Collard Greens

I love these two greens beauty together.Collard and Cabbage. Season just right with the right spice and not over cooked just the right texture.That's what it is all about in the home cooking in the south.Simple and easy with a great big smile.

Collard Green Apple Ginger Juice

6 collard green leaves clean and trim

2 green apples seeds removed

2 cucumbers peeled

2 inch long piece of ginger

1 lemon or lime

Blend until smooth in a Blender

This recipe made two big servings.This provide valuable cancer fighting phytochemicals.

Turkey Ham Steaks With Pineapple Glaze

Ham Steak for Easter Dinner is one of an old time favorite. Pineapple glaze with slice pineapple is the best taste ever it bring out that great Turkey Ham taste. Those glaze pineapples is the best.

Smoked Bologna

Want to make an impression on you friends and family??? Then you have got to try Smoked Bologna. This is a simple dish that is greatly done in the southern states doing this will changes the flavor of a boring Bologna product.But always buy a good Beef Bologna Product Roll and a Good Rub.

CARROT CAKE

This is Easter month. I like baking a moist and super moist carrot cake Doc! It is so so good and you just can stop licking your fingers from the cream cheese Frosting. Just looking at it you can gain a pound. I call this cake you can't go wrong....

2 c. sugar

1-1/2 c. vegetable oil

4 eggs

3 c. grated carrots

2 c. all-purpose flour

2 tsp. baking soda

2 tsp. baking powder

2 tsp. cinnamon

1 c. chopped toasted pecans

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper


Cream Cheese Frosting

In mixing bowl, combine sugar and oil. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well. Mix in carrots. Combine in bowl flour, baking soda, baking powder and cayenne and cinnamon. Sift. Add flour mixture to carrots mixture. Mix. Add nuts. Pour into greased and floured two round cake pans. Bake in 325 degree oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until cake test done.

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
1/2 cup crushed pineapple without the juicy
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1/2 c. soft butter
1 (1 lb.) box powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Chopped nuts sprinkled on top of frosted cake (optional)

Combine cream cheese, margarine, powdered sugar and vanilla; mix well. Use to frost cooled cake. Sprinkle chopped nuts over top for garnish. Note: I make this cake the day before and place it in an airtight cake. Cover in the refrigerator.

Chicken And Dumplings With Green Peas

Someone in my circle ask for a recipe for her mother dumping and peas. I remember a long time ago my grandmother make them but she added chicken.I think my friend in my circle mother had to use chicken to get that broth to boil the dumpling and added a lot of green peas and serve just a little pieces of chicken in that dish of Dumpling And Peas.

I Really Care About My Circle Of Friends And I Hope You Can Always Ask Me For A Recipe!


Chicken And Dumplings With Green Peas

5 pounds chicken thighs

salt and black pepper to taste

4 cloves garlic, minced

1/2 cup onion

6 tablespoons all purpose flour

6 cups chicken broth

4 cup water

1/2 cup whole milk

1 cup frozen green peas

Boil chicken thighs in 4 cups water until tender about 30 mins remove chicken from water and remove the bones and and fat. Put boneless chicken a side and don't used the water. in another pot pour in 6 cup chicken broth and bring to a boil. add salt and black pepper,garlic,onion, peas and dumplings. cook about 10 mins or less add  flour to milk and stir in until thicken add chicken (at this point you can leave out he chicken and just have peas)

For The Flat Dumplings

2 cups all purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

3/4 cup whole milk

2 Tbs. Shorting

In a bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt.  Cut in the shorting into the dry ingredients with a fork or pastry blender.  Stir in the cold milk, mixing with a fork until the dough forms a ball.

Heavily flour a work surface.  You’ll need a rolling pin and something to cut the dumplings with.  

Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies

mmmm...these are so good! chocolate chip cookies are my favorite. super easy and you can eat as many of them you want. But please share...When I give you this easy recipe, you can keep it for yourself or share your secret....mmmm????

Oven-Fried Sweet Potatoe Fries

When you're in the south you can find out people like me will bring a WOW moment to the table.like these sweet potato fries. Ohhhhh Boy! They are so good when they are hot are even when they cool off. Try them with my easy recipe. You can't go wrong, I promise you...


2 lbs sweet potatoes , peeled, and cut like ranch fries

2 tablespoon olive oil or cooking oil

1 teaspoon smoked paprika

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 tablespoon brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (to taste) (optional)

nonstick cooking spray


Line a sheet tray with parchment. In a large bowl toss sweet potatoes with just enough oil to coat. Sprinkle sugar and spice. Spread sweet potatoes in single layer on prepared baking sheet, being sure not to overcrowd. Bake until sweet potatoes are tender and golden brown about 20 minutes. Let cool 5 to 10 minutes before serving.

Another Thing....For a humble root vegetable, the sweet potato sure does have a lot going for it. The orange tuber packs 438% of your daily value of infection-fighting vitamin A and, like carrots, sweet potatoes are a major source of skin-protecting beta-carotene.

Bake Some these Goodness...

Just rub them down with cooking oil and bake them until fork tender in a 350 oven.

7-UP Cake Or Pound Cake

This 7-up cake will never go out of style the 7-up cake can be a pound cake THE BOLD ONE people just love the favor of this wonderful cake. It's the true Lemon taste.

Leah Williams sells her pound cakes at the 32nd Street Farmers Market.

Leah Williams’ display of carefully wrapped slices of plain,lemon, and 7-Up pound cake. Since I’d never heard of using 7-Up in a cake, I had to investigate. Apparently, the 7-Up acts as the leavening agent. Happily, the cake did not taste like a can of soda; the 7-Up imparted a lemony flavor, and the slice was dense, moist and delicious.

Mrs William knew how to bake that cake. Great Job! Goes Out To her.

You can bake this pound cake in so many ways

1. slice it long

2. Make a single round layer

3. The round way with glazy

4.The Round way Plain

5. With Shapes

Try this pan when you bake your next pound cake

7-Up Cake Or Pound Cake Recipe

3 sticks of butter, room temperature

3 cups sugar

5 eggs, room temperature

2 tablespoons lemon extract

3 cups sifted all-purpose flour

3/4 cup 7-Up

Powdered sugar, for dusting

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 12-cup tube pan or Bundt pan.

In a heavy-duty mixer, beat together the butter and sugar for 20 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the lemon extract.

Add the flour to the butter mixture alternately with the 7-Up, beginning and ending with flour. Pour the batter into the pan. Bake for 1 to 1-1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.

Invert the cake onto a platter and let it sit until the cake drops out of the pan. When cool, dust with powdered sugar.

Southern Pecan And Coconut Pralines

Enjoy the sweet taste of the South with these heavenly homemade pralines with roasted pecan and added roasted coconut... makes these babies great!

2 ½ cups roasted grated coconut

3 tablespoon butter

1 teaspoon coconut extract

3 cups light brown sugar, packed

1   cup half and half

3   cups roasted pecan halves


Combine the sugar, milk in a heavy pot and bring to a boil over medium heat. Boil, stirring, until the mixture comes to the soft-ball stage (about 239 degrees on a candy thermometer). 

add pecan and coconut and coconut extract
Remove from the heat, add the butter and beat until the mixture begins to sugar.

Drop in small mounds on wax paper. Cool, then gently lift with a thin knife. Store in an airtight container.