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Not My Mama’s Black Eyed Peas & Greens

This recipe first appeared on my blogspot blog December 26, 2010. Visit my mom’s house on New Year’s Day and you will be treated to simple, humble fare – buttermilk cornbread sizzled in a
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Crispy, sweet date candies

Anyone else remember these sweet treats from their childhood? I'm revisiting the Christmas treats of my youth this year,
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A grapefruit drink from Chef David Tanis

I’ve come to believe that home food is best, but it’s not often an opinion that you will hear expressed by a world-class
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Favorite Southern Christmas cookies

“Oh Buddy, I think it’s fruitcake weather,” goes the opening line to one of the best short stories ever written (and
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Rutabagas in a bowl

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Around the Thanksgiving Table

I’ve never set a place at the Thanksgiving table for my father-in-law. He died a few years before I met my husband., so
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Classic apple dumplings, with an appearance by my evil twin

Apple dumplings just sound good. Ever since coming across a picture of apple dumplings in a 1970s Southern
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A labor of love: Homemade egg pasta

Homemade pasta is one of those "many hands make for light work" kitchen projects. Sure, it can be made alone, and it's a
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Granddaddy’s Cast-Iron Skillet Fried Corn

One of the distinctive characteristics of living in the New South, cookie-cutter suburban Atlanta, is that the Old
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Low Country Love: Shrimp & Grits

If there is a universal code of comfort food, surely shrimp and grits would be part of it. If I were writing the rules,
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7 Layer Salad Recipe

This story with 7 Layer Salad Recipe first published on my blogspot blog as "P is for Potluck (and Peas!)" Contrary
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