Easy Meals and Southern Cooking
Easy Italian pasta salad incorporates cheesy tortellini and bow-tie pasta mixed with sundried tomatoes, pesto, and olive oil. It’s graduation season. All this talk reminds me that it has been over a decade since I graduated from college! My husband and I both graduated from Delta State University – a […]
Cucumber tomato salad recipe combines fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, and red onions tossed with a tangy vinaigrette of tequila, olive oil, lime juice, and cilantro. Every spring, The Husband and I plant a garden in the backyard. It’s not huge — four 6′ x 4′ raised beds. We plant LOTS of […]
This Asian noodle salad is packed with fresh veggies and seasoned with an light Asian-inspired dressing. Serve hot or cold, it’s perfect for a picnic. Last night at about 9 pm, I walked outside and was immediately bowled over by how muggy it was. It’s officially summer in the ‘Sip, […]
Succulent grilled shrimp salad is served over a bed of crisp fresh spinach leaves and drizzled with a vinegar based hot bacon dressing. In a former life, I worked in the office of a company that manufactured file folders. It was my first introduction to a cubicle jungle – rows […]
Spiced peach jello salad recipe is made with peaches, cinnamon, and cloves – it’s spicy and juicy, and fruity like a peach pie in jello form. You don’t think less of me for posting a recipe about Jello salad, do you? Growing up, we always had a Jello salad on the […]
I'm Lisa, a first generation Southerner. While I was born and raised in Mississippi, I wasn't raised on Southern food. Then I met and fell in love with a boy who grew up eating his Grandmama's fried chicken and his Mamaw's biscuits and gravy. I realized I had a thing or two to learn about Southern cooking.
