You’ve not “made it” until you’ve an eponymous cocktail all your own. Witness the Fatty Daddy, a sweetly surprising number that packs a punch, just like our own dear David.
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Pan-Fried Bananas with Brandy
These boozy bananas, lavished with brown sugar, butter, brandy, and coconut cream, are a Southern classic. Understandably so.
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- 15 M
- 25 M
- 7

Black-Eyed Peas with Spinach
After trying this Southern good-luck charm of black-eyed peas, we say forget the luck. Just pass more of these peas, please.
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- 20 M
- 2 H
- 8

Chicken with Autumn Vegetables and Madeira
A Southern chef’s riff on classic French coq au vin. We may have to change our allegiance from France to Frank. (Chef Frank Stitt, that is.)
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- 35 M
- 1 H, 50 M
- 3
Autumn Root Vegetable Purée
This stealthily healthy mash delivers the color of fall foliage right to your table—and just may make you reconsider why you think you don’t like root vegetables.
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- 20 M
- 1 H
- 1

Autumn Vegetable Ragout
This rustic yet refined side, inspired by an Alain Ducasse dish, simmers cool-weather veggies to create something that tastes marvelously, uh, unhealthier than it is.
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- 1 H
- 1 H, 50 M
- 1

Crawfish Boil
Call some friends, set a pot of water to boil, and chill some beer. There’s mud bugs to be had.
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- 25 M
- 1 H, 10 M
- 8

Sport Pepper Sauce
A staple down South, these pickled peppers and the hot, hot, hot solution that bathes them have a kick that’s as fiesty as it appears.
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- 15 M
- 15 M
- 11

Southside Cocktail
Mint. Muddled. Mine. More. When we’ve got this gin-based mojito on our minds, those are about the only words we can muster.
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- 5 M
- 5 M
- 15

Hummingbird Cake
Sweet as nectar. That’s what we think of this Southern classic, a charming stack of pineapple, coconut, bananas, and pecans aplenty.
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- 25 M
- 1 H
- 18

Red Velvet Cake
We’re hearing rumors that this all-natural rendition of the classic surpasses all others. And it’s not just kids who’re saying that. See for yourself, grown ups.
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- 45 M
- 1 H, 20 M
- 22

Buttermilk Drop Biscuits
“The best biscuits I’ve ever had!” is what we’re hearing from many, many, many folks who just can’t help but exclaim when they try these buttery biscuits.
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- 15 M
- 35 M
- 26

Chicken-Fried Steak with Cream Gravy
Cookbook author Lisa Fain divulges a culinary legacy, one which she inherited from her father, who acquired it from his mother, who in turn learned it from her mother.
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- 40 M
- 40 M
- 5

Black Coffee Ice Cream
Know how every once in a while you taste something that’s so insanely satiating that a single spoonful pretty much satisfies? Nah, neither do we. Pass the ice cream, please.
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- 25 M
- 35 M
- 13

Super Bowl Sunday Seafood Gumbo
This Cajun standby tastes pretty swell the other 364 days of the year, too–especially if you swill a cold beer or six as you stand at the stove.
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- 1 H, 45 M
- 5 H, 15 M
- 12

Meme’s Cornmeal Griddle Cakes
Shirttail cousins to corn bread, these savory cakes wooed and wowed us with their crisped edges, ethereally airy interior, and pantry-friendly frugality.
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- 20 M
- 20 M
- 22

Butter Pecan Affogato
Straight from Venice by way of Charleston, this Southern belle cheats a little, usurping the role of vanilla gelato with butter pecan ice cream.
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- 30 M
- 30 M
- 5

Sunflower Squash Fritters
Part hush puppy, part fritter, and lovely through and through, these little blobs of cornmeal batter and summer squash blossom like sunflowers as they fry.
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- 30 M
- 45 M
- 5

Appalachian Cider Baked Beans
A real stick-to-your-ribs mountain recipe in which plain old pinto beans are doctored up with apple cider, onion, salt pork, molasses, and mustard. Amen.
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- 15 M
- 6 H, 15 M
- 35

