Tag: southern cooking
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Fly Away Hummingbird Cake
If you’re a regular reader, you know that our writing has been…inconsistent lately. There are a lot of reasons why — life stuff, job stuff, busy and overwhelmed and uninspired stuff. We are coming upon the fifth anniversary of this project, five years of recipes and playlists and rants and raves and reflections on what…
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How to Make a Hot Brown
It’s T-minus 2 days until we leave for the homeland on the great pilgrimage to Derby. But before we pack up our hat boxes and head southward for that storied race, we wanted to tackle a classic Kentucky recipe: The Hot Brown. Created in 1926 at The Brown Hotel in our hometown of Louisville, Kentucky,…
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All the Fixin’s: Honeyed Applesauce
March has hit New York City with an icy vengeance. Spring may technically be on the horizon, the daylight has begun to be saved, but winter is still howling to be heard — to the tune of not one, not two, but three nor’easters in less than two weeks. We, dear readers, are officially over…
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All The Fixin’s: Sweet Potato Sonker and Milk Dip
This installment of All The Fixin’s comes from Ronni Lundy’s Victuals. We’d never heard of sonker until friend-of-the-blog Jason mentioned it during a discussion of the great cobbler versus pie versus crumble debate. “Sonker?” we asked. “What on earth is a sonker?” Well a sonker, we learned, is a deep-dish, cobbler-like dessert unique to a specific…
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All the Fixin’s: Jambalaya
Happy Mardi Gras, y’all! On this fattest of Tuesdays, we turn our attention to the bayou, where Zelda’s roots lie, and an all-Cajun edition of All the Fixin’s. This week, Zelda — ably assisted by her sous-chef, Scout — tackled one of her family’s favorites, particularly at this festive time of year. Jambalaya is, like…
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All the Fixin’s: A Taste of Autumn
Happy Tuesday, lovelies, and welcome to first installment of “All the Fixin’s,” our new series in which we each explore our Southern heritages by cooking our way through two books tailored to our Cajun and Appalachian roots. For this first chapter, we wanted to ease into things, and a recent Halloween movie night offered the…
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All the Fixin’s: An Introduction
Hello lovelies! Over the past year, one of our favorite series to write — and one of the most popular with you guys, according to an overwhelming majority of folks who filled out our reader survey — has been “Eat This, Drink That.” Scout has explored many wonders of the Southern culinary canon, and Zelda has…
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Eat This, Drink That: Benedictine and Bee’s Knees
The weather has finally warmed up here in the city, and we are SO EXCITED. Accordingly, for this month’s Eat This, Drink That, we decided to fully embrace the impending blooming season and cook up some food and drink to refresh and renew us with the flavors of spring. On the food side, we’re running…
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Eat This, Drink That: Angel Food Cake and French 75
Most of Scout’s food-based memories come from one of her grandmothers. So when choosing something to make for this month’s Eat This, Drink That, she looked back on all those memories, running from the car as they pulled up to the old A-frame cabin on the lake and sprinting into the long narrow kitchen to find…
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Eat This Drink That: Fried Chicken, Rosemary Gimlets, and a Special Guest!
This month, we bring you a very special “Eat This, Drink That.” Normally, we pick a theme for the month’s post, find an appropriate recipe, and then muddle through as best we can, with Google as our sous chef. But this month, we brought in the professionals for a real schooling in one of the…
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