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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:54:18 +0000

I’ve always liked Brussels sprouts’ packaging. Each sprout has its own neat package and is wrapped like a perfect gift. The taste is very similar to cabbage but the packaging is much more interesting. God was tapping his creative side when it came time to make Brussels sprouts. We ate Brussels sprouts a...

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French Toast Fail (recipe: Pineapple Upside Down French Toast)

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:07:06 +0000

French Toast wasn’t a common breakfast food for my family although it fits the criteria for the Make Good With What You’ve Got style of cooking that my Granny advised. The ingredients are common and simple and it makes use of stale bread. On a larger scale, French Toast hasn’t always been popular in the...

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Chickens and Spiders (recipe: Parmesan Crusted Chicken Thighs)

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:44:12 +0000

I love chicken thighs. For years, I refused them and ate only the skinless boneless breasts. Today, I boldly admit chicken thighs have more flavor than chicken breasts ever knew existed. Chicken thighs are what’s happening. I wish chickens had four legs which would give them four thighs. Better yet, they could be classified...

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Slow-cooker Butternut Squash Soup

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:49:34 +0000

Slow-cooker Butternut Squash Soup is an easy slow-cooker soup which uses seasonal vegetables and fruit with warm spices such as cinnamon and curry. A perfect food for fall. Florida does an interesting thing to the fall. It hides it. Florida residents could benefit from someone tapping us on the shoulder to let us know...

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Glazed Apple Fritters

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:43:25 +0000

Glazed Apple Fritters are sweetened dough with fresh apples and cinnamon, deep fried until golden brown and glazed. Some words have more personality than others. Fritter is at the top of the word personality list. It’s a fun word to say. Fritter. Fritter. Fritter. Say fritter three times fast and then say...

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Heart Medicine (recipe: Ham Biscuits with Honey Mustard Butter)

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:34:30 +0000

Caring about people is right and good. It’s part of our human nature. Academicians, theologians, psychologists, anthropologists, nurses and other professions have thoroughly studied the mechanics and effects of caring. After years of study, they concluded that people are naturally caring. I learned the lessons of caring from my parents...

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The Stew (recipe: Slow-cooker Brunswick Stew)

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:51:54 +0000

The history of Brunswick Stew varies depending on who’s telling the story. Many locales with Brunswick in the name, have laid claim to being the originator of this time-tested recipe. Some accounts claim the stew started out containing only squirrel and no vegetables. Others will lead you to believe a hunting camp stew...

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