Southern Favorites #2 Breakfast Gravy When I think of Southern favorites the first thing that comes to mind is buttermilk biscuits. Next, I think about what would go with those biscuits. My son’s first response is, “Gravy”. By that, he means breakfast gravy, sometimes called sausage gravy or white gravy. (Up north it would…
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Continue ReadingThis 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 ReadingA Family Favorite We eat A LOT of chicken, so I’m always looking for new ways to prepare it. Several months ago, I came across an interesting chicken sandwich recipe in my favorite magazine, Southern Living. At the end of the recipe, the author mentioned that they taste remarkable like a “well known fast…
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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 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…