Southern Recipes
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Southern Smoothie
Remember: Smoothies are not beverages, they're meal replacements, so keep their nutrition facts in mind when considering your overall diet plan. Peaches are undeniably the fruit of choice in the south, but you don't have to be southern to enjoy this beverage. Fresh buttermilk adds a pleasing tanginess and blends well with peaches. Tip: Use frozen peaches to achieve an icy smoothness. This recipe was written by the Healthline Editorial Team: http://www.healthline.com/health-recipes/southern-smoothie
Craig Claiborne’s Smothered Chicken
Craig Claiborne was a child of Mississippi who started as food editor of The Times in 1957 and did as much as anyone to help bring home cooking into the spotlight. The dish “belongs in the ‘comfort’ category,” he wrote in 1983, “a food that gives solace to the spirit when you dine on it.” You could give your smothered chicken some European flair with mushrooms and small onions in the gravy, as Claiborne did in his experiments with Pierre Franey, then his kitchen co-pilot. Or you could send yourself south to the Creole tastes of the Delta, with a blend of tomatoes, chopped celery, onion and green peppers added to the sauce. But sometimes the easiest way is the best. Try it.
Roasted Okra and Onions
Buy the freshest, firmest okra you can find. Pick pods that are no bigger than your ring finger. Slicing them lengthwise just before you roast them will keep slime to a minimum. This basic technique is very accommodating. You can add quartered yellow squash or zucchini, or even a chopped up fresh tomato. The trick is to roast the vegetables until the edges of the onion begin to turn brown.
Giddy Swamp South Carolina Hash
My giddy swamp hash recipe is from the German belt of South Carolina and uses pork and mustard prominently but other parts of the South might use beef.
Southern Breakfast
The title alone says it all. One sip and the drinker instantly thinks of pancakes, maple syrup and bacon. This is a cocktail that I served at Cochon 555 Heritage BBQ's inaugural weekend in Memphis.
Southern Peach Gelato
With juicy fresh peaches, cream and a hint of Maker's Mark this is a great summer treat.
Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits
To make theses biscuits into shortcakes, just split the biscuits, spoon on your favorite fruit (either sugared or plain), and dollop with whipped cream. Or just eat the biscuits for breakfast with butter. Classic and quick to bake; you can’t go wrong.
Southern-style Quesadillas
This is fun alternative to your everyday quesadilla. My whole family loves it!
Old-fashioned Southern Creamed Corn
This is the Southern creamed corn recipe I grew up eating as a child, and it's still the creamed corn I crave and cook often. It works best with a white corn.
Brown Butter Nectarine Cobbler/Cake
This dessert comes from a subset of cobbler recipes with cakelike leanings. It’s blissfully easy. Melt some butter in a skillet (cast iron, if you have it), mix together a pancake-type batter in a bowl, toss with fruit and bake. Raw fruit in this recipe bakes up juicy with a firm yet yielding bite that is not at all mushy. (Keeping the skins helps that.)
Cake-Flour Biscuits
Cake flour, a low-protein flour that is available in supermarkets from Boston to Chicago, north to Seattle and down to Los Angeles, makes a fine biscuit with a delicate, silken texture that does well with syrups and runny fried eggs.
Southern Comfort Orangie (Orange Juice)
This is a twist on the whiskey sour cocktail. We love this Southern Comfort with Orange Juice recipe when the weather gets hot, and after all the work is done.
Grilled Spot Prawns (or Shrimp) with Corn Pudding
Shell Bean Succotash
Here is another great opportunity to make an end-of-summer dish, so long as corn and squash are still available in farmers’ markets. This is most authentic, and prettiest, if you use fresh lima beans, but I enjoy any kind of shell bean I can find.
Southern Sherried Shrimp
This Sherry Shrimp recipe leaves the shrimp whole as a main course. It's ideal served over slow-cooked stone-ground grits but also excellent on its own.
Scott Peacock’s Classic Buttermilk Biscuits
Biscuit recipes don’t vary much. Usually, the difference between a good biscuit and a great one is technique. Scott Peacock honed the technique taught to him by the great Southern cook Edna Lewis while he was a chef at Watershed restaurant in Decatur, Ga. It’s a touch fussy – one is required to make baking powder from baking soda and cream of tartar – but the results are superior.
Buttermilk-Brined Fried Chicken With Sage
There is no true definition of buttermilk, according to Anne Mendelson, the author of “Milk.” Originally it was the liquid that separated from churned butter. In warm climates, like the American South or India, it refers to sour milk, since unrefrigerated milk turns within hours. Today most buttermilk is made from milk to which cultures of lactic-acid bacteria are added.
Red Velvet Cake
This is a cake to stop traffic. The layers are an improbable red that can vary from a fluorescent pink to a dark ruddy mahogany. The color, often enhanced by a full bottle of food coloring, becomes even more eye-catching set against clouds of snowy cream cheese-mascarpone frosting or ermine (also known as boiled-milk) frosting, like a slash of glossy lipstick framed by platinum blond curls. Even the name has a vampy allure: red velvet. These days this Southern favorite is found in just about every bakery, but perhaps for a special occasion (like the very red and white Valentine’s Day) you could try your hand at baking it.
Crab Cakes With Crystal Beurre Blanc
This recipe came to The Times in 2006 from the Upperline restaurant in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. One bright light after the storms was an unexpected windfall in crab. The storms stirred up the marshes and shook up lots of food, so these crab cakes are made with an ice cream scoop and not a spoon. The real gem of the dish is the Crystal beurre blanc, an idea that mixes high French culinary canon with down-and-dirty New Orleans heat. Crystal Hot Sauce has long adorned many a table in New Orleans. It is more vinegary than Tabasco, which is too hot for this recipe. Baumer Foods had been making Crystal Hot Sauce for more than eight decades when the storms hit. Its New Orleans plant was flooded so badly that it was not reopened, but other bottlers kept Crystal on the shelves until the company could move into its new home, about a half hour’s drive from its damaged factory.
Fried Green Tomatoes and Shrimp Rémoulade
Sour Orange Mignonette
Pressed Cheese Straws
Baked Sweet Potato Purée