Fall’s Favorite Spice Tea
Welcome back to the All Things Southern kitchen. We southerners have learned to be flexible about what constitutes a new season. If the calendar says it's fall, by golly, it's fall! Long before our stubborn trees give up a leaf and regardless of whether we need shorts or sweaters, we take our make-the-best-of-it upbringing and deem that the season has arrived. We'll pull out our
Simplest Cathead Biscuits Ever
Hello folks, and welcome back to the All Things Southern kitchen. So, the other evening, I posted a picture of my big, fluffy cathead biscuits on social media. Mama had taught me how to make scratch biscuits eons ago and I was wondering if it was a dying art or if most of my readers knew how to make biscuits. And you know what? I
All Cheesed Up Artichoke Dip
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Wedding Throwdowns and Debunking Southern Stereotypes
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My All Things Southern Comeback Sauce
Hey folks, and welcome back to the All Things Southern kitchen. We're making comeback sauce today. Comeback sauce is a highly favored southern condiment that is also crazy versatile. You can dress salads or pastas with it, or use it as a dip for seafood and French fries but however you try it, you'll come back for more, which is exactly how it got its
Dorothy Dix in the Southern Quote
She was born prematurely in a plantation home in Woodstock, Tennessee and named Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer. The year was 1870. Her parents wrapped her tiny body in blankets and surrounded her with heated bricks. Few expected her to survive, but Little Lizzy not only lived, she spent the next ninety years defying expectations. Lizzy’s childhood was as difficult as her birth. The war was over; but
Shellie’s Highly Favored Chocolate Lemon Bark Candy
Welcome back to the All Things Southern kitchen, friends! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas -- only, once again, I haven't been able to find my favorite candy in the specialty stores. That would be Chocolate Lemon Bark—I love the stuff! Could eat a pound of it! I haven’t been able to find it the last few years and I’ve been looking everywhere. So, I’ve created
Ode to the Longsuffering Southern Mama
Hello folks, let’s chat…I’m here today as a voice of reason. There has been some concern mentioned among my girlfriends that our generation could be in danger of losing a long held and iconic trait of the Southern Mama Hood. The sober suggestion has been made that we belles are growing increasingly incapable of properly portraying the Longsuffering Southern Mama, defined as one who is so
Harold Reid in the Southern Quote
Harold was born August 21, 1939 in Augusta County, Virginia. As a young man he sang with three friends in a church trio. Five years later, his young brother Bob came on board and the quartet began performing gospel music under the name the Kingsmen. The group’s first big break came when they opened a concert for a popular entertainer and earned his admiration in the
Life is Grand
Hey folks! Today’s southern chuckle comes to us compliments of my friend John at the Good Clean Funnies List, that’s . Do yourself a favor and check it out. You can subscribe and get a nice clean free joke delivered to your email box every single morning. Oh, and did I mention it would be clean? Yeah, that’s my favorite part. By the way, if you