Creole recipes
This is a yummy Creole inspired dish that combines hot and spicy with sweet and tangy. The stuffed peppers are good even without the sauce, but I sometimes think the sauce is my favorite part!
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Another Southern food favorite!
This is a time-honored recipe for traditional Southern potato salad – nothing fancy or flashy, just honest-to-goodness tater salad! This dish is perfect for serving with other Southern favorites like baked ham, fried chicken, and barbecue. Take it along on picnics or serve it at your next cookout! If you want to “fancy it up,” you can add your favorite veggies, herbs, and spices.
A wonderful, unique Southern food!
This is one of the best southern desserts ever! Another Southern food creation from my warped mind – fried chocolate biscuits! This is how my brain works: I see a can of cheap refrigerated biscuits in the fridge. Next to the roll of dough is a partial bag of chocolate chips. On the stove is a pot filled with oil that I’m going to use to fry some tater tots for the kids. Okay, you see where this is going, right?
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Easy chicken pot pie
This is a quick and easy recipe for a traditional Southern food, chicken pie. I always keep the ingredients I need for this recipe on hand, so when I don’t feel like cooking a complicated meal but don’t want to go out, I can throw this together in five minutes! Not only is this a quick and easy recipe, it’s also yummy.
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Although my husband loves just about every Southern food recipe, the only way he’ll eat squash is fried. I’m talking about summer squash here – yellow crookneck or yellow straightneck. I, on the other hand, love squash cooked in any manner. I must admit, however, that fried squash is probably my favorite. Also, I have a slight preference for the yellow straightneck variety. It seems to be a little milder in taste than the crookneck.
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Creamed corn is one of my all-time favorites when it comes to Southern food. I used to put up boxes and boxes of the stuff in my freezers every summer. This was usually a family event. My husband, my sister-in-law, my brother-in-law, my mother-in-law, my father-in-law, and I would all meet at the corn patch in the early morning. The men would pull the corn and shuck it, and the women would remove the silks and scrape the corn from the ears into big dishpans. Then we’d take it into the house and prepare it for the freezer. I could hardly wait to get my first taste of fresh creamed corn every year!
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sour cream cornbread
My husband loves Southern food, especially cornbread, so I make it quite frequently. I make cornbread all different ways, depending on what I have on hand. Yesterday I had some sour cream in the fridge, so I decided to make some sour cream cornbread. I was out of buttermilk, so I thought the sour cream would add a nice flavor, and it did! The texture of the cornbread was great, too. The inside was nice and soft, and the outside was brown and crusty. Here’s the cornbread recipe:
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Good ol' Southern food
Hubby smoked a cured ham with a crunchy ham glaze last weekend. After the kids tasted the ham, there wasn’t much left! I sliced off most of the leftovers for sandwiches, but there was still some meat on the bones, so I decided to make a real Southern food – lima beans with lots of smoky ham flavor.
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squash fritters photo by contraption
Janie Hopwood of Georgia sent me this recipe. Janie is the author of the fascinating novel, Beck House. It’s obvious that her creative talents extend into the kitchen! This traditional Southern food recipe is a wonderful way to use all those fresh squash and zucchini from your garden or from your local farmer’s market. Janie’s fritters include Italian seasonings, so she suggests using warm marinara dipping sauce on the side.
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Peaches play an important role in Southern food!
You know we Southerners like our Southern food, especially when the ingredients can be found locally, like peaches. This is one of those smooth, rich, creamy southern desserts that’s a perfect way to use fresh peaches. Be sure to select peaches that are ripe and free of blemishes. Peaches won’t ripen after they’re picked. They’ll get softer, but they won’t get any sweeter. Try this recipe next time you’re craving peaches and cream!
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