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Go Blue(Berry) For Georgia!

Go Blueberry for Georgia

November 6th is Election Day. Let’s make Georgia Blue with blueberries.

GOAL: I am collect 12 to 15 blueberry recipes from friends to create a quick and easy blueberry cookbook that will be a fundraiser for Georgia democratic candidates, Stacey Abrams who is running for governor and Lucy McBath who is running for Congress in the 6th district. Fill out the form if you are interested. Deadline for entries is August 15th.

If you want to contribute a recipe, sign up via this Google form https://goo.gl/forms/LgoWTeQCMw4Xeta12

I have created a blog for this cookbook, Go Blue(Berry) For Georgia!

WHY BLUEBERRIES? Although Georgia is known as the Peach State, blueberries are Georgia’s most lucrative fruit crop, by far. Things are changing in Georgia, so let’s embrace blue (berries).  I am looking for recipes blueberry muffins, blueberry pie, blueberry buckle, blueberry vinaigrette, blueberry baked brie and more.

 

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food home cooking

New Potato Casserole

roasted new potatoes with cheese and capers

Last week, I walked the Book Lady Bookstore,  and bought an old cookbook, ‘Comforting Food’ by Judith Olney. The cookbook was published back in 1979.  It’s crazy how vintage cookbooks don’t have photos, only illustrations.  I read a recipe for baked potato with eggs and anchovies.  Inspired by the recipe, I created a new dish. First, I roasted  the new potatoes, orange pepper and Vidalia onion.

First, I roasted  the new potatoes, orange pepper and Vidalia onion that I got from the Forsyth Farmer’s Market.  Then I added heavy cream, cayenne pepper, sea salt and cumin and one clove of garlic. I roasted for 20 minutes or so until the potatoes were soft. Then I sliced the potatoes and mashed them a little.  I added cheddar cheese and sour cream. Then I topped the potatoes with capers I bought from Brighter Day.

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food savannah

Dora Charles And The Rehab of Paula Deen

Dora Charles

Dora Charles

Dora Charles who worked for Paula Deen for over twenty years is finally getting her due with her first cookbook, A Real Southern Cook In Her Savannah Kitchen.

I got a copy of the cookbook and it’s a great primer for real southern/soul food cooking. I was talking about the cookbook last week with Erika who is the Yelp Savannah Community Ambassador, and she said,

“Why does soul food have to be elevated?! It’s from the soul, so it is already elevated.”

I agree. Soul food does not have to elevated. The family recipes in Dora Charles’ cookbook will remind you what your Mudear or Auntie made for Sunday dinners. The book comes out September 8th. The New York Times’ Kim Severson interviewed Dora Charles, and she’s doing press at the Decatur Book Festival this weekend. Hugh Acheson blurbed her book, but I’m not sure how much promotion the book is getting in Savannah.

Savannah is still Paula Deen’s town. Coincidentally Paula Deen has a cookbook coming on September 8th as well, and it was announced that she will be one of the celebrities on Dancing With The Stars. It was ONLY two years ago that Paula Deen got in hot water for saying the “N-word”. More disgraceful is that she grossly underpaid the employees at her restaurant. Dora Charles was reportedly making only $10 an hour. Why is Paula Deen allowed to be on TV? Did she go to racial slur rehab? I don’t know Paula Deen. I don’t know what’s in her heart, but I do know what’s in her wallet-wads of CASH.