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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]