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Soul Food Love Reviewed: Peanut Stew with Chicken and Sweet Potato

April 17, 2015 By Laura 8 Comments

Peanut Stew with Chicken and Sweet Potato: SO easy and SO delicious! Healthy too!

Hearty yet healthy Peanut Stew with Chicken and Sweet Potato is an easy and delicious weeknight dinner, especially if you pick up a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store. I was provided with a copy of Soul Food Love by Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest review. Affiliate links have been used to… 

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Filed Under: African American dishes, chicken, cookbooks, curry powder, easily made vegetarian, peanut butter, peanuts, reviews, soup, Southern food, stews, sweet potato, tomatoes Tagged With: african american food, chicken, cookbook, peanut, peanut butter, review, soul food, stew, sweet potato

Heirloom Tomato on Bacon Cornmeal Griddle Cake with Bacon-Basil Mayo; Review of Fire In My Belly

September 20, 2013 By Laura 3 Comments

Sliced Tomato on Corn Flatbread with Bacon Basil Mayonnaise

You guys may be seeing more cookbook reviews around here. I decided I do so many of them for free and on my own dime, I might as well reach out to various publishers and see if they would send me review copies of the books I am interested in. And they did! This blogging… 

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Filed Under: bacon, buttermilk, cookbooks, pancakes, reviews, Southern food, tomatoes, whole grains Tagged With: bacon, basil, cookbook, cornbread, griddle cakes, heirloom tomatoes, hill bill tomato, mayo, mayonnaise, pancakes, review, southern, tomato

Red Beans & Rice

April 3, 2011 By Laura 26 Comments

This post is the perfect opportunity to tell you all about my new toy, a Canon Rebel 2Ti. It has loads more numbers and letters that come after it, some of which mean something to me, most of which do not. What is important is that it is my first SLR camera and I am… 

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Filed Under: beans, Creole/Cajun, rice, sausage, Southern food Tagged With: andouille, bacon, beans, cajun, creole, rice, sausage, southern

Atlanta’s Highland Bakery: A Review and A Recipe

June 22, 2010 By Laura 3 Comments

All pics are of my cornbread–I did not take a camera into the Bakery with me. With 2 small kids I think I’d have to be crazy to attempt that! Have you been wondering what Twitter can do for you? 2 weeks ago I posted some comment or question about my trip to Atlanta and… 

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Filed Under: buttermilk, corn, misc, quick breads, Southern food

Dairy Hollow House Skillet-Sizzled Cornbread

August 31, 2009 By Laura 8 Comments

You guys might remember that a while back I picked up a vegetarian cookbook called Passionate Vegetarian by Crescent Dragonwagon. She apparently caught wind of my post, and actually emailed me about it. She was extremely complimentary about my post (truly I did a happy dance around the kitchen when I got her email) and… 

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Filed Under: buttermilk, corn, quick breads, Southern food

Sweet Tomato Relish

February 23, 2009 By Laura 6 Comments

Agh! So frustrating! My computer is gone–AGAIN. So John decided to get a hard drive to back up the computer–something about how you can program a Mac to automatically back everything up if you have a second hard drive, and in a moment too difficult to explain (according to him) of “computer scientist stupidity” he… 

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Filed Under: chutneys, Southern food, tomatoes

Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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