection. The older I get, the more I appreciate it. Those memories keep my departed family members very much alive in my mind. A certain food will spark a memory of an event that may have happened 40 or 50 years ago, but it seems like...

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Swiss and Ham Pie

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:48:17 +0000

Swiss and Ham Pie is a quiche style savory pie made with Swiss cheese, ham and custard filling in a pie shell. We don’t call this quiche at our house. Certain members of our family of the male persuasion might turn their nose up before even tasting anything called quiche. We call this a pie. And...

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Homemade Vanilla Marshmallows

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:41:25 +0000

A family lives in our community with the last name Mello. They have children about the same age as my daughters. I often thought what a great topic of conversation it would be if my daughter, Marcia (pronounced like Marsha), married a Mello son. I could say, “Have I introduced you to...

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Sausage and Bean Soup

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:01:14 +0000

I’ve been a Gooseberry Patch fan as long as there’s been a Gooseberry Patch. Walking through my house, you will catch glimpses of some of the Gooseberry Patch home decor items they used to sell. Several Gooseberry Patch cookbooks have taken their place among my cookbook collection. My traditional Christmas morning...

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Sweet Potato Casserole

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:20:08 +0000

Sweet Potato Casserole is a Thanksgiving tradition. Sweet potato flesh is mixed with cream cheese, butter, brown sugar, maple syrup and spices and topped with an oatmeal pecan crumble. he weeks and days prior to Thanksgiving are busy and somewhat stressful. Americans idea of a joyous celebration requires a tremendous amount of preparation and organization....

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Spiced Pecans

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:56:58 +0000

Spiced Pecans are pecan halves coated with a spicy syrup and then roasted in the oven until brown. Makes great hostess gifts. One of the things I most look forward to in the fall are pecans. Picking up pecans and smelling a wood fire burning in the distance is a pleasant childhood memory. At one...

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