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Try this super simple one-serving lemon cheesecake to satisfy your dessert cravings!
Ingredients
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 lemons
- Ginger cookies (such as Speculoos) or graham crackers
Method
- Place cream cheese (e.g. Philadelphia) in a mixing bowl.
- Add powdered sugar.
- Beat ingredients together.
- Cut a lemon in half and squeeze the juice of one half into the mixture.
- Mix well.
- Cut the top and bottom off of a lemon and hollow.
- Fill the hollowed-out lemon with the whipped mixture.
- Crush ginger cookies and sprinkle the crumbles on top.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Smoky Sweet Potato Grits
By Bourbon Barrel Foods, Bourbon Barrel Foods
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- 1 sweet onion, chopped finely
- 4 TBS butter
- 4 TBS olive oil
- 3 TBS Bourbon Barrel Foods’ Worcestershire
- 1 TBS Bourbon Smoked Paprika
- 1/2 TBS hot chili pepper
- 1-2 TBS Bourbon Smoked Salt
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- 2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp cumin
- 4 cups cooked sweet potato flesh
- 5 TBS cream cheese, room temperature and cut into pieces
- 2 1/4 c whole milk
- 2 3/4 c corn grits
- 4-5 c chicken stock
- 2 1/2 c shredded parmesan
- Fried egg, meatballs, bacon, or shrimp
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Homemade Cavatelli Pasta with Southern-Style Pesto
By Bourbon Barrel Foods, Bourbon Barrel Foods
Pasta: On a flat surface, made a well with the flour
- For the pasta:
- 4 cups of semolina flour + more (about a half of a cup)
- 1 c lukewarm water
- 2 1/2 TBS Bourbon Smoked Salt + 2 TBS
- Southern-Style Pesto:
- 1 lb grape tomatoes
- 2-3 TBS olive oil
- 10 basil leaves
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 1 1/2 TBS Bourbon Smoked Salt and Pepper (you may prefer more salt)
- 1/2 or 2/3 c. walnut halves
- 1/3 or 1/2 c. freshly grated parmesan cheese
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Southern Fried Chicken with Corn Flakes
By BrendaFlood
Cut chicken breasts into strips (may also make whole chicken breasts, just takes longer to cook)
- Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1 egg
- ½- ¾ cup self rising flour
- ½ cup Corn Flakes, crushed up
- 1 tsp. garlic salt
- salt & pepper
Potato Refrigerator Rolls
By armarcus1
Combine milk, potato, margarine, sugar and salt in a mixing bowl; let stand till lukewarm then add yeast mixture; a...
- 2 tsp yeast
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1 cup warm milk
- 1 cup hot mashed potatoes
- 1/2 cup melted margarine
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 beaten eggs
- 5-6 cups flower
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Golden Fried Oysters
By sacampbell0181, Examiner.com
A very simple and easy to follow recipe for enjoying cooked oysters, deep fried Southern style!
- 1 package of Zatarain's Fish fry
- 1 egg
- 2 cups of milk
- Dozen fresh or jarred oysters
- 2 cups flour or corn meal
- McCormick's Season All
- Salt
- Pepper
Simple Chicken and Dumplings
By tmullins0113
boil your chicken
- chicken
- flour
- water
- chicken broth
NEW BRUNSWICK STEW
By chanel.sk
This is a smoky stew that uses a Dr Pepper barbecue and a Korean Galbi sauce for flavoring
- 1 cup vegan margarine
- 1 lg sweet onion, diced
- 2 tbsp garlic, minced
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp pepper
- 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp red wine
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp molasses
- 1/2 cup Dr Pepper barbecue sauce
- 1/2 cup Galbi sauce
- 2 pkg veggie ground
- 2 pkg vegan chicken strips, diced
- 1 can crushed tomatoes
- 2 cups csweet corn
- 3 cups vegetable broth
- DR PEPPER BBQ SAUCE
- 2 cups Dr Pepper
- 1 cup ketchup
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp red pepper flake
- 1 tbsp Creole hot sauce
- GALBI SAUCE
- 1 sweet onion, diced
- 1 asian pear, peeled and diced
- 4 kiwis, peeled and diced
- 1 tbsp garlic, minced
- 1 tsp ginger, minced
- 1/2 cup rice vinegar
- 1/4 cup sesame oil
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 tsp liquid smoke
Fried Okra
By Bourbon Barrel Foods, Bourbon Barrel Foods
Mx flour, cornmeal, Bourbon Smoked Salt, and Bourbon Smoked Pepper together in a large bowl
- 1/2 cups yellow cornmeal
- 1/4 all purpose flour
- 2 cups okra- chopped 1/4 inch piece
- 2 TBS Bourbon Smoked Salt
- 1 TBS Bourbon Smoked Pepper
- Peanut Oil
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Golden Fried Oysters
By mrtalkback
A very simple and easy to follow recipe for enjoying cooked oysters, deep fried Southern style!
- 1 package of Zatarain's Fish fry
- 1 egg
- 2 cups of milk
- Dozen fresh or jarred oysters
- 2 cups flour or corn meal
- McCormick's Season All
- Salt
- Pepper
Mint Julep Cupcakes
By Bourbon Barrel Foods, Bourbon Barrel Foods
Preheat your oven to 350. Mix together flour, baking powder, and salt
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- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup Mint Julep Sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoon Bourbon Vanilla Extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons mint extract
- 4 eggs
- 2 2/3 cups flour plus 2 tbsp flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon Bourbon Smoked Salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup Bourbon
- 1/2 cup creme de menthe
- Icing
- 2 sticks of butter at room temperature
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 2 1 1/2 teaspoons mint extract
- 1 tsp Bourbon Vanilla Extract
- 1 TBS of milk if needed
- Mint Julep Sugar
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