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5 Cup Fruit Salad is a simple vintage recipe that’s a  great make ahead and is perfect for any occasion. As the name suggests, it only contains five ingredients. Chances are great you’ve heard of this recipe.  It’s been around forever and a day. So, for many of you, this post will just be a...

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All-American Grilled Hamburgers are iconic American sandwiches. The best burger patties are made simply with good ground beef, salt and pepper. Plain ol’ hamburgers.  What’s so good about them?  Everything.  Identified as decidedly All-American, hamburgers are a connectional food within our culinary melting pot.     They’re eaten in every culture and cuisine that consumes beef....

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Skillet Roasted Okra is an easy way to cook okra. As the okra browns, the natural sugar develops and results in a ton of flavor with no slime.     Roasting vegetables is nothing new to me.   I’ll roast anything thing that tries to move.  Recently, it occurred to me that I had never...

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One Bowl Colonial Brown Bread is a slightly sweet, hearty quick bread made with whole wheat flour and brown sugar. No yeast, eggs, or kneading required. Serve with salted butter and jam. Quick breads are tasty and satisfying. You get the pleasure of making bread without all the extra steps that go along yeast: proofing,...

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Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Whipped Cream is a classic fresh  strawberry treat with sweet, short biscuits for shortcake, sweetened sliced strawberries and fresh vanilla whipped cream After moving from our hometown of Mobile, AL in 1985, we lived in Central Florida for 33 years before moving to our current home in the Smoky Mountains...

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Classic Southern Okra and Tomatoes is familiar Southern comfort food. Sauté sweet onions, sliced okra, and diced tomatoes in bacon grease and garnish with crispy bacon.  We happened upon some fresh okra at a local produce market that my grandmother would describe as “right pretty”. I would go as far as to say it was...

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Slow-Cooker Whole Chicken is an easy way to prepare a whole chicken for any recipe that calls for added cooked chicken, such as  salads and soups. Added aromatics and herbs result in flavorful, succulent chicken meat.    A whole chicken cooked in a slow cooker can lead to all sorts of deliciousness.  It’s not completely...

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Overnight Slow-Cooker Chicken Bone Broth makes nutritious, rich, flavorful chicken bone broth while you sleep. Bone broth is made from bones, skin, and meat from an animal. It contains important amino acids as well as collagen. In addition to a flavor boost to recipes like Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya , it provides nutrients.   Read about...

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Slow-Cooker BBQ Pulled Pork starts with a bone-in Boston Butt  pork roast, is coated with a dry rub and cooks low and slow in a slow-cooker which results in succulent, juicy, and flavorful pork. Barbecue pulled pork sandwiches are an easy way to feed a crowd.   The most difficult part of this recipe is...

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Cajun Crispy Fried Onions are thinly sliced sweet onions, seasoned with Cajun seasoning and coated with a light batter and deep fried in a process that’s much less complicated than the traditional method of cooking onion rings.  Onion rings made from Vidalia Onions are one of the best things on the planet. You get the...

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