Category: Carolina Recipes
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Easy One-Pan Roasted Chicken with Veggies
Roasted chicken makes a tasty, low-fat, one-pan meal that anyone can cook with a few tips. Check it out…
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Dukes Southern Apple Salad
Southern favorite Dukes Lite Mayonnaise and tasty apples come together for a fresh, light winter fruit salad. This recipe uses nutrient-dense pecan nuts for added texture and crisp celery for fiber and fresh flavor. Apple salad is mildly sweet, crunchy, and tangy making it a great dish for breakfast, lunch or snack time. This delicious…
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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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Hearty Veggie Soup
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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Muscadine Grapes and Wines of the Carolinas
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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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 Delicious Tea, Iced or Hot
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
Happy September to my lovely subscribers. I am truly grateful for each of you and hope you are enjoying reading my quick articles and even trying out recipes written for two. I find it daunting to read heavy, thick recipe books and convert recipes that were written to serve 10 or twelve. Occasionally I still…
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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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Discover the Unique Flavors of Carolina Honey
Hey honey lovers! If you enjoy digging into that gooey golden goodness from North or South Carolina, here’s the lowdown on what makes local honey a buzz-worthy addition to your diet. 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 various reasons:…
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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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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
Carolina Style BBQ Side Dishes; Two Classic Coleslaw Recipes and a Superior Sweet Potato Souffle’ You’ll Want at Every Gathering Happy Autumn all! The weather in the Southeast has been lovely and it is still near 80 degrees in the afternoons. I recently took some photos of Fall foliage while day hiking at a local…
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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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Carolina Boiled Peanuts: A Seasonal Southern Snack
Boiled Peanuts are a Carolina classic! Peanuts, also known as ground nuts, or goober peas are mostly grown in tropical and subtropical climates and flourish under Carolina conditions. They are grown as both grain legumes for their edible seeds and as oil crops in Southeast U.S.A. Peanuts and peanut products are found in everything from…
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10 Cool Foods for Hot Picnics
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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Easy Cheesy Tomato Pie
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 the rain water will drain quickly from the fields, but the damage has been done to…
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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 Carolinas 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 soy beans, okra, corn, melons, and many delicious veggies. Road-side produce stands, truck beds…
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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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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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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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Have You Ever Tried a Lowcountry Boil?
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. Frogmore was a small island town in South Carolina that has been renamed but it’s beloved seafood dish…
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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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Do You Enjoy a Warm Buttery Biscuit?
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 countertop space and a little time to work the dough.…
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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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