One of my favorite things about being from the American South is the diversity of our cuisine. Food down here in Dixie brings together cooking traditions from all around the globe and mashes them together with what grows here in our soil fed by our steamy sweltering summers, our clear cool winters (mostly snow free this far down), and our colorful and rainy springs and automns.

Some of my best memories are sitting on my grandma's porch shelling peas or creaming corn just off the stalk, or cleaning ribs off of mustard greens among a few. Several times a year family would bring around whatever fresh local meats had come home with them from the morning hunt. That could have been wild hog, gator, turtle, squirrel, too many critters with their own delicious character.

This blog will share with you my own versions of some classic Dixie Fixins with my own spin on em'. And believe it or not...many of our Dixie recipes are actually healthy!! After all many of our meats are lean and our veggies are fresh. Y'all enjoy my Dixie Fixins! :)