Author: Carolina Cuisine Network
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The Best Charleston Red Rice
Who’s ready for a flavorful Friday evening with an easy home cooked meal? This easy Charleston Red Rice recipe is a great side dish that you can pop in the oven while showering and dinner’s done before you know it. Happy Friday all!
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Celebrate Dad with a Personalized Menu of His Faves; Love You Dad!
Classic Father’s Day Family Dinner in the Carolina’s: Choose an Entree’ Premium Proteins for Dad: Black Angus T-Bone Steak with Garlic confit Oven Roasted Young Chicken with Lemon and Herbs Blackened Fish Fillet, Catfish, Salmon, Sea Trout, or Red Drum, Chilled Dill Tartar Sauce & Lemon Pair with Side Dish Delicious, Healthy Side-Dishes. Carolina Gullah…
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Free Summer Meals for Kids: A Guide from Carolina Cuisine Network
5 Trusted Resources That Help Carolina Families Find Free Meals this 2026 School Summer Break from the Carolina Cuisine Network
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Feeding Hope: Laurinburg Nonprofit Delivers Food Bags to School Children in Need
At the Carolina Cuisine Network, we celebrate food traditions, ingredients, and people that nourish our Carolina communities. Sometimes, though, the most important food story is not about a tasty recipe. Food culture is not only about what appears on the table, but whether a child has food on the table at all.
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Fresh Peach Poppyseed Salad Dressing
Good afternoon, everyone! Is it really taco Tuesday again? Maybe it’s the pubs “two for Tuesday” Happy Hour that got you convinced you had rather not eat at home today. For the general price of a dinner out, you can prepare a quick, healthy, and delicious Carolina-style dinner salad for two or more.
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Savor Summerville: Discovering the Town’s Tastiest Eats
Summerville, South Carolina, is known for its charming historic downtown and an incredibly rich food scene that’s often overlooked. This historic town is nestled between Charleston peninsula and I-95 in the Carolina’s Lowcountry. Here’s a curated list of five must-visit local gems that perfectly capture Summerville’s culinary spirit.
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The Mother’s Day Menu
This menu works for 2 or any size family. Try a new recipe with your loved ones this Mother’s Day, we’re worth it. Love you mom!
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The Easiest Lowcountry Shrimp Boil
Shrimp are a healthy source of delicious protein when lightly boiled with seasonings and don’t have to be fried all the time. Try this quick shrimp boil recipe any weeknight or for Saturday gametime with family and friends.
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Air Fryer Southern Fried Fish
These healthy fish fillets make weeknight dinner at home easy and quick- about 1 minutes! You can’t get much healthier protein than air-fried fish and this delicious, beginner-cook recipe hit the mark.
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Carolina Seafood Chowder: Easy One-Pot Dinner that’s Gluten-free
Easy prep, one-pot dinner is ready in under an hour with this easy-to-follow beginner recipe. Enjoy this seafood chowder any weeknight or use it as a first course for formal meals. It’s easily adjustable to serve more or make a double batch and freeze for later.
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Fried Green Tomatoes
Easy and quick fried green tomatoes are crispy, tangy and SO Southern!
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Welcoming Easter with Spring Flowers in Summerville
So many flowers and flowering shrubs are blooming in the historic city of Flowertown in the Pines aka Summerville, South Carolina. I’ve got to share the bounty and hope you see these and many more this Spring. I’ve included links to Amazon’s available garden products that every planting person needs this season. Potting soil, pots,…
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Hot Honey Chicken
Easy Crunchy Chicken with Southern Swicy Sauce, a sweet and spicy hot honey drizzle sauce that you’ll want to dunk in to. This is a quick “How to” : 💛 How to master crunchy chicken 💛 How to master Swicy Hot Honey sauce
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Easy Weeknight Dinner Slow Cooker Macaroni and Cheese
Answer the question of what’s for dinner with this easy one-pot weeknight macaroni and cheese with ham straight from the crock pot.
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10 Must-Try Golf Courses in the Carolinas
Top 10 Best Golf Destinations for a Day Trip in the Carolinas. North & South Carolina are sprinkled with top golf courses from the mountains to the coastlines with many featuring water views. Rolling hills, tall pines, majestic oaks, lake breezes, and Atlantic coast views are part of what makes this area of the US…
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Easy Sweet Potato Yam Patties
North Carolina sweet potatoes are oven roasted and lightly pan fried in butter for delicious and nutritious yams patties.
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Quick, Traditional Chicken & Pastry
Southern Chicken and Pastry or Chicken & Dumplings are a classic Carolina homemade comfort food. I say Carolina because of using Anne’s Dumplings sheet pastry made in North Carolina. These frozen pastry sheets are ready to use when you are and make this dinner quick and so delicious!
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Easy Weeknight Peach Cobbler
Easy Peach Cobbler is quick, easy, and delicious homemade dessert recipe for beginner cooks on weeknights or Holidays.
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Creamy Chicken Casserole
Easy, delicious chicken and rice casserole is a one-pan dish for any weeknight.
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Grandmas Weeknight Brown Rice
Baked brown rice is fluffy and flavorful. There are several variations that are easy to make with these recipes.
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Easy One-Pan Roast Chicken with Veggies
Oven Roasted Chicken and vegetables makes a tasty, low-fat, one-pan meal that anyone can cook with a few tips.
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Dukes Best Southern Apple Salad; Easy, Quick, and Delicious!
Apple salad with Dukes mayonnaise is a tasty and nutritious side dish year around.
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One-Pot Turkey Parmesan Casserole
Creamy Turkey and Rice Casserole is a quick and nutritious comfort meal. This recipe serves 2 to four and cooks in 30 minutes. Try it this week for an easy, one-pot, soul-satifying dinner.
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New Year’s Day Hoppin’ John
Happy New Year and good eating to you and yours from the coastal Carolinas. I’ve been lunching this week with friends visiting Charleston and family from North Carolina as well. While eating out has been nice, I’m looking forward to digging in to a comforting bowl of Hoppin’ John on New Year’s Day for a…
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Spend the 12 Days of Christmas in the Carolinas
As winter approaches, Carolina towns offer various outdoor holiday activities for families. Popular events include the Charleston Christmas parade, Holiday Festival of Lights, and Winterfest in Wilmington. Other attractions include skiing in the Appalachian Mountains, tree cutting in Blowing Rock, and festive celebrations across cities, ensuring a memorable holiday season.
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Spiced Apple Dumplings
Carolina Cuisine is about sharing scrumptious Southern favorites like apple dumplings. Here’s a recipe that yields four delicious and comforting apple dumplings in a warm spiced caramel sauce made without the heavy cream. Nurture and nourish yourself and family, Enjoy!
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Quick & Hearty Veggie Soup Recipe, slow cooker or stovetop
Hearty Vegetable Soup can be made on the stovetop or slow cooker crock pot with this recipe. Either way, it’s delicious and makes good leftovers. A variety of meats can be added for protein. Vegetarian options are included too!
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How to Cook Classic Dirty Rice, a Traditional Southern Favorite
Dirty rice is a favorite Southern recipe that I’m often asked for. It makes a flavorful 1 pot side or main dish and cooks quickly.
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Carolina Muscadine Grapes, Wines & Vineyards
Muscadine Grapes prosper under the Southern Sun. I recently found these jewel-toned beauties and was inspired to share the joy. Juicy Muscadine Grapes grown at Cottle Farms, Faison, North Carolina US boast health benefits and sweet mild flavor. I found these beautiful berries in the produce department of a food market in South Carolina and…
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Golden Fried Apple Pies, Vegetarian
Golden fried apple “hand pies” are a wonderfully scrumptious way to enjoy the fruit of the season. Apple orchards across the Carolinas are wrapping up before the first frost and collecting a large variety of flavorful apples. This recipe makes 4 pies and includes a quick pastry dough recipe or you could buy sheets of…
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2025 Southeast Vegetable & Fruit Expo; N.C. Cooperative Extension
Southeastern Vegetable and Fruit Autumn Expo
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Easy, Quick & Nutritious Creamy Pea Salad
English garden pea salad is an easy and delicious way to eat raw vegetables. This no-cook recipe comes together quickly and serves two. Try the side salad made with fresh peas this weekend.
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Carolina Apple Orchards
I’ve been exploring some local apple orchards and cooking up some good desserts lately. Fried apples were a seasonal treat at mama’s house, usually served with chops. Here’s a classic sweet cinnamon side dish with a recipe written to serve two (as usual). Try this fried apple recipe or one of these desserts, just click…
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How to Brew Authentic Southern Iced Tea
The weather is beautiful with perfectly blue tinted skies, fluffy clouds, and cool mornings in the 60s here on the South Carolina coast. It’s January in the South, the American football season is wrapping up and the fish are biting. The day is new and it’s almost heavenly here, but first, tea! 🫖 No matter…
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Chargrilled Shrimp Skewers
It’s a great day for a family food shopping trip and grilling shrimp on the patio charcoal grill. Come shopping with me in a beautiful Carolina-based grocery store.
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Easy Chicken Recipes
The sweltering days of July in the South have finally given way to wonderfully mild afternoons and refreshing cool mornings, bringing a joyful change from the typically oppressive heat. My family embraces the “mock autumn” weather outdoors as we happily pull out the Weber grill and head to the food market, excited to pick up…
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Healthy Carolina Honey
Hey honey lovers! If you enjoy digging into that gooey golden goodness, here’s the lowdown on what makes local honey a buzz-worthy addition to your diet. Discover the Unique Flavors of Carolina Honey What’s in the jar? Local honey is nature’s nectar, with just a few main ingredients. It’s delicious and good for us for…
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Muscadine Grapes and Wines of the Carolinas
Muscadine grapes are juicy, nutritious, and grow exceptionally well in the Carolina soil. They have a uniquely sweet flavor that makes great juice, wine, jams and healthy snacks.
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Crispy Squash Fritters with Roasted Garlic Dipping Sauce
As the heat turns up in the Carolinas, hearty squash are blooming brightly in the garden. They have large, lovely, velvety soft flower blossoms that tend to hang on a few days before producing a squash bud and falling off. These beauties can be removed in the morning, rinsed off, and eaten as edible flowers.…
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5 Fresh Salad Dressings to Shake Up
5 vinaigrette salad dressing that are flavorful, light, and quick to shake up.
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This is Our Carolina Cuisine Network
Welcome ALL to our Carolina Cuisine network! This site is intended to inform, entertain, and unite the Carolinas, our food experiences, and cooks of all skill levels who enjoy exploring food cultures. You’ll find recipes and articles on foods and dishes commonly found in North and South Carolina. I add content or work on this…
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Stuffed Cabbage Rolls in Tomato Sauce
Try a comforting classic veggie roll recipe this Thanksgiving week with Stuffed Cabbages
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Two Carolina Style Barbecue Cookout Side Dishes; Sweet Potato Souffle’ and Cool Coleslaw Recipes
Two Carolina style barbecue cookout side dish recipes: Sweet potato Souffle’s and cool coleslaw. NC Red Slaw recipe and Duke’s Coleslaw recipes for 2.
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Smoked Pork Barbecue at Home: Easy Recipe with Vinegar Sauce
Get my Southern Pork Barbecue recipe and cook barbecue like a pro, low and slow (even indoors). Smoked pork barbecue shredded and ready to be plated. It has natural smoked flavor and pink-ish color from the smoke imparted on the grill. Add sauce as desired and serve with corn bread, potato salad, baked beans, hush…
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Peach Muscadine Sangria Sipper
What a delicious way to enjoy Muscadine wine and get that needed Resveratrol for increased health of our bodies. You’ll enjoy the refreshing herbal scent of this light and peachy Sangria sipper (for adults over 21). The first Sangria cocktail recipe contains schnapps liqueur and has a little punch more of alcohol. Second recipe is…
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Have You Heard of Boiled Peanuts?
Peanuts, also known as ground nuts, or goober peas are mostly grown in tropical and subtropical climates and flourish under Carolina conditions. Here’s an easy recipe for the perfect boiled peanut, a Carolina specialty!
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10 Best Cool Foods for Hot Picnics & Beach Days
The Dog Days of Summer are here with high humidity and temperatures under the Southern sun. However, that doesn’t stop birthday parties, baby showers, and other friend and family events from bringing us together in the heat of the summer. It may be a family beach day, lakeside picnic at the state park, your coworkers…
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5 Easy Ideas for Fresh Peaches
Peaches are ripe on the Carolina trees and farmers are collecting them fresh throughout August. Farm stands and produce markets are a great way to support local peach growers and their families. They are also the best, juiciest, most tasty peach varieties available. Join me as I use fresh peaches in recipes this month and…
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Organic Berry Syrup and Blueberry Pie Recipes, Vegetarian
Classic Southern Carolina Blueberry Pie easy dessert recipe anyone can create and bake.
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How to Make Tasty Tomato Pie
Easy, cheesy tomato pie is one of many delicious ways to enjoy the tomatoes of summer. Tomatoes have done well this extra hot summer in the Carolinas. 2024 has been a rather good growing season prior to the current Tropical Storm Debby. August rain and thunderstorms have turned growing fields into shallow ponds. Most of…
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Summer Veg Makes It Easy to Eat Fresh
Hey y’all! Hoping everyone is enjoying these beautiful summer days like my family is. The Carolina’s have been blessed with a good growing season for fruits and vegetables this year, which is a gardeners blessing indeed. The fields are full of soybeans, okra, corn, melons, and many delicious veggies. Road-side produce stands, truck beds full…
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3 Blue Crab Appetizers to Try at Your Summer Soiree or Shindig
3 rich and delicious blue crab recipes to use for appetizers
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Collard Greens
Collard greens are the Office State Vegetable of South Carolina and are considered a Superfood!
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16th annual Chef’s Potluck – Lowcountry Local First
Join the 16th annual Chef’s Potluck event in North Charleston, SC at Holy City Brewery. Visit www.lowcountrylocalfirst.org/events/16th-annual-chefs-potluck for more details.
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NC Apple Salad in Endive Cups
This makes a lovely appetizer with Waldorf-type apple salad in a portable Endive leaf cup. Recipe makes about 2 cups and 4 servings. Ingredients: Process: Core and cube apples, add to bowl. Add nuts and grapes. Stir in mayonnaise. Taste and add salt if desired. Serve cold in endive leaves. Eat immediately or refrigerate for…
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Have You Tried Candied Pecans?
Candied pecans are a crisp, slightly salty and slightly sweet treat from Carolina kitchens. They are a healthy snack and are great for adding to salads, dessert toppings, ice cream toppings, and holiday cookie boxes.
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Dessert Cheesecake Balls
Try these dessert treats for beginner cooks good enough to share with loved ones on any occasion.
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The Mother’s Day Menu
This menu works for 2 or any size family. Try a new recipe with your loved ones this Mother’s Day, we’re worth it. Love you mom!
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Safe Food Temperature Chart
The Danger Zone is a temperature range between 40F and 140F when bacteria can grow the quickest on our carefully prepared food. *Food should be thrown out after 4 hours in the danger zone temperatures. *Leftovers should be heated to at least 145 degrees F prior to serving. *When preparing foods, cut up vegetables and…
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Pepper Steak, Rice and Gravy for 2
Who doesn’t like steak and gravy? Stop reading now if you don’t. Mom called and asked for this recipe for a comfort food dinner with dad. I’m glad she did because this recipe needs to be here in the Carolina Cuisine network of deliciousness. I start this recipe by making a browned butter roux, then…
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Have You Ever Tried a Lowcountry Boil?
Have you tried a quick, delicious shrimp boil yet? We’re talking about the hands-on 1 pot meal that feeds 2 or a crowd. Lowcountry boil, aka Frogmore stew, is white Carolina shrimp with sausage, potatoes and vegs cooked in a deliciously seasoned broth just until done.
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Do You Enjoy Warm Buttery Biscuits?
There’s nothing like a Southern meal with the down-home goodness of old-fashioned fluffy biscuits. This beloved bread originated in Southern plantation kitchens and has spread its soul-food goodness across the country. The biscuit is a simple and quick 3 ingredient bread that requires some counter space and a little time to work the dough. There…
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Let’s Dive Into Carolina Oysters
Oysters are one of the North and South Carolina’s shellfish that are a staple on most local restaurants menu year around and are a special Winter treat. They are delicious and one of the most nutritious foods we can eat providing almost every essential nutrient. You can find them growing in clusters in the saltwater…
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What is Carolina Cuisine?
The Carolinas have some scrumptious unique dishes that set us apart from rest of the country but chances are you’ve at least heard of most of them as their popularity has spread across America. As a professionally trained Chef from North Carolina that worked in the historic French quarter of Charleston, I learned the ins…
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