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Continue reading →: Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Option #14: Enjoy Great Ham All Year Round – Not Only on HolidaysIt’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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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special #8 – Oven-Fried Chicken
I absolutely hate deep frying foods, This may be hard for a Southerner to admit…as many fried foods are found in Southern cuisine, But I’m always afraid that I’m gonna get spattered and burned by frying grease. I typically burn anything that I try to deep fry. Deep frying seems…
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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special #7: Ro-Tel Chicken Spaghetti
Looking for another quick and easy one-pot Southern meal that surprisingly requires only a handful of steps and only a few ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry or fridge? Rotel chicken spaghetti may be that perfect recipe that you’ve been looking for. Tons of tender chicken smothered…
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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Place Special #6 – Chicken Pot Pie…(Oh My, Oh My)
One of the most difficult choices that Southern cooks and chefs face, perhaps, is what kind of bread to use for making chicken pot pie. Biscuits never seem to cook enough when added to the top of a chicken pot pie. Cornbread has too much of a cornbread taste. This…
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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special #5: Beef Burgundy
So, my goal with this series of posts has been to identify 31 different “comfort foods” that I personally would serve if I were to open a “meat and three” restaurant. After all, opening a “meat and three” restaurant in an old warehouse back in my hometown seems so inviting…
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