From-scratch Southern recipes you can trust, and feel proud to serve.
No canned soup, no shortcuts. Just real ingredients, tested recipes, and cooking that works.
From-Scratch, Always
Butter & Baggage is built around casseroles and sides, the dishes that show up on tables at Sunday dinner, potlucks, and everyday meals. Every recipe is developed and tested in my own kitchen before it goes on the site, so you can trust it to work the way it’s written. That’s the outcome I care about: confidence in the kitchen, food you’re proud to bring to the table, and recipes you can count on every time you make them.
Who This Is For
This is for anyone cooking for the people they love, whether that’s a holiday table, a game day spread, or a weeknight meal that needs to turn out right. You don’t need years of experience in the kitchen. If you can follow a recipe step by step, you can make these dishes, and they’ll come out the way they’re supposed to. What matters most is that you want the food you serve to be good, and that you care about the people you’re feeding it to.
What Makes Us Different
What makes Butter & Baggage different comes down to four things:
- From-scratch, always. No canned soup, no shortcuts.
- Tested in my kitchen. Every recipe is developed and tested before it’s published.
- Real ingredients. Practical and Southern based, not trendy or hard to find.
- Built for sharing. Made for a table full of people, not a single serving.
Meet Barbara
I’m Barbara, and I develop and photograph every recipe you’ll find here myself. I also run Easy Southern Desserts, where I bring the same from-scratch approach to Southern baking. Want to know more about me? Visit my full [About Barbara] page.
Butter & Baggage has been online since 2014. Today, over 30,000 people get recipes delivered straight to their inbox, and the site reached 2.8 million visitors this past year. Readers have left more than 3,000 comments across the site.
Start Here
Start with a few of the recipes readers come back to most: Candied Yams, Baked Beans, Cornbread Dressing, Mac and Cheese with Evaporated Milk, and Southern Buttermilk Biscuits.
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