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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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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…
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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Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
These old-fashioned oatmeal chocolate chip cookies have crisp edges, chewy middles, and just enough raisins to balance all that chocolate. They are the best! We used to make these all the time when I was a kid and I remembered them being one of my favorites. My sisters and I made them so often around…
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Classic Southern Buttermilk Biscuits
I don’t remember ever going to my grandma’s house when she didn’t have a plate of southern buttermilk biscuits sitting around. They were an every morning staple at her house. Sadly, I did not ask her to teach me her recipe. Classic Southern Buttermilk Biscuits Several months ago I was thinking about those biscuits and…
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Winter Salad with Pears and Cashews
This Winter Salad with Pears and Cashews is one of my all-time favorites! I had it for the first time many years ago at a baby shower and was immediately smitten. It was love at first bite. Winter Salad with Pears and Cashews This is the perfect salad for that time when most of the…
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Come on Down to The Flora-Bama
A visit to the iconic honky-tonk the Flora-Bama has been a rite of passage for Alabama and Florida locals as well as vacationing southerners since the 1960’s. Despite hurricanes and high-rises it is still going strong. This famous bar is consistently named as one of the best beach bars in the United States. I can…
