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Red Velvet Cake

Ok y’all. Nothing, just NOTHING screams Crazy Ole’ Southern Person than a Red Velvet Cake. Red Velvet Cake is the one thing that unites all people below the Mason/Dixon Line. We all love it. We all make it. When we don’t have it, we lust over it.

I’m gonna share with you my Mama Jean’s recipe [...]

Jambalaya

It’s no secret that I love my fellow bloggers and blog friends that I have met during NaBloPoMo. One, of my favorite people in the entire world, Jen Nelson Lane has a very successful blog called Hey Y’all. Jen and I met almost 10 years ago during graduate school at the University of Alabama. Her [...]

Aunt Nita’s Sweet Potato Casserole

So this is about the most waited for dish at my family’s Thanksgiving EVERY Year! My Granny J had 6 children, and for Thanksgiving they were all in charge of 1 thing. Nita (my Mama’s next older sister) was in charge of making this every year. Well, there was that one year that noone knew [...]

Granny J’s Cornbread Dressing

My Granny J

My Granny J was an amazing woman. I could blog for years stories about her. I have got hundreds of stories about Granny J, from saving my life many times (literally) to falling asleep in fried rice. Granny and I had a very special relationship. Born about 70 years ago, Granny J [...]

Oreo Pie

Okay, I love Oreo Cookies. And Pies. So there is only one thing that could make me happiest: Oreo Pie. I used to work at a deli in Montgomery named Chappy’s Deli. They had an Oreo Pie there that I just loved. My stepmom used to make this Oreo Pie, and dare I say…it’s better. [...]

Peach Cobbler

Ok, it’s that time of year again, y’all. Now I am going to start giving up all my favorite Thanksgiving recipes. The first recipe is my own Peach Cobbler. Peach Cobbler is a dessert that is so easy and so good, you HAVE to make this.

Being raised in Alabama, we have peaches in Chilton County, [...]

Shoepeg Corn Casserole

Ok, I can not believe that I am going to share this recipe with everyone. Everyone has that ONE recipe… you know, the ridiculously simple one that makes you the envy of all your friends. Well, this is mine. I first made this for my NYC pals soon after moving here. Since doing that there [...]

Better Than Sex

Ok, I knew that would get your attention. Now, when I lived in Asheville, NC, I worked at the Belks at Asheville Mall for Estee Lauder. After I had been there a few months, we got a new employee by the name of Gale. She was (and still is) one of the nicest people I [...]

Mama Jean’s Magic Coconut Pie

Of, y’all, when I was a little kid I fancied myself a magician. I had all these little magic kits and I would go around making pennies disappear in a trick box, balancing a vase on a piece of rope, doing silly card tricks, and pulling scarves out of people’s ears. Now, when I say [...]

Ham & RedEye Gravy

My Mama Jean (who y’all all met earlier when she made me eat a crow) used to always make Ham and RedEye Gravy. Now, many of you probably have never heard of RedEye Gravy. Redeye Gravy is a type of gravy primarily prepared in the South. Other names for this sauce include poor man’s gravy, [...]