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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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Jalapeño Cheddar Cornbread
We love cornbread of all kinds, but this jalapeño cheddar cornbread is something special. It’s cheesy, moist, and just a little bit spicy. We keep this cornbread on regular rotation in our kitchen. It pairs perfectly with chili, Southern-style pinto beans, or any hearty comfort meal. With sweet corn kernels, plenty of sharp cheddar, and…
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 Texas Sheet Cake
There are some fancy and beautiful cakes in this world. This Old-Fashioned Texas Sheet Cake isn’t one of them. This is the kind of cake you make when you need something dependable. Something chocolate. Something that will disappear before you’ve even set the pan down on the table. Texas Sheet Cake has been around forever…
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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…
