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My mother loves homemade cranberry relish, she always has. Me, I was a died-in-the-wool devotee of “the kind …
Todays post is quick and easy to throw together and serves as a wonderful side dish but the versatility allows you to use leftovers to turn this into a main entree! The fun thing about …
Nowadays, families are spending less time eating out and more time at the dinner table. With our busy schedules, we’re looking for no hassle recipes that our families will love. That’s why the makers of …
If you give a Belle an eggplant
She’ll probably look at you funny.
But she’ll take it just the same because a Belle hates to be rude.
She’ll turn it around and admire it’s color and shape…until you …
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA!
Macaroni Salad is one of my mother’s favorite summertime dishes but I have to be honest here, until a few weeks ago, I had never tried it. ~waits for the collective gasp~ I …
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Aside from fresh from the garden vegetables and iced tea, nothing says summer gathering to a Southerner like congealed salad. However, outside of the Southern United States, most folks refer to them as Gelatin or …
My friend, Heather, called me yesterday to get this recipe. I had given it to her a few years back and she had misplaced it and wanted to make it for her upcoming fourth of …
This is one of those recipes that was told to me over the phone, beginning with “You fry you up some bacon…”. Now in my experience, any recipe that begins with those instructions is gonna …
This is a staple at barbecues, family gatherings, and reunions. During our Southern Summers, we love the juicy and refreshing experience of eating this salad! Although I had seen it plenty as a child, the …
My great grandmother, Mama Reed, always had a relish tray at every meal. My mother remembers it being filled with homemade pickles, pickled beats, and fresh vegetables from her own garden according to season. It …
While I’m packing and cleaning and tossing, Mama took some pics of her Corn Casserole the other day for me to use (She doesn’t want me dirtying up my kitchen while I’m getting ready to …
Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and an amazing Easter filled with family, friends, and FOOD! Hey, you know I was thinking it! I was on the Darla Shine show this …
Every self respecting Southerner has a deviled egg plate, usually two. We have one for “fancy” company and a travel one which has a handy little lid (in the interest of disclosure, I have three …
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Mashed potatoes are the perfect comfort food dish and our entire family insists that my grandmother make them whenever we have a big dinner.
The reason these are “MeMe’s …
I’m going to tell y’all something today and I need this to stay just between us. You see, I love Alabama. I have lived in Alabama all of my life (except for a three month …
Back when I first started Southern Plate, I had an email from a reader asking if I could do a tutorial on fried okra. Well, y’all know I’ll eventually get to everything and here it …
I have always loved greens. Turnip, collard, or mixed, I just adore them. Among the greens I like, my Grandmama’s ranks the absolute highest. No one can make them like her. However, I did learn …
New Year’s day hosts the most important meal of the entire year for Southerners. Deeply rooted in tradition, superstition, and hope for the future, we have definite must have dishes which even those of us …
Boiled peanuts have been popular in the south since at least the civil war when our troops used to carry them as a large part of their rations. With salt being a natural preservative, the …
Today I am posting a special treat. Awesome Broccoli salad, and rhymes that are neat.
You see, amidst all the rushing and work, I find myself bored for some fun and some perks. So I set …
I don’t know how Thanksgiving works with your family but I imagine it is somewhat similar to how it works with mine. Siblings, spouses, kidders, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, and anyone else who happens to want …
Its just about a requirement that all Americans love macaroni and cheese in some form and at some time in their lives, I’m no different. Growing up, my mother made a creamy homemade mac and …
Southerners LOVE congealed salads! We have recipes for them which include all manner of fruits AND vegetables. They are a throwback to days when food was scarce and gelatin was cheap. Door to door salesmen …
We love our grits. Creamy, hot, soothing, and delcious with cheese, bacon, or a simple stirring in of butter and sugar, Grits have been and continue to be the south’s ultimate comfort food.
Apparently many Southerners …
Scrambled eggs are a breakfast and brunch favorite as an easy and affordable means of providing protein for a crowd with little effort. In the south, we often season ours with a little bacon grease …
There aren’t many cultures who haven’t, at one time or another, relied upon potatoes as a staple in their diet due to their availability, adaptability, taste, and tendency to be very filling. Southerners, of course, …
I’m the one posting, but this tutorial was all done by Mama so I’ll let her voice take over from here!
This was a favorite dish that I enjoyed as a child at Mama Reed’s. …
