Easy Meals and Southern Cooking
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 — made with peaches, cinnamon, and cloves — tastes like a juicy 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 table during the holidays. But […]
Flaked tuna, sweet peas, celery, and elbow macaroni are combined with mayo and a dash of cayenne pepper in this creamy tuna macaroni salad recipe. What are some of your favorite summer memories from when you were a kid? Since both of my parents worked, they had to find a way […]
Fresh diced tomatoes, mozzarella, and seasoned croutons make a nice summer meal in this recipe for Tomato, Basil, and Mozzarella Salad. With the impending arrival of Little Tot, I took a brief hiatus from writing. My nesting phase consisted of cooking anything and everything I could think of that would […]
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.
