44 SOUTHERN Dump & Bake Dinners for Seniors Living Alone (No Chopping & No Stirring!)

🔗 These were fixin to be lost, so I set em down. All of em plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://www.rubysrecipebox.com Ruby Dawson — Meemaw Ruby, eighty-two, from the red-clay peanut-and-pecan country of Southwest Georgia — counts down forty-four hot Southern suppers made for one plate, with nothing to chop, nothing to stir, and nothing to scrub when you're done. These are the dump-and-bake suppers the fancy folks shamed people for, and Ruby sets the record straight: stretching a dollar with what's in the cupboard was never cheating and it was never lazy — it is the oldest Southern cooking there is. Some she learned from friends she names along the way, like Ernestine Pollard up in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Josette Landry from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. And the whole time she keeps promising one supper she will not explain till the end — a plate of chicken and rice she set in front of her neighbor without ever once reaching for a pot. She holds that one back till number two. Then she finally tells you how. In this one, Ruby covers: • A whole sausage, potato, and green-bean supper baked in one sheet of foil — not a single dish to wash • Chicken and dumplins with no rolling, no cutting, and no standing over a pot • Ernestine Pollard's Mississippi-Delta collards, cooked down soft and slow with a smoked turkey wing • A Lowcountry shrimp boil in one foil packet, the way Lois Brannen showed her on the Savannah coast • The no-pot chicken supper she keeps back till the very end — set in front of her neighbor without one pot, and she won't say how till she gets there Now do Ruby a kindness before you go. Tell her down in the comments what town and state you're watching from, and whether your mama made it this way too. She reads every single one. CHAPTERS 0:00 The No-Pot Chicken Supper, and No Apologies 2:16 A Whole Supper in One Sheet of Foil 3:15 Pork Chops on a Bed of Canned Potatoes 4:04 Chicken & Dumplins, No Rolling 4:59 Pintos & Cornbread 5:59 Josette's Red Beans, Baked Low 6:52 Oven Barbecue Drumsticks 7:39 A Little Meatloaf in a Loaf Pan 8:25 Ham Steak With Pineapple & Cane Syrup 9:24 Ernestine's Collards & Smoked Turkey Wing 10:25 A Lowcountry Boil in One Foil Packet 11:26 Okra & Tomatoes (Don't You Stir It) 12:12 Cube Steak Smothered in Onion Gravy 13:05 Josette's Smothered Cabbage & Sausage 13:53 Lupe's Enchilada Stack 14:45 Chicken Pot Pie in a Ramekin 15:35 A Baked Sweet Potato Supper 16:19 Baby Butter Beans & Ham 17:04 A Whole Sweet Onion Baked Soft 17:56 King Ranch Chicken for One 18:46 Lois's Hoppin' John 19:39 Squash Casserole, the Potluck Classic 20:39 Ernestine's Yellow-Mustard Catfish 21:42 A Little Pot Roast in a Foil Packet 22:36 Lupe's Charro Beans 23:28 Corn Pudding, Soft and Sweet 24:18 Josette's Maque Choux 25:32 Swiss Steak, Tender Under Foil 26:21 Field Peas & Ham, No Soaking 27:17 Breakfast for Supper in a Ramekin 28:10 A Peach Cobbler for One 29:05 Ernestine's Cold-Oven Pound Cake 30:11 Salmon Patties in a Muffin Tin 31:03 Country-Style Pork Ribs 31:54 Lupe's Carne Guisada 32:52 Turnip Greens & a Ham Hock 33:56 A Loaded Baked Potato Supper 34:53 Hamburger Steak in Mushroom Gravy 35:53 Baked Cheese Grits (No Stirring) 36:53 Smothered Turkey Wings in an Oven Bag 37:47 A Beanie-Weenie Bake 38:40 Ham & Scalloped Potatoes 39:31 Pecan-Crusted Chicken Tenders 40:32 The No-Pot Chicken Supper, Revealed 41:47 A Real Supper, Set at a Table for One