Tag Archives: The Whole Hog Cookbook

Best Ever Family Reunion Chocolate Sheet Cake

 

By Libbie Summers from her book, The Whole Hog Cookbook (Rizzoli) Photography by Chia Chong This is a Missouri, hog farming family recipe. Not a Texas recipe…better…much better.  Best Ever Family Reunion Chocolate Sheet Cake Serves 20 What you need: 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon Read More »

Precious Sausage-Stuffed Deep-Fried Dills

 

by Libbie Summers Photography by Chia Chong Moving to rural North Carolina from the ever hip and haughty Vail, Colorado, was a lesson in the proper way to eat humble pie. I opened my heart and mind to things that were “precious”—a word that Southerners use interchangeably with the phrase “bless her heart.” Hell, I Read More »

Refrigerator Pickles

 

by Libbie Summers Photography by Chia Chong Grandma had a sunporch that was nearly falling off the southeast side of her old farmhouse. Each year, after the late-summer cucumber harvest, a rickety shelf running along the ceiling of the sunporch was lined with jars of the most unnaturally green sweet pickles a child could imagine. The Read More »

Breaking Bad Bacon Banana Cookies

 

By Libbie Summers Photo by Chia Chong Until you have one of your recipes featured on a television show you love…you haven’t lived. Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 7 35:15 Bacon Banana Cookies (from The Whole Hog Cookbook, Rizzoli) yields 30 cookies What you need: 21⁄2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1⁄4 Read More »

Stuffed Baked Apples

 

By Libbie Summers from The Whole Hog Cookbook, Rizzoli Photography by Chia Chong Tart green apples stuffed with sweet sausage and dried fruit? I feel like some kind of kept colonial wife even describing this, but believe me when I tell you this is easy and amazing and I eat it for breakfast, lunch or Read More »

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