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Our Best Family-Favorite Recipes

By Southern Living Editors
December 20, 2017
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Ring in the New Year with our all-time best family recipes to savor and share around the dinner table. We’re bringing back nine of our ultimate “lost classics,” timeless reader recipes picked from our decades-old archives that we thought deserved a second glance. Familiar dishes, such as Savannah Red Rice and Beef Stew, sit side by side with less-familiar, yet equally comforting dishes, like Capitol Hill Bean Soup and Harry Young’s Burgoo. We hope these family-style dishes bring back heartwarming recollections of meals past or help you make delicious new memories.With the help of Rick Bragg, we dub a Cajun classic “the most perfect sandwich in the world,” and explain why the Po’boy is a well-deserving icon in the Southern cooking world. You can warm up your winter nights with our fast, fresh, good-for-you supper recipes bursting with flavor, but done on a lighter note. From easy sheet pan dinners to hearty ragu, we’ve got your weeknights covered. We even packed in three filling weekday lunch recipes that go well beyond your usual brown-bag lunch. Think about trying our Smoky White Bean Soup and Herbed Shrimp-and-Rice Salad, in lieu of your typical mid-day meal. Rounding out the month with our classic Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake and Pecan Crunch Tart, it’s bound to be an exciting start of a New Year.
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Harry Young’s Burgoo

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Recipe: Harry Young’s Burgoo

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Old-Fashioned Chicken And Dumplings

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Recipe: Old-Fashioned Chicken And Dumplings

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Reunion Pea Casserole

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Recipe: Reunion Pea Casserole

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Beef Stew

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Recipe: Beef Stew

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Jambalaya de Covington

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Recipe: Jambalaya de Covington​​​​​​​

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Pecan-Breaded Pork Chops with Beer Sauce

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Recipe: Pecan-Breaded Pork Chops with Beer Sauce

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Savannah Red Rice

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Recipe: Savannah Red Rice

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Capitol Hill Bean Soup

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Recipe: Capitol Hill Bean Soup​​​​​​​

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Country Captain Chicken

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Recipe: Country Captain Chicken

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Molasses-Soy Glazed Salmon and Vegetables

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Recipe: Molasses-Soy Glazed Salmon and Vegetables

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Sweet-and-Spicy Sheet Pan Chicken with Cauliflower and Carrots

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Recipe: Sweet-and-Spicy Sheet Pan Chicken with Cauliflower and Carrots

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Sausage and Kale Pesto Pizza

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Recipe: Sausage and Kale Pesto Pizza

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Farro Bowl with Curry-Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Brussels Sprouts

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Recipe: Farro Bowl with Curry-Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Brussels Sprouts

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Ziti with Mushroom, Fennel, and Tomato Ragu

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Recipe: Ziti with Mushroom, Fennel, and Tomato Ragu

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Smoky White Bean Soup

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Recipe: Smoky White Bean Soup

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Almond-Chicken Wrap

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Recipe: Almond-Chicken Wrap

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Herbed Shrimp-and-Rice Salad

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Recipe: Herbed Shrimp-and-Rice Salad

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Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake

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Recipe: Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake

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Pecan Crunch Tart

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Recipe: Pecan Crunch Tart​​​​​​​

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1 of 19 Harry Young’s Burgoo
2 of 19 Old-Fashioned Chicken And Dumplings
3 of 19 Reunion Pea Casserole
4 of 19 Beef Stew
5 of 19 Jambalaya de Covington
6 of 19 Pecan-Breaded Pork Chops with Beer Sauce
7 of 19 Savannah Red Rice
8 of 19 Capitol Hill Bean Soup
9 of 19 Country Captain Chicken
10 of 19 Molasses-Soy Glazed Salmon and Vegetables
11 of 19 Sweet-and-Spicy Sheet Pan Chicken with Cauliflower and Carrots
12 of 19 Sausage and Kale Pesto Pizza
13 of 19 Farro Bowl with Curry-Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Brussels Sprouts
14 of 19 Ziti with Mushroom, Fennel, and Tomato Ragu
15 of 19 Smoky White Bean Soup
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