Roasted Cinnamon Buttery Pears, simple dish showcasing the straightforward flavor of pears. They are buttery slightly sweet served as an accompaniment to pork, garnished in a winter salad, but also makes an elegant dessert for a fall dinner party, bridal brunch and quick weeknight snack. Pears rarely get center stage over apples and pumpkins in the fall, but for me, they sing fall. Roasting fruit is a purist way to dress up fruit for dessert or accompaniment to other dishes. As much as I like pears, I do not wish to mask the pure flavor of the pear with a lot of other intense flavors. When I eat pears, I want to taste pears.
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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...
Chili Cheese Dog Bubble Up Bake
Chili Cheese Dog Bubble Up Bake, buttery cut-up pillows of dough, and bite-size hot dogs layered together with creamy, gooey cheese and chili with beans. Garnish with your favorite condiments, and you have America's classic Friday night football food rolled up in a casserole. BUBBLE UP CHILI CHEESE DOG CASSEROLE This Chili Cheese Dog Bubble Up gives you all the classic flavors of a chili dog in a casserole. It is the perfect Friday night meal before the football game. When my children were in school, Friday Nights were hot dog nights. We had to be back up at the school soon after they came home, so that meant supper had to be something quick to eat, much less quick to make. I wish I knew about this recipe when they were growing up. On most Friday nights, we ate Baked Hot Dogs, just like I used to eat on Friday nights when I was in high school. Hot dogs are classic, and preparing them to grab and go is the perfect food for our game...
Southern Fried Whole Catfish
Southern Fried Whole Catfish is a delightful and authentic Southern dish made with simple ingredients that bring back memories of fishing with Grandpa. How To Fry Whole Catfish This recipe for whole catfish is a straightforward one. One that brings out the purest flavor of the catfish. It is well coated with seasoned self-rising cornmeal mixture, then deep-fried in Crisco shortening until flakey, crispy, crunchy, and simply delicious. Summer is closing down, and in the past years, by this time, we have fried catfish at least two or three times. But as the years go by, they are few and far between. It is just so much easier to go to our favorite catfish restaurant and buy a fried catfish dinner. And we have excellent restaurants now that serve some delicious catfish. This recipe is the easiest and best recipe you will ever use to fry catfish. I hope you will give it a try. Enjoy!
Slow Roasted Fresh Strawberries
Slow-roasted Fresh strawberries, sprinkled generously with sugar and lightly with salt and pepper, are baked slowly until they release their juices and slightly caramelize. SIMPLE ROASTED FRESH STRAWBERRIES These roasted strawberries go brilliantly in all kinds of desserts. Don't leave out the pepper. You will taste the magic the pepper gives to balance the tartness with the sweetness of the strawberries. One of my favorite things about summer is all the fresh fruit in the grocery stores. I almost always tend to buy more than we can eat, including fresh strawberries, and I wait until the last minute to use them up before they spoil. This summer, I started slow roasting half of the strawberries when I buy them. I like to roast them whole instead of slicing them. The berries hold their shape well while roasting, coming out plump and luscious. The juices released from the fruit while roasting reduces to a thick sauc...
Slow Roasted Strawberry No Churn Ice Cream
Slow Roasted Strawberry No Churn Ice Cream, an intense, bold strawberry flavor created by roasting fresh strawberries and incorporating them into a no churn ice cream recipe. To celebrate the last few days of summer, we are planning our Labor Day weekend with an America theme potluck, including a backyard BBQ, spectacular pasta salads, easy side dishes that require little cooking time, and for dessert no churn ice cream. It took me a while to get on the no churn ice cream wagon. I wish I had joined in on the fun way to make ice cream a long time ago.
Fried Green Tomato, Bacon and Pimento Sandwich
Fried Green Tomato, Bacon and Pimento Sandwich, homemade pimento cheese, crispy bacon, glorious fried green tomatoes sandwiched between two slices of golden toasted bread. The ultimate summertime sandwich that sings the taste of the South. What do you do when you have leftover fried green tomatoes, crispy bacon, and pimento cheese? You guessed it, make Fried Green Tomato, Bacon, and Pimento Sandwiches. I like to fry a lot of green tomatoes for a meal. We love leftovers. You may ask if they are still crispy leftovers. My recipe for green fried tomatoes lends the best texture for leftovers. I always cook twice the amount of bacon for breakfast, too, for leftovers or to sprinkle on vegetables we have for supper. The pimento cheese is made ahead for a quick sandwich for lunch on most days. Pimento Cheese will keep in the fridge for weeks. An excellent snack to have with crackers ...
Epic Fried Green Tomato BLT Club Sandwich
Fried Green Tomato BLT Club Sandwich, featuring three slices of toasted white sandwich bread layered with perfectly fried green tomatoes, crispy bacon for the first layer, and a perfectly ripe beefsteak tomato with crispy bacon for the second layer. Fried Green Tomato BLT Club Two classic sandwiches gloriously combined into one Epic sandwich, cut into quarters, and held together with toothpicks! As summer comes to an end, I'm getting in as many fried green tomatoes as I can. One of my favorite ways to eat them is in a sandwich. There's just something about all that mayonnaise, a generous sprinkle of salt and pepper, sandwiched between two pieces of bread, even when toasted. So good! My favorite sandwich is a BLT. And my personal favorite way to eat a BLT is in the style of a club sandwich, epic!
Southern Fresh Cherry Cake
Southern Fresh Cherry Cake is a quick, easy, deliciously moist cake made with self-rising flour, cornmeal, buttermilk, eggs, and butter. Serve it plain with a dollop of whipped cream or as we did with a dusting of powdered sugar. FRESH CHERRY COFFEE CAKE Southern Fresh Cherry Cake is perfect on its own with a cup of tea or coffee in the morning for breakfast or, like us Southerners, in the afternoon as a snack. It is dense yet tender, with the ideal amount of cherries peeking through the cake and deliciously moist. The cherries are so plentiful in the grocery stores right now, and what better way to showcase them than to make a Southern Fresh Cherry Cake. I actually had to buy a couple of bags of cherries to have enough to make the cake. My grandsons are huge fans of these little jewels. Like most fruits, fresh cherries have the pros and cons. Fresh Cherries do not have a lot of nutritional value, but they are h...
Southern Shrimp Vegetable Skillet
Southern Shrimp Vegetable Skillet is filled with fresh summer vegetables, turkey kielbasa, and shrimp layered in a skillet with a sprinkle of spicy! Who says healthy can't be delicious? Shrimp Vegetable Skillet This skillet dish is so versatile. Switch out the vegetables and use an all-beef kielbasa, but don't think about leaving out the shrimp. It's the star of the dish. Summer never looked so good, or should I say, Tasty! If you are looking for a low carb meal that takes literally 20 minutes to make, then you are in luck. An added bonus is that this recipe's fresh vegetables are in season right now. Summer never looked so good, or should I say, Tasty! Haha! I love all the gorgeous color in this Southern Shrimp Sausage Vegetable Skillet one-pot meal. An easy, colossal one-pot meal. After seeing the recipe for Shrimp Sausage Vegetable Skillet on a social media site, I decided to adjust the recipe. ...
Southern Fried Green Tomato Stacks as Appetizers or Elegant Sides
Southern Fried Green Tomatoes, crispy on the outside tender and meaty on the inside, yielding a tangy sweet flavor like no other. Serve them stacked as a delightful appetizer or an elegant side dish. It is time for Fried Green Tomatoes! Summer is synonymous with Fried Green Tomatoes in my neck of the woods. Right now we are in the middle of fresh garden vegetables appearing in Farmer's Markets and some local grocery stores. I must say the first thing I check for in my local grocery is if they have any green tomatoes. Last year they kept coming in the store until late September here in Texas. I only buy a few green tomatoes at a time to make sure that they are nice and firm when I get ready to fry them. I like to pick out firm green tomatoes and some that are a little pink. They are the ones that are just starting to show some ripeness, sweeter yet still tangy in taste too. It is just ...
No Churn Peach Cobbler Ice Cream
No Churn Peach Cobbler Ice Cream, fresh peach cobbler pieces folded into a leftover homemade creamy vanilla ice cream recipe, one irresistible frozen dessert. Do you like Homemade Peach Cobbler with a Double Crust? How about Peach Ice Cream? It gets even better, how about No Churn Peach Cobbler Ice Cream? We are especially fond of a big scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream over a warm bowl of homemade peach cobbler. This is how it goes, while the peach cobbler is baking, we are making a freezer of homemade vanilla ice cream, epic! Depending on how many are at our house when we make it, I will freeze any leftovers. The same goes for the peach cobbler. If it is just Jim and me, we always have peach cobbler leftover.
American Flag Pie with Homemade Pie Crust
American Flag Pie is made with a homemade pie crust that brings this pie to a rich balance of buttery flakiness as well as a luscious, sweet-tart taste of homemade pie filling. Easy Flag Pie This easy flag pie is the most wonderful patriotic pie to come out of my kitchen. It is festive and a fantastic addition to my Memorial Day and July 4th celebrations. My Mother taught me long ago that a pie is only as good as its crust. While there is some high-quality, ready-made pie crust in the stores today, that was not the case when I was growing up. I learned to make pie dough from my Mother and perfected it in my Home Economics class in high school. I recommend making a homemade pie crust if at all possible. For the American Flag Pie recipe, I use one of my favorite pie crust recipes. My Homemade Pie Crust recipe combines butter and shortening, lending a flaky, buttery crust every time. I have a few secrets to share that will he...
Kolache Biscuits
Kolach Biscuits, tender, sweet biscuit dough with a well in the center filled with blackberry or strawberry jam, blueberry or cherry pie filling, or a mixture of sweetened cream cheese. Kolache Biscuits are a cross between a sweet pastry that originated in Europe including eventually making its way to a little town in central Texas and the classic biscuit that is popular all over the south.
Sausage Gravy Breakfast Enchiladas
Sausage Gravy Breakfast Enchiladas- Hearty breakfast enchiladas with a Southern spin on a favorite Mexican dish, your whole family will thank you in advance. Breakfast Enchilada Casserole If you're a breakfast casserole fan, you'll love these Breakfast Enchiladas with Sausage Gravy. Not only are the enchiladas delicious and a little unique, but they are also easy to make and can be prepared the night before for brunch or a family breakfast the next morning. Get all the ingredients ready and assemble the breakfast enchiladas the night before. Make the sausage gravy the next morning, then pop it in the oven. For the ingredients, I used hot sausage, white sharp cheddar cheese, and shredded hash browns. I softly scramble the eggs because they will cook some more in the enchiladas. If you prefer to change the ingredients to your taste, feel free to do so, but I recommend the white sharp cheddar cheese in these Breakfast Enchiladas. It just makes them super delici...
