These recipes are all time classics! From crispy, crunchy Southern Fried Okra to hidden gems you may not have heard of like Streak o’ Lean, you’re sure to make these recipes again and again too.
Real Simple Fried Chicken
Making Real Simple Fried Chicken doesn’t have to be complicated. Learn how to make simple, authentic fried chicken with my quick and easy recipe. Perfect for a family dinner or special occasion!
Learn more and get the recipe: Real Simple Southern Fried Chicken
Southern Fried Okra
If you’re looking for a delicious and easy way to prepare fresh okra, look no further! This 4-ingredient Southern Fried Okra is the best you’ll ever taste. It’s crispy, crunchy, and downright delicious. Plus, it’s so easy to make that anyone can do it. If you’re a fan of Southern cuisine, then this recipe is for you!
Learn more and get the recipe: Southern Fried Okra
Old Fashioned Buttermilk Biscuits
These Old Fashioned Buttermilk Biscuits are one of my favorite memories from childhood. Served with butter and syrup for breakfast or filled with a slice of ham or sausage, they’re moist, substantial, and totally delicious! Now, if you’re thinking of the kind of homemade buttermilk biscuits that rise high and turn out flaky, then this is not that recipe. These biscuits are made with oil, not butter, and the result is incredible!
Learn more and get the recipe: Old Fashioned Buttermilk Biscuits
Southern Streak o’ Lean
Somewhere between bacon and lard, you’ll find Streak o’ Lean. It has a long and varied history in traditional southern foodways having been used for everything from seasoning to rendering for fat. This recipe showcases it on its own, dredged in flour and fried. One of the tastiest recipes from my childhood!
Learn more and get the recipe: Southern Streak o’ Lean
Old Fashioned Copper Pennies
Old fashioned, vintage recipes are the very best in my book! One of my favorites from years gone by is this Old Fashioned Copper Pennies recipe. It’s a simple combination of marinated sweet and sour carrots, onions, and bell peppers that may be served as either a side dish or salad.
Learn more and get the recipe: Old Fashioned Copper Pennies
Pig Pickin’ Cake
Pig Pickin’ Cake is a classic Southern recipe. It’s an easy recipe using a fantastic combination of cake mix, mandarin oranges, pineapple, pudding, and whipped topping. Yum!
Learn more and get the recipe: Pig Pickin’ Cake
Chocolate Little Layer Cake
Part cake and part confection, this heritage recipe for Chocolate Little Layer Cake is made by home cooks throughout southwest Georgia. The cake consists of tiny yellow layers baked individually, then filled and topped with old fashioned boiled chocolate icing.
Learn more and get the recipe: Chocolate Little Layer Cake
Classic Southern Banana Pudding
If you grew up in the South, you already know that banana pudding isn’t banana pudding unless it’s made with a homemade stovetop custard. No shortcuts, no pudding mix, and certainly no whipped topping. Just rich, silky custard layered with ripe bananas and ‘Nilla wafers, crowned with a fluffy meringue baked to golden perfection. This is the banana pudding your grandmother made, and I’m going to show you exactly how I still do it in my kitchen today.
Learn more and get the recipe: Classic Southern Banana Pudding with Homemade Custard
Southern Iced Sweet Tea
Southern Sweet Tea, a strong infusion of black tea that is sweetened and served over ice, is as essential to southern cuisine as fried chicken and collard greens. Depending on personal preference, it may also include a squeeze of lemon juice. And it’s never limited to warmer weather here, it appears on our tables every day of the year!
Learn more and get the recipe: Southern Iced Sweet Tea
Southern Style Green Beans
My low and slow method for cooking Old Fashioned Southern Style Green Beans with its beautiful, smoky ham hock broth for flavoring will take you straight to the country no matter where you live!
Learn more and get the recipe: Old Fashioned Southern Style Green Beans
My Southern Table Cookbook
If you like these recipes, you’ll love my cookbook! It’s 348 pages filled with 246 recipes, each with a full-color photo. Visit Lana’s Cooking for more information.
I’m Lana Stuart, an award-winning cookbook author, food blogger, and lifelong cook raised deep in Southwest Georgia. I started Lana’s Cooking in 2009 to share the tried-and-true recipes I grew up with. Around here, the food is full of flavor, the traditions run deep, and there’s always room at the table.
