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Skillet Roasted Okra

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 03 May 2024 15:14:37 +0000

Skillet Roasted Okra is an easy way to cook okra. As the okra browns, the natural sugar develops and results in a ton of flavor with no slime. Roasting vegetables is nothing new to me. I’ll roast anything thing that tries to move. Recently, it occurred to me that I had never...

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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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Jalapeno Cheddar Tomato Basil Frittata

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 02:05:58 +0000

Jalapeno Cheddar Tomato Basil Frittata is a smooth and creamy egg and cheese recipe topped with pickled jalapeno peppers, sun-dried tomatoes,and fresh basil. Is suited for breakfast, brunch, or as an appetizer. When I’m called on to bring a party appetizer for a gathering, I always seem to overthink it. For some reason, appetizers intimidate...

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Southern-Style Green Beans and Potatoes with Ham

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 18:25:09 +0000

Southern-Style Green Beans and Potatoes with Ham is an easy, one pot recipe that makes a hardy side or one pot meal. At our house, it’s a rare special occasion that isn’t celebrated over a big bowl of Southern-Style Green Beans with Ham. Not only does it have universal appeal, it’s an easy recipe 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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Buttermilk Scalloped Potatoes and Family Promise

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:18:27 +0000

Our church serves as host to families in the local Family Promise program. I can say a lot about Family Promise but I think their mission statement says it best: Our mission is to help homeless and low-income families achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response. The goal and mission isn’t to foster dependency, but...

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Rustic Tomato Pie

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 29 May 2015 21:19:53 +0000

Rustic Tomato Pie is a free-formed butter crust with an herb goat cheese filling topped with fresh sliced tomatoes. If I had to consider the rest of my life without homegrown tomatoes, I suppose I would survive. I didn’t say I’d be happy about it. And, I don’t think I’d ever stop thinking about...

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Civilized (Recipe: Cucumber Tea Sandwich)

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:34:20 +0000

My husband’s British boss once stated that “afternoon tea is quite civilized”. I couldn’t have said it better myself, Mr. Hadler. Taking time in the afternoon to savor a cup of tea, enjoy a bite to eat and possibly have a nice chat with a friend, is nothing but civilized. It’s a pleasantry that we...

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Just a Little Ditty (Recipe: Frosted Cranberries)

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:25:03 +0000

Sometimes it’s all about the details. A nice little touch, here or there ,makes all the difference. It’s not that people don’t appreciate a big effort. They do. But the little things get noticed. Sometimes it’s little things that are done simply as an after thought. The things that you don’t think will make that much...

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French Onion Soup

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:51:42 +0000

Today is my mother’s birthday. It’s the fourth year in a row that I haven’t mailed her a birthday card, sent her roses, called her on the telephone or wondered how she was spending her day. It’s been four years since she passed away. Significant days like birthdays and holidays are often very sad after...

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Tupelo Honey Cafe’s Recipe Contest

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:58:17 +0000

I live in a world of food. Good food. Down to earth, stick to your ribs, homesick curing, soul nurturing, bone strengthening good food. Several roles in my life cause me to have a relationship with food: food blogger, recipe developer, cookbook reviewer, grandmother of two adorable three-year old twins, columnist, grocery shopper, produce picker, content contributor...

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“Southern Living Home Cooking Basics” Cookbook Review and Giveaway

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:30:51 +0000

Southern Living Home Cooking Basics
by: Southern Living
publisher: Oxmoor House

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Brined Turkey Breast

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:00:20 +0000

Brined Turkey Breast makes use of a simple salt and sugar brine and results in succulent white meat. Food is love. That’s all there is to it. And behind the food and the love, there’s always a story. Sometimes the story is remarkable, sometimes it goes unnoticed. But, it’s always there. The magnitude and reach...

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Hot Chocolate Muffins

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:11:19 +0000

Hot Chocolate Muffins are made with dry hot chocolate mix and a traditional muffin batter. Use store bought or homemade hot chocolate mix. Hot Chocolate. Muffins. Both are simply wonderful on their own. If you combine the two and come up with Hot Chocolate Muffins, you better hold on to you hats. You can...

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Pecan Sage Chicken Salad

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:15:06 +0000

Pecan Sage Chicken Salad gets help from a premade rotisserie chicken. Added flavor comes from fresh sage, pecans, and grapes. My Granny loved chicken salad. She’d boil chickens that were seasoned only by adding salt and pepper added to the water. Carrots and celery never made it into her chicken pot, either. After the chicken...

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Summer Berries (Recipes: Blackberry Lavender Vinegar and Vinaigrette)

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:48:33 +0000

My love affair with my favorite summer berry, blackberry, is being fed a full course dinner this summer. The vines in my backyard generously yield daily harvests of the purplish-black fruit. A post by David Leite of Leite’s Culinaria for Chive Blossom Vinegar, inspired a use of my favorite summer berry for a flavored vinegar....

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Red Velvet Brownies with Cream Cheese Icing

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:14:45 +0000

Red Velvet Brownies with Cream Cheese Icing starts with a premium boxed brownie mix and transforms into Red Velvet Brownies. Red Velvet cake is a Southern standard. Aside from the stunning color, the cake blends powerful flavors that mingle and mesh like old friends at a high school reunion ,to make a spectacular, unforgettable eating...

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Frogmore Stew with Homemade Cocktail Sauce

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:23:05 +0000

Frogmore Stew is shrimp, potatoes, corn-on-the-cob, and smoked sausage boiled with seasoning and served with cocktail sauce. I’m not so far out in la-la land that I don’t recognize that fine dining and rustic dining are diametrically opposed. However, rustic dining that’s really good is fine. That’s how you get fine rustic...

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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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Small Version of a Good Thing (Recipe: Mini Fried Blackberry Pies)

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:04:34 +0000

Fried pies are as familiar to Southerners as boiled peanuts and Moon Pies. We’ve been making them forever and a day. The construction is simple. It’s a crust filled with a sweet filling typically made of fruit or berries. The crust , made from pie or biscuit dough, is cut into small pieces, filled, folded...

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