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 Homemade Strawberry Cake I often think of strawberry cake around Mother's Day. It possesses a certain charm, richness, softness, and sweetness that remind me of mothers. This Fresh Strawberry Cake is a little different from my Mother's heirloom recipe she made when I was growing up in the '50s. She made the cake from a white cake mix, strawberry jello, and a carton of frozen strawberries in their juice. The frosting was made with butter, powdered sugar, and a little of the frozen strawberries that give the glorious pink color, beautiful! In recent years, cake mixes have become increasingly smaller, making it more challenging to achieve the full volume of the original recipe in the cake batter. I began to see other recipes adding additional flour, sugar, and milk to the recipe, so I...
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?
Stained Glass Fruit Salad
Stained 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 vibrant color of this salad makes it incredibly inviting. It is perfect for brunch, potlucks, and family gatherings. You can serve it at room temperature or chilled, making it easy to transport anywhere. The night before any celebration we are having. I make Stained Glass Fruit Salad. I like another quick fruit salad I made from childhood using canned fruit, but this is our favorite. I try to use fresh fruit as much as I can. Especially now when the strawberries, pineapples, and blueberries are in season. We have some who are 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, grapes, or peaches would be another delicious...
Best Carrot Cake Ever
The Best Carrot Cake Ever with Ultra Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting sets the bar for all carrot cakes. Ultra Rich Carrot Cake This ultra rich carrot cake is incredibly moist from a generous amount of finely shredded fresh carrots and blanketed with a velvety cream cheese frosting that completes the perfection. The Best Carrot Cake Ever. I surprised my husband with a carrot cake for Father's Day this past weekend. 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 rightfully so, usually for Easter. It is such a rich and decadent cake that deserves all the compliments and praises.
Old School English Pea Salad
Old School English Pea Salad is a classic salad made with simple ingredients, such as crunchy pieces of onion, chopped dill pickles, and boiled eggs with a coating of mayonnaise. How To Make The Best English Pea Salad Pea Salad is an easy summer salad perfect for potlucks and gatherings. There is a secret to making the best recipe. Pea salad is a classic summer dish. It pairs well with ham and chicken dishes or any grilled meat. This Old School Pea Salad recipe for years has been our family tradition to make for our Christmas Eve meal. Jim's Mother started this tradition back in the '70s. She cooked Ham, Potato Salad, a pot of pinto beans, and two pans of cornbread. One to eat with the beans and one for our Cornbread Dressing the next day. WHERE CAN I FIND THE RECIPE? TAKE ME TO THE RECIPE FOR OLD SCHOOL PEA SALAD Below, under the next heading, I give a list of preferred ingredients, t...
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.
