While its origin is unknown, there's no denying this Japanese fruit pie recipe is a welcome treat in the Deep South. It includes a flaky pie crust with a scrumptious filling overloaded with raisins, coconut, and chopped pecans. So, Japanese fruit pie. I want to start by saying that this pie is about as Japanese as I am and I have no earthly idea where the name came from. It's similar to both ... Continue Reading
Sam’s Club Strawberry Cake (Homemade Recipe)
This is an easy and simple homemade version of the famous Sam's Club strawberry cake recipe, which includes a moist cake topped with whipped icing, juicy fresh strawberries, and a scrumptious strawberry glaze. If any of you shop at Sam's Club on a regular basis, this strawberry cake will look very familiar because it's my homemade version of their famous single-layer strawberry cake. I first ... Continue Reading
Canning Tomatoes (Water Bath Method)
This video is an easy-to-follow guide to home canning tomatoes using the water bath method. I've also included step-by-step instructions for canning tomatoes below, so you'll be a canning pro in no time! This past weekend I made a video of the entire process of canning tomatoes in response to receiving so many questions about how to do it. The video below is under 30 minutes and goes over water ... Continue Reading
Easy Baked Ziti
What do you get when you combine pepperoni, Italian sausage, ziti pasta, and lots of tasty pasta sauce with melted mozzarella cheese? My easy baked ziti recipe is the ultimate Italian-American comfort food. I make a lot of different dishes at my house. There are the regulars, the ones we love and want to have over and over, and then the new recipes that I whip up from time to time and try out ... Continue Reading
Twinkie Cake (No Bake Recipe)
This easy Twinkie cake recipe starts with a layer of soft and creamy Twinkies before you add sweet vanilla pudding, refreshing fruit pieces, fluffy whipped topping, and crushed nuts to make the ultimate no-bake summer dessert. I have one of my dear readers, Miss Mary Anne, to thank for sending me this Twinkie cake recipe. This isn't a cake that tastes or looks like a Twinkie. It's in fact ... Continue Reading
Green Pea Casserole
Green pea casserole is an easy old-fashioned Southern side dish you're going to want to try. It includes sweet peas, celery, onion, and pimentos in creamy mushroom soup with a buttery and crunchy bread crumb topping. Sometimes you just have one of those days. You know, the ones where you are torn between curling up in the fetal position, sending an SOS signal, or jumping off the craziness of ... Continue Reading
Southern Turnip Greens (Quick and “Fried”)
These old-fashioned Southern turnip greens are quick to cook, deliciously flavored, and the perfect side to accompany your next Southern-style meal. Turnip greens have been a favored vegetable in the South for generations. The recipe came about when cooks would save the leaves of the turnip roots and prepare them like they did mustard greens or collard greens. Traditionally, Southern turnip ... Continue Reading
Hawaiian Iced Tea (Non-Alcoholic Punch)
Bursting with fruit flavors thanks to the pineapple, orange, and lemon juice, this sparkling vintage Hawaiian iced tea recipe is such a refreshing non-alcoholic summer punch. I am too young to have ever seen the Jewel Tea Man coming up the road, but I've heard stories about him all of my life. He was a "peddler man" as my great-grandmother would say and he stopped by houses to sell his wares ... Continue Reading
Apple Cake With Caramel Fudge Icing
This apple cake with caramel frosting recipe includes a moist cake infused with cinnamon and fresh apple chunks topped with an old-fashioned caramel fudge icing that's out of this world. Mama Reed didn't really have a recipe for this old-fashioned apple cake, but I took one of her recipes and used it as the base to build it on so I decided to give her credit. It's sort of like a collaboration ... Continue Reading
Apple Dapple Cake
This old-fashioned apple dapple cake recipe is the darling of fall baking. Every moist bite is positively infused with chunks of juicy apple, toasted pecans, and an amazingly sweet and buttery brown sugar glaze. Mama has been making this old-fashioned apple dapple cake for as long as I can remember. It's always signaled the arrival of apple season for us! So this apple season, pick some fresh ... Continue Reading
