In this post I am sharing the recipe for how to make a delicious Southern Crab Cakes Recipe. Crab cakes are delicious as an appetizer or the main course of a meal. I love enjoying a wonderfully prepared crab cake as an appetizer with remoulade sauce. YUM! Honestly, I don’t make crab cakes…
In this post I’ll be sharing a Simple Berry Trifle Recipe. A trifle is an easy layered desert of cake, custard, fruit, glaze or jam, and whipped cream. You can make this so many ways. It’s just so easy to put together. There are many versions out there but here is a simple…
In this post I’m sharing How to Make Homemade Butter. Homemade butter is really fresh, creamy, and delicious. Best of all, it’s so easy to make. Heavy cream and a food processor and a touch of salt and magic happens. There is truly something magical about a fresh batch of soft and creamy homemade…
Pineapple Pudding is an easy variation to the old fashioned banana pudding recipe. Basically, you just use pineapple tidbits instead of bananas. Voila, a different dessert. Easy to make and the best part is you can make it the day ahead. It’s just as wonderful cold as it is warm. While banana pudding…
In this post I’ll be sharing how to prepare Corned Beef and Cabbage. There are many recipes out there for cooking Corned Beef and Cabbage. I do not take credit for this one, mostly because the only thing I do besides follow the manufacturer’s directions, which are great, is to add some peppercorns to…
In this post I’ll be sharing the recipe for Country Fried Steak and Gravy. This is one of my family’s favorite meals. Beef cubes steaks breaded and fried is a classic favorite Southern meal. Country fried steaks as they’re called are so delicious and wonderful topped with homemade gravy and served with rice…
In this post I’m sharing how to make a Simple Egg Salad Sandwich. This recipe is perfect for one or two people. Boiled eggs are a staple ingredient for many Southern recipes. I’m not sure why but we’ll throw chopped boiled eggs in salads, dressing and even giblet gravy. I must admit that I do…
In this post I am sharing a historical recipe for Benne Wafers Cookie Recipe. Benne Wafers have been a Lowcountry favorite in the Charleston area for over a hundred years. These tiny cookies, or wafers, are each made by hand with the same care used in the plantation kitchens of the past. …
According to tradition, New Year’s Day supper will bring you fortune in the year to come. Everyone in the South will be eating some type of pork, collard greens or cabbage, black eyed peas or Hoppin’ John, and cornbread. It’s tradition, but how did it start? Well back in the days of that unfortunate…
In this post I am sharing how to make Southern Style Collard Greens. Collard greens are a favorite winter crop in the South and a new year dinner tradition to bring luck in the coming year. I can’t recall a first dinner in the new year that didn’t involve freshly cooked collard greens,…
In this post I am sharing how to prepare Southern Pan Fried Pork Chops. Y’all will love these easy Pan Fried Pork Chops. In the summer months I do grill quite a bit more, so us southerners don’t fry everything all of the time. Let’s face it though – Fried Food is Southern…
In this post I’m sharing the recipe for Easy Southern Style Chicken N Dumplings. Chicken N Dumplings are so good during the cooler months time of year. I am going to give you a super easy recipe that saves you from the work of rolling out dumplings. Yes, you read that right. Easy…