Making Moist Cornbread with Mayonnaise: A Family Recipe Aunt’s Cornbread When I was growing up, I spent many summers at my aunt’s visiting my cousin. They lived on the very top of a mountain with horses, chickens, hogs, etc. It was like a little slice of heaven on that mountain as a kid. One of…
Tomato Gravy with Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits Tomato Gravy: Use bacon grease. Make your starter with salt and pepper. Add one or two cans of diced tomatoes. Add equal parts water per can or you can use milk. Stir until thickened. You can also use canned tomatoes and fresh together, but if you use fresh ones…
old fashioned Potato Candy Ingredients: Bag confectioners sugar Peanut butter (amount depends on how thick or thin you spread it) Vanilla Big baking potato, cooled (Important: heat melts sugar and makes runny candy) Instructions: Mix the cooled potato, confectioners sugar, and vanilla. Roll out dough flat after it chills. Spread peanut butter over the dough….
Classic Southern Biscuit Bread Cornbread Ingredients: 3 cups self-rising flour 3 tablespoons canola oil About 40% buttermilk About 60% regular whole milk Note: I only measured 2 ingredients and never measured anything else. I’m one of those cooks that never measured anything. Sorry. Instructions: Mix together 3 cups self-rising flour and 3 tablespoons canola oil….
French Onion Soup Ingredients: Note: I rarely measure anything, I just COOK! Butter Sliced onions Salt Pepper White wine Flour Good beef broth (unsalted) Leftover gravy (optional) Slices of French bread Grated Gruyere cheese Instructions: Melted some butter in a cast iron enamel Dutch oven. Added sliced onions, salt, and pepper. Cooked them down until…
Easy Potato Salad and Tuna Macaroni Salad Recipes Potato Salad Ingredients: Potatoes Hard boiled eggs Finely chopped celery and onion Seasoning salt Black pepper Mayonnaise Yellow mustard Paprika More hard-boiled eggs to garnish with Instructions: Mix together potatoes, hard boiled eggs, finely chopped celery, and onion. Season with seasoning salt and black pepper. Add mayonnaise…
This is pear salad. A southern staple. When I get a craving for something my Mama and Grandmama used to make, I can’t wait to taste it again. Did anyone else grow up eating fruit salads made with canned Bartlett pears or a ring of canned pineapple? We thought we were eating”fancy” when we ate…
Grandma’s Meatloaf recipe Ingredients: 1 lb lean ground beef 1/4 onion, chopped finely 1/2 sleeve crushed saltines 1 cup bread, small cubes 2 eggs 1 cup ketchup (divided) Salt, to taste Pepper, to taste Onion powder, to taste Garlic powder, to taste A couple of shakes of Mrs. Dash 3 russet potatoes, cut into chunks…
Southern Style Green Beans and Red Potatoes Fresh green beans like grandma used to make can’t wait for supper tonight!!! Ingredients: 1 qt. green beans 1 qt. red potatoes or 4 potatoes, quartered 1/4 onion, diced 1 chicken/spices bouillon cube 3 pieces bacon 1 tsp Pampered Chef garlic herb seasoning (optional) or 1/4 tsp garlic…
Corn Meal Cakes recipe Ingredients: 1 cup of corn meal mix 1 tsp of salt 1 tsp of sugar 3/4 cup of boiling water NOTE This will make 4, so I do two rounds to make 8) Instructions: Mix all together and heat any kind of oil (I used extra virgin olive oil) to…
