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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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Southern Field Peas and Okra

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 20:34:18 +0000

Summer in the Deep South is hard on our bodies and spirits. The oppressive heat and humidity makes us wonder if we’re going to make it out alive. As miserable and grumpy as we get about the weather, summer is the season for some of our best fruits and vegetables. The crown jewel of Southern...

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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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Summer Garden Tomato Sauce Pasta

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:21:50 +0000

Summer Garden Tomato Sauce Pasta is fresh picked summer tomatoes, oregano and parsley cooked with onions and garlic and served with pasta. I don’t take my kitchen garden for granted. It’s a blessing to have the space, climate and inclination to grow vegetables, herbs, fruit, berries, and flowers. The love of planting and growing was...

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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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Spicy Fried Summer Vegetable Medley

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:26:09 +0000

Fried okra and fried green tomatoes. How we love them! I swannee, they’re gifts from above. It’s a treat for enduring all that comes along with their season. Summer in the Deep South is no joke. But, we get okra and tomatoes. That seems like an almost fair trade-off. Another delectable treat we love...

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Herb and Parmesan Grilled Corn

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 23 May 2015 23:01:58 +0000

Herb and Parmesan Grilled Corn is fresh corn slathered with an herb and Parmesan cheese compound butter, wrapped in foil and grilled. This is an update of a post originally published May 2015. It’s as hot as blue blazes in the deep Deep South. We’re whining already and it’s still May. Year after year,...

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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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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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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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Ginger Peach Sweet Ice Tea

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:46:47 +0000

Ginger Peach Sweet Ice Tea amplifies Southern Sweet Tea with the addition of warm, spicy ginger and sweet summer peaches. Perfect for porch sippin’ material. The summer weather in the Deep South is great fodder for complaining. It’s hot and humid and sticky and steamy and miserable. And mosquitoes just about take us off. We constantly talk...

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