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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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Old-Fashioned Southern Pinto Beans
I think a pot of old-fashioned Southern pinto beans simmering on the stove is pure comfort. There’s just something about it that reminds me of my grandparents and all the Southern cooks who came before me. These beans only use a few simple ingredients: dried pinto beans, a smoky ham hock, and onion. But bring them to…
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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Shortcut Southern Chicken and Dumplings
For me, southern chicken and dumplings is one of the ultimate comfort foods. It tastes like coming home. I remember my grandmother making them all the time. The one thing that keeps me from fixing them more often is having to make the dumplings. I love a good homemade dumpling as much as the next…
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Best Way to Boil Eggs for Easy Peeling: Testing 3 Methods
What is the best way to boil eggs for easy peeling? I decided to find out! Peeling hard-boiled eggs is one of those kitchen tasks that should be simple…and somehow never is. Some days the shell slips right off. Other days, it’s like the egg and shell have entered a lifelong commitment. Everyone has a…
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Homestyle Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole
We love a good breakfast casserole around here. It’s the kind of thing I like to make when the house is full and nobody’s in a hurry to go anywhere. This Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole is a special favorite that I actually discovered by accident. Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole I love to make a breakfast…
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Marinated Vegetable Salad with Shoepeg Corn
This old-fashioned marinated vegetable salad is full of peas, green beans, crunchy vegetables, and pimentos tossed in a tangy marinade. Marinated Vegetable Salad with Shoepeg Corn I’ve heard people call this recipe Shoepeg Salad, and on my mother’s handwritten recipe, she simply calls it Christmas Salad. That always made sense to me, not just because of…
