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Continue reading →: Senate Bean SoupI love comfort foods…and I love history. But whenever I find foods that have an interesting history, I am definitely in my comfort zone. Foods such as this bona-fide Senate Bean Soup. A hearty ham and bean soup that has been served on Capitol Hill for about 120 years. The…
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Continue reading →: The White ChiliAmazing that while I write this here in July that the temperature is 105 degrees outside. Yeah, it will be August tomorrow… And you would think that after living here I would be used to Texas weather now… But I find myself wishing the weather was just a little cooler……
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Continue reading →: White Chicken Chili
I may have said this before, but there are two foods that most people love that I personally do not like at all – ice cream and spaghetti. I don’t like spaghetti because most spaghetti and other pasta meals contain tomato sauce or paste…and pasta. These are the meals that…
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Continue reading →: Momma’s Mighty Magnificent ManicottiOne good thing about the pandemic was that many of us became better cooks. No longer able to eat out at our favorite restaurants, we had to actually think about and start making our meals for ourselves. Turns out that it wasn’t that hard after all. One of the meals…
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Continue reading →: Oven-Barbecued RibsSometimes the kitchen can be a very scary place. The knives, the hot oven, the heated stove burners, you name it. I should know… During the pandemic I had two surgeries on my finger because I dared to pit a mango with a wine glass… I had pitted an avocado…
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Continue reading →: Sloppy JoesSome of the comfort foods that made this list require a lot of ingredients…or a long time to cook…or are not exactly the favorite of kids, even ourselves back when we were kids how many years ago? But there is one simple, quick and kid-friendly comfort food that I have…
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Continue reading →: Tuna Noodle CasseroleAs I’ve shared my top comfort foods, I am sure that there have been some foods that I have talked about that you personally don’t consider to be “comfort foods.” For me, this is true about tuna-noodle casserole The only reason that I even add tuna-noodle casserole here is because…
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Continue reading →: Here’s What It Takes To Make Crab CakesIf you’re from the Deep South, you know that sometimes outsiders accuse us using our own language and calling certain things “weird” names. For example, the word “Coke” refers to any soda…regardless of the manufacturer. And “hot sauce” to a Mississippian or Louisianaian(?!) always refers to Tabasco…a hot sauce that…
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Continue reading →: King Ranch ChickenAlthough I still haven’t decided whether or not Texas is part of the South…I have lived here two-thirds longer than I lived in Mississippi. My daughters were born here and haven’t lived in any other state…expect for my youngest who thought that it would be so cool if she went…
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Continue reading →: Shrimp and Grits…As Good As It GetsShrimp and Grits…another comfort food containing the word “and.” And it’s easy to make… And it’s quick to pull together… And it’s delicious… And it’s become one of my new favorite comfort foods. But this is also a supposedly Southern food that I never tried until I was an adult.…
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