Homemade Pie Crust made with few simple ingredients, using flour, butter, shortening, and salt. This recipe is so forgiving that you will never use another recipe again. Homemade Pie Crust can seem daunting if you have never made it. At least that is how I felt the first time I wanted to make a pie using homemade crust. I want to promise you that it gets easier and more comfortable the more you make the homemade. As my mother used to say, "practice makes perfect." For years I use to make my homemade pie crust with just shortening and still do occasionally, but I find the added butter gives an excellent rich taste to the pie crust.
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Fresh Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting
Fresh Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting is the ultimate Southern dessert for any special occasion or a delightful dinner with family. Fresh juicy strawberries take center stage in this show-stopping strawberry cake and buttercream frosting. I always think of a Strawberry Cake around Mother's Day. It has a certain Mother's charm about it, richness, softness, and sweetness. This Fresh Strawberry Cake is a little different from my Mother's heirloom recipe she made when I was growing up in the '50s.
Pineapple Casserole
Pineapple Casserole, a sweet Southern casserole that can be served as a side dish or dessert at Easter on many Southern tables without a doubt. It is made with canned pineapple, flour and sugar, sharp cheddar cheese, and topped with crushed Ritz crackers. Who would have thought pineapple, cheddar cheese, and Ritz crackers coming together would make a remarkable, delicious dish, only in the south.
Stain Glass Fruit Salad
Stain Glass Fruit Salad, fresh pineapple chunks, fresh strawberry slices, and fresh blueberries tossed all together in a strawberry pie filling, homemade or canned. Light and fresh...who says it can't be for dessert! The night before any celebration we are having, I make Celebration Salad. I like another quick fruit salad I make from my childhood using canned fruit, but this is our favorite. I try to use fresh fruit as much as I can. Especially now, while the strawberries, pineapple, and blueberries are in season. We have some that are not a fan of bananas in this salad, so we leave them out but feel free to add them along with any other fresh fruit. I think Kiwi and grapes would be another delicious addition or even peaches. If you add peaches, a homemade peach pie filling is a great combination.
The Best Carrot Cake Ever with Ultra Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting
The Best Carrot Cake Ever with Ultra Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting sets the bar for all carrot cakes. The cake is incredibly moist from a generous amount of finely shredded fresh carrots and blanketed with a velvety frosting that completes the perfection. The Best Carrot Cake Ever! This past weekend I surprised my husband for Father's Day with a Carrot Cake. I had made one just the week before for my son in law's birthday. Jim enjoyed it so much, I decided to make him one too. Carrot Cake is often made around celebrations and holidays and rightful so, usually for Easter. It is such a rich and decadent cake that deserves all the compliments and praises.
The Secret to Making the Best Old School Pea Salad
Old School, Pea Salad, a classic salad made with simple ingredients, crunchy pieces of onion, chopped dill pickles, and boiled eggs with a coating of mayonnaise. A n easy summer salad perfect for potlucks and gatherings. Pea salad is a classic summer dish. It pairs well with ham and chicken dishes or any grilled meat. There is a secret to making the best recipe.
How to Cook the Simplest Most Flavorful Southern Baby Lima Beans (Granny's Recipe)
Baby Lima Beans, t hey sometimes called butter beans in the south. They are little green beans with the texture of creamy butter, cooked without adding cream — southern comfort food. A Southern Spring delight, Baby Lima Beans, served alongside a hot pan of cornbread, fried okra, fresh tomatoes, cole slaw, and garden spring onions. Add fried chicken, and you have the perfect meal.
Exceptional Squash Casserole
Exceptional Squash Casserole, tender yellow squash in a creamy, rich sauce, topped with buttery crackers. A must for holidays, bring it to a potluck and sit back and smile hearing all the yummy comments. We have been eating this squash casserole recipe like mad this summer. I made the squash casserole for Labor Day, and we devoured it. The flavor of the squash is straightforward. Just delightful! Summer squash is so plentiful this time of the year with having so many local farmers. That is what I love about the little grocery store in my small town. They stock fresh vegetables from our local farmers. I buy all my fresh tomatoes , green tomatoes , cucumbers , eggplant , okra , squash , and zucchini from them while they still offer them.
Magic Green Beans
Magic Green Beans , baked in a casserole dish with all the sweet, savory and amazing flavors of the fancy green bean bundles that are so popular in fine dining restaurants and around the holidays without all the fuss! Have you made the Green Bean Bundles? These fancy little bundles are a lot of trouble to make, but for our fancy Christmas dinner, Prime Rib, Smashed Fingerling Potatoes, Green Salad, and hot buttered rolls, nothing is too much trouble. Green Bean Bundles just go with our fancy menu. The Green Bean Bundles are so easy to put together, but they are very time consuming when you need to make enough to serve a large crowd. Who doesn't love the flavor of bacon wrapped around a bundle of green beans, and a combination of brown sugar, butter, salt, and Worchester sauce poured over them and baked to perfection?
Old Fashioned New Potatoes and Peas in a White Sauce {Granny's Recipe}
Old Fashioned New Potatoes and Peas , sometimes called Southern New Potatoes in a White Sauce. There is one thing for sure about this recipe for New Potatoes, and English Peas smothered in a creamy white sauce, it has been around for ages. My Mother passed it down to me, and her Mother passed it down to her, tried and true recipe. The first vegetable I want to eat in the spring from our garden growing up is new potatoes and fresh English peas. Mother would wash and scrap the new potatoes, slice them, or you can also quarter them if you like a chunkier potato. While the potatoes are cooking, she makes the white sauce. I want to let you know I use leftover new potatoes at times to make a leftover makeover dish. Especially in the summer when new potatoes are plentiful from the garden. Boil the potatoes and eat them with butter and fresh herbs refrigerate the leftovers and then the next day use them to make New Potatoes in a White Sauce. Growing up mostly, I enjoy
Creamy Brown Sugar Grape Salad
Creamy Brown Sugar Grape Salad , crunchy juicy grapes folded in a sweet-tart creamy dressing. To send it over the top sprinkle with brown sugar and pecans. Oh! My. I must say I just now have made this glorious salad. I have been seeing it on the social media sites for several years and just never got around to making it. Now I make it all the time. It is fabulous. I can't get enough of it. My husband loves it, my grands love it, everywhere I take it they love it.
Seasoned Flat Italian Green Beans Southern Style
Seasoned Flat Italian Green Beans Southern Style, flat Italian green beans simmered on the stove in a pot of bacon fat, chicken broth, and seasoned with minced garlic, salt, and pepper and then finished off with a generous pat of butter. Flat Italian green beans are a style of beans that are meatier, wider and like the name flat instead of round and this variety of green beans while picked young are stringless. With flat Italian green beans being meatier and wide in size, they do well cooking them on a slow simmer. I used canned beans for this recipe, but fresh are equally delicious. These cooked for about 2 hours on low heat. This keeps them firm but soft and tender.
Marinated Salad ~ Sometimes called Shoepeg Corn Salad
Marinated Salad, a retro vegetable salad that has stood the test of time sometimes called Shoepeg Corn Salad in the South. The recipe starts with traditional ingredients like green beans, green peas, and shoepeg corn. Add some crunch with chopped celery and red onions and red bell pepper. Toss all of it together with an oil and vinegar dressing.
Creamy White Chocolate and Coconut Milk Fruit Salad
Creamy White Chocolate and Coconut Milk Fruit Salad , drained fruit cocktail, peach chunks, pineapple chunks, and mandarin oranges all folded in a mixture of instant white chocolate pudding and coconut milk. Serve it as a salad or serve it as a dessert like we do most of the time. I have seen recipes for this fruit salad in many variations. Although I have made most of them, my husband decided this one is his favorite.
Daddy's Lemon Icebox Pie {Granny's Recipe}
Lemon Icebox Pie , classic Southern dessert traditionally set in the refrigerator before serving and that is how it gets the name "icebox". Perfect dessert to say goodbye to long and sweltering days of summer. The one thing I remember most about my Mother making this Lemon Icebox Pie is that it was one of my Father's all time favorite desserts.
Strawberry Vanilla Wafer Icebox Pie {A Southern No-Bake Pie!}
Strawberry Vanilla Wafer Icebox Pie is a no-bake pie. Icebox pies are especially popular in the South where days here are sultry hot and us Southern ladies enjoy serving refreshing and delicious desserts. Early in the 1900's there were iceboxes in most house, and the pies were made with a baked pastry crust and a whipped filling without any worry of the pie oozing all over the plate.
