Southern Lunch Lady Coleslaw

Recipe Friday is here! Every time someone brings this dish, people ask for the recipe. It was featured on a cooking show called Tim Farmer's Country Kitchen. According to the host, the recipe is now in the public domain. Here is the exact recipe, but know that when making it I drastically cut back on the sugar and use low-fat (not fat-free) mayonnaise. Our family prefers savory to sweet, so we also add salt, pepper, and garlic to taste. But try the original recipe at least once as a treat ... and to taste it as it's meant to be. The rest of the time, I'd reduce the sugar to about a tablespoon for a large head of cabbage. Frankly, once familiar with healthier fare, it's delicious too.

Southern Lunch Lady Coleslaw

Ingredients:

A big head of cabbage, shredded

2 large carrots, shredded

2 cups of mayonnaise

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup white vinegar

1 tablespoon mustard

1 tablespoon pickled jalapenos

Directions:

1) Shred and combine the cabbage and carrots in a mixing bowl.

2) Combine the mayonnaise, sugar, vinegar, and mustard in a separate bowl.

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3) Pour as much or as little as you like over the coleslaw. Some people like it dry and others like it wet. I like enough dressing to be creamy without the coleslaw swimming in mayonnaise. Pour and stir until you get your preferred consistency. 

4) Top with pickled jalapenos.

A huge batch of homemade coleslaw is a delicious dish to serve at a potluck gathering! No one would go home hungry. Enjoy.

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Spoon bread is a popular Appalachian side dish probably of Native American origin. Lighter than cornbread, it's a cross between a soufflè and Yorkville pudding. Neither a bread nor a dessert, the dish goes well with a beef stew dinner or a breakfast with butter and syrup. The recipe below is traditional Appalachian and linked, but unfortunately uncredited. Here's how to make it the authentic way (yet feel free to substitute yellow cornmeal and baking soda if the ingredients are all you have in your cupboard. Yes, it will change the texture, but you can still eat it.):

Appalachian Spoon Bread

Ingredients:

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2 3/4 milk

1 cup white cornmeal

2 tablespoons butter, room temperature

1 teaspoon salt

4 large eggs, separated

1 tablespoon sugar

1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar

1 pinch salt

Directions:

1) In a saucepan on a stovetop heat the milk and cornmeal, whisking constantly until thick and creamy. Turn the heat off and whisk in the 2 tablespoons of butter and 1 teaspoon of salt. Let the mixture cool a bit.

2) In a mixing bowl whisk together the egg yolks, sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar and whisk the egg yolk mixture into the cooled cornmeal mixture.

3) In a separate mixing bowl use an electric mixer to beat together the egg whites, 1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar, and a pinch of salt until the egg whites form peaks, then fold the egg whites into the cornmeal mixture.

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4) Pour into a large buttered cast iron skillet (or buttered dutch oven).

5) Bake in a 350-degree F preheated oven for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from the oven.

Eat the spoon bread warm and the leftovers cold the next day. Soft, moist, filling, and delish! This is a keeper recipe and that's why it's on the blog, so we can all return here to make it now and again.

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One of the most beloved brands in New Orleans, Flirty Girl, was launched in 2009 by single mother and New Orleans native, Lauren LeBlanc Haydel, initially as an online business. Today she has 8 retail stores and 60 employees. The brand was voted Best of New Orleans by Gambit magazine for 11 years in a row.

Flirty Girl's aim is to make you smile while celebrating the city of New Orleans with shirts, skorts, scarves, jackets, shoes, kitchen and bar glasses, hair accessories, food and spices, soap, together with holiday-and-novelty gifts.

The retailer has become a must-stop for tourists but if you can't make it to New Orleans you can still send some "local love + fun finds" by ordering online, the place where it all began. Perhaps someone on your holiday list could use a smile or has fond memories of the Big Easy.

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