These cookies came together with pantry staples I already had on hand, and surprisingly turned out to be one of my favorite cookie recipes. I had a big milk chocolate Easter bunny that needed using, so I chopped up the chocolate and repurposed it for these cookies. The roasted peanuts gives them the perfect sweet and salty bite.

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Valentine’s Day is coming up quickly, and there’s no better way to share your love than with a big batch of homemade cookies. Bake up my easy Red and White Sugar Cookies and fill the cookie jar with a treat for the whole family. This recipe is also perfect for bagging up as a goodie for neighbors and friends, or sending with the kids to school to share as a snack with classmates.

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Sweet Potato Casserole with Streusel Topping
It’s not Thanksgiving without my mom’s sweet potato casserole. Add this side dish to your turkey day menu for a Some Kinda Good treat.

Filling

• ½ stick, unsalted butter, melted, plus more for greasing the baking dish
• 4 to 5 medium sweet potatoes (about 1 ¾  pound), peeled and quartered 
• ½ cup milk
• ½ cup sugar 
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract 
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon 
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• 2 large eggs

Streusel Topping

• ½  cup all-purpose flour
• ½  cup brown sugar
• ½ stick of unsalted butter, melted
• ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 cup chopped pecans
  

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 2-quart baking dish.

Add the sweet potatoes to a large pot of boiling salted water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then lower the heat to a simmer and cook until the potatoes are fork tender, about 20 to 25 minutes. Drain and cool slightly. Mash the sweet potatoes.

Add to the sweet potatoes the milk, sugar, vanilla, salt, eggs and cinnamon and whisk well until combined. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish.

For the streusel topping, combine the flour, brown sugar, butter and salt in a bowl until moist and crumbled. Stir in the pecans. Spread the mixture over the top of the sweet potatoes in an even layer. Bake until mostly set in the center and golden brown for 25 – 30 minutes. Serve warm.  

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Georgia native Rebekah Faulk Lingenfelser is a professionally trained private chef, culinary TV personality and author of the best-selling memoir, Some Kinda Good: Good Food and Good Company, That’s What It’s All About. Featured on Forbes, Food Network Star, ABC’s The Taste and The VeryVera Show, she is the longtime Statesboro Herald food columnist and contributing food writer for multiple Southeast Georgia magazines. Lingenfelser earned a Bachelor of Science degree in public relations from Georgia Southern University, Statesboro. She also attended Savannah Technical College’s Culinary Institute of Savannah. To learn more, connect with Some Kinda Good on social media, visit RebekahLingenfelser.com or email SKGFoodBlog@gmail.com. 

As a food contributor for Southern Soil magazine, I have the awesome privilege of receiving local farm bags from area farms in Southeast Georgia who source and harvest sustainable food. Today’s recipe comes from my recent Billy’s Botanical’s farm bag delivery, featuring Frali Gourmet pasta and Sapelo Sea Farms Littleneck Clams.

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Some Kinda Good, a Southern, coastal food blog based in Savannah, Ga. and spearheaded by Rebekah Faulk Lingenfelser, has been named a Top 20 Georgia Food Blog by Feedspot, topping the list at number 13 in the state. Now in its 10th year, SomeKindaGood.com features easy recipes, locally sourced and in-season, designed to encourage meals around the family table. The hit food blog has a companion book by the same name and is available wherever books are sold. 

“Validation feels good, and it’s exciting to be in such great company with the talented list of featured bloggers in the great State of Georgia,” said Lingenfelser, private chef and author.   

A content reader whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts and YouTube channels in several niche categories, Feedspot’s expert editorial team ranks each blog based on the following criteria:

• Relevancy
• Industry blogs (those not favoring a specific brand) are given higher rank than blogs by individual brands (who often tend to promote their own products)
• Blog post frequency (freshness)
• Social media follower counts and engagements
• Domain authority
• Age of a blog
• Alexa Web Traffic Rank 

View the listing by visiting https://blog.feedspot.com/georgia_food_blogs/. 

For more information or to follow Some Kinda Good, visit SomeKindaGood.com or email SKGFoodBlog@gmail.com. 

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Summertime is in full swing now, and I hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July. My family and I traveled down to Amelia Island on the Florida coast and enjoyed the long weekend on Fernandina Beach. We had the best time eating delicious food, often overlooking the ocean, and shopping in the downtown area, albeit a little bit of rain. We watched the fireworks from the beach, and at night time where the dark sky meets the sea, the explosions of color were truly spectacular.

As I write this, Tropical Storm Elsa has just passed through our area. We lost power for a few hours and had a large downed tree limb in the backyard, but are otherwise OK. 

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