You are going to love this Banana Bread Caramel Sundae! Grab that leftover loaf of banana bread! As promised yesterday, I am about to give you not one, not two, but THREE things to do with leftover Banana Bread! We are going to start with Banana Bread Caramel Sundae. They are each divine in their own right and none require a culinary degree, just a few minutes in the kitchen! First off, ... Continue Reading
Homemade Chocolate Pudding from Tuesdays With Dorie
I'm a member of a blogging community called "Tuesdays With Dorie". Each Tuesday we make a specific dish out of Dorie Greenspan's cookbook and post a photo of it on our blog. One of the rules is that we can't post the actual recipe, to encourage folks to get the book for themselves. This is kind of....difficult for me because I feel I am being terribly rude showing you this wonderful pudding and ... Continue Reading
Bread Pudding Easy Recipe From The Depression
Learn to make a DELICIOUS Old Fashioned Bread Pudding using leftover Hot Dog Buns or Hamburger Buns! I want to preface this recipe by saying that I’ve found bread pudding tends to be rather polarizing – folks either love it or hate it. That having been said, if you are not a bread pudding fan, you will not be thrilled with this recipe. If you are a bread pudding fan, I am your new best ... Continue Reading
Latest Notes
September 22, 2008 They are serious about the state motto on Florida, it really IS the Sunshine State! We have never been to Disney World when it was this hot before. It was as if the sun had a direct beam spotlighted on each one of us the entire time. WHEW, were we ever hot! You can imagine the thrill I felt when I heard there was a cold front in Alabama! Other than the heat, we had a ... Continue Reading
How To Make Homemade Banana Pudding From Scratch
You've come to the right place to learn how to make homemade banana pudding. This recipe includes making the creamy vanilla pudding from scratch and serving it over Nilla wafers and fresh-cut bananas for the most delicious classic Southern dessert. I love and adore old fashioned banana pudding - real Southern banana pudding. By real I mean the kind where you make the homemade pudding from ... Continue Reading
How To Make Apple Pie
Don't you just hate it when you taste something positively divine that a friend made, ask for the recipe, and they refuse to give it? How awkward is that? I have always found it somewhat rude and therefore have made a point to share any and every recipe that has ever been requested of me. There is only one recipe which has tempted me to stray from this policy, my apple pie. ~Takes a deep ... Continue Reading
About Us
This is my "Mama". She taught me how to cook, tie my shoes, and say I'm "glistening" instead of "sweating". She also gave me my heirloom rolling pin which I tend to mention quite often and never pass up a chance to photograph.Mama has been cooking full blown meals since she was thirteen. For her, it isn't a meal unless it involves a meat, at least two vegetables, a bread, dessert, and tea.She is ... Continue Reading
Food Memories
Do you have a special food memory? We'd love to hear it! Send your stories along with any recipes you'd like to share and we'll add them to the site. We might even do a tutorial on your family's recipe and include your memory and name as the headline! Email All Entries to: contact@southernplate.comA little story about my great grandmotherMy great grandmother was a sharecropper all her life. She, ... Continue Reading
How To Make Fried Green Tomatoes
Back to beloved southern foods! This is the prime time of year for fried green tomatoes. All of our grocery stores sell green ones alongside the red for this very purpose (green tomatoes are like rocks so I can't imagine them being used for anything else). Another weird cultural thing, but I imagine it stemmed from the whole "dang yankees trying to starve us" issue back in the days of old. Did ... Continue Reading
Giveaway Thread! Posted August 5, 2021
Who wants a hankie? Who wants a cookbook? The time has come again to give a little token something back to a few of my readers. I’m going to embroider three more hankies to mail out next week. There have been so many great comments and so many of you have tried my recipes, I don’t know where to begin! The main requirement for winning a hankie is this : You have to give me your mailing ... Continue Reading
