Weeknight Family Supper Meal , an inspiration for a meal one night of the week that may include ideas how to make part of the meal ahead, how to freeze any leftovers or how to make leftovers into a makeover for another meal. Most people don't know how easy it is to make salmon croquettes. Mix up a few ingredients, mince onions, egg, and seasoning in a bowl, roll them into small little rolls, roll them around some saltine cracker crumbs and fry in oil. Voila, salmon croquettes. See how easy, and oh! so delicious. Perfect for a weeknight meal.
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Southern Fried Cabbage with Kielbasa, LTYB, Low Carb, Gluten Free
Southern Fried Cabbage with Kielbasa , is a quick and easy one skillet meal for a busy weeknight supper. Delicious, satisfying, and inexpensive, who could ask for more? Fried Cabbage is a regular side dish around our supper table. Jim loves cabbage period, and so do I. We usually add some kind of cabbage dish to our meal rotation two or three times a month. Cabbage is low carb and has healthy nutrients and fiber. It can be fried in different fats all the way from rich bacon fat to healthy avocado oil which is what I cooked it in this time. Although, I really like to cook cabbage in bacon fat we are trying to eat healthy these days so for this recipe I started the dish by cooking some thickly sliced turkey kielbasa chunks.
Grilled Apple Cider Glazed Pork Chops
Grilled Apple Cider Glazed Pork Chops , using up some leftover apple cider to marinate and coat with a maple syrup thick boneless pork chops will dramatically amp up the flavor, savory and a bit of sweetness. Pork Chops are a favorite around our house, anyway, you cook them. The boneless pork chops grilled tend to be a little tough and dry at times, so we like to brine them before cooking them or coat them in a super delicious glaze while cooking them.
Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake
Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake , a beautiful festive dessert with the flavor combo of cranberry and orange. Perfect for any holiday occasion, but especially around Christmas time. Tis the season for cranberry and orange, right? I love the combination and look forward to it every year. I watch for the cranberries to be stocked in the stores. The sweetness of the orange and the tartness of the cranberries trigger a beautiful burst of flavor everytime they come together. This is cake can be a breakfast cake or a dessert cake and why not include it in the snack category too. Oh! And don't forget about afternoon tea. haha!
Grandma's Cornbread Dressing Stuffed Turkey {A whole baked turkey cooked in a pan of cornbread dressing}
Grandma's Cornbread Dressing Stuffed Turkey, a whole baked turkey cooked in a pan of cornbread dressing. The best turkey and dressing you will ever eat. And don't forget the giblet gravy! This is my Mother in law, Betty's recipe. When I came into the family, I was not use to eating turkey stuffed with cornbread dressing. I grew up eating the turkey baked separately from the dressing. It did not take me long to get used to eating the turkey and dressing stuffed.
Perfect Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Smoked Paprika
Perfect Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Smoked Paprika , roasted crispy tender bite size pieces of sweet potatoes coated with avocado oil, and generously sprinkled with paprika, coriander, salt and pepper, a little sugar, and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Sweet potatoes are plentiful right now. We love them baked whole, pies, and in a casserole, but our new favorite is roasted. The flavor combinations are endless. You can make them savory or sweet.
Roasted Sweet Potato Cobb Salad with Walden Farm's Honey Dijon Salad Dressing
Roasted Sweet Potato Cobb Salad, golden roasted sweet potatoes, chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, purple onions and avocados on a layer of fresh collard green ribbons and arugula salad greens and drizzled with honey dijon salad dressing. I'm keeping it Southern! Do you ever have a few sweet potatoes needing to cook before they go bad? Well, that is where I am, and two sweet potatoes are not enough to make a pie. Now I could put them in a casserole or bake them, but that means lots of butter and cinnamon and sugar. That's how I like my baked sweet potatoes, so I opted for a healthy version, roasted sweet potatoes.
Cranberry Pork Chops {Perfect for Thanksgiving}
Cranberry Pork Chops, thick succulent pork chops browned in a cast iron skillet on top of the stove, covered with whole cranberry sauce, a sprig of rosemary and finished off in the oven. Perfect for a Thanksgiving alternative from traditional turkey. Pork chops are a favorite around our house. We like them fried, grilled, smothered, in casseroles and just about any way you can cook them. We do prefer the bone in pork chops for grilling and frying because they are juicier. The boneless ones have their place though, like in casseroles and dishes that are served with sauces.
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.
Hot Crispy Apple Pies
A dessert pastry, just like the ones you get at a drive-through fast food restaurant, is only better. And the best part of the "better" is the recipe calls for only two ingredients, yes, only two! HOT APPLE PIES JUST LIKE THE ONES AT THE FAST FOOD DRIVE THRU If you love the apple pies from Mcdonald's, you will like this copycat recipe that you can make at home better. They are super flaky and crispy. These hot, crispy apple pies are similar to a turnover, except they are smaller and fried. The perfect portable little dessert.
Homemade Individual Serve Applesauce
Homemade Individual Serve Applesauce, a delicious, healthy homemade no sugar added applesauce made with just apples, Zevia Cream Soda, cinnamon sticks, and a secret ingredient. With apple season in full swing, I wanted to make a batch of applesauce. But not just any applesauce. An applesauce that wholesome and delicious at the same time using only four ingredients served in individual portion control containers.
Perfectly Baked Bacon
Perfectly Baked Bacon, incredible way to cook bacon perfectly without all the fuss. All it takes is a rimmed baking sheet pan lined with just parchment paper or a wire rack insert and bacon. I first saw this method of cooking bacon over at my good friend Marsha's blog The Better Baker . And I have been cooking bacon this way ever since.
Ombre Roasted Vegetables
Ombre Roasted Vegetables, a beautiful display of fading orange-colored vegetables, carrots, sweet potatoes, and butternut squash that have been tossed with flavorful herbs, avocado oil, and honey then perfectly roasted. The past weeks have been making me hungry for all the flavors of fall. Don't you think sweet potatoes and butternut squash scream fall?
Roasted Bacon and Sage Wrapped Peaches ~ Celebrating the End of Peach Season
Roasted Bacon and Sage Wrapped Peaches, a delightful appetizer or snack that will wow your Southern guest. There are only four ingredients, bacon, sage, and luscious peaches drizzled with a balsamic honey vinegar. The perfect dish to celebrate the end of the peach season. I have been wanting to make these roasted peaches for some time and never wanted to heat the oven long enough for them to cook. The days here in Texas are beginning to cool down, and the peaches are getting fewer in number at the grocery stores, but the stores have started stocking fresh sage. Now that is the end of one season and the beginning of another, summer and fall.
Fried Okra and Green Tomato Combo
Fried Okra and Green Tomato Combo are two Southern favorites coming together most deliciously. The vegetables are cut into equal sizes, coated with a self-rising coating, fried to perfection and sprinkled with a heavy dose of salt and pepper with a little pinch of cayenne pepper. This is a post to celebrate the bounty of two Southern favorites, Fried Okra and Fried Green Tomatoes. Some summers I don't fry okra or green tomatoes but once or twice, but this summer I couldn't get enough of them.
Watermelon Kiwi Feta Layered Salad
Watermelon Kiwi Feta Layered Salad , crisp watermelon layered with kiwi fruit, a few blueberries, and sprinkled with a heavy dose of Feta cheese. Then wait...drizzled with a balsamic blueberry syrup! Oh! my. A summer obsession that will rock your world. Remember the watermelon puzzle that took Pinterest by storm several years ago?
Perfect Peach Pie {A Southern Classic}
Perfect Peach Pie is a classic Southern pie made with simple ingredients, sliced fresh juicy peaches, brown sugar, cornstarch, and a little vanilla, piled high in a homemade buttery, flaky crust. Indeed, a summer treat during peach season! For my husband and me, nothing says summer more than fresh peaches. We look forward to them every year. We can't get enough of them.
