The Southern Yankee Kitchen

If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you will know that LAGNIAPPE means “a little something extra”. On July 11th, I reposted one of my first blogs about blueberries and my Uncle Bill who was a blueberry farmer in Maine. I brought my Dad’s recipe for blueberry muffins to www.12radio.com when I joined my good friend, Kai Greenway, on her show “The Long Road”. In that hour of internet radio, I also shared two other recipes featuring blueberries that were a little less familia

PLEASE ENJOY this encore of one of my very first blog posts..... My Great Uncle Bill always seemed larger-than-life. Tall and handsome, he wore a white Stetson, drove a Cadillac convertible and, like most of the men on that side of my family, he had a way with the ladies. He was my paternal grandfather’s brother. There was art in his house—something rare in the world of my childhood. He had a fascinating collection of prints, paintings and sculpture, mostly depicting horses a