A Blog With a Southern Attitude

Hello! You can call me Belle, and I'll be your hostess. Come with me and my friends as we travel the avenues and lanes of the South. Learn how it's done in the land of manners and hospitality.

Easy-Peasy Carolina Mustard Based BBQ Sauce

Being from South Carolina, I love mustard based BBQ sauce. I used to be able to buy it at Publix down here in FL until Maurice Bessinger went and got all racist on us and it got pulled from every store in the country. I pored over cookbooks and found a great recipe, but that's just too freaking much trouble. I finally found an easy way to make a good sauce that works well for pulled pork bbq.  I'll do the entire recipe for how to make pulled pork soon, but for now for all of you who already know what to do with the sauce, here's a simple way to make enough for a medium sized boston butt (pork loin).

1 18 oz. bottle of your favorite red honey bbq sauce (if you don't have the honey bbq sauce, use honey mustard or add 1/4 cup honey)
8 oz (1 cup). prepared yellow mustard (NOT deli mustard, just plain yellow)
2 ozs. (1/4 cup) apple cider vinegar

All you've gotta do is mix this up together, and it makes a pretty damned good mustard based sauce.  You can add some hot spices like cayenne or black pepper to taste, but the sauce and mustard have most of the other spices you'll need.

Enjoy!

Southern Snow Rules for Northern Transplants

It rarely snows in the south, but it is much different from snow up north, so here are some things northern transplants need to know.

1. Pull out the kerosene heaters, or load up on firewood, because there will likely be a power outage. Our power lines are not equipped to handle ice and snow. There is usually an independent gas station that sells kerosene nearby.

2. Everything will close and roads will be impassable. We don't have snow plows. The highway departments will use road scrapers and bull dozers to clear the interstates and major roadways. Everyone else is on their own.

3. Your boss will tell you to come to work. The highway patrol will tell you to stay off the roads. Listen to the highway patrol. Best to just stay home and build snowmen, eat snow cream and wait it out. It doesn't last long.

4. You MUST congregate at the grocery store when snow is expected, even if you don't need anything. Buy marshmallows, hot chocolate and hot dogs, even if you don't have a fireplace. Could be a law, I don't know. 

5. If you live in the country, and get stuck on a back road in the snow, don't panic. There will soon be a 4-wheel pickup full of men in camouflage, a six-pack of Budweiser, and a tow bar coming along. Do not fight it. This is what they live for. 

5. Sit back and relax. Usually, the snow melts in a couple of days, and you can go about your business.