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Brunswick Stew

I can’t think of anything better than a hot bowl of Brunswick stew and warm cornbread on a chilly winter’s day. Packed with smoked meats and BBQ sauce, it gives you that BBQ/smoked feel but in a bowl. Plus, it allows me to make use of all that leftover smoked meat I typically have. Since it’s usually just the wife and I, we often have left over pork butt, brisket, smoked turkey and rotisserie chicken. We just save the bits and bobs – even ribs – to throw in a big pot of Brunswick stew. If you don’t have bits…

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Corny Cornbread Dressing

Corny cornbread dressing? What the? You heard right. Dressing, stuffing, whatever you call it, it’s that deliciousness that sits up next to your turkey for Thanksgiving. Everyone has their very own version. Some make it with cornbread (hey my Southern peeps!), some make it with bread, or some make it with rice (those couyons in Louisiana!) but it’s necessary. I mean, you just have to have some sort of dressing/stuffing for Thanksgiving. Aside from my mom’s cornbread dressing, which she made with pure love, this corny cornbread dressing is my favorite. It’s way more “intensive” than my mom’s – she…

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Southern cornbread with jalapeños and goat cheese!

Jalapéno Goat Cheese Cornbread

“The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.” -Mark Twain Oh Mr. Twain sure did get it right. Growing up cornbread was a staple in my house. My mom made it in a cast iron skillet (of course) and it always had this crust that made you thank God you lived in the south. There have been many iterations of cornbread…

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