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5 Cup Fruit Salad

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 20:00:05 +0000

5 Cup Fruit Salad is a simple vintage recipe that’s a great make ahead and is perfect for any occasion. As the name suggests, it only contains five ingredients. Chances are great you’ve heard of this recipe. It’s been around forever and a day. So, for many of you, this post will just be a...

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Sweet and Spicy Jalapeno Coleslaw

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:00:58 +0000

Sweet and Spicy Jalapeno Coleslaw is made with a slaw mix and classic mayonnaise based dressing with the right ratio of coleslaw to dressing. The dressing provides a balance of sweet and tangy with a hint of heat from jalapeno peppers. Coleslaw is a familiar dish with lots of variations. It takes trying all...

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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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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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West Indies Salad

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 16 May 2017 12:11:01 +0000

The original post was published April 2011. I’ve update the post with new photos and recipe tweaks and republished. There are a couple of phrases in our American English idiom that stick in my craw. The first it, “It may or may not.” Now, exactly what are you saying when you say something “may or...

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Old Fashioned Chicken Salad

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:48:50 +0000

Old Fashioned Chicken Salad is my take on a classic style chicken salad made with simple ingredients. Start with a whole fresh chicken and stew it down or make it easy by grabbing a rotisserie chicken. Any self-respecting Southern cook will have a recipe for chicken salad in their arsenal. We can’t host a...

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Buttermilk Ranch Cucumber Onion Salad

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 12:48:52 +0000

Buttermilk Ranch Cucumber Onion Salad is an uncomplicated salad made with familiar flavors. A summertime favorite. Cucumbers are regular visitors at my table during the summer. If we don’t have them in a salad, I set a plate of fresh sliced cucumbers and tomatoes on the table at most meals. In addition to a wonderful...

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Chicken Fajita Salad

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 12:14:19 +0000

Chicken Fajita Salad is marinated and roasted chicken thighs with seasoned peppers and onions served on a bed of lettuce with traditional fajita toppings. My husband loves fajitas. It’s typically his go to meal at Tex-Mex influenced restaurants. He can’t resist getting his own little cast iron skillet filled with sizzling meat, onions and peppers...

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Buttermilk Ranch Dressing

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 18:01:00 +0000

So, the story goes that this dressing was originally called Buttermilk Dressing. It was popular with cowboys on cattle drives because buttermilk was a common ingredient in Cookie’s chuck wagon. (in case you’re too young to remember the TV show Rawhide, Cookie is what they called the cook). The name morphed into Buttermilk Ranch or...

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Creamy Honey Lime Salad Dressing

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:04:45 +0000

Each time I go to the bank and take out a loan so I can afford to buy limes for the grocery store, I declare my intention to plant a lime tree in my backyard. Well, it hasn’t happened yet. But it will. I swannee, it will. I love to use limes in the kitchen....

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Summer Berry Salad

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:56:36 +0000

My family has a deep abiding love of fruit salads. We usually include berries in a fruit salad but today I decided on a salad devoted exclusively to berries. A simple Summer Berry Salad is a delicious mixture of berries dressed with a minty honey lime dressing. Serve it as a side or an afternoon pick-me-up....

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Tuna Nicoise Salad

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 24 May 2016 21:12:54 +0000

Two of my Bible study mates, Melonie Hall, Sheryl Francavilla, and I are nearing the end of a year long study. We thought a little celebration was in order, plus we’re always up for feeding ourselves, so we had a meal at my house. Melonie brought a delicious cheese and cracker tray to get us...

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Old Fashioned Macaroni Salad

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 22 May 2016 18:35:41 +0000

The word pasta was foreign to my ears for a large part of my growing years. We didn’t call anything pasta. We didn’t have pasta salad, we had Old Fashioned Macaroni Salad. We had macaroni, spaghetti and, occasionally, lasagna noodles. I was shocked beyond measure when I learned that spaghetti was the name of the...

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French-style Salad Dressing

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 15 May 2016 23:17:02 +0000

Homemade French-Style Salad Dressing is mighty tasty and is made with ordinary ingredients. Make it once and you’ll wonder why you ever purchased commercially prepared. Frequently, my grandparents took us to a little restaurant after church near downtown Geneva, AL. It was a small restaurant that probably qualified for hole-in-wall status. The details of...

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Easter Egg Radish Salad

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 20:01:26 +0000

My introduction to radishes as the star of a salad and not just a supporting cast member, came when my husband and I visited Knife and Fork Restaurant in Spruce Pine, NC. They offered an heirloom radish salad. They must have seen me coming because I’m a sucker for a food item described as heirloom...

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Salmagundi

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:26:57 +0000

I volunteered to chair a committee at our church and several people graciously agree to serve with me. We had our first meeting yesterday at my home. I felt the least I could do is furnish lunch for these lovely ladies with servant hearts. I decided on Salmagundi which is always a hit with the...

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Sirloin Steak and Arugula Salad

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 07 May 2014 18:16:29 +0000

Sirloin Steak and Arugula Salad contains spicy, peppery arugula, cold sliced sirloin steak with blue cheese crumbles and makes a hardy, satisfying salad. I have a love/hate relationship with green salads. I love them so much that I gorge myself out on them to the point that I can’t bear the thought of eating another...

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No Shame (Recipe: Coke Salad)

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:55:35 +0000

Coca-Cola and congealed salads. Southern and Southern. All the way Southern. It’s no surprise that someone married the two and came up with a fun little salad. Or dessert. You can decide. Some credit Coca-Cola as being the originator of this recipe,others debunk that idea. I’ve had this recipe in my files long enough for...

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Luncheon with the Girls (Menu: Retro Department Store Lunch)

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 01:34:57 +0000

Back in the day, it was common for department stores to have restaurants. Ladies would get dressed with their hats and gloves, shop in the morning, go to the restaurant for a Salad Plate and continue shopping in the afternoon. Mall food courts with chain eateries have all but eliminated unique department store restaurants. As...

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Frozen (Recipe: Frozen Fruit Salad)

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:01:26 +0000

Heat and humidity create an affinity for all versions of frozen food: ice cream, popsicles, ice box pies, sherbet. You don’t need to look far to find a Southerner who has a grand tale to share about how Grandpa used to drag out his hand cranked ice cream freezer and the grandkids would have to...

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