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    Southern Food

    Discover Southern shortcut recipes for Southern food full of flavor and made simple—easy meals, sides, and sweets.

    • stems of fresh parsley in a short vase of water with small green scissors on a marble surface
      Cooking With Fresh Herbs: How To Keep Them Fresh and Shortcut Recipes with Herbs
    • Peanut Butter Sheet Cake with cake mix scored into slices in the pan topped with chopped peanuts.
      Peanut Butter Sheet Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting
    • smores cupcakes on a metal tub with words Campfire Cupcakes strung across
      Campfire S'Mores Cupcakes (plus Shortcut Version)
    • Mini peanut butter and jelly sandwiches stacked horizontally in white casserole dish with purple striped cloth beside it.
      Peanut Butter and Jelly French Toast Casserole
    • Stack of pecan cookies on wire rack with maple icing on them.
      Maple Pecan Cookies (Slice and Bake)
    • Spicy Sweet Potato Fries in parchment paper cooked in air fryer.
      Air Fryer Spicy Sweet Potato Fries
    • Crab Corn soup in terra cotta bowl on blue checked napkin.
      Shortcut Crab and Corn Soup
    • Side view of a slice of apple oatmeal cake on a blue plate.
      Apple Oatmeal Cake
    • glass bowl of fried okra
      Oven Fried Okra (with Air Fryer Option)
    • Gouda grits served in a shallow bowl, garnished with chives.
      Gouda Grits
    • white plate of general tso's chicken on rice with chopsticks on side
      Easy General Tso's Chicken (With Shortcuts)
    • mini peanut pie tassies spilling out from a brown wicker tray onto a cloth with blue x's
      Honey Peanut Pie Tassies (No Corn Syrup)
    • Whole fresh green beans with bacon and brown sugar in a cast iron skillet with spoon dripping sauce on beans.
      Skillet Green Beans with Bacon and Brown Sugar
    • Cranberry cookies in a red snowflake bowl.
      Cranberry Orange Cookies
    • White rimmed plate of purple cauliflower and broccoli salad
      Purple Cauliflower & Broccoli Raisin Salad
    • Close up of platter of bbq wings with bowl of Ranch dressing in the background
      Air Fryer BBQ Chicken Wings
    • 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
    • 2 Ingredient Pumpkin Pie Minis
    • hard cooked eggs cut in half on a green plate
      How to Make Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs (Easy Peel Every Time)
    • Baked potato stuffed with meat covered in sauce on a white plate. A clear tiny pitcher of bbq sauce in background
      Air Fryer Baked Potatoes with BBQ Pulled Pork
    • peanuts in the shell cracked open on a blue tin plate
      Easy Instant Pot Boiled Peanuts
    • chicken spinach lasagna slice on white plate on red napkin
      Slow Cooker Chicken Spinach Lasagna
    • plate of sugar cookies on a pewter plate
      Sugardoodles
    • Hasselback Sweet Potatoes (Maple Syrup and Pecans)
    • Slice of pecan cream pie on white plate in front of whole pie in background.
      Best Pecan Cream Pie
    • pumpkin beside an Instant Pot
      How to Cook a Whole Pumpkin in an Instant Pot (Homemade Pumpkin Puree)
    • Mini Laughing Cow cheese trees on a round white plate.
      Easy Christmas Cheese Trees
    • Roasted whole chicken by an air fryer.
      Air Fryer Whole Chicken Recipe
    • Air fryer turkey breast roast on wood platter with fresh rosemary and sage.
      Air Fryer Turkey Breast with Gravy
    • Square white bowl of black eyed peas with torn corn bread in background.
      Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas
    • Two ingredient biscuits on white plate with strawberry and honey.
      2 Ingredient Biscuits
    • Baked apple fritters on a wire rack to set the glaze.
      Baked Apple Fritters
    • Fig Jam Cake frosted with Maple Buttercream on a turquoise platter
      Fig Jam Cake with Maple Frosting
    • White bowl of pesto mayo.
      Pesto Mayonnaise
    • strawberry freezer jam in old fashioned clamp jar with peach and strawberry-blueberry jam in the background
      Easy Strawberry Freezer Jam
    • Portion of baked ziti on a spatula hovering over the baking dish of baked ziti.
      Easy Baked Ziti
    • Muscadine jelly in a jar next to a pile of muscadine grapes.
      Muscadine Jelly
    • Cornbread muffin cut in half with butter and peach pepper jelly spread on it.
      Easy Peach Pepper Jelly
    • Tomatoes and onion pie layered with slice out in a fluted white and green pie dish
      Tomato and Vidalia Onion Pie with Bacon
    • Metal spatula scooping up a portion of the crescent roll ham and cheese bake from the baking dish.
      Crescent Roll Ham and Cheese Bake

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    Hi y'all! I’m Kathleen. I share Southern shortcut recipes! I’m a food stylist, cookbook author, and former test kitchen director in Alabama. I take traditional Southern recipes you know and love (and a few new ones) and make them with shortcuts so you can enjoy them faster.

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