What happens when you take sweet sugar cookies, cut the dough using Christmas cookie cutters, and add red and green icing? You get Christmas cutout cookies, a must-make cookie recipe these holidays. Throughout my childhood, this was our one must-have sugar cookie recipe for cookie decorating. Mama would make a huge batch so we all had plenty to decorate. She cut them into shapes of trees, ... Continue Reading
Spaghetti Soup
Similar to Italian chili, this quick and easy spaghetti soup recipe includes beans, tender vegetables, and spaghetti cooked in a flavorful tomato spaghetti sauce. It's hearty and filling comfort food perfect for the spaghetti lover in your life. It seems like whenever I make spaghetti, I always end up with a cup or two of sauce left. As spaghetti is one of my favorite meals, it's only fitting ... Continue Reading
7-Up Pound Cake With Lemon Glaze
This old-fashioned 7-Up pound cake recipe with lemon glaze is a classic Southern dessert that uses 7-Up to make a buttery and moist from-scratch cake that has a hint of lemon flavor. Pound cakes are such an integral part of Southern cooking. Made with simple ingredients like butter, flour, sugar, and eggs, they're known for their crisp crust and velvety soft buttery interior that's both dense ... Continue Reading
Carrot Cake Bars
If you like carrot cake, you're in for a treat! My carrot cake bars taste just like carrot cake but are moister and denser, with pecans, oats, carrots, spices, and cream cheese frosting. Now, I know this looks just like a piece of carrot cake. But it's actually a really dense and rich carrot cake bar cookie, all dressed up to look like cake. It sure is good too and you'll find me making them ... Continue Reading
Turkey Hash Recipe
Let me introduce you to the ultimate post-Thanksgiving comfort food: my turkey hash recipe. Made with leftover tender turkey breast, leftover turkey gravy, onions, peppers, cubed hash browns, and Season All, enjoy this flavorful dish from breakfast to dinner. Try not to eat all your turkey at Thanksgiving dinner so you can enjoy this turkey hash recipe after it's all over! Hey friends! Today ... Continue Reading
Easy Orange Rolls
My easy orange rolls recipe includes soft sweet rolls with a deliciously buttery and zesty orange filling that are topped with a sweet orange glaze. Orange rolls are a Southern treat originating in my home state, Alabama. In fact, Alabama has a few places that are known for their orange rolls, served alongside your lunch plate or placed upon your table in baskets. But... I've never even tried ... Continue Reading
Lemon Chess Pie: A Southern Family Tradition
Lemon chess pie is a deliciously thick custard pie bursting with zesty lemon flavor that's long been associated with Southern cuisine. You are going to love it! I'm so excited to share this lemon pie recipe with y'all today. There are many, many pie recipes on Southern Plate, but lemon chess pie is my personal favorite. There's just something about the light, sweet, and tangy lemon curd-like ... Continue Reading
Cranberry Sauce Meatballs
Cooked in a rich cranberry sauce with sweet, spicy, and savory flavors, these tender cranberry sauce meatballs are the perfect easy-peasy appetizer to enjoy this holiday season. I hate to imagine life without a bag of frozen meatballs in my freezer. I have used them for last-minute parties, potlucks, fellowships, and even entire family dinners when the need arose. Making them homemade is always ... Continue Reading
Cranberry Cinnamon Rolls
These easy upside-down cranberry cinnamon rolls include flaky cinnamon rolls topped with a caramelized brown sugar glaze, dried cranberries, and chopped pecans. Y'all, there are some awesome recipes on the internet! And I want you to know that I greatly appreciate you coming to Southern Plate time and again. My goal is to share recipes that I love and feed my own family in hopes of inspiring ... Continue Reading
Perfect Pecan Pie Recipe
If you want a perfect pecan pie every time, you need this recipe in your life. It has the traditional Southern pecan pie taste of rich and nutty caramelized filling in a flaky buttery pie crust, but the best part is that it never misses. As kids, one of our favorite Sunday desserts was pecan pie. It seemed like Mama made one almost every Sunday and coincidentally, that was the day when we ... Continue Reading
