11/21/16 Update- Our Giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Terri Hendee!
My friend, Melissa Sperka, of Melissa’s Southern Style Kitchen has written a fantastic cookbook filled with tried & true southern recipes! Have you seen it? You need this cookbook in your life, and we’re holding a giveaway!
Melissa is an amazing cook and food blogger, and considering her feature on QVC a few months back, she has reached celebrity status in my book!!
I have been lucky enough to sample several of Melissa’s recipes and I want you to know that they are every bit as fantastic as you would imagine from the photos above! (Hello Five Cheese Mac & Cheese, Buttermilk Fried Chicken, Skillet Cornbread, Carrot Cake, Banana Pudding Parfaits…) In all, she has shared over 100 recipes in this book (not to mention a gazillion on her website)! And they are all DELICIOUS!
Here we are at Melissa’s Book Signing!
So with the holidays just around the corner, I thought it would be a great time to hold a GIVEAWAY for Melissa’s Southern Cookbook! Hooray! You can enter once a day between now and Sunday Nov 20th.Â
To enter, simply tell us your most favorite southern dish in the comment section below. I will pick the winning comment at random on Sunday Nov 20th {with the help of random.org.} Please make sure to check your e-mails! (If the winner cannot be reached within 48 hours, another winner will be selected.)  International entries welcome. Good luck!!
I also want to share a fabulous Lemon Sour Cream Pound Cake recipe with you from Melissa’s Southern Cookbook! I have never met a pound cake that I didn’t love, and this Lemon Sour Cream Pound Cake is no exception.
This cake is super moist, has a wonderfully soft texture and delightful lemon flavor. Â Whether you enjoy it with strawberries & cream, or just as it is, this recipe is a keeper!
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*Giveaway now closed. Congrats to Terri Hendee!Â
Thank you for such a lovely post and for being such a sweet friend! xoxo
Muffuletta sandwiches!!
Any Southern cake…I usually make a yellow, but I definitely need to try this recipe!!! Great photo of you all, by the way. :-)
My favorite southern food is fried chicken.
Fried green tomatoes. Can’t find them anywhere near where I live.
My grandmother’s fried chicken.
Fried catfish and hush puppies!
I love a good southern pecan pie!
Southern Fried Chicken would have to be my pick as a favorite southern recipe.
My favorite southern recipe is Pecan Pie! Thanks for all you do.
My favourite dish will be the Blt macaroni salad.
Pecan pie and boiled peanuts! And it’s pronounced ‘pea- can’! Thanks for the giveaway! Hope I’m lucky! This cookbook looks fabulous!
I have so many it’s hard to choose! I guess I’d have to say southern Buttermilk biscuits and cream gravy. I could eat it any time of day! Thanks for the opportunity to possibly win my favorite kind of book…a Southern cookbook!
I love Cooking Southern food the one I love is the 7up cake and also Gumbo and beignet. Thank you for this giveaway.
Shrimp and grits is hands down my favorite or maybe gumbo but I also really like banana pudding… endless list of southern favorites
sweet potato casserole
Mac and Cheese would have to be one of my favorites.
Oh man I have so many southern favorites but for now I’ll say Pain Perdu and I’m usually not a breakfast person ?
Flour fried pork chops, with mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans and biscuits
If I am forced to pick only one favorite it would have to be Pecan pie!
I Love the banana pudding!
Southern fried chicken, “mashed” potatoes, green beans, sugary carrots, Dixie biscuits. Sweet tea and strawberry shortcake
Mmmm…Peach Cobbler!
Sweet potato pie!
I’m deprived..don’t have a Southern favorite as I am from Canada. Grew up with a Scottish Mom. Closest I would say to Southern food was my Mom’s lemon pound cake, and pecan tarts. Bith very yum…
southern style chicken dumpling soup :)
It would have to be mac n cheese and pecan pie.
Green Beans with Benne and Sorghum
Southern pecan pie!
Sweet potato casserole for sure!
My favorite southern food is turnip greens with ham.
Pecan Pie and Sweet potato casserole is the best!
Coming from the north 30 years ago, I was lured by the great Southern food! Among my favorites, southern Fried Chicken and fried Green tomatoes
My favorite southern dish is Chicken ‘N Dumplings but my favorite southern topping is Hot Slaw. I also like pinto beans with chow chow and cornbread!
My favorite southern dish is fried chicken.
I have many favorites but fried chicken with mash potatoes and gravy. Oh yummy.
Gravy and biscuits!!
My mom’s chicken and dumplings, hands down!!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE mac-n-cheese. I will eat it cold for breakfast with milk if any is left after children visit
So many favorites but fried green tomatoes top the list!
Collard greens cooked into submission with a bit of country ham, cornbread on the side to crumble into the pot liquor!
My favorite southern dish is fried chicken and corn fritters.
It would have to be fried chicken.
I love red velveteen cake
This cake recipe looks delicious, I will try it. I love southern fried chicken.
Our absolute favorite southern comfort food is homemade cornbread in a cast iron skillet with lots of real butter! I’ve used this cornbread recipe from the Fannie Farmer cookbook for 35 years! It bakes up beautifully thick when you double the recipe and bake in a 10 inch cast iron skillet! Perfect for Cornbread Dressing at Thanksgiving too!!
I borrowed the photo, but this is exactly how it bakes up!
I love good ole’ Southern fried chicken and apple pie.
Sweet potato casserole!!!
My sweet Daddy’s Fried Green Tomatoes and Collard Greens cooked with smoked turkey
Good ‘ok Fried Chicken!
Hands down, it absolutely has to be home-made PEACH COBBLER with a dollop of vanilla bean ice cream on top. When I lived in Georgia that was my go to dessert and more times than not, I refused to “share” it with hubby (poor thing!)… I managed to get an awesome recipe from a real Southern Belle and have been making it ever since (still not sharing – lol)…
I Love sweet potato casserole
Fried chicken and fried green tomatoes.
Lemon Sour Cream Poundcake, for sure! Taste like heaven.
Definitely and Only SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN!
I’m a peach pie kind of gal!
SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN!
Broccoli Corn Bread is my favorite southern treat
Fried green tomatoes for sure!
Macaroni and cheese or biscuits and gravy!
I love all desserts. They have always been my specialties.
Pound Cake, any kind of Cobbler, Corn Bread, so many delicious choices!
Oh how I love black eyed peas and cornbread!!!
I love banana cream pie!
Gumbo!!
Fried chicken!
Chicken Fried Steak, buttermilk biscuits, and Sweet potato pie!
We love the BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, can’t get anything decent above the border… imho! lol
Homemade macaroni and cheese!
Hummingbird cake!
Buttermilk biscuits
My favorite Southern dessert is one I remember from my childhood. It is yellow cake with chocolate frosting. The combination always bring back memories of my mother baking.
Southern Banana Pudding! The whole family loves it.
I’ll plan to try this lemon cake recipe soon.
I love, love, love southern fried chicken……
Pecan pie is my absolute favorite southern dish!
My favorite southern food is fried chicken.
Shrimp and grits, hands down !!
Sweet tea, cornbread and fried chicken!!
My favorite Southern cake is Hummingbird Cake. Thanks for the opportunity to win a Southern Cookbook!
humming bird cake
So, so many to choose from….I will say cornbread since it goes well with most southern meals.
Mac ‘n Cheese and Sweet Tea
Mac ‘n Cheese by far! Yummm..Yummmm
I haven’t tried any southern cooking before as I’m from Australia but I would love to!!
Fried green tomatoes
I have to admit I will eat just about anything southern, but if I have to pick one it would have to be a shrimp Po-Boy.
My daddy made the best pecan pie I’ve ever eaten. I sure do miss him, but so grateful for wonderful memories we shared in the kitchen. I still make his yummy pecan pie recipe for the holidays! He made great homemade bread too!
Nothing beats a good pecan pie noum noum noum lol
Sweet Potato Casserole
Southern fried chicken would definitely be a favourite followed of course by the lemon sour cream pound cake. I’m salivating now just thinking about it. Yum!
Southern Fried Chicken and Cream Gravy! Our FAVORITE!
Banana Pudding!!
A fresh baked biscuit of course!
I have always loved the Pecan Pie my mom made from a recipe she had been given by a friend when we all lived in Memphis. I grew up in Memphis and up to today the southern food awakes in me favorite childhood memories. My mom made delicious breaded chicken in the oven with orange peel, a special touch she learned from a neighbor. The cowboy stew which is a staple in my home, was a recipe passed on from a mother of a friend to my mom. I love the stories of recipes and families. So excited to read the new cookbook, I love Melissa’s blog.
gumbo and red beans and rice.
Poor man cookies! There is nothing like snicker doodles during the holidays!
Mac n Cheesd
Anything made peaches!
Red beans and rice with either fried chicken or fried catfish.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN….TO FRY IT IS A TREAT FOR US AND SOOO WORTH THE THRILL THE TASTEBUDS GET WHEN EATING IT…I DROOL JUST THINKING ABOUT IT…HEE HEE
Collard greens!!!
Fried chicken and Macaroni is a family favorite
And staple for my boys!
I love Southern food: banana pudding, corn bread, coconut cake, grits, southern buttermilk biscuits…I’m suddenly hungry.
To be honest I can’t say I have tried many southern dishes but my gosh! The Buttermilk Fried chicken and the Five Cheese Mac and Cheese sound amazing! I’ll have to keep an eye on her Facebook page for those recipes! Yummo!!
I love just plain cornbread, but made in a cast iron skillet. It gives it such a nice crust. I lived in Northeast TN for 10 years, and grew to respect the Southern cooks there. They could make something great out of practically nothing!!!
My favorite Southern dish is fried chicken. My mama made it perfect. I have yet to get it perfect but keep trying. Thank you for the Lemon pound cake recipe.
Peach pie with vanilla ice cream!!
the barbecued grilled ribs are my favourite southern dish served with potatoes
Fried pork chops with candied yams purple hull peas and cornbread. Throw in sweet tea for good measure!
Chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes!!! ???
Absolutely fried chicken and lemon cake for life!!!
Butter beans over okra is one of my favorite southern dishes. Yummy….
I would love to receive your news and helpful hints ???
I’m from Australia so I don’t know a lot about southern cooking. But I do like southern fried chicken and anything sweet.
My grandmothers wonderful pot roast cooked in a cast iron skillet. Our Sunday meal after church. Oh how I miss that.
Would love to win the cookbook
My Most Favorite Southern dish is Meatloaf, it’s a savory dish that goes perfect with any sides and it taste even better the next day as leftovers ! It’s hearty and really sticks to your stomach. Yum !
Cold bread pudding
I’m from Kentucky and grew up with bean soup and cornbread!! Yum!
Fried chicken is one of my family’s favorite .
So many it is hard to pick. My grandmother’s chicken strips and mashed potatoes are my all time fave
My favorite southern dinner is fried chicken (my great grandma’s recipe is so simple, and delicious!), with green beans cooked with bacon and onion, and mashed potatoes with pan gravy. I have many runner ups, but this is a food comfort food that reminds me of my grandma.
I love Macaroni and potato salad!
Oven fried chicken Good but still a bit healthy
Thanks for the opportunity
ANY TYPE OF GREENS COOKED IN BACON FAT! AND FRIED CHICKEN, OF COURSE.
ALL Southern recipes are delicious! but I really love chicken and dumplings.
Shrimp & Grits with turnip greens
Since I’m from the south it’s hard to pick one favorite. Chicken and Dumplings is always welcomed but so are my deviled eggs.
Congratulations on your book!
Pimento cheese has become the new staple in my fridge. My go to after work, my go to whenever I want cheese and spice. I love to mix and match cheeses and peppers. My first introduction to Pimento cheese was store bought yucky but then an elderly lady made some for me from scratch and I was hooked! I had a coworker sell it to make money, so I bought some of his, and my family went nuts over it. So now, we make it all the time. Talk about amazing grilled cheese sandwiches, yummy snacks on celery and crackers, or just take the finger and do the ‘swipe” thingy and have at it. When it is good, it is GOOD, ya’ll!
The BEST is the barbecued spare ribs!!!! My family devours them.
Hush puppies. ?
Oh my! Where to start… Born in the south then translated to the north I miss so much good ol’ home cooked meals my grandmother used to make. My favorite meal was our traditionsl New Years Day dinner – ham, collards, black eyed beans, cornbread and of course southern pecan pie!!!! She never shared her recipes either. :(
My favorite Southern dessert is coconut cale with 7 minute frosting. Mmmm, light and sweetly delicious. Or wait theres also berry cobbler and peach pie. Gotta try that pimento cheese posted above, never heard of that til now!
Chicken skillet
I also love southern fried chicken.
Biscuits and gravy
Sweet Rice!!!
Humming Bird Cake!
Blackened Shrimp on creamy cheese grits with Louisiana Hot Sauce…Yumola!
Southern Pecan Pie
Nothing better than southern cooking. Just reading this brings me back to the days at grandmas house deep in the country so biscuits and gravy were a staple of breakfast and collars greens at supper. Thank you for a wonderful cookbook memory!!!!
Hi, I’m Brazilian so my knowledge of the southern cooking is limited, but I do love a good old Mac & cheese and fried chicken with that special seasoning! This buttermilk fried chicken sounds delicious too!
It is hard to choose just one…I think I will go with cornbread.
I immigrated to the United States when I was 13. My aunt married an American military man, who was stationed at the Lages Air Force base in the Azores islands, Portugal. We were lucky to be sponsored by my aunt and uncle. Uncle James was originally from Alabama. It was through him that I learned and fell in love with southern American food. It grabbed me at first bite and I’ve never cooked or baked the same since. I love buttermilk fried chicken, but my first love are biscuits. The smell it emits in my home reminds me of my beloved late aunt aunt and uncle. I make them every once in a while for my husband’s family today and they can’t get enough of it.
Living in Tennessee in the mid nineties I loved Fried okra and of course the fresh Southern Peach cobblers from this restaurant Calle Po Folks. Hmmmmm I miss that Southern cooking.
If only bacon grease was a dish… I love cook with bacon grease. I use it to season everything, even my homemade buttermilk biscuits. So it’s only fitting my favorite southern dish is breakfast: fried eggs (fried in bacon grease), bacon (fried in bacon grease) and buttermilk biscuits (made with bacon grease).
~Jennifer
Hummingbird cake!
Oh please! anything, anything, let me just learn it all!!! Thank you for the lemon sour cream pound cake recipe x
Southern fried chicken with buscuits and honey. Thanks!!
Buttermilk fried chicken most definitely!!!
Do I have to pick just one? LOL Hush puppies, fried bread, carrot cake, southern fried chicken, cornbread, and, of course – lemon pound cake with that fabulous glaze!!
I love pintos and cornbread with fried potatoes, mac and cheese, red velvet cake…oh so many southern dishes that I love!
Fried chicken tops the list!!
Skillet Cornbread. It goes with a lot of different dishes. So Delicious!
Sweet potato pie
Fried chicken and buttermilk biscuits
My favorite southern food is definitely Grits!!!
Mac and cheese ,greens, sweet potato pie and sweet tea! Yummo!
With a family of 7 a cook book of new recipes would be great! Southern at heart we all love good food and conversation. We all love the traditional fried chicken, mac -n- cheese, etc along with our sweet tea.
Fried chicken, fried okra, squash and field peas are my favorite! Can’t forget dessert, Red Velvet cake!!!
Souther fried chicken
Corn Pudding
I love it all! Country fried steak, fried chicken, baked ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, banana pudding…you name it.
Pinto beans and corn bread
I cant say that i have ever tried any Southern Food unless unknownly so wining the book would be a great chace to try Southrn receipes and also give my friends a chance to try them and a big chance we will all be converted and Melissa will have a whole new fan base here in New Zealand buying here cookbooks and following her receipes.
Sweet potato cobbler
fried chicken (WOW)
Sweet Potato CreaPie
we love the southern fried chicken.
My Favorite Southern dish is Beef Enchiladas.
Being from San Antonio, Texas, Mexican cuisine is my specialty.
I hope to be one of the winners….it would be such a blessing!
Thank you for this opportunity.
God bless
Fried Chicken
Cornbread!!
Peach Cobbler…YUMMY!
Spoon Bread!
Mac n Cheese, BBQ Ribs, fried okra , fried chicken………………..yum
Hummingbird Cake & Gumbo
Coconut Cake, banana pudding and fried chicken! :P
Stewed southern green beans, mac and cheese, cornbread, chicken fried steak with gravy, and a peach cobbler. All my favorites any day of the week :-)
Chicken Fried Steak and country gravy!!!!
My favorite southern dish is fried chicken and baked Mac & cheese.
My favorite meal, made by my grandmother, many times throughout my childhood: OH, how I wish I could have her here to prepare it again, and to visit with!
Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and white gravy, wilted lettuce, cucumbers and onions, sweet corn on the cob. Ice tea for beverage. Strawberries and shortcake, with whip cream, for dessert.
Every single thing was grown and/or raised on their farm, and prepared homemade by her. It was all so delicious…and leftovers were awesome, as well!
peach cobbler
Kirkland (grandma and grandpa’s last) family beans and cornbread. And mashed potato salad. These we dishes my grandma made, they were from Arkansas. My sister and I made them last weekend to serve at my uncle’s Memorial we had at my house last weekend. It was so wonderful to celebrate his life with the comforting food made by his mom. Everyone was taken back to those wonderful times of the past spent at my grandparents. Food has such a way of bring back comforting, loving memories of family and days gone by. ?
Cornbread dressing!
My favorite Southern dessert is the Almond Cake with Swiss Meringue.
Red velvet cake, which has also now become my two granddaughters’ favourite
We LOVE pecan pie in this house! My husband’s grandmother makes a wonderful version and I’m thankful she happily shared her recipe with me!
Southern fried steak! that’s just for starters. Southern food is so yummy :)
My favorite dish is a trio of southern favorites…Garden fresh sliced tomatoes, pinto beans with ham and fresh onion sprinkled on top. Finishing off with cornbread from my mothers 80 year old iron skillet. The perfect meal.
Fried Chicken
Fried chicken, white beans and corn bread.
Chicken Fried Steak, Mashed Potatoes, all smothered in white gravy is one of our favorites. Thanks for the Giveaway Opportunity!
Homemade ice cream
Fried chicken and cornbread
I enjoy Southern Food. Not much I do not like. My favorite is the Man N Chees ? Look forward to being the Lucky Winner!
Buttermilk fried chicken, banana pudding wow ! So many more
Bread Pudding Served Warm With Ice Cream
Pulled pork, sweet tea and pralines!