Easy Meals and Southern Cooking
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 […]
Cool crisp iceburg lettuce is topped with creamy buttermilk, blue cheese dressing, crispy bacon, and tomatoes in this BLT Wedge Salad recipe. Last year on my birthday, my dad treated the whole family to dinner at Walker’s Drive-In here in Jackson. The name is deceiving, because this is not a […]
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.
