Simply Southern Recipes

Simply Southern, produced by my longtime partner, the Alabama Farmers Federation, is dedicated to agriculture and rural living. Simply Southern inspires and educates viewers about farming, food, and gardening while entertaining with stories about innovative entrepreneurs, talented artisans, outstanding young people and Alabama’s hidden treasures. Beginning with season 7, you’ll find a new segment! I’ll be contributing a cooking segment to every episode where you’ll find me cooking some of the quick, easy, and delicious recipes you’ve come to know and love from SouthernBite.com.

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Recipes from Recent Episodes

Season 9

Episode 926

Baked Ham and Pimento Cheese Egg Cups

These Baked Ham and Pimento Cheese Egg Cups are just as easy as they are delicious!

Taking a slice of Peanut Butter Chess Pie

Episode 925

Easy Peanut Butter Chess Pie

This Peanut Butter Chess Pie combines the gooey, decadent classic pie recipe with sweet and savory peanut butter for an easy dessert that is sure to be a hit!

Episode 924

Deep Fried Pecan Pies

These Deep Fried Pecan Pies are the perfect amalgamation of fried hand pies and pecan pie all wrapped into one delicious dessert!

Episode 923

Southern Tomato Gravy

The tangy, savory gravy is perfect for homemade biscuits, scrambled eggs, you name it! I even love it poured over cheese grits – think shrimp and grits, too.

Skillet Cake Slice missing with fruit on side

Episode 922

Old Fashioned Skillet Cake

This easy scratch-made cake is cooked right in a cast iron skillet and is great served topped with fresh fruit and a little whipped cream!

Episode 921

The BEST Garlic Bread

Perfect proportions of real butter and fresh garlic combine to make this recipe the Best Garlic Bread ever! It’s soft and gooey in the middle and crispy and crunchy all around the edges.

Episode 920

Peach Chess Pie

This Peach Chess Pie combines the custardy goodness of chess pie with the sweet and flavorful twist of peach cobbler.

Episode 919

Shortcut Tomato Focaccia

This Shortcut Tomato Focaccia uses a can of refrigerated pizza dough to create a quick and easy bread recipe that’s just as delicious as it is beautiful!

Episode 918

Southern Fried Apples

Whether they’re served on top of warm buttermilk biscuits, pancakes, or waffles, in a bowl as a snack, or by themselves topped with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream, these Southern Fried Apples are a serious treat for the apple lover in your family.

Episode 917

Mom’s Secret Ingredient Mashed Potatoes

This secret ingredient makes for the most delicious, creamiest mashed potatoes you’ve ever had!

Episode 916

Southern Ambrosia

This Southern Ambrosia is a quick, easy, and refreshing side dish or dessert. The simple ingredients and recipe make this a trusty crowd-pleaser for any table.

egg salad sandwich on bread with lettuce.

Episode 915

Easy Egg Salad

This Easy Egg Salad combines simple ingredients like eggs, mayo, mustard, celery, and pickle relish to create an amazingly delicious spread that’s perfect to make egg salad sandwiches, wraps, or even serve on crackers.

Episode 914

Easy Pea Salad

This Easy Pea Salad recipe only calls for 5 ingredients and is ready in about 15 minutes!

Episode 913

One-Pot Chicken Ratatouille

This One-Pot Chicken Ratatouille recipe puts a twist on the classic French dish and turns it into a one pot meal. Served over pasta, rice, or in a bowl all by itself, this hearty dish is packed with vegetables and is incredibly flavorful.

Episode 912

Tomato Cracker Salad

If there was ever a dish that defined summer, this Tomato Cracker Salad would be it for me. If you love a tomato sandwich, you’re going to love this salad!

Episode 911

Summer Succotash

Salty bacon, sweet corn, lima beans, okra, and tart tomatoes combine to create a dish that tastes as good as it looks!

Episode 910

Garlic Soy Cucumber Salad

Fresh cucumbers combine with matchstick carrots and thinly sliced red onion and are covered in a dressing of soy sauce, garlic, rice wine vinegar, and black pepper and topped with crushed peanuts.

Episode 909

Nana’s Best Blueberry Muffins

These light, fluffy, flavorful blueberry muffins are made with simple ingredients you probably already have on hand.

Episode 908

Pineapple Cheese Casserole

This somewhat weird and quirky recipe is a sweet and salty staple on our family table.

Episode 907

Pulled Pork and Collard Green Egg Rolls with Alabama White BBQ Dipping Sauce

This Alabama twist on egg rolls combines collard greens and pulled pork in a crispy egg roll wrapper!

Episode 906

Dill Pickle Deviled Eggs

These Dill Pickle Deviled Eggs are made for pickle lovers! The recipe takes easy-to-peel eggs and adds dill pickles, pickle juice, and dried dill for tons of pickle flavor!

Episode 905

The Best Key Lime Pie

This Key Lime Pie recipe is simple, straightforward, and crazy easy! It’s also the best key lime pie I’ve ever had!

Episode 904

Pimento Cheese Cornbread

This classic moist, tender cornbread is filled with gooey cheddar cheese and studded with pimento peppers!

Caramel Sauce being drizzled over Apple Dapple Cake

Episode 903

Apple Dapple Sheet Cake

I took the classic Bundt recipe and turned it into an easy-to-make sheet cake and added even more caramel drizzle!

Episode 902

Saltine Crusted Chicken Tenders

Simple saltine crackers give these tenders a crispy, crunchy crust!

Episode 901

Pecan Chicken Salad

Toasted pecans add a delicious crunch and savoriness to this chicken salad!

Season 8

Episode 826

Easy Breakfast Stromboli

This easy Breakfast Stromboli combines crispy pizza dough, scrambled eggs, sausage, and cheese in a recipe that’s sure to add some excitement to the breakfast monotony.

Episode 825

Easy Roasted Cabbage

The high temperature roast brings out some great flavor and gives you crispy edges that my family loves!

Episode 824

Easy Apple Crisp

This delicious dish of decadent cooked apples flavored with warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg is topped with a buttery rolled oat and brown sugar topping that just tastes like fall!

Episode 823

Dill Pickle Coleslaw

Now, you’ve got to be a pickle lover to appreciate what I think is the perfect slaw. It’s a balance of tangy and tart, with TONS of pickle flavor.

Episode 822

Easy Cornflake Cookies

This 6 ingredient, no-bake recipe produces crunchy, chewy, sweet, and salty morsels that you probably remember from your childhood.

Episode 821

Pasta Caesar Salad

This easy salad is so tangy, filling, and delicious! Serve it as a side dish or add chicken to make it the main star of the show!

Episode 820

Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Pie

It’s best served straight out of the freezer with a big dollop of whipped cream or even a drizzle of chocolate syrup. This stuff is awesome! Mmmm, mmmm, good!

Episode 819

Pickle De Gallo

It’s great served just by itself or on tortilla chips, but it’d be delicious on tacos, pulled pork sandwiches, grilled chicken, hot dogs, etc.

Episode 818

Shortcut Caramel Pecan Cinnamon Rolls

No one will know these ooey, gooey cinnamon rolls started with a can!

Sheet Pan Brown Sugar Garlic Pork Loin cooked with vegetables

Episode 817

Sheet Pan Brown Sugar Garlic Pork Loin Filet

Who doesn’t love an entire meal that all cooks on one pan?

Episode 816

Bacon and Eggs Tater Tot Casserole

Put a fun and delicious spin on breakfast with this tater tot casserole!

Episode 815

Creamy Italian Pasta Skillet

Busy weeknights have met their match with this Creamy Italian Pasta Skillet!

Episode 814

Southern Sheet Pan Nachos

I took many of the things I love about Southern food – pulled pork, pimento cheese, bbq sauce – and put it on nachos!

Episode 813

Crispy Roasted Okra with Creamy Lemon Dressing

Okra doesn’t have to always be fried and this Crispy Roasted Okra with Creamy Lemon dressing is the perfect example!

Episode 812

Peanut Butter and Jelly Blondies

These buttery blondies are topped with swirls of peanut butter and jelly for a fun twist on the childhood classic!

Episode 811

Tomato Cobbler with Pimento Cheese Biscuits

This savory cobbler is like using pimento cheese biscuits to sop up a delicious homemade marinara.

Episode 810

Instant Pot Boiled Peanuts

Pressure cooking boiled peanuts forces all that delicious flavor right inside.

Peach Cobbler being scooped from baking dish

Episode 809

Mom’s Peach Cobbler

The peach cobbler might sound pretty simple, but it’s crazy delicious!

Vegetable Beef Soup with cornbread in background

Episode 808

Quick and Easy Vegetable Beef Soup

This quick and easy version has tons of flavor without having to put in tons of work.

Episode 807

Bama Butter Cake

I gave the classic Kentucky Butter Cake a little “Alabama” makeover in this recipe!

Cream Cheese Pan sauce being spooned over seared chicken breasts

Episode 806

Easy Chicken with Cream Cheese Pan Sauce

This Easy Chicken with Cream Cheese Pan Sauce is in the regular rotation at our house. The simple, easy pan sauce is what makes it special.

These quick and easy enchiladas only call for 5 ingredients and are ready in no time! It's the perfect recipe for a busy weeknight! #recipe #southernbite #enchiladas #easy #quick #weeknight

Episode 805

5 Ingredient Beef Enchiladas

It really only takes 5 simple ingredients to make these cheesy beef enchiladas!

Macaroni and tomatoes served in white bowl

Episode 804

Classic Macaroni and Tomatoes

This old fashioned recipe just tastes like home.

Episode 803

Sausage Gravy

Making this Southern breakfast staple is a lot easier than you might imagine!

Episode 802

Easy General Tso’s Chicken

Make this quick and easy Chinese takeout favorite right in your own kitchen!

Episode 801

Apple Scrunch

This quick and easy apple dump cake only calls for 4 ingredients and is perfect served with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream!

Season 7

Episode 726

Homemade Sloppy Joes

Skipping the canned sauce means you know exactly what’s in these Homemade Sloppy Joes! They’re an easy and affordable way to put a hearty meal on the table.

Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya with bread sticks in background

Episode 725

Weeknight Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya

This quick and easy jambalaya is packed with flavor and is ready in about 45 minutes – making it perfect for those busy weeknights!

Episode 724

Chicken Bog

This Low Country favorite is one of my ultimate comfort foods. It takes chicken and rice to a whole other level!

Episode 723

Honey Garlic Pecan Chicken

Give boneless skinless chicken breasts a delicious makeover with this simple recipe!

Pieces of Peanut Brittle on serving dish

Episode 722

Aunt Matilda’s Peanut Brittle

This classic peanut brittle is a holiday favorite, but is perfect any time of the year!

Episode 721

Old School Squash and Onions

My Old Squash and Onions is the perfect way to use up that bounty of summer squash!

Peanut Butter Meringue Pie with slice missing

Episode 720

Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Meringue Pie

There’s a reason classics are classics, and this Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Meringue Pie is just that… classic.

Fried green tomatoes on borwn paper with remoulade sauce

Episode 719

Fried Green Tomatoes with Remoulade

These Classic Fried Green Tomatoes do double duty as the perfect appetizer or as a delicious side!

Episode 718

Lemon Pepper Fried Catfish

Making the best fried catfish you’ve ever had is surprisingly easy!

Episode 717

Slow Cooker Beef and Noodles

Add this easy Slow Cooker Beef and Noodles to your menu and let your CrockPot do all the work!

Episode 716

Skillet Chops with French Onion Gravy

This super savory, juicy pork chops are destined to be the centerpiece of your next supper!

Episode 715

Pecan Chewies

If you love the butterscotch-y, caramel-y flavors of blondies, these things are going to blow your mind. And they’re so easy!

Episode 714

Secret Ingredient Meatloaf

This easy meatloaf has a secret ingredient that adds tons of flavor!

Tomto, Cucumer, and Onion Salad in a clear bowl

Episode 713

Tomato, Cucumber, and Onion Salad

This cool, crisp, and tangy salad is quick, easy, and is a summer staple at our house.

Episode 712

Sweet and Tangy Mason Jar Salad Dressing

I’ve been making this for years. It’s one of our favorite dressings. I love it served on a salad with some tangy blue cheese and some crunchy Granny Smith apples.