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Fat & Juicy and my new crockpot!

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I recently learned of the phenom of The Crockpot Girls on Facebook.  In the middle of August, three women out of Texas started a Facebook page for people to post their crock pot recipes- by the beginning of September, they had over 1,000,000 users.  I have no idea how something goes viral like that, but I think it is amazing.  So, of course, I went out and bought a crock pot.  I have made a couple of chicken dishes so far, but last night’s was the best.  I know this doesn’t really fall under the baking category, but it is very Southern!  Two band mates in Charleston (they also have real jobs) decided their Bloody Mary Mix was the best, so they named it Fat & Juicy(www.fatandjuicymix.com), and it started selling like crazy!  While I adore these guys, I don’t like Bloody Marys.  So yesterday, while looking through recipes on www.crockpotgirls.com, I found Bloody Mary Chicken.  As most crock pot recipes are, it is incredibly simple- put chicken and a bottle of Bloody Mary Mix in your crock pot and cook on low all day or on high for 4-5 hours.  I, of course, used Fat and Juicy Bloody Mary Mix served it over brown rice, and it was amazing!  Grab a bottle of Fat & Juicy and mix it with chicken for a delicious dinner or vodka for a delicious drink!

Lavender and Vanilla a Go Go!

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A Southern Peach Cobbler Recipe with a Lavender and Vanilla Twist

Cobbler and the South are like bread and butter, peas and carrots, hook ‘em and horns, and other natural combination. This is not to say that they don’t have cobbler in the North, but when I think of the many ubiquitous foods in my Southern heritage, cobbler is a stand out. When I was growing up our family would visit Tennessee and South Carolina with stops along the way in Georgia to acquire bushels (or maybe pecks) of peaches that we’d take home to El Paso to peel and freeze. And while those carefully stored peaches would find their way into other dishes, their main reason for finding their way half way across the country was as filling for cobbler. There’s just nothing quite like a peach cobbler overflowing with juicy, ripe peaches, particularly when the preaches are so sweet they don’t even need more than a pinch of sugar. Of course Texas isn’t too shabby in the peach department either…

For the recipe and complete post from Fete & Feast (and for their food blogger’s guide to Austin!) please click here.