Monthly Archives: May 2010
What’s Grilling For Memorial Day?
While celebrating Memorial Day most folks choose to honor our Service Men and Women, by gathering together and sharing a meal. The farmer’s markets are full of every sort of green thing imaginable, begging to be grilled in the great … Continue reading
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Big Southern Vegetable Plate Challenge
After my first Yankee Challenge, Big Southern Breakfast, I picked up a few Southern cookbooks at the library, so I could read up on popular Southern dishes and how to make them. I felt very prepared when I was assigned … Continue reading
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Southern Kitchen – Creole Tomato Basil Tart
I have a confession, pie and tart crusts are my nemesis. I’ve been caught red handed, on multiple occasions, seeking the freezer section for my secret pie recipe. I’ve decided to conquer said problem, and sort out the “secret to … Continue reading
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Southern Kitchen – A Southern Boy’s First Soufflé
Soufflés are one of those culinary challenges that many cooks shy away from. Accounts of this impressive, but very delicate dish deflating as soon as it’s out of the oven have made it seem to be more trouble than it’s … Continue reading
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Southern Kitchen – Pimento Cheese
Pimento cheese is the southern snack. As best as I can tell from my limited research, it does not exist above the Mason-Dixon, except in the homes of southern expatriates. To those of us who were raised on it from … Continue reading
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