Baked Potato Soup and Hot Ham and Swiss Sandwiches are excellent on cold nights, casual get-togethers, sick days or football parties. They just go together so well! You can substitute leftover baked potatoes or cook some up in the microwave instead of the oven if you want to make this dish a little faster. Christmas has finally come and gone. The kids are slowly coming ...
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Southern Fudge Pie
As my kids have reminded me time and time again, Christmas is nearly here. It's so close they can smell it. The presents, the lights, the Chocolate! Nothing is more looked forward to in our house than chocolate. We all crave it on pretty much a daily basis. Which means that we don't always have a whole lot of chocolate laying around. We have usually eaten it all. Not ...
Crab Stuffed Mushrooms
It's Tuesday again already! Time for another wonderful addition to the Tuna Tuesday series where meat in a can is the star of the show! This week I am using a can of premium white crabmeat. It is a wonderful replacement for the super expensive lump crabmeat and also makes great soups, sandwiches, and spreads. Canned crabmeat is perfect for these crowd pleasing stuffed ...
Traditional Southern Cornbread Dressing
Thanksgiving isn't Thanksgiving without Traditional Southern Cornbread Dressing. It just isn't. It's probably the dish that I look forward to the most. It's the one I spend the most time making sure is absolutely perfect, and it's the cheapest thing on the table. Now I know that some of you people out there call it "stuffing" and that you actually put it inside the bird. ...
Roasted Acorn Squash
Halloween was awesome. The best year yet. I haven't had that much fun on Halloween since I was a teenager rolling ( that's Southern for TPing) the sheriff's backyard. The kids were so stinking cute and collected a lot of candy which I will probably eat most of. Holiday weight here I come!! Of course, after Halloween comes November. November is a crazy month for us. Why so ...
Stuffed Mini Meat Loaves
Here is another favorite from the Working Woman's Cookbook. I am seriously in love with this "vintage" book. I can't stop making recipes out of it! You know what else I love? Cheese. Anything with cheese is an automatic favorite of mine. Lucky for me, Cabot Cheese likes me enough to send me a few samples of their new snack cheese. I got some reduced fat cheddar and some ...
A Fancy Schmancy Brunch
Well, I guess you have all figured out by now that I didn't make it to the third round of Project Food Blog. It's okay. I'm not too devastated. I am learning to cope with my devastation. Okay, it's not quite that bad. I did do round 3 just in case I did actually make it. Round 3 was for a fancy dinner party. Let me just tell you that "fancy" and "dinner party" don't ...
Roast Garlic Chicken and FoodontheTable.com and a Giveaway!
I know a lot of busy moms. Most of them have twins or triplets plus maybe a spare kid or two on top of that. They go to soccer practice and school functions, doctor's appointments and book club meetings, and many also hold down full or part-time jobs! They can use all the help they can get! These are exactly the women I thought of when Amanda from FoodontheTable.com contacted ...
Pizza Pot Pie
I would just like to tell everyone that my Mom is awesome. Yep, she's pretty stinking cool. I bet I call her at least twice a day. I'm not sure what I would do without her. Besides her youngest child, she also loves care packages. Every now and then she will send me something in the mail. It's one of the few things I enjoy getting in the mailbox. Yesterday though, Mom ...
Easy Southern Peach Cobbler
I have to say that all in all, this summer has been pretty good. We traveled a little, we visited family, we laughed, we loved, and we ate a lot. But now as summer starts to wind down ( even though the temperatures are still way up), I can tell you with all sincerity... I can't wait until school starts. Oh sure, all you lucky parents with kindergarteners or older have ...
Kid Friendly Baked Zucchini Fries
I remember when my kids were a little over a year old. They had finally gotten enough teeth in their precious little heads to make the big jump from baby food to "big people" food and I was so excited. I could almost hear my monthly grocery bill dropping. No more tiny little jars, no more cans of Wagon Wheels, no more rice cereal! Then as I got a few days in to feeding them a ...
Stuffed Artichokes
Stuffed Artichokes are a delicious side dish treat. They take a little prep but your effort is rewarded with a delicious side dish that everyone will rave about! My dream is to one day move out of suburbia and back into the country. I would like to have a few acres of land for the kids to run around on freely, I would like some chickens, maybe a goat, a clothes line to hang ...
Strawberry Muffins…no, Cupcakes…no, Muffins…okay, Bread
I'm not very girl-y. I never have been. As a child I refused to wear anything even remotely pink and a dress was the equivalent to being put in the stockade, but I have always loved strawberries. My great-grandmother used to have a strawberry patch behind her house ( wait...have I told you this before?) and it was our job to pick them all so she could make jam. I'm not sure how ...
Peaches, Peaches, Peaches!
Peaches are a summertime favorite in the South. Nothing beats that sweet fruit with the fuzzy skin. Every roadside stand seems to be brimming over these days with a plentiful supply. Luckily, peaches are just as versatile as they are delicious. Peaches can be poached in white wine, grilled over hot coals, diced into chutneys, or made into ice cream. But the best way to serve ...
Giveaway Winner and Roasted Garlic Lemon Pepper Chicken
Wow. What a crazy month this has been! I finally got back into town on Sunday after almost an entire month away from home. I have driven about 2000 miles in the last 28 days which is a feat that I never thought could be accomplished with two 3 year olds in the back seat. Thanks to the DVD player and copious amounts of ring pops, juice boxes, and crayons, we made it there and ...