Juanita Garrison

Today's dish is from a friend of a friend. It is in the cookbook "In Good Taste - Tasty Recipes" printed by the WMU of St. Helena Baptist Church on St. Helena Island. If you don't recognize the name,... Continue Reading »

"We are always looking for great recipes to serve a crowd economically," wrote Karen Wham of Mountville Baptist Church. Located in a small rural community between Greenwood and Clinton, Mountville Baptist Church is in Laurens Baptist Association, and David... Continue Reading »

This is the way she describes it: "simple to make, can be made ahead of time, doesn’t tie up oven space, and usually no leftovers." Those are the words of Jane Fussell of Calvary Baptist Church in Florence, and... Continue Reading »

Zucchini are among the first locally grown vegetables to show up on the grocery and farmers' markets shelves. They are good for you: low in calories, high in vitamins A and C, high in manganese and potassium. They are... Continue Reading »

You and your family/guests will thank me, and I shall thank Unity Baptist Church in Simpsonville, and we shall all thank Ann Mahaffey. The reason: Peaches and Cream Pie is a really good pie.... Continue Reading »

Peach pickles are so-o-o Southern. I can’t document this, but I suspect that the people in Montana and Maine don’t make peach pickles. Too bad, because one of the pleasures of home is having a large glass bowl of... Continue Reading »

"I want you to give Angie this recipe," our son Tom said while eating on July 4 the cabbage slaw featured today. His wife Angie is a good cook, and good cooks always like to use new recipes. This... Continue Reading »

"I have to be there at 8 o'clock on Saturday," our daughter Gaye explained as she and her sister Elizabeth were trying to work out a running schedule. Gaye wanted to be at her town's farmers' market when the... Continue Reading »

I can't put a Methodist recipe in the Courier!" I declared to my neighbor Amy Philyaw. "But I came to the Baptist church for a long time," she answered. And she did.... Continue Reading »

Today I'm offering you the basic and three other recipes for fried chicken. If you live in South Carolina and can't cook good fried chicken, you ought to renounce your South Carolina and southern citizenship and move to Canada.... Continue Reading »

Today's recipes are great ones for summer. Both have three things going for them: 1) easy to prepare, 2) can be made ahead of the time you need them, and 3) good taste. Both these recipes have been around... Continue Reading »

They aren’t alike enough to be siblings; cousins at best. A couple of columns ago, I shared a Japanese Fruitcake recipe from my late aunt by way of my late mother. It had two plain vanilla layers with a... Continue Reading »