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Easy Cornbread Recipe
Cornbread is one of those southern dishes that every true southern mama should know how to make. It is sweet, crumbly, and delicious. Cornbread completes any true southern meal. This recipe is super simple and takes no time to throw together. Just a few simple ingredients and you have a great southern side dish. I love cornbread especially with potato soup or chili or split and slathered with butter, pan fried, and covered with honey. Yum! What is Cornbread? Is it a cake? Is it bread? One thing is for certain, it is delicious. Cornbread has been said to have originated with the Native Americans and was originally an unsweetened…
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Spicy Shrimp and Grits
If you have never had shrimp and grits, you are missing out. This is one of our go to meals for my husband and I, especially if the kids aren’t at home. It is a beautiful combination of heat from the peppers and creaminess from the grits. We love seafood and spicy foods so this is a perfect combination for us. The tomato base is spiced up with a habanero while the grits get their own kick of heat from pepper jack cheese. You can tame down the heat by using a jalapeño instead or leaving the pepper out all together. However, we love the spice that this dish brings…
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Easy Mini Cheesecake
Do you ever just have a hankering for something sweet, but you really don’t want to go through the fuss of making a big cake or a huge batch of cookies that will last for weeks? I love baking, but sometimes I don’t want the week’s worth of temptation staring at me every time I walk through our kitchen. If it is there, I will eat it. I lack all of the willpower when it comes to sweet confections. These easy mini cheesecake bites are an answer to all of those problems. These cheesecake bites are so simple and beautiful that it will be hard to believe that they come…
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Momma’s Meatloaf Recipe
I feel like meatloaf gets a bad rap. Just its name sounds a little off putting. However, it is hands down one of my favorite main dishes. A well done meatloaf can be so delicious and when paired with side dishes like Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes it can be heavenly. Meatloaf has been one of my favorite dinners since I was a kid. Birthday meals were made to request and mine was always the same: Meatloaf, scalloped potatoes, and green beans. Still to this day, I make it for myself if I can’t get to my momma’s for my birthday. It doesn’t get any more southern or delicious than this simple…
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Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes
Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes is one of my husband’s all time favorite potato dishes. I make this easy to assemble cheesy potato casserole any time I want to make him feel extra special. The cheesy creamy sauce bakes into the soft potatoes making them exceptionally delicious. This dish is super easy to put together, but does take a few hours to bake as the flavors really have to be given the time to come together. The potatoes will absorb the creamy sauce and become one delicious bite, but in order for that to happen, it takes time. I know, I know, it is so hard to wait while this dish bakes.…
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Guilt of a Working Parent
As I sit at my kitchen table this morning typing and waiting for my coffee to finish brewing so I can start off my day, a wave a guilt and sadness wash over me. It is seven A.M. and I have been up since six, showering and getting the day started. So why this sadness now as I sit here at my kitchen table? Maybe it’s the absence of chaos this morning. By seven I should hear those sleepy footsteps padding from their bedroom to snuggle in my lap. Those snuggles quickly breaking way to four year old superheroes running full speed through the house. But this morning, like ever Monday…
