Sweet Potato and Blue Cheese “Coins”

Once I discovered sweet potatoes were so much more than a side dish loaded with butter, sugar, pecans and marshmallow cream, they became one of my go-to pantry staples. They show up on the dinner table roasted, grilled, mashed and tucked in whenever and wherever possible. Sweet potatoes are fantastic as a year-round staple yet […]

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Fried Green Tomatoes

By Mary Wood of Run of the Mill Mary blog. One of the pleasures of an Arkansas summer is the incomparable taste of a vine ripened tomato. If it comes from your own vine or the vine of one of the locally grown tomatoes here in our fine state? All the better. But sometimes a […]

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Lemony Sweet Pea Bruschetta

When spring fever hits and warm weather arrives, we Arkansans love to dine outside. Anywhere away from mosquitoes will do — poolside, lakeside, on the screened back porch. Our food lightens up, too, as we enjoy homegrown goodness from the garden. Green peas remind me of spring. A bowl of fresh peas makes an easy, […]

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