One of the best ways to enjoy some of the season’s best dead-ripe tomatoes is to cook up a simple sauce. Many of us have a favorite sauce recipe, perhaps a hand-me-down family recipe, if we’re lucky. The rest of us turn to a trusted cookbook or recipe site or plunge in using our palates, tomato wiles, and pantry contents to guide the way. There are many paths to an excellent sauce....
Matt: Oh my god. Robby: I’m gonna need to go down to one knee, I think for a second here. Hey everybody, I’m Robby Melvin Test Kitchen Director at Southern Living Magazine. I’m here with Chef Matt Bolus from the 404 Kitchen in Nashville, Tennessee. We’re gonna have some fun with this ham. Matt: We’re gonna barbecue a ham. Robby: Excellent. Step 1: Skin Matt: It’s precooked. Think about the ham you get for the holidays....
“You have got to meet my new friend, Joanna,” my mom said. It was about five years ago, before the world fell head over heels for Chip and Joanna Gaines. My mom had heard about this home-design store owned by the new HGTV stars, which was close to my parents’ Texas ranch. She showed up to shop, Secret Service in tow, and after that one afternoon, developed an immediate girl crush....
It’s been a trying year. We’re keeping our holiday lights up all January long. We’re still baking Christmas cookies by the dozens. We’re streaming holiday movies galore and showing no signs of slowing down as we approach the new year. If you’re in the same camp as we are, we’re guessing you’ll be delighted by this recent video from country singer Keith Urban, featuring a special cameo from his wife Nicole Kidman....
Once upon a time, in a land before the coronavirus pandemic, cereal for dinner maybe didn’t seem like the best idea. These days, breakfast for dinner is the once-weekly indulgence that we eagerly anticipate. There’s something about the comfort of sitting down with a giant bowl, filled to the brim with a comfort food cereal, with perhaps a feel-good movie streaming, that makes for the perfect mid-week treat. Now, we’re feeling especially excited to add a new cereal into our rotation—whether for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a snack—Kellogg’s Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies....
The success of Paramount’s Yellowstone series hinges on more than dysfunction and drama. Watching the Dutton family saga play out against one of America’s most beautiful backdrops is a big part of why fans can’t get enough of the neo-western. Fortunately for aspiring cattle scions, Yellowstone isn’t complete fiction. As Town & Country recently pointed out, Dutton Ranch is a real-life ranch in Darby, Montana. And not only are those endless blue skies, snow-capped mountains, and quintessentially country buildings 100% real, but you can stay there too!...
The North Carolina Zoo is hoping that love is in the air for two of its largest inhabitants. The zoo welcomed its newest resident, a 1,000-pound, 17-year-old male polar bear named Payton, as part of its breeding efforts on Friday. Officials are “hopeful the addition to the polar bear family will result in new offspring,” according to a release. After Payton gets a clean bill of health, he will be introduced to Anana, North Carolina Zoo’s 22-year-old female polar bear....
The New Orleans area could be without electricity for quite some time in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. On Sunday night, the city’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness revealed that the only power in the city was coming from generators. Currently, 888,229 residents are without electricity. All eight transmission lines that deliver power to New Orleans were out of service, Entergy officials said on Sunday. The situation caused a load imbalance and resulted in a failure of all power generation in the region....
Attention Publix shoppers! A very exciting and important deal starts today. We do not have to tell you how delicious the “Pub Sub” is, do we? No, there is already quite a cult-like following of these delectable, grab and go sandwiches. If you’ve ever walked into a Publix, you will likely agree that smell of fresh-baked, pillowy sandwich loaves hard to resist. But Publix loyalists will know that another irresistible smell weaves up and down the aisles and even trickles out into the parking lot of most locations of this Florida based grocery chain....
Rachel Boston has long been a fixture in our favorite feel good movies on Hallmark Channel and beyond. But she has now stepped into a new role both on and off the screen. At the start of 2022, Boston and her fiancé Toyla Ashe welcomed their first child, Grace. “Becoming a mom has changed so much, as everyone told me that it would. And just overnight the focus and the shift of what I wanted for my daughter, it all transformed me and it transformed our lives,” she recently told Southern Living....
On the long list of things that the average person doesn’t think about on a daily basis: pillow inserts. We can shop shams—the way more exciting thing that covers said pillow inserts—all day long, and one could even argue that the most beautifully decorative sham is only as good as the pillow inside. No lumpy pillow that looks like the wind’s been knocked out of it here, please. Finding a high-quality pillow insert that won’t go flat on you and that fits your budget—there are other home items to splurge on!...
A classic baked potato may be one of the world’s most perfect side dishes: easy, affordable, hearty, and versatile. Add the works—like butter, chives, sour cream, bacon bits, or other favorite toppings—and you can make a full meal of a baked potato all on its own. Here’s everything you need to know about the best potatoes for baking and why the variety even matters. What’s the Best Potato for Baking? The ideal potato for baking is low in moisture with a high starch content....
If you can’t stand the taste of cilantro (some folks think it tastes like soap), or just don’t have any on-hand to use in a recipe, there are other ingredients you can use in its place. The most important thing is to consider the dish. You might associate this tender herb with Mexican, Tex-Mex, and Latin food. But it’s a staple ingredient in so many cuisines—Indian, Middle Eastern, Caribbean, even Chinese (the herb is also called Chinese parsley)....
There’s no better place to find classic Piedmont North Carolina-style barbecue than Lexington Barbecue. Founded by Wayne Monk in 1962, it has roots stretching back even further. Monk was mentored by local ‘cue legend Warner Stamey, who learned the craft from Jess Swicegood and Sid Weaver, creators of what’s called the Lexington barbecue style. Monk’s crew (including son Rick, who manages the restaurant) still cooks pork shoulders for 10 hours on brick pits, firing them with both oak and hickory coals....
Every now and then, one haircut can really grab everyone’s attention. It has that “thing” that makes you want it—or at least the confidence or attitude it portrays. Sometimes, a certain fringed bob takes over the text chain, or a vintage pixie cut sparks a social media frenzy. It might be that we’re just missing those statement cuts that used to make a real lasting mark: the Joan Jett shag, the Farrah Fawcett feather, and the Jackie Kennedy bouffant, to name a few....
The beginning of fall is typically a time where we anticipate a lot of things—the changing leaves, the cooler temps, and the unapologetic permission to OD on pumpkin everything. For the decorating obsessed among us, it’s also a time to anticipate the first color forecasts of the season. Each year, paint giants from Behr to Sherwin-Williams tap their resident experts for their predictions on which hues will make a splash in the coming year, based on everything from current trends to the collective mood of the moment....
When we saw Haywood County, North Carolina’s local newspaper, The Mountaineer, cover the opening of The Station on Main in Waynesville, we were immediately intrigued. An entire store devoted to vintage signs collectibles? You don’t have to tell us twice to hit the road. As we gleaned in writer Harrison Dykes’ article on the shop, the eclectic store was born from owners Kelli and Ken Todtenhagen’s collection of vintage signs outgrowing the couple’s garage....
Sweet tea may be the South’s go-to drink most of the year, but in winter, Russian Tea makes for a comforting warm-up on chilly days. As you may have noticed, though, Russian Tea has very little to do with Russia and a lot to do with Southern ingenuity. The tea takes its name from the black tea with lemon and sugar that was the preferred beverage of upper-class Russians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before becoming a Southern staple, handed down in church cookbooks for years....
Come winter, you may think you have to close up shop and say goodbye to gardening until the weather warms up—but you don’t. Instead of leaving your yard barren, choose from a wide range of winter flowering plants that thrive as the temperature drops. From climbing winter jasmine to romantic snowdrop, there’s something to match every home, soil type, and level of sun exposure. Winter Aconite During the gray days of late winter, winter aconite’s vibrant yellow hue brings a much needed spot of sunshine....
A Georgia dog is enjoying her time in the spotlight after a bit of a rough start. Fulton County Animal Services in Atlanta revealed on Facebook over the weekend that a former resident of theirs is the four-legged star of Hulu’s new hit movie, Prey. “Fulton County Animal Services was thrilled to find out that one of our former residents has hit the bigtime,” the shelter wrote alongside photos of the pup....
