Sweet Tea and Cornbread

If you have followed this site or read many of my posts and recipes for long, you know I am not a vegetarian.    However, I do love ...

We use okra several ways in our cooking in the South, probably because the hotter the summer the better it grows.  We put it in soups a...

What sort of southern food blog would this be without a recipe for fried green tomatoes.  They are like sweet tea, cornbread, and fried ...

Fried corn is just about as southern as you can get and when the corn is fresh and it's done right it's delicious.  In the sum...

We love green beans cooked just about any way, but there is nothing better than fresh green beans right out of the garden cooked with...

"Macaroni and Tomatoes" is a dish that my mother has been making all of my life.  It just says comfort food to ...

This tomato pie is the one recipe I can't wait to make when the first tomatoes of the season get ripe.  It's a really simple rec...

This is one of my favorite, easy potato recipes when I want potatoes as a side dish, but don't want anything too complicated.   T...

This is a salad that has been around a long time.  I am not sure when people began making it, but it was probably in the 1970's or e...