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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special #8 – Oven-Fried ChickenI 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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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Dinner #4: Stuffed Bell Peppers
My Mom was a truly excellent cook, but there was one thing that she made regularly that I absolutely hated… Stuffed Bell Peppers… I knew as soon as I walked up to the dinner table and saw these beautiful red or green peppers stuffed with anything that I would soon…
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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special Option #3: Mississippi Pot Roast
One of my goals in writing this blog is to share with my daughters…and perhaps other women also…some of our family’s favorite recipes. But looking back at the recipes that I’ve already shared and the recipes that I plan to share, I have realized that most of these recipes either…
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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special Option #2: Hamburger Steak
In the next series of posts, I would like to share 31 recipes for some classic Southern-style meat recipes…comfort foods that you can use on a rotating basis to feed your family throughout an entire month. I have already shared my recipes for So we have 27 more recipes to go…starting…
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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special Option #1: Meatloaf
My Mom’s Mighty Good Meatloaf is one of 31 main dish options available choices that will appear on the The Red Plate Cafe menu. Growing up, I put meatloaf in the same category as black-eyed peas and butterbeans…those foods that I would never, ever make for my kids to eat…
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Continue reading →: 10 Things You Should Know About Blue Willow ChinaThe Blue Willow china pattern became extremely popular in America once the “Blue Plate Special” menus…along with the “meat and three” style of diners…became the latest and greatest trend. But the real reason I have written about the Blue Willow china pattern is because of its role in American history…
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