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Chef Rick's Southern Cooking
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Southern regional, Cajun, and home cooking. Traditional Southern recipes. How-to articles, humor, and food trivia by a Southern chef and food writer.
- Added on: Sep 5th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Rick McDaniel
- Listed in: Food & Drink Home Cooking
- Tags: recipes desserts home cooking soul food southern cooking cajun-creole
Recent Posts
Fun Food Trivia
From the “Things aren’t always what they seem ” department: The Jerusalem artichoke is not an artichoke, nor does it come from Jerusalem: It’s American and is part of the sunflower family. Sauerkraut is not German, it’...
Peach Crumb Pie
For the crust: 1 1/4 cups flour 1 teaspoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 stick (1/4) pound butter, cut into small pieces 3 tablespoons ice water For the filling: 1 1/2 cups water 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1/2 teaspoon salt...
All about Rice
Rice is one of the staples in nearly every cuisine in the world, from Chinese to Indian to good, old-fashioned Southern cooking. The natural accompaniment to baked chicken has been grown since at least 5000 B.C. Enterprising colonists in South Caroli...
Basic Rice Recipe
Basic boiled Rice The basic formula for cooking rice is one part rice to two parts water; i.e, if you have one cup of rice, you need two cups water. This recipe will give good results with any long grain white or brown rice. Yield: 4 servings 2 cups ...
Choosing the Best Apples
When most people think of apples, the image that most often comes to mind is the Red Delicious, that shiny, crimson star of the school lunch bag. If that’s the only apple you’ve ever sampled, though, you’ve been missing out on a bushel of delic...
A Guide to Great Gumbo
Gumbo is a traditional stew served in Louisiana . There is no set formula for what makes upgumbo. Even though gumbo derives its name from the African word for okra, gumbos don’t always contain okra. Gumbo usually consists of one or more meats s...
