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All-American Grilled Hamburgers

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 04 May 2024 18:00:10 +0000

All-American Grilled Hamburgers are iconic American sandwiches. The best burger patties are made simply with good ground beef, salt and pepper. Plain ol’ hamburgers. What’s so good about them? Everything. Identified as decidedly All-American, hamburgers are a connectional food within our culinary melting pot. They’re eaten in every culture and cuisine that consumes beef....

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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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Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Whipped Cream

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 23:35:02 +0000

Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Whipped Cream is a classic fresh strawberry treat with sweet, short biscuits for shortcake, sweetened sliced strawberries and fresh vanilla whipped cream After moving from our hometown of Mobile, AL in 1985, we lived in Central Florida for 33 years before moving to our current home in the Smoky Mountains...

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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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Slow-cooker BBQ Pulled Pork

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:46:11 +0000

Slow-Cooker BBQ Pulled Pork starts with a bone-in Boston Butt pork roast, is coated with a dry rub and cooks low and slow in a slow-cooker which results in succulent, juicy, and flavorful pork. Barbecue pulled pork sandwiches are an easy way to feed a crowd. The most difficult part of this recipe is...

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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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Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:45:44 +0000

Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix is a dry mix of cocoa, powdered milk, powdered sugar, expresso powder with a hint of cayenne pepper. The chocolate flavor gets a boost from semi-sweet chocolate chips. Keep this on hand during winter months. Guests love it and it makes great gifts. Chocolate. Saying the word is about all it...

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Okra Fritters

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 19:05:14 +0000

Author: Rebecca Lang
Publisher: Andrews McMeel

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Tomatoes and Rice

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:34:10 +0000

Tomatoes and Rice is an old fashioned, classic Southern family favorite side dish. Sweet onion is sautéed in bacon grease before adding Basmati rice and fresh or canned tomatoes. I don’t know the origin of this dish. It goes back to my great-grandmother, at least, and perhaps farther back than that. Granny and Mama cooked...

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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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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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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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Two Meat Sloppy Joes

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:47:28 +0000

Two Meat Sloppy Joes are ground beef, ground pork sausage, peppers and onions cooked in a BBQ-y sauce and served over bread or buns. All American goodness. If any of you out there have never heard of a Sloppy Joe sandwich, please raise your hand. I would like to meet you. Sloppy Joes are about...

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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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Southern Summer Vegetable Casserole

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:53:00 +0000

Southern Summer Vegetable Casserole is layers of tomatoes, zucchini, summer squash, and Gruyere cheese that sits atop a bed of caramelized sweet onions. Southern summers, especially Deep South summers, bring on weather conditions that seem downright intolerable at times. But those same conditions that try our souls, bring forth a bounty of delectable produce that’s so...

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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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Southern Pecan Buttermilk Pound Cake

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:28:22 +0000

Southern Pecan Buttermilk Pound Cake is a traditional Southern pound cake with added flavor from pecans. Pound cakes are best know for their dense texture. I love all things pound cake and this Southern Pecan Buttermilk Pound Cake is no exception. I wish I could recall the first time I tasted a pound cake. I...

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Comeback Sauce

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 17 May 2017 18:14:40 +0000

The original post published in May 2011. I’ve updated the photos to spare myself some embarrassment from the total lack of photography skills in the early days of blogging. Ask anyone from Mississippi if they know about Comeback Sauce and they will look at you shocked for even asking the question. Of course, everyone in...

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Blueberry Cream Biscuits with Blueberry Lime Butter

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 01 May 2017 11:25:22 +0000

Blueberry Cream Biscuits with Blueberry Lime Butter is an easy biscuit recipe that’s sure to win the hearts of many. My husband and I have a bowl of berries with our breakfast almost every morning. The composition might change, somewhat, according to what’s available. We love our berries fresh without any added sugar 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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