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    Southern Food

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

    • 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
    • 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
    • Bowl of roasted butternut squash on fall colored cloth with wooden spoon next to it.
      Air Fryer Butternut Squash
    • Side view of a banana blackberry muffin with a bite taken out of it.
      Banana Blackberry Muffins
    • Cinnamon Sugar Pecans in a Santa belt rectangle dish
      3 Ingredient Cinnamon Sugar Toasted Pecans
    • Fig Jam Cake frosted with Maple Buttercream on a turquoise platter
      Fig Jam Cake with Maple Buttercream Frosting
    • Fig Jam Cake with whipped cream, fig half and Fig and Lemon Preserves drizzled.
      Fig Jam Cake
    • scoop of orange sorbet in a glass dish on blue surface with spoon on surface.
      Easy Orange Soda Sorbet (1 Ingredient)
    • Spoonful of chicken wild rice soup hovering over a bowl of soup.
      Chicken Wild Rice Soup (Panera Copycat)
    • Four southern slow cooker recipes: apple butter, ham, peas, figs.
      Easy Southern Slow Cooker Recipes
    • Pecan crust for pie with pecans scattered on the surface.
      Pecan Crust Recipe for Pie
    • Freshly diced rhubarb on a sheet pan to freeze.
      How to Freeze Rhubarb
    • Finished creamed peas and potatoes in a baking dish.
      Creamed Peas and Potatoes
    • Holiday cooking show save the date 2025 kathleen phillips graphic
      Holiday Cooking Show 2026
    • Slice of strawberry crunch cake on a plate with a fork.
      Strawberry Crunch Cake
    • Lemon Blueberry Muffins with paper wrapper open next to a yellow squash and lemon with fresh blueberries.
      Lemon Blueberry Muffins
    • Strawberry rhubarb cobbler served in a bowl with a scoop of ice cream on top.
      Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler
    • Spoon in the small jar of strawberry rhubarb jam with jello.
      Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
    • Strawberry rhubarb freezer jam in a plastic container with rhubarb and strawberries on the surface around it.
      Strawberry Rhubarb Freezer Jam
    • Chocolate rice krispie bars served on a white cake stand.
      Chocolate Rice Krispie Squares
    • Easy Strawberry Rhubarb Pie with scoop of vanilla ice cream melting from the top, placed on white plate.
      Easy Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
    • A white plate and fork with cake mix peach cobbler with a scoop of ice cream on top.
      Peach Cobbler with Cake Mix
    • Close up of bacon wrapped meatballs piled onto a plate.
      Bacon Wrapped Meatballs
    • Overhead image of orange poppy seed cake with three slices shingled.
      Orange Poppy Seed Cake
    • Close up of sour cream potato salad in a blue rimmed bowl.
      Sour Cream Potato Salad with Bacon
    • white bowl full of green beans and bacon on checkered wooden cutting board
      Instant Pot Fresh Green Beans with Bacon
    • Two pears stuffed with cottage cheese, then garnished with shredded cheese and cherries on a plate.
      Southern Pear Salad with Fresh Pears
    • Gouda mac and cheese being scooped with a wooden spoon from a cast iron skillet.
      Gouda Mac and Cheese
    • A carrot bundt cake on a wood cake pedestal.
      Carrot Bundt Cake
    • Corned beef shredded on a wooden cutting board.
      Instant Pot Corned Beef (and Reuben Sandwiches)
    • pink yellow blue deviled eggs on white plate
      Colored Deviled Eggs (Naturally Dyed)
    • Baked Potatoes in Ninja Air Fryer
    • Close up image of a slice of coconut custard pie on a white plate with whipped cream on top. The whole pie is in the background.
      Coconut Custard Pie
    • Zucchini Bread with Pineapple
    • A blue and white bowl with crock pot ham and cabbage and a fork resting on the side.
      Crock Pot Cabbage and Ham
    • Biscuit being lifted out of casserole dish with sausage gravy on bottom.
      Biscuits and Gravy Casserole with Sausage
    • Several pieces of chocolate magic cake with one piece missing.
      Chocolate Magic Cake
    • Four jars of pickled cucumbers sit on a table.
      Easy Dill Pickles for Canning

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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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