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I love steak dinners. I can remember being a young girl and my dad taking me out to a special dinner for my birthday. I ordered my first steak and had it cooked medium well. It was the best steak I had ever had. Well, at that point it was the only steak that I had ever had lol! My dad had his steak cooked medium rare but that looked just a tad too bloody for my tastes. How do you like your steak cooked? Do you prefer it to be dead or with the ability to walk off your plate?

This recipe is for a tender and juicy sirloin steak cooked with bourbon. It is so yummy! It isn’t that difficult to make, either. The key is to not keep flipping the meat over and over again. Actually, the author of this recipe suggests to only flip once. I know, it’s hard to only flip once because you instinctively want to flip every few seconds. Just do what I did and start working on something else in the kitchen as the steak cooks. Enjoy!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Group Recipes.

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Quick Tip: Try to only flip the steak once, if at all possible.

I am a northerner through and through but I can humbly admit that the southerners have won the food wars. I mean, seriously, those folks are great cooks. They are all about the butter, gravy, and bacon. Oh, and they make mighty fine pork chops! This recipe will totally blow your mind because it is for an authentic southern fried pork chop meal. The chops come out tender, savory, and very tasty. You also get to whip up yourself some yummy rice with brown gravy to boot! Now, what can possibly be better than that?

As I stated, i am a northerner as I was raised in Michigan my entire life and now I live in Western Pennsylvania. However, I was born in Houston, Texas. According to Blanche Devaroe of The Golden Girls, that makes me an official southern Belle. Do you ladies of the south agree with this sentiment? LOL I’m sure I probably got some boos from the crowd but that’s okay because I’m about ready to make these here southern pork chops 🙂

Recipe and photo courtesy of Group Recipes.

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Quick Tip: If you’d like to cut down on the calories and up the fiber content skip out on the rice or mashed taters and replace them with steamed broccoli florets.

If your children are anything like mine then you probably have a hard time trying to get them toe at their veggies. I know that I have tried many times to hide leafy green veggies and other nutritious things in their food and the little buggers always find them! I’ve even tried cutting up onions so stinking small that a mouse wouldn’t be able to find them and lo and behold my children, with their super senses, located the offending vegetable and claimed they could no longer eat their dinner. Why don’t children come with handbooks?

On a more positive note, i have discovered that if you cover a vegetable with cheese a child will eat it. Imagine that! I decided to push my luck and make this yummy baked cauliflower and cheese dish the other night. As I sat at the dinner table waiting for my kids to grumble and complain my heart leapt for joy as these sounds never madethier way to my ears. in fact, it was just the opposite. my kiddos raved about how could the cheesy cauliflower was and how they hoped they could have seconds. Music to a mother’s heart 🙂

Recipe and photo courtesy of Group Recipes.

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Quick Tip: To add a bit of color to the cauliflower try sprinkling on fresh or dried parsley to the top of the bake during the last few minites of cooking. it looks gorgeous.

Serve with mashed potatoes or rice – and with fresh green beans or fried okra. A winner through and through – I’ve made it countless times – and again tonight. Enjoy. (Recipe courtesy of the cookbook – Mrs. Wilkes Boardinghouse Cookbook – a great recommendation for your cookbook collection.) And – if you find yourself in Savannah, GA., seek this legendary place out – just ask the locals how to get there. Get there early as the line starts forming way before the lunch doors open. I used to make it a point to go there every time we visited Savannah. Awesome home-cooked eats!

I was in Georgia once. I traveled to Fort Benning to see my then husband graduate from basic training. Those couple of days that I spent there led me to some very fascinating restaurants. I even tried grits for the first time at a local Waffle House. They were pretty dang good! And then, of course, there was the buttermilk chicken. Oh boy! I didn’t think chicken could ever taste so good and that gravy…wow! So, naturally, I had to learn how to make this wonderful southern dish at home, in the north. Enjoy!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Group Recipes.

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Quick Tip: This gravy is so delicious that we sometimes double the gravy part of the recipe to make sure we have enough gravy to go over potatoes, biscuits – or just to drink from a martini glass. Okay, maybe nix that last idea…..but you could. It’s that good. Really. There’s no such thing as having too much gravy. That’s our motto anyway.

If there is one type of food I like the best it would have to be Mexican. From tacos to enchiladas I am all about the yummy, cheesy, foods from our friends south of the border. One day, my good friend Sally invited my husband and I over to her place for dinner. When we walked into Sally’s house we were met by the wonderful aroma of spicy Mexican food cooking in the oven. It turns out, Sal was making us a wet burrito casserole! Have you ever heard of such a thing?

Boy oh boy, this casserole was totally yummy and it contained all of the tasty Mexican treats that I love such as refried beans, spicy meat, and lots of cheese. Sally set out sour cream, salsa, and some shredded lettuce as toppings to choose from. I chose them all haha! We also had chips and salsa verde as an appetizer, which were very good. I, of course, had to get Sally’s recipe for this lovely meal. I hope you all enjoy making and eating this burrito casserole as much as my husband and I did.

Recipe and photo courtesy of Group Recipes.

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Quick Tip: I like to serve this casserole with sides of sour cream, salsa, shredded lettuce, extra cheese, and taco sauce.

Hey there, everyone! It’s 5:00 a.m. in the morning and I’m already wondering what I shall feed my family for dinner this evening. You can never be to prepared, right? As soon as I clicked on one of my favorite blogging sites I noticed a new recipe had been uploaded for porkchop scalloped potatoes. No, not pork chops AND scalloped potatoes but rather pork chop scalloped potatoes. I know, I was confused at first, too. However, I think this recipe is going to be downright good!

You see, it appears to be a type of casserole, almost. The pork and taters are cooked together and they come out looking like a yummy, bubbly, crazy mess of goodness. Oh yes, I am definitely making this casserole tonight! Anything that has to do with cheesy scalloped potatoes is on my agenda. Plus, I’m willing to bet that the pork chops are so fork tender that the literally fall apart. I can’t wait to get this food on my plate. Enjoy!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Group Recipes.

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Quick Tip: Potatoes will cook through better if they are sliced real thin.

Boy oh boy! Do I ever have 7 fun recipes for you and I’m not fudging around! If you love making the creamy, yummy, candy for the holidays then you aren’t going to want to miss out on this post. I’ve taken our 7 most popular fudge recipes and placed them here in one convenient location for you to browse through. From pistachio fudge to classic chocolate you are going to find a little taste of everything within these pages. Keep on clicking through to the next page to find out what I have ins tore!

Inside this article, you will find the fudgy goods! Keep browsing until you come across a recipe that really moves you. Maybe, just maybe, you will make all of these fudgerific finds!

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Fun Fact: Fudge is a type of confectionery, which is usually soft, sweet, and rich. It is made by mixing sugar, butter, and milk, heating it to the soft-ball stage at 240 °F, and then beating the mixture while it cools so that it acquires a smooth, creamy consistency.