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Homemade Tartar Sauce Is Sure To Compliment Southern Fried Catfish {Granny's Recipe}

Homemade Tartar Sauce , ridiculously easy dipping sauce to make and eat with Southern Fried Catfish, Salmon, and most any seafood.  It uses ingredients that are already in your kitchen. There is a restaurant close to us that serves the best catfish, but what they serve before you ever get the catfish is a favorite.  They bring out these little bowls of sliced onions, green tomato relish, and coleslaw with baskets of hush puppies.  We sit there and eat until they bring the fish out.  By then I am stuffed. This recipe comes from my Mother.  She made  Homemade Tartar Sauce  not just for when we were eating  catfish , but also for the times she made her  Salmon Croquettes . The recipe is easy with few ingredient and one that you cannot go wrong with.  It is more about the ratio of the onions and pickle relish.  We like ours on the oniony side rather than on the pickley side. Mixing it up is the same.  One thing...

The Very Best Southern Candied Sweet Potatoes

The Very Best Southern Candied Sweet Potatoes are slices of sweet potatoes covered with a buttery brown sugar mixture and cooked until the edges are caramelized.  SOUTHERN CANDIED SWEET POTATOES Sweet potatoes are not just for pies and casseroles. For many years, they have graced the tables in the South as a side dish around the holidays. The sweet potato season is ending here in East Texas, and farmers are getting ready to plant for the next season.  I had several small sweet potatoes left in my bin , so I decided to make my husband some Southern-candied sweet Potatoes to go with a pot of Purple Hull Peas, a  Skillet Fried Okra , and   Cornbread .

Southern Fried Catfish

Southern Fried Fish is golden brown on the outside, flaky and delicious on the inside, and an icon of Southern cooking.   BEST FRIED CATFISH My fried catfish recipe is made with seasoned filets, coated with seasoned self-rising cornmeal, and deep fried until golden brown. To my delight, my oldest grandson, Elijah, called me last week and asked if he could bring me some catfish to the house so we could have a fish fry.   The answer is always yes when it comes to my grandchildren asking me to make them something, and this time was no different.   Southern Fried Catfish-  who can resist? There are two rules in my house when frying catfish.  One is the oil is hot enough to light a match when tossed in the oil. Two, NEVER stir the catfish while frying.   This cools down the oil and causes the fish to hold the oil and be greasing.  As for the breading, we use simple ingredients- a cornmeal mix and plenty of salt. The basic truth here in Texas ...