Cream Cheese Danish

Cream cheese danish is one of my favorite danishes.  I started to buy one cooked in the local grocery’s deli the other day, but the $6 price tag for 6 danishes stopped me.  The following recipe will cost about $6 too, but you get more than 6 servings from it.
2 large cans of [...]

Hushpuppies for Ms P!

I was going to do this Saturday, but decided to go on and do it now (because otherwise, I was likely to forget).
1 egg, beaten
1 half  onion, chopped (Use more or less, depending on how much you like onion)
1 tablespoon sugar
11/2-2 cups Cornmeal (I prefer White Lily’s Buttermilk Cornmeal MIX, but regular self-rising cornmeal works [...]

Dressing

I was 35 before I ever had “stuffing” and then, it was Stove Top. I’m at least the 5th generation of my family to serve dressing instead of stuffing. Who wants to cram their hand up a turkey’s butt anyway?
1 10-inch pone of cornbread (see recipe in Breads)
5-7 biscuits (see [...]

Biscuits

Biscuits intimidated me when I first started cooking.  My mom can make beautiful biscuits by hand without rolling them out and cutting them.  I still can’t.  I remember her literally laying her head on the counter and laughing at my first attempt at making them.  Oh well, I still can’t pinch, roll and flatten by [...]

Cornbread

I guess cornbread varies by region as far as taste and texture.  I’ve eaten at many “southern cuisine” establishments, but their cornbread is never anything like any homemade cornbread I’ve ever had.  Homemade cornbread in these parts is never sweet and never has a cake-like texture.  I’m not sure where those recipes came from, but [...]