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We are Karen and Emily, a mother and daughter from Arkansas. We love the people, food, and places of the south and look forward to sharing them with you here! From the well-known to the obscure come with us as we explore the southern states.
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Strawberry Spinach Salad with White Wine Poppy Seed Vinaigrette
Strawberry season calls for a salad that tastes like spring. This strawberry spinach salad combines sweet berries, fresh spinach, toasted pecans, salty feta, and a white wine poppy seed vinaigrette that ties everything together. I have made this salad a few times every spring for years. It is always a family favorite. Strawberry Spinach Salad…
Hey y’all! We are Karen and Emily!
We are a mother and daughter from Arkansas. We love to explore, eat at hole in the wall restaurants, meet interesting people, visit small towns, and get out in nature. We started Somewhere Down South in order to have a place to share the food, people, places, and stories of the southern US.
Our goal is for you to come along with us as we strive to experience and understand one of the most unusual, complicated, quirky, misinterpreted, difficult, underrated, and beautiful areas of the United States.
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Classic Southern Cornbread Dressing
My husband and I have been married for over 40 years, and we spent our very first Thanksgiving as a married couple with his big, extended family. That’s when I realized that his grandmother, who everyone called Mama Jo, made the very best Southern cornbread dressing that I had ever tasted. Don’t tell my mom…but it…
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Smoked Turkey Dip (aka Turkey Crack) – The BEST Way to Use Leftover Turkey
There is a restaurant in Arkansas called Burge’s that specializes in smoked ham and turkey. They also sell things like hamburgers and catfish, but what they are really famous for is a delectable smoked turkey dip that locals lovingly call, “turkey crack.” It is so good! You can buy it in pints and quarts at…
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Classic Chicken and Sausage Gumbo (No Okra)
I fell in love with chicken and sausage gumbo and, honestly, all Cajun and Creole cuisine my freshman year of college. That was a long, long time ago, y’all! During my freshman year of college one of my hall-mates was from the small town of Amite, Louisiana. She invited a group of us to come…
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Classic Cream Cheese Pound Cake
I first made this classic cream cheese pound cake more than twenty years ago for a family Easter celebration, and it ended up being the hit of the day. Since then it has been one of those recipes I come back to again and again…at any time of the year! During strawberry season, I love serving thick slices with fresh berries and a spoonful of whipped cream, but this is the kind of cake that fits just as easily on a holiday…
