Overnight Stuffed French Toast – and Why I’m A Morning Person

Make this the night before and just pop it in the oven!

Make this the night before and just pop it in the oven!

Pin it Add this recipe to ZipList!Harvest Stuffed Cinnamon Rolls IngredientsNote: This recipe makes one pan of Cinnamon Rolls 1 loaf frozen white bread dough (such as Rhode’s) 1/4 Cup butter or margarine, softened 1 Cup brown sugar, packed 3 Tablespoon ground cinnamon *Can do less to taste 1/2 cup dried cranberries (can use raisins [...]

Pin it Add this recipe to ZipList!Pumpkin-Cranberry Pecan Bread Ingredients2+1/3 cups all purpose flour 1+1/2 cups sugar {I reduced this from 2 cups} 2 tsp. baking soda 1 +1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. nutmeg 1/4 tsp. ground ginger 1 can (15 oz) solid pumpkin 1/2 cup olive oil 1/2 cup applesauce {I [...]

The recipe I’d like to share is for “Lemon Poppy Seed Bread” and is one of my best-loved recipes from my Mom. True, it uses a cake mix, but sometimes you just GOTTA!

A classic Southern meal in the old days always included bread. Bread was a great meal stretcher and even the poorest of sharecroppers usually had the ingredients to make it thanks to the staples of 25 pound sack of flour provided by the land owners (look for a quote from my Great Grandmother Lela about this at the bottom of this post). Although I don’t have bread with every supper nowadays, more often than not we do. Here are some of my favorite dinnertime bread recipes, some classic and some new fangled. I hope you’ll find at least one or two new ones to make for those you love.

I just got home from a little road trip to Savannah, Georgia, where I spent a day filming with Miss Paula Deen.

This delicious cake is so easy to make and has just the right touch of sweetness

If you work fast, you can have them ready start to finish in about ten minutes using ingredients you probably already have on hand.

Today I’m excited to bring you a guest post by the guy who I’m pretty sure is my long lost twin

Deeply chocolate, moist, delicious, and simple to make!

Pin it I was fortunate enough to get to visit Canada a few years back and while there treated to the loveliest vision – my first real live slice of blueberry pie. Until then, I had only seen it on magazine covers and photographs in books. Mama and I used to talk about how good [...]

Pin itWant to print out just the recipe and don’t know how? Visit my FAQ page, it’s the first question I answer! I also send out printer friendly versions of many recipes regularly to my email subscribers so subscribe today! Every now and then I get a hitch in my step to do something and [...]

Pin it Valentine’s day at my house is all about family. Just as my mother before me, I like to cook a special meal for my kids and our traditional meal has become heart shaped meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and cinnamon love knots. It may not sound romantic but it sure does sound like home and [...]

Pin it I’m gonna start out by telling y’all that it is probably not a good idea for me to post today. My normally scattered mind is even more so, thinking on a million different things as I race to finish up my book. I’m trying to make sure my heart is in every story [...]

Pin it These cinnamon rolls have power behind them – real power. You could pretty much get anything you wanted if you showed up toting a plate of these babies, warm with icing oozing down the side. Regardless of their power, though, I want you to try to use them only for good. Rather than [...]

Pin it Today I’m really excited to share with you my very first experience using puff pastry. I’ve always been intrigued by the thought of using it but never really got around to trying it until now. So I thought I’d use my very first experience as a tutorial so you could all cook along [...]

Pin it My first memories of apple fritters come from a family trip to the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee when I was about seven years old. Up until then, I’d never had them before but it was obvious that my parents were no strangers as they hunted down one particular restaurant just to partake of [...]

The first time I ever made Zucchini bread was on July 5, 1999. I put it in the oven around 8:05 PM. Around 8:10 my son decided he was ready to be born. My first thought was “BUT I JUST PUT ZUCCHINI BREAD IN THE OVEN!”. After a frantic phone call to Mama (who we lived just across from the street at the time), I left for the hospital confident that my bread would be taken out of the oven when the timer was up. About seventeen hours later I was treated to my first taste – and boy was I hungry by then!

Pin it This is a recipe that is always considered a treat at my house, met with the same zeal as a dessert even though it is just a bread. A variation on my Mama’s hoe cake, she often mixed up the same batter and made drop biscuits instead. When I first served hoe cake [...]

Pin it Yeast breads are intimidating to many people. Having tried a time or two and failed or perhaps just hearing too many horror stories about how difficult yeast is to master, I know a lot of folks who won’t even attempt to make homemade breads or rolls this way. But y’all know if I’m [...]

With Memorial day coming up, we’re all liable to have leftover buns. Rather than let them sit on the counter until they finally get thrown away, we’re going to turn them into a WOW dish

Pin it If you enjoy Southern Plate, please tell a friend! This is the second tutorial photographed at my new home. I just love photographing things in the sun room. Yesterday I opened a few windows out there and had the most wonderfully scented early summer breeze flowing through as I prepared this cake and [...]

Pin it (Originally published July 1, 2008) I told my mother I was going to do a web tutorial on how to make buttermilk biscuits, a staple in the south. She said “Oh, you HAVE to do that new recipe!”. Now, admittedly, these are awfully good. So good, in fact, that my mother has abandoned [...]

Pin it Valentine’s Day is often considered a romantic holiday but I like to make it about all of the people I love in my life, most importantly my children. We do this by having a special family dinner with a Valentine’s theme. Heart shaped mini meatloaves, mashed potatoes piped onto their plates in the [...]

Pin it This is not a dish you would have seen back in the day in my family. My Great Grandmother Lela never even knew how to make what we all call “loaf bread”. Having a hard life of working in the fields from the time she was old enough to pull a cotton sack, [...]

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