The Southern Yankee Kitchen

Summer fruit is ripe, sweet and juicy this month and cobblers, buckles and pies are All-American ways to serve them up and show them off. A favorite of mine is simple, delicious and works on so many levels. I’m talking about a SUMMER FRUIT HAND PIE. What is a hand pie? It’s a pie you can hold in your hand. Sort of like a slice, but self-contained and individual. It’s the perfect way to take pie on a picnic, perhaps while enjoying fireworks or to hand off to the youngsters in

Pick a Packet of Perfect Produce, Pick a Packet of Perfect Produce, Pack a Perket of Picket..…aw nuts! A tongue twister may trip you up when you try to say it three times fast, but nothing could be easier, or more delicious, than the best of the summer’s bounty all wrapped up in a shiny foil packet and cooked outdoors on the grill. Often, the idea of cooking vegetables on the grill sounds like too much work. Chasing tiny rings of red onion around the grates, asparagus spears