Homemade Pie Crust is made with a few simple ingredients, such as flour, butter, shortening, and salt. This recipe is so forgiving that you will never use another recipe again. PERFECT HOMEMADE PIE CRUST Deliciously tender and buttery, our pie crusts are easy to make and perfect for even the most experienced cooks or if you are making your first pie crust. Transform your holiday dessert table with these simple delights! 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 promise you that it will get easier and more comfortable the more you make it homemade. As my mother used to say, "Practice makes perfect." For years, I used to make my homemade pie crust with just shortening, and I still do occasionally, but I find the added butter gives the pie crust an excellent, rich taste. In my early years in home economics, "now you know how old I ...
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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 combined 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.
Most Flavorful Southern Baby Lima Beans
Baby Lima Beans are 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. GREEN BABY LIMA BEANS In less than an hour and with minimal effort, you can prepare a healthy and delicious side dish quickly. 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 is tender yellow squash in a creamy, rich sauce topped with buttery crackers. It's a must for holidays. Bring it to a potluck and sit back and smile, hearing all the yummy comments. SQUASH CASSEROLE Squash Casserole is definitely a holiday favorite, but we enjoy it all year. I hope you will get to make the casserole soon. We have been eating this squash casserole recipe like mad this summer. I made it for Labor Day, and we devoured it. The squash flavor is straightforward—just delightful! Summer squash is plentiful this time of year, and there are 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. WHERE CAN I FIND THE RECIPE? TAKE ME TO THE RECIPE FO...
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?
New Potatoes and Peas in a White Sauce
Old Fashioned New Potatoes and Peas , sometimes called Southern New Potatoes in White Sauce, tender new potatoes and English peas smothered in a rich, creamy white sauce. SOUTHERN NEW POTATOES IN WHITE SAUCE There is one thing for sure about this recipe for New Potatoes, and English Peas has been around for ages. My Mother passed it down to me, and her Mother passed it down to her, a tried and true recipe. The first vegetables I want to eat in the spring from our garden growing up are 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.
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 Italian Green Beans Southern Style
Flat Italian Green Beans are a style of beans that are meatier, wider, and, like the name, flat instead of round. When picked young, this variety of green beans is stringless. SEASONED ITALIAN GREEN BEANS SOUTHERN STYLE Seasoned Italian Green Beans Southern Style are flat Italian green beans simmered on the stove in a pot of bacon fat and chicken broth, seasoned with minced garlic, salt, and pepper, and finished with a generous pat of butter, bringing out the southern flare. Flat Italian green beans are meatier and wider in size, so they do well when cooked 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. We love these green beans served with almost any meal, and with Thanksgiving around the corner, they will make the best side dish to accompany the turkey and dressing. The best part is sprinkling the cooked bacon pieces...
Marinated Vegetable Salad
Marinated vegetable salads are classic in the South. It's a colorful blend of vegetables marinated overnight in a sweet oil and vinegar dressing. RETRO SHOEPEG SALAD A retro marinated vegetable salad that has stood the test of time is sometimes called Shoepeg Corn Salad in the South. Shoepeg Salad is perfect for taking to potlucks, picnics, and gatherings you travel to. It holds up well traveling, and when you arrive, you just give it a toss. The recipe starts with traditional ingredients like green beans, green peas, and shoepeg corn. Chopped celery, red onions, and red bell pepper add some crunch. To bring the magic, 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 Pie Filling Fruit Salad
Strawberry Pie Filling Fruit Salad is one of the simplest fruit salads to prepare. It can easily be prepared in advance with just a few ingredients. STRAWBERRY PIE FILLING SALAD Strawberry pie filling salad is the quintessential potluck salad. It can be served cold right out of the refrigerator or at room temperature when needed, definetly a crowd pleaser for sure. Strawberry Pie Filling Fruit Salad is the easiest fruit salad you will ever make. My husband adores this stuff. Actually, he loves fruit, period. He eats this fruit salad for dessert more times than a salad. This fruit salad is our favorite, and I make it all the time.
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.
