Sides
Okra Fries with Comeback Sauce {Riceland}
Our new garden is still steadily producing okra. It may be small, but the garden's okra harvest is just enough to give us a good supply of fresh okra each week. I have frozen quite a bit for use this winter, but I don't otherwise try to preserve...
Preserving Summer: Savory Tomato-Basil Jam
My new garden beds have produced amazingly well in their first year, but the summer produce is winding down. Arkansas summers can be brutal. Fortunately, we've not experience the terrible triple digits that so often are seen in July and...
Preserving Summer: Slow Cooker Tomato Sauce
One of the things I look forward to the most in summer is the first bite of a homegrown, Cherokee Purple tomato. And if it just happens to be on a BLT with Petit Jean Meats Hickory Smoked Bacon, it's even better. Absolutely nothing beats...
Pea and Rice Salad with Vinaigrette
Disclosure: As a Brand Ambassador for Riceland Foods, I am compensated for the posts I create for their blog. I was not directly compensated for this post. One of our favorite summer salads is this Pea and Rice Salad with Riceland Rice Bran Oil...
Spicy Black Beans
I love black beans, Hubby, not so much. This is the man who dearly loves his pinto beans, so go figure on the black ones! For my THV11 segment this week, I made Puffy Tacos (Have you made those yet?). Hubby got to have those for a couple...
Save the Stems! Southern Collard Greens
If you've read my bio you know that I learned to cook from two of the best --- my grandmothers. These ladies were known throughout our home county as two of the best cooks to be founds. Mamaw cooked for a family of 9; Nonnie cooked for a family...
Cherry Salsa
February is National Cherry Month, but I'm not sure the gurus who assign those titles got this one right. And being that I want to make every cherry recipe I see in magazines or on the abyss that is Pinterest, it seems that fresh cherry...
Kitchen Basics: Roasted Brussels Sprouts
If the only way you've ever had brussels sprouts was when they were boiled to death, then you haven't really had brussels sprouts. No wonder you didn't like them. Give me the chance to convert you into a brussels sprouts lover. There are...