This is summer. A frozen cocktail that doesn’t taste like a cocktail in a short glass, with a paper straw and 85°F weather looming on the horizon. It’s just begging you to kick your shoes off and sit with it all afternoon long. Or at least for the next hour because that’s how long it will
Desserts
5 Ingredient Vegan No Sugar Added Popsicles
Thank you to the Sola Company for sponsoring this post. Although this post has a sponsored element to it, all opinions, recipes, and images are our own. Thanks for supporting the brands that help keep Darling Down South running. Look, this isn’t your run of the mill vegan recipe trying to taste like something else
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Main Dishes
Sumac Lemon Roasted Chicken
Roast chicken, you either love it or you overcook it. It can go so right and it can go so wrong. I’m on the side of absolutely love it. Typically I like dressing it up with interesting spices and bright savory flavors. This sumac lemon roasted chicken is light enough for summer and hearty enough
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Main Dishes
Carb Free Smash Burgers
If you haven’t heard of a smash burger it’s because it’s the griddle burger rebranded. Gone are the days of dry hockey pucks coming off the grill your dad used to man in the summer and enter the perfectly griddled smash burger made on a flat surface. Whether you have a griddle, a cast iron,
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Desserts
The Classic Birthday Cake for our 5 Year Bloggiversary
Hello from another year older and wiser. The blog has turned 5 as of Cinco de Mayo! It’s a darn shame we’re all stuck indoors because I wanted to have a reader thank you party called the Cinco de Darling, but since we can’t gather I figured I would share this classic birthday cake with
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Cocktails & Drinks
The FizzleBerry Cocktail
Let this be known at the garden cocktail trials! Last week it was the Strawbarb Margarita (featuring mint plucked right from my patio plant) and this week features a thyme and blackberry filled fizzy lemonade gin cocktail which, thanks to @beatriceuber gets the name “The FizzleBerry”! I asked you all on Instagram what I should
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Cocktails & Drinks
Strawbarb Margaritas
You may be wondering, what a strawbarb is. It is the fruit of the season: that mid Spring moment when the last of the winter roots are shriveling to make room for big fat berries at the grocery store. Sadly, a strawbarb is not a real fruit (although with the amazing things they’re doing in
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Appetizers & Sides
Authentic Garlic Naan Recipe + An Authentic Indian Recipe Website
As much as I would like to take credit for this delicious, pillowy naan recipe, I cannot. Everything I learned about Indian cooking came from this website thanks to one of my classmates at school who introduced me to it. Try as I might to recreate my favorite Indian dishes at home, the recipes that
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Main Dishes
Thai Style Mussels in a Spicy Coconut Sauce
This recipe was inspired by my love for salmon Penang from the Thai restaurants near us. If you haven’t had Penang before it’s basically a spicy citrusy coconut broth that is ladled over meat served with a huge helping of rice. After I revitalized some freezer salmon for dinner the other night with a few
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Main Dishes
Extra Cheesy Broccoli Cheese Soup Recipe & Cheddar Pop Tarts
Last week we celebrated National Cheddar day with Tillamook on Instagram and I can’t get over how amazing this broccoli cheese soup recipe turned out. I’ve never actually made this at home before, I’ve only ever devoured it from a giant bread bowl at Panera and indulged in the fact that I was basically eating