Posts

First off, Harry Connick, Jr. wants to set the record straight. “[It’s] New Orleans…Here’s how you do not pronounce New Orleans: ‘N’awlins.’ If you say ‘N’awlins’ you are not from New Orleans and it’s a giveaway!” the star joked in the Twitter video. As a New Orleans native, though, Harry Connick, Jr. has far deeper knowledge of his hometown than merely pronunciation guidelines. Turns out, Connick, Jr. is a New Orleans food expert....

Whoever thought up the first batch of homemade pimiento cheese—the classic Southern spread made with cheese, mayonnaise, and jarred pimientos—surely did not know the magnitude of the discovery. The versatile recipe can be served as an appetizer with crackers, made into a meal on two slices of pillowy bread, thrown on top of a salad as an attempt to get your greens in, or even scooped straight out of the container with a spoon as you pass by the refrigerator....

Jared Padalecki and his wife Genevieve belong to a growing number of celebrities who decided to trade in their Hollywood digs to raise their families in the South. The Padaleckis, who met on the set of the cult TV show Supernatural, currently reside in Austin with their three children and three dogs. The couple relocated from Los Angeles to the Texas capital in 2010, and purchased their current home in 2012—long before Covid pushed a wave of stars from California to Texas....

Hometown: Allen, Texas | Occupation: Actor | What’s on his plate: The late-June premiere of the final season of HBO’s True Blood, the closing night (July 27) of his Broadway performance in Of Mice and Men, and the August 1 release of Child of God | His sweet tooth: “I’m a big cobbler guy—peach is the best.” If I had a superpower, like on True Blood, I’d want the ability to speed-read a thousand pages per second and retain whatever I read....

It’s been more than 50 years since Fred Rogers invited us all to be his neighbor in the wonderful gentle world he created on public television. For decades, Mr. Rogers as he was known was a constant and steady presence in the lives of millions of children helping them navigate and understand the big world around them. Of course, Mr. Rogers had his own constant and steady presence helping him navigate the world—his wife of almost 51 years, Joanne....

Oh, the things dog parents do to elicit a tail wag! We know how great it feels to make a pup happy. Now, no disrespect to tennis balls, belly scratches, and Starbucks Puppuccinos, but, according to research, it’s super easy to fill your furry friend with joy. In fact, all it takes is the utterance of a few common phrases. In a three-month study, the experts at online UK marketplace OnBuy....

Southerners love a good story and this year the NCAA baseball tournament gave them one. Ole Miss was the last baseball team to earn a spot in the college tournament. And then like in an old fashioned sports fairy tale, they managed to take the whole thing. The University of Mississippi defeated the University of Oklahoma (sorry, Sooner fans!) in the Men’s College World Series finals with a 4-2 victory Sunday....

Let’s just say it: OPI Funny Bunny is the Jan Brady of neutral nail colors. (“Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!”) But instead it groans, “Ballet Slippers, Ballet Slippers, Ballet Slippers!” Before you grab the nearest pitchfork, hear us out. We don’t hate the iconic pink-nude neutral that is Essie Ballet Slippers. In fact, we love it. But the classic nail color doesn’t exactly ignite a fire in the belly, nor does it really spur that many compliments....

To be Southern means to love thy neighbor and love thy Whataburger, are we right? To that point, patrons of one Whataburger in the Pensacola suburb, Pace, embodied the best of both virtues with a chain of more than 100 customers buying food for the people behind them in the drive-thru line. Per Mobile-based television station WKRG-TV, this extended gesture of generosity started on Friday morning when a regular customer decided to pick up the tab for the woman’s car behind him at the drive-thru, creating a ripple effect that lasted 105 cars strong....

As the weather gets warmer, happy hour drinks will get cooler—and as we approach spring, many folks are interested in swapping out their hot toddy for a refreshing glass of sangria. Below, we asked two wine experts for their take on all things sangria. What Is Sangria and How Do You Make It? Sangria, in its most basic form, is a wine punch. “This beverage has been enjoyed for hundreds of years and has gone through many adaptations,” explains Kara Flaherty, Beverage Director for Take Root Hospitality (the restaurant group behind Vicia and Winslow’s Table) in St....

A rare wildflower is currently in bloom, but you’ll have to act fast if you want to experience it in nature in person. This endangered perennial only blooms for a few more weeks. The Oconee Bell, first discovered in the Southern Appalachians by a French botanist in 1788, has an exceptionally limited habitat. Colonies can be found in North Carolina and Georgia, but 90% of its total population can be found in Upstate South Carolina, along the steep banks of the streams that feed Lake Jocassee....

Take a chance on those free-range, farm-raised chicken eggs at the grocery store and you’ll notice the color of the yolks are often much closer to orange than yellow. But what accounts for the difference? Watch: 4 Ways to Perfect Eggs with Blackberry Farms What’s in an Egg Yolk Making up only one-third of the egg’s entire weight, the yolk contains 75% of an egg’s calories. A complex bag of proteins and fats, the yolk also houses most of the iron and Vitamin A found in the cell....

It looks like Ben Napier has some competition in the love note department. On Thursday’s episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna, Hoda Kotb revealed that her morning routine includes one very meaningful step: writing love letters to her young daughters, five-year-old Haley, and two-year-old Hope. “I write them a special note… and I draw a little picture of the two of them doing something,” she told her friend and co-host Jenna Bush Hager....

Most people associate Orlando with its beloved theme parks: Walt Disney World (which is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary), Universal Studios Orlando, SeaWorld, and Busch Gardens, which collectively bring in more theme park visitors than any other U.S. state or even any country in the world. But along with an ambitious multibillion-dollar airport renovation designed to make travel to and from Orlando more convenient, there are dozens of new restaurants and attractions on tap to open in the coming years, expanding tourism options beyond the theme parks and giving visitors even more reasons to return to Florida for another dose of magic....

As you can probably imagine, we go through a lot of butter at the Southern Living Test Kitchen. On any given day, you’ll see tray after tray of golden buttermilk biscuits, a dozen different bundt cakes, or around the holidays, enough Christmas cookies to give even Santa a stomachache. You might think all butter is alike, but our cooks know better. Our giant walk-in refrigerator is stocked with boxes and boxes of one particular brand: Land O’Lakes....

Food at a Super Bowl party is just as important as the game. Most likely, you’ve got football enthusiasts sitting next to people who are watching their only game of the year, and the one thing that unites everyone (besides the commercials) is the plates sitting in front of them. This party is the gathering of the year where finger foods and snacks have their moment to shine—and for those of us at Southern Living, we’re convinced that a host is only as good as their snack repertoire....

If you’ve ever wished your lawn was awash in flowers instead of grass, there’s a summertime ground cover that can make your wishes come true. Chamomile is perhaps best known for its uses in beauty products and herbal teas, but it’s also a lovely blooming addition to lawns. Chamomile’s scientific names are Chamaemelum nobile and Anthemis nobilis, and it has many other common names as well. It’s also known as Roman chamomile, English chamomile, and garden chamomile....

We’ve said it 100 times, but we’ll say it again: It’s been a year. We all could use a bit of cheering up. Sometimes, we find that in comforting bible verses. Sometimes we find that in Dolly Parton tunes. Sometimes, we find it in the smile-evoking magic that is Disney. That’s why we couldn’t help but upturn our lips into a wide grin when we stumbled across this darling Disney Mickey Mouse Kitchen Bar Cart from Pottery Barn’s Disney collection....

My family loves mayhaw. What’s a mayhaw, you ask? If you asked my nephew, he’d say, “Mayhaw—that’s the jelly I like.” If you asked my mom, she’d say, “Mayhaws—that’s those berries I have to pick up every May.” When I call my mom during May, she’s most likely under the mayhaw trees, gathering mayhaw, preparing juice, making jelly, and freezing the leftover berries for later. The mayhaw, the fruit of the mayhaw tree, is a lesser-known harvested berry in—you guessed it—May....

For many households across the country, Easter morning starts the same way. Baskets overflowing with chocolate candies, jellybeans, and dyed eggs, a trip to church in our Easter hats, and then home for a big family meal. And for many households, the main course will be a sweet and succulent ham. Have you ever wondered why so many families eat ham on Easter Sunday when a large portion of the world still eats lamb?...