Southern Food

Southern Tweaks

July 15, 2010

Do you ever tweak a recipe? I do it all the time. As a matter of fact, almost every time I read a recipe, I immediately start thinking of ways to change it! That is, of course, unless it is something I have had and loved and want to try to duplicate. Tonight, for instance, [...]

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Southern Grandmother

July 11, 2010

One of the great blessings in life is to have a wonderful mother. I enjoy visiting with my own mother and I also enjoy hearing her talk about her mother, my grandmother. I was fortunate enough to have my maternal grandmother on earth until I was in my early 30′s. It is wonderful to have [...]

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Southern Herbs

July 8, 2010

My friend, Paula, brought me some herbs from her garden today. She brought cinnamon basil, lemon thyme and lemon balm. What a wonderful surprise. I had seen a recipe for cinnamon basil cookies before and that is what I will make with the cinnamon basil that Paula brought to me! You can use Cinnamon Basil [...]

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Southern ‘Maters

July 1, 2010

Got some great little tomatoes out of my garden today along with a few herbs. I put together a little ‘mater salad. It was really, really good – so it is this weeks entry for Today’s Lagniappe: Christi’s ‘Mater Salad Bake one Pepperidge Farm pastry shell for each serving (you can skip this if you [...]

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Southern Fun

June 24, 2010

We will be really busy this weekend with our local Red, White and Blue Festival! Can’t wait for all the fun and festivities! As you may know, in the South, we fry everything! Looking at the vendors for the festival I see fried Twinkies and Funnel Cakes and hot dogs and all kinds of crazy [...]

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Southern Catfish

June 14, 2010

You know, around here, we love our catfish. We love it fried, grilled, baked, blackened . . . okay, so stop me, I am getting carried away. Including the yummy remoulade, there are 3 (or more) recipes here today! One of our favorite ways to have catfish during the summer heat is grilled (as in, [...]

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Southern Pink Cake

June 12, 2010

I have been looking for something refreshing and summery and a little bit sweet. Maybe something with strawberries. Or raspberries: Then I came across a recipe for Pink Lemonade Cheesecake – doesn’t that sound divine? What are you doing pink today? Today’s Lagniappe:  Pink Lemonade Cheesecake Lemon Cookie Crust 11 lemon sandwich cream cookies, crushed [...]

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Southern Friday!

June 10, 2010

Friday!!!! I love the word. It has been a crazy, crazy week and I’m looking for a couple of days to regroup! Anyway, for this week I will offer 3 words – Tabasco Praline Peanuts! Okay, just think about that for a while.  We actually have s0me of them here and they are outrageous! Anyway, [...]

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Southern Summertime

June 7, 2010

Summertime and the livin’ is easy! It’s time for grillin’ and living outdoors – watching the lightnin’ bugs and the sweet smell of honeysuckle! You can grill lots of things! Meat: Veggies: Seafood: And, lots of variations on the theme! What are you grillin’? Today’s Lagniappe:  Grilled Shrimp # 3 cloves garlic, minced # 1/3 [...]

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Southern Corn

May 17, 2010

Just saw at the grocery store that Florida corn was in and on sale! Why do I love Florida corn? The truth is because my Mama always told how good it was and it is imprinted on my brain. My taste buds just naturally follow, but I think that it really is good! Corn is [...]

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The Last of the Southern Trout

May 13, 2010

I hope everyone has enjoyed visiting the Messick’s river cabin this week. I know I did! Don’t forget to visit Ann Messick at Ozark Home Team if you want to find out more about the cabin on the White River. So, let’s see, so far I have posted four trout recipes. So tonight, I’ll finish [...]

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Southern Trout

May 10, 2010

Yesterday, I showed you some of the pictures I took from my friend, Ann’s, river cabin. I have a few more to show you today, along with another recipe for trout, which is very abundant in the beautiful White River on which the cabin is located. It is just so beautiful down there along the [...]

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Southern Reunions

May 3, 2010

What a day it has been. As I came home from running some errands, I found a beautiful chocolate lab running down the middle of my street dragging a blue leash. If you have read this blog, you know what a dog (and cat) lover I am. Well, the sweet dog came right to me. [...]

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Southern Shrimp

April 29, 2010

I’ve posted so many times about Southern Shrimp.  I can’t begin to tell you how sad I am about the oil spill in the Gulf. I pray for the people who make their livelihood from the Gulf region that this will be resolved soon. I don’t know that much about the Gulf oil platforms. I [...]

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Southern Strawberries

April 26, 2010

I love strawberries! I decided to try out an idea I had brewing in my brain this past weekend. I took the lemon-thyme cookie dough that I just loved and used it as a crust for individual tart pans. The dough made a beautifully flaky crust for my tarts with a nice lemony, thyme flavor. [...]

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