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    • Easy Strawberry Rhubarb Pie with scoop of vanilla ice cream melting from the top, placed on white plate.
      Easy Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
    • Jars of jalapeno pepper jelly stacked in window.
      Freezer Jalapeno Pepper Jelly
    • Two ingredient biscuits on white plate with strawberry and honey.
      2 Ingredient Biscuits
    • Collard Greens and Navy Beans are cooked in a fraction of the typical time when cooked in the Instant Pot. Served in a white bowl on a blue and white striped placemat
      Instant Pot Collard Greens and Navy Beans
    • front of Instant Pot 6 quart
      Instant Pot Guide for Beginners
    • White bow of venison chili topped with cheese on a green napkin with saltine crackers.
      20 Minute Venison Chili
    • We Southerners love our greens-turnip greens. This dump and stir soup gets you in and out of the kitchen but tastes like you cooked them low and slow all day. Served in a white bowl.
      Shortcut Turnip Green Soup
    • Salted nut roll sliced on cutting board with several slices and one in candy paper.
      Shortcut Salted Caramel Nut Rolls (Peanuts & Nougat)
    • Candied Roasted Sweet Potatoes
    • Bacon Sausage Strata Breakfast Casserole
    • Shortcut White Bean Chicken Chili has all the flavor of slow cooked beans and chicken but uses canned beans so you can get dinner on the table quicker!
      Shortcut White Bean and Chicken Chili
    • blueberry peach cobbler serving in white bowl wth whole cobbler in view
      Blueberry Peach Cobbler with Oatmeal Cookie Streusel
    • White bowl full of macaroni salad
      Easy Southern Macaroni Salad (With Shortcuts)
    • A stack of four pancakes with mardi gras beads in background.Can't make it to Mardi Gras? These shortcut banana pancakes drizzled with icing and sugar sprinkles are perfect for Fat Tuesday- also called Pancake Day!
      King Cake Pancakes for Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday
    • Super Bowl recipes: pimento cheese, a brownie, boiled peanuts, bacon wrapped tater tots.
      Top 10 Super Bowl Southern Shortcut Recipes
    • layered Tiramisu in two glass dessert dishes with raspberries and chocolate shavings on a pink plate with tea spoons
      Sweet Tea Tiramisu Trifle for Two
    • Sweet Tea Sangria "Skinny" Mocktail
    • Parfait glass of frozen strawberry sweet tea lemonade with blue bowl of berries in background.
      Frozen Strawberry and Sweet Tea Lemonade
    • clear mug of hot tea with orange slice
      Mulled Sweet Tea Apple Cider
    • Macaroni and Cheese in a white rectangle dish with serving scooped out.
      Baked Cheesy Mac and Cheese (With Shortcuts)
    • Pieces of peanut brittle on a pewter rectangle platter.
      Best Microwave Peanut Brittle
    • A hand holding a small bag of vanilla cookies with bananas and whipped cream on them.
      Walking Banana Pudding
    • Slices of turkey breast with skin on overlapping each other on a white plate and garnished with fresh sage and gravy poured over the turkey slices
      Instant Pot Bone-In Turkey Breast and Gravy
    • stack of four Texas sheet cake cookies on a white plate with a glass of milk set alongside
      Texas Sheet Cake Cookies (with cake mix)
    • Ground turkey and quinoa in nonstick skillet with zucchini.
      Ground Turkey and Quinoa Skillet Dinner
    • Six images of food with text overlay
      21 Easy Southern Easter Dinner Recipes
    • Collage of four foods for March Madness Snacks recipe roundup.
      March Madness Snacks Recipes
    • Oreo truffle balls coated in white chocolate with green sprinkles. Stack of green Oreos in back and bite out of one in front.
      Oreo Mint Truffles
    • Gumbo in rimmed white bowl on a white place with slice of cornbread on the side
      Shortcut Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
    • Squares of Oreo cookies and cream fudge with one on a paper liner.
      Cookies and Cream Fudge
    • 2 Ingredient Pumpkin Pie Minis
    • Cinnamon sugar coated and battered fried apple rings on a white plate
      Fried Apple Rings with Cinnamon-Sugar
    • Pumpkin Spice Dumplings in sauce on a white plate served with vanilla ice cream
      Sweet Pumpkin-Spice Dumplings (Made with Crescent Rolls)
    • strawberry freezer jam in old fashioned clamp jar with peach and strawberry-blueberry jam in the background
      Easy Strawberry Freezer Jam
    • Cinnamon Sugar Pecans in a Santa belt rectangle dish
      3 Ingredient Cinnamon Sugar Toasted Pecans
    • air fryer fried oreos with stack of cookies
      Fried Oreos in Air Fryer with Crescent Rolls
    • chicken spinach lasagna slice on white plate on red napkin
      Slow Cooker Chicken Spinach Lasagna
    • Nectarine cobbler close up view.
      Easy Cinnamon Sugar Nectarine Cobbler
    • A clear pitcher and two glasses of blackberry lemonade on a purple cloth. Glasses have blackberry and lemon slice garnishes.
      How to Make Shortcut Blackberry Lemonade
    • pimento cheese in blue crock with some on a cracker on parchment paper
      Pimento Cheese with Fire Roasted Red Peppers

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