Down Home Recipes

This is one of my favorite recipes for skillet cornbread, Southern-style. It's a tradition for many with chili, pinto beans, soups, greens, and other delicious Southern meals.

5 ww a serving

I originally got this recipe from Rachael Ray's website, and with a few tweaks here and there, it's really something special!

"Chitlins" or Chitterlings are the small intestine of a hog. My NA Grandfather was a hog farmer and he used every bit of the hog he could.

Cooked properly it is a fine meal. Use potatoes to absorb the smell of the chitterlings while cooking.

"Do frog legs taste like chicken?"

No. Cooked right, they have a naturally tangy flavor, smokey, tender, juicy and delicious!

Frog legs are an exotic Cajun delicacy from South Louisiana.

Grill over a very hot flame a few minutes. Frog legs have no fat. Overcooking or cooking too slow makes them dry and tasteless.

Fish them out of the bayou or contact Church Point Wholesale online for premium quality, cleaned, quick frozen legs.

We grew up with Ham Hocks and Collard Greens!

I have modified the recipe to lower the fat. Remove the fat and skin. Tear the meat into strips and mix it back in with the greens.

I come from a family of farmers. My Grandparent's used almost every part of the hog that they butchered including the head and ears.

This is the closest recipe that I could find that resembles my grandmother "Bigmamma's' old family favorite Hog Head Cheese or Souse.

Seriously, I may not be Granny on the Beverly Hill Billies, but I am a country girl who knows how to cook and loves to eat wild game.

And raccoon is no exception. Cooked slowly in a Crock Pot, this makes a very good meal.

Secret: Cut gamey taste by using Whole Cloves.

Smoked Pork Neck Bones add a lot of smokey ham flavor to the greens.

Quickening the cooking time comes from CD Kitchen.

Campsite Dutch Oven Cooking Method included.

Secret: Cut gamey taste by using Whole Cloves.

Slow Baked and delicious!

Cracklin' Cornbread is one of my family's Thanksgiving tradition.

Cracklings are pork skin that is fried until the fat is rendered off leaving tiny crispy pieces of skin.

You can substitute it with fried bacon. But beware! High Calories!

My Grandmother made squirrel for my father almost every time we came to the farm to visit. Cooked right, squirrel is a real treat!

Yummy chili for chilly nights :)

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Craving down home cooking w/o fat and cholesterol?? Try this!

This is made with Maple Sausage but you can use regular sausage and add maple syrup. Also add more flour for thicker or add more water for thinner gravy

I couldn't stand the jarred alfredo sauce from the commissary anymore. So I made my own.