This week’s first “tried and true” Southern favorite is….Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits! Learning to make biscuits was one of my cooking goals. I will be right up front….IT TAKES PRACTICE! I think everyone who makes or has attempted to make biscuits has had the “hockey puck” experience. You know the one…the biscuits would have a better…
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Continue ReadingCornbread and black-eyed peas are traditional Southern foods. Today, we might even call “comfort” foods, but growing up in the South, we just called it “dinner” (which was the big meal eaten sometime between noon and two p.m). What exactly is “comfort food”? According to Wikipedia “comfort food” is traditionally eaten food which often provides a nostalgic…
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Continue ReadingMy New Ice Cream Maker One evening as my husband and I were talking, he casually mentioned that he “might” have ordered an ice cream maker. In my mind I pictured the old fashioned, hand cranked ice cream makers of my childhood. It was often used on hot summer days at my grandparents house in…
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Continue ReadingHey, that’s not a picture of Macaroni and Cheese. No, that’s “Grandma” and me. She’s not really my grandma, she’s my children’s Grandma (my husband’s mom). I call her “Grandma” because when my husband and I first married we struggled with what to call each other’s parents. Being brought up in the South, we didn’t…