The blogging world is where home cooking is being reinvented and transformed right now, and I would like to thank these innovative wordsmiths and recipe developers for sharing their kitchen adventures.
Pear, Ginger, and Jack; Slightly Sweet Blueberry Spoon Bread, Teresa Blackburn, foodonfifth.com
Carmen April’s Unexpected Mint Julep; Key Lime Pie, Carmen April, dinnerwithnerds.com
Blackberry Shrub; Fried Catfish Fingers with Tartar Slaw; Brown Butter Pumpkin Chess Tart, R.B. Quinn and Mindy Merrell, cheaterchef.com
Texas Ruby Red Grapefruit Pimm’s Cup; Lemon Guacamole; Chipotle-Lime Hummus with Sour Cream, Randle Browning, crandlecakes.com
Holiday Spice Punch; Homemade Yeast Rolls in a Bread Machine; Aunt Dot’s Coconut Cake, Angie Sarris, angiessouthernkitchen.com
Fresh Squeezed Lemonade with Blackberries and Peaches; West Indies Salad, Shelly Collins, lovingfoodandlife.com
Pimento Cheese Pinwheels; Raw Summer Squash Salad, Aly Armistead Greer, backyardtoballroom.com
Beet Pickled Devilish Eggs; Crab Cake Mac and Cheese, Shamille Wharton, akitchensomewhere.com
Zucchini Fritters for a Crowd; Bacon Cheddar Chive Biscuits; Four-Cheese Sweet Potato Lasagna, Angela Roberts, spinachtiger.com
Hot Black-eyed Pea and Artichoke Dip; Summer Succotash; Strawberry Pie in Pecan Shortbread Crust, April McAnnally, stovetoptodesktop.com
Shoepeg Corn Dip; Chicken Sliders with Bacon and Avocado-Basil Cream; Shrimp Etouffée, Genet Hogan, raisedonaroux.com
Cheesy Sausage Wontons, Larissa Arnault, killingtimebetweenmeals.com
Wendy’s Barbecued Chicken Gizzards; Mama Perry’s Boiled Custard, Wendy Perry, wendyshomeeconomics.com
Individual Chicken Pot Pies with Whole Wheat Crust and Kale, Anna Watson Carl, theyellowtable.com
Tater Tot Squash Frittata; Parmesan Basil Mini Biscuits; Grilled Asparagus and Peach Salad, Grant and Kathryn Mitchell Johnson, ladysmokey.com
Mexican Quiche, Dani Meyer, theadventurebite.com
Brown Sugar and Spice Bacon Bliss; Berry Pudding, Marirae Mathis, whocooksforyou.net/blog
Pulled Smoked Pork; Corn Cakes; Mustard Slaw, Catherine Mayhew, thesouthinmymouth.com
Wedding Beans, Melissa D. Corbin, corbininthedell.com
Black-eyed Pea and Edamame Succotash; Lemon Miso Sweet Potatoes; Fried Chicken Nuggets with Honey-Mustard Dipping Sauce, Jessica Pendergrass, urbansacredgarden.com
Rosemary Grilled Squash; Eggplant, Tomato, and Vidalia Onion Gratin, Shane Kelley, chefshanekelly.com
White Bean Salad; Chipotle Chicken “Cobbler;” Moon Pie Banana Pudding Shots, Natalie Dietz Raines, anykitchen.net
Purple Hull Pea Salad with Bacon Vinaigrette; Watermelon, Cucumber, and Mint Sorbet, Perre Coleman Magness, therunawayspoon.com
Couscous Salad with Fresh Peaches and Sugar Snaps, Donya Mullins, asouthern-soul.blogspot.com
Pork Kabobs with Green Chutney, Vivek Surti, viveksepicureanadventures.com
Seafood Creole, Lucy Mercer, acookandherbooks.blogspot.com
Southern Shrimp and Grits; “Strawberry Shortcake” Chiffon Cake, Juanita Traughber, thebruncher.com
Buffalo Blue Cheese Buttermilk Biscuits with Creamy Buffalo Chicken Filling, Ann Wells Parrish, persnicketybiscuit.com
Tennessee Paella, Lisa Cascio Mays, winewithlisa.com
Sandra’s Spinach Salad with Hot Chorizo Dressing, Sandra Gutierrez, sandraskitchenstudio.com
Maple Pecan Pie with Butternut Squash Filling, Alisa Huntsman, alisahuntsman.com, downhomedesserts.blogspot.com
Peach Almond Pound Cake, Katy Houston, sweetnessfollows.com
Peanut Butter Pie, Joy Harris, sunshinestatecooking.com
Whipping Cream Tea Cakes, Julie Hunt, cup-a.blogspot.com
Tennessee Jam Cake; Glazed Pork Chops with Wine and Jelly, Nicki Pendleton Wood, theprojectkitchen.com, tupperwareavalanche.com
Thanks to these cookbook authors for permission to use their recipes.
Bloody Mary Bar; Pickled Shrimp; Goat Cheese Queso, Tasia Malakasis. Originally published in Tasia’s Table: Cooking with the Artisan Cheesemaker at Belle Chevre (New South Books, 2012). Used with permission of the author.
Crunchy Fried Field Peas; BLT Chicken, Sheri Castle, shericastle.com. Originally published in The New Southern Garden Cookbook by Sheri Castle (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press). Used with permission of author and publisher.
Strawberry Milk; Heart-Shaped Cheese Bites with Ham; Baked Sour Cream and Green Onion Mashed Potatoes. Originally appeared in Tables of Content (Junior League of Birmingham, 2008). Used by permission of the contributor, Kathryn Tortorici.
Momee’s Maque Choux; Spinach Isabel, Peggy Sweeney McDonald, meanwhilebackatcafedumonde.com. Recipes originally appeared in Meanwhile, Back at Café du Monde . . . (Pelican Publishing, 2012). Used by permission of the author.
Red Rice; Chicken Country Captain. Originally published in Well, Shut My Mouth: The Sweet Potatoes Restaurant Cookbook by Stephanie Tyson (Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair Publisher). Used by permission of the author.