Vegetables

Peas with Lettuce

February 9, 2011

Last Saturday BeeBop and I were roaming around one of our favorite shopping places, Sam’s Club, and way back in the back past all the other fruits and veggies I spotted something out of the corner of my eye. Could it be? Really? Fresh English peas? In the middle of winter? As y’all already know, [...]

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Roasted Baby Vidalia Onions and Cherry Tomatoes

February 4, 2011

It’s Super Bowl weekend and every food blog on the internet has a post on football snacks and party food. So, what am I doing? Roasting baby Vidalia onions. Of course. Because, yeah, I’m a rebel like that. Actually BeeBop and I never watch the Super Bowl. Just not our thing. We’re college football fans [...]

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Copper Pennies

January 18, 2011

I’m showing my “vintage” today with this recipe. It’s one of those oldie-goldies that most southern cooks of my “vintage” have in their recipe box. This one has been served at more church suppers and company dinners than you could count. It’s one of my grandmother’s favorites – I thought about her the whole time I was making [...]

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Barbecued Green Beans

October 19, 2010

I reached way back in my archives for the recipe I’m posting today. This dish made the rounds way back in the 1980′s. You remember. Back when we all wore our hair as big as possible and didn’t worry about the consequences of eating a half pound of bacon at one meal. You remember those days, don’t [...]

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Vegetable Beef Soup

September 14, 2010

A few weekends ago we had a dreary, rainy, overcast Sunday. It really felt like Fall was on the way. Living in the South, though, I should know better. Fall is a real tease. She shows up for a day, maybe two, then Summer takes over again and the temperatures shoot back into the 90′s. [...]

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Baked Corn Casserole

July 6, 2010

Summertime in the South comes with a huge variety of fresh produce. Okra, peas of all varieties, butter beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, and maybe best of all corn. I’ve had a passion for fresh corn since I was a child. So much so that I can remember stuffing myself with it at the dinner table until [...]

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8 Ball Zucchini

June 4, 2010

Last weekend, BeeBop and I spent 3 wonderful, relaxing days in Beaufort on the South Carolina coast. Neither of us had been there before but we have long loved the area. Both Savannah and Charleston are favorites of ours. The culture and charm of that whole region is very appealing to us. Since Beaufort is located in between those two [...]

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Fried Okra

June 1, 2010

Today I’m sharing with you a recipe for another Deep South favorite, fried okra. Now, I know that okra is one of those vegetables that people either love or hate. There’s not much middle ground with okra, it seems. I fall firmly into the okra-loving group. Pretty much any way you prepare okra, I like it. [...]

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Roasted Asparagus

April 6, 2010

Spring has definitely arrived here in north Georgia. The last two days have seen high temperatures in the mid-eighties. Today is predicted to be 86. And after the long, very cold winter we had, I’m loving it! One of the surest signs of spring, and one that I look foward to each year, is the [...]

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Turnip Greens and Corn Pone

December 4, 2009

Okay, everybody. This is about as Southern as it gets. Turnip Greens and Corn Pone. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water. Whenever the weather starts to turn the least bit cooler I always start thinking about turnip greens. With cornbread on the side. And a baked sweet potato. And maybe a crispy, fried [...]

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Stuffed Zucchini

August 26, 2009

Earlier this summer we had a lovely zucchini plant in our little garden. One zucchini plant. One zucchini plant that darn near took over that entire area of the garden. Even though it was huge, gigantic would be more like it, that darned plant just wasn’t producing anything. It had to have been 6 feet [...]

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