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Continue reading →: Chicken and RiceAnother “Chicken and…” recipe that Southerners love is Chicken and Rice. Chicken and Rice is just what it sounds like: chicken and rice. But this Chicken and Rice recipe is not only a recipe that contains chicken and rice. It’s also a recipe for the ultimate comfort food – a…
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Continue reading →: Chicken and Dumplings
What do marriage, chicken pot pie, and chicken and dumplings all three have in common? Once you’ve made a decision, you should simply commit to it and not question yourself. Chicken and dumplings is traditional homestyle cooking in its most comforting level – a delicious soup with juicy pieces of…
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Continue reading →: Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special #16 – Chicken and Waffles
Chicken and waffles are supposedly a Southern thing..but honestly I hadn’t tried chicken and waffles until about three years ago…long after I’d tried Shrimp and Grits. But any recipe named “Mississippi _____” or “Chicken and ____” is bound to become a favorite food for anyone born in the Hospitality State.…
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Continue reading →: Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special #15 – Chicken Marsala
Mississippi cuisine is a cuisine that has been influences by many different cultures. So far we have seen the influence of French cooking in several dishes – Red Beans and Rice, Etouffee, Jambalaya and Gumbo. But let’s take a peek now at Italian food. More specifically… Chicken Marsala… Chicken Marsala…
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Continue reading →: Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Option #14: Enjoy Great Ham All Year Round – Not Only on Holidays
It’s hard to believe that this year is more than halfway over…seems like we just celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas. But soon we’ll be doing it all again – trimming the tree, hanging the stockings with care, buying new clothes so that we can get annual family photos made and ordering…
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Continue reading →: Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special #13: Mississippi-Style Pulled Barbecue Pork Sandwiches
I promised myself that this blog would not be another cooking blog. There are enough cooking blogs and recipe sources out there already. But when you have two daughters both with growing families and busy jobs and so on and so on and so forth, you want to make sure…
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Continue reading →: Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special #12 – Homemade Spaghetti Sauce
There are two foods that most people absolutely love, but that I can hardly stand. These two foods are ice cream and spaghetti with any type of red sauce. Ice cream…because it’s cold and hurts my teeth…give me Andy’s frozen custard anyday. Spaghetti…when I was a kid, I was supposedly…
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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special #11 – Shepherd’s Pie
As much as Southerners love eating “meat and taters,” you would think that Shepherd’s Pie would be eaten more frequently here in the South. Sheperd’s Pie is a hearty meat casserole with colorful veggies that is topped with cheesy mashed potatoes. As far as the meat, traditional Irish Shepherd’s Pie…
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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special #10 – Beef Stew
After years of making beef stew in the crockpot, I finally realized that foods such as beef stew and roasts are much better when cooked in a Dutch oven – either on the stovetop or in the oven. I have also learned that simple foods typically taste much better, especially…
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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special #9 – Smothered Pork Chops
Southern people could probably drink gravy out of a Styrofoam cup, as if were a milkshake. Smothered Pork Chops, much like the Chicken Fried Steaks that we’ve already talked about, are pan-fried pork chops smothered in a delicious onion gravy or brown gravy…pure comfort food at its finest. Smothered pork…
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