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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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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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Classic Southern Okra and Tomatoes

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 19:25:05 +0000

Classic Southern Okra and Tomatoes is familiar Southern comfort food. Sauté sweet onions, sliced okra, and diced tomatoes in bacon grease and garnish with crispy bacon. We happened upon some fresh okra at a local produce market that my grandmother would describe as “right pretty”. I would go as far as to say it was...

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Skillet Hot Dog Chili

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:00:56 +0000

Elevate your hot dog game with this quick and easy Skillet Hot Dog Chili. My mother loved hot dogs. She loved hot dogs better than she loved her luggage. Not only did she like to order hot dogs in restaurants, she liked to eat them at home. Chili dogs were her favorite. Somewhere along the...

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Baked Sweetpotato with Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:13:29 +0000

Baked Sweetpotato with Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter is an easy side dish to serve alongside most entrees. The warm flavors of brown sugar and cinnamon are a perfect match for the earthy, somewhat nutty, flavor of sweet potatoes. Sweetpotatoes! Oh, how I love thee. That hasn’t always been the case. I had to grow...

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King Cake with Cinnamon Filling

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 22:24:41 +0000

King Cake is a pastry filled with brown sugar cinnamon filling and decorated with colored sprinkles. The shape and colors of King Cake are symbolic of Epiphany and rooted in Christian history. The cake is popular during Mardi Gras season. Growing up in Mobile, AL, the real birthplace of Mardi Gras in the US,...

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Martha Washington Candy

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 19:00:10 +0000

Martha Washington Candy is a classic hand-rolled and hand-dipped candy that contains a pecan and coconut nougat with a chocolate coating. Researching the history of food is of significant interest to me. I can’t say I’m as interested in researching the food as I am in eating the food, but it’s a close second. I...

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Alabama-style Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:25:48 +0000

Alabama-style Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice is a Cajun inspired dish with an Alabama twist. The traditional recipe for Red Beans and Rice uses andouille sausage, a Cajun ingredient. I opted for Conecuh Sausage, an Alabama ingredient. Based out of Evergreen, AL, Conecuh Sausage is the best commercial smoked sausage I’ve ever tasted....

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Slow Cooker Brown Sugar Pork Chops

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:50:48 +0000

Slow-Cooker Brown Sugar Pork Chops are bone-in pork loin chops seasoned with sweet and savory brown sugar rub cooked in a slow-cooker. Brown sugar and pork. Pork and brown sugar. Brown sugar and pork with just the right balance of sweet, savory and spice. Seriously. I could end the narrative right here and right now...

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4 Ingredient Sweet and Tangy Chicken

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:49:12 +0000

4 Ingredient Sweet and Tangy Chicken is a go to family friendly recipe and one of the most popular on our site. The chicken cooks in a delectable sauce made from common pantry items. I remember the day Angela told me the menu she’d planned for our church Share Group meal. The entree was a...

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Peppermint Bark

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 20:31:17 +0000

Peppermint Bark is an easy and elegant Christmas gift. It’s a cinch to make with only four ingredients and contains layers of semi-sweet and white chocolate. It’s topped with crushed peppermint candy for a festive appearance. I lived through the era of those aluminum Christmas trees that looked nothing like Christmas trees. They had...

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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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Old Fashioned Cornbread Dressing

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 17:20:46 +0000

Old Fashioned Cornbread Dressing is made in the traditional way of using leftover buttermilk cornbread and biscuits. Lots of fresh sweet onions, celery and sage give this dressing an unforgettable flavor. One of the most popular recipes on this blog. I’m stepping out here and ready to make a bold statement. I think I...

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Sage Onion Biscuits

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 23:39:38 +0000

Sage Onion Biscuits are a great addition to the buttermilk cornbread in Traditional Buttermilk Cornbread Dressing. Sage, onion, garlic and black pepper also create a dinner biscuit that goes well along side poultry and pork. For a little extra special touch for this year’s Thanksgiving dressing, I’m making homemade biscuits that play off the...

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Vintage Raisin Cookies

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 15:56:30 +0000

Vintage Raisin Cookies are adapted from an circa 1940’s recipe appearing in the Akron Beacon Journal. They’re soft, buttery, and laden with plumped raisins and cinnamon and brown sugar. A friend sent me a scanned image of a recipe for Raisin Cookies in an article written by Betty Harvey, Home Economics Editor of the Akron...

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Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cookies

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:40:30 +0000

Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cookies are something you don’t want to miss! Sweet potatoes, warm spices and chocolate chips create a cookie that’s loved by everyone. Sweet potatoes are as much a part of my food heritage as biscuits. A big meal at my grandmother’s house frequently included a baker (baking dish) of sweet ‘taters....

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Apple Dapple Cake

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:00:28 +0000

Apple Dapple Cake is an old hand-me-down recipe that’s been in my files for decades. It’s fresh apples and chopped pecans held together with just the right amount of a cinnamon and vanilla batter. The hot cake is glazed with a fresh, easy-to-make caramel glaze. Some of the glaze gets absorbed by the hot cake...

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One Bowl Buttermilk Banana Cinnamon Pancakes

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 01:59:02 +0000

Even on vacation, I like to cook. I don’t like to wash dishes, but I like to cook. Cooking on vacation means easy meals and easy clean up. One Bowl Buttermilk Banana Cinnamon Pancakes fit the bill for an easy and hardy breakfast for summer vacation. These pancakes are reminiscent of banana bread....

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Southern Fried Catfish

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:42:37 +0000

Catfish and lobsters have more in common than you may realize. At one time, they were both considered trash fish. Not worth keeping. If you could get your hands on some of my crispy Southern Fried Catfish, you’d wonder what in the world folks were thinking when they considered catfish not fittin’ to eat. Some...

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No Bake Peanut Butter and Crackers Pie

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 22:27:04 +0000

A long time favorite snack for me is peanut butter and Ritz crackers. Peanut butter is good with any sort of crackers, but I favor Ritz. It seemed right natural to combine the two in a no bake pie. For a real peanut-butter-and-crackery flavor to come through in this No Bake Peanut Butter and Crackers...

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