Jackie Garvin's Blog, page 4
July 19, 2023
Baked Sweet Onions
Baked Sweet Onions will remind you of French Onion Soup. Whole onions are peeled, topped with beef bullion, butter, brandy, Worcestershire sauce, and fresh thyme and wrapped individually in foil packets. The best recipes are easy to prepare and impossible to mess up. That’s the case with Baked Sweet Onions. The hardest part is...
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July 14, 2023
No-Bake Banana Split Cake
No-Bake Banana Split Cake brings together all the favorite toppings you expect to find in a banana split: banana, pineapple, maraschino cherry, nuts, and whipped cream. The base is a no-bake, made from scratch, graham cracker crust covered with a sweetened cream cheese filling. Thumbing through some of my old recipes for inspiration for my...
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November 6, 2020
Pumpkin Pie Biscuits
Pumpkin Pie Biscuits have all the flavors of pumpkin pie rolled into an easy to make, tender, flaky biscuit. People love good biscuits. That’s a fact. Tell them you’re serving homemade Pumpkin Pie Biscuits and they’ll follow you around like little puppy dogs. So….be prepared. Canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie spices are incorporated...
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November 2, 2020
Tomatoes and Rice
Tomatoes and Rice is an old fashioned, classic Southern family favorite side dish. Sweet onion is sautéed in bacon grease before adding Basmati rice and fresh or canned tomatoes. I don’t know the origin of this dish. It goes back to my great-grandmother, at least, and perhaps farther back than that. Granny and Mama cooked...
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October 16, 2020
Skillet Apple Crisp
Skillet Apple Crisp is an old fashioned apple dessert made with orchard fresh apples and topped with an oatmeal and brown sugar crumble. As the apple harvest rolls in, it’s hard not to dream of all sorts of wonderful apple dishes. It’s no wonder apple leads the way as America’s favorite fruit. They’re as...
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April 20, 2020
Slow-Cooker Turkey Breast with Gravy
Slow-Cooker Turkey Breast with Gravy is a bone-in, skin-on turkey breast seasoned with flavored butter, cooked in a slow-cooker on a bed of fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and white wine. The flavorful cooking stock is thickened for gravy. Flavorful and juicy turkey breast is delightful. Anything less is a disappointment. Dont let yourself get caught...
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November 26, 2019
Key Lime Sweet Potato Bisque with Key Lime Cream
Key Lime Sweet Potato Bisque with Key Lime Cream is a thick, luscious, pureed, creamy soup that I’ve dubbed a bisque. As I tried to educate myself on the difference between bisque and soup, I learned that bisque is from the same root word as biscuit. Since I’m all about the biscuit, it was an...
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April 4, 2019
Classic Homemade Tomato Soup
Classic Homemade Tomato Soup is quick and easy to make. As much as I love homegrown tomatoes, I find that canned tomatoes yield a more consistent end result. But, if you have homemade on hand, and no canned, use what you’ve got. We’ve got some big news to share. At least it’s big news...
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December 3, 2018
Cherry Pie Bars with Buttermilk Glaze
Cherry Pie Bars with Buttermilk Glaze is made from an easy homemade soft butter cake and topped with canned cherry pie filling with a drizzled buttermilk glaze. If you’re looking for a pie/bar/cookie/cherry/glazed recipe, stop right here. You’ve landed in the right spot. This one’s got it all. It looks like it’s double crusted. But,...
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June 17, 2018
Strawberry Sangria Refrigerator Jam
Strawberry Sangria Refrigerator Jam has all the flavors of a refreshing summer sangria in a small batch, quick jam that requires no canning. The lesson of food preservation was taught to me by my grandmothers. One grandmother made pickles. All kinds of pickles. Some took a week or more to make. The other grandmother...
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