Sips and Small Bites
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...
Sorghum Grain “Popcorn”
Our family enjoys popping sorghum grain instead of popcorn. The popped kernels are much smaller than popcorn and have a slightly sweet, nutty flavor. Sorghum is easy to pop in the microwave or on the stove top. I wrote in detail...
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...
Kitchen Basics: Simple Sweet Southern Iced Tea
I'm not sure there's anything more Southern than sweet tea. I mean r.e.a.l.l.y. r.e.a.l.l.y sweet tea. The kind my grandmas made every single day until they were no longer able. And if you were raised in the South, you know the kind of tea I...
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...
Colcannon Fritters with Russian Dressing
You may have guessed it by now, but I'm enamored of everything Irish. It's a fascination I've held since first learning about St. Patrick's Day as a little girl. I'm told there's a little Scotch-Irish in my ancestry so maybe the genes kicked in...