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Hi, Y’all I’m Heidy Linn McCallum the quirky, sometimes nerdy, food history loving, writer, recipe developer, food photographer, and cook around here on The McCallum’s Shamrock Patch Blog. If you love learning to cook Traditional Southern recipes or better yet devouring delicious Iconic Southern recipes, Comfort foods, and reading about the fabulous history behind the recipes you love eating, you have landed on the right page.
I launched The McCallum’s Shamrock Patch Blog back in 2013, sharing family-friendly, Iconic, and traditional Southern favorites among family and friends. By 2018 my family blog has developed a huge fan base of those seeking the art of cooking delicious Southern Favorites and Italian-American Cuisine and the history behind the recipes.
My husband Ben grew up on Southern Foods, so of course I like to serve up his favorite recipes such as Chocolate Grits n Berries, Chocolate Gravy with Bacon, Sausage Gravy and Biscuits, Egg Salad, Fried Green Tomatoes, Tomato Pie, Collard Greens, Black-eyed Peas, Spicy Fried Chicken, Fried Dill Pickles, Gumbo, Jambalaya, Milk and Honey Corn on the Cob, Cornbread, Fried Okra, and so forth and so on.
Southern cuisine has an amazing historical foundation because of the amazing influences of so many unique cultures coming together during the early settlement of the United States. It’s truly an amazing combination of Native American, African, French, Spanish, Greek, Scottish, Irish, English, and a few other cultures.
On the other hand, I was brought up in a family household where both delicious Italian-American Comfort foods and Southern foods were served during meals so you will also find me sharing a few of my favorite Italian-American family recipes as well on the blog from time to time to spice things up a bit on the blog.
Currently, I moved back to Florida last August after living in Mississippi, near the Tennessee border for over year. At heart, I’m a Florida girl who loves the year-round warm temps and bright sunshine. I hope you enjoy reading about some of the interesting histories behind the recipes I make and our family enjoys. If you have any questions or comments be sure to voice them in the comment section I love to hear from Y’all, so don’t be strangers feel free to introduce yourselves.
Current News/Work
Recently, I had the opportunity to work with the Simply Potatoes® again. I had a total blast making and sharing my recipe for my almost famous Southern Brunch Casserole Y’all have no idea how darn good that recipe is. You have to try it ASAP, don’t get me wrong, bacon, fried eggs, buttermilk pancakes, and grits may be great Y’all, but this deliciously flavorful Southern Brunch Casserole will take your Brunch Game to a whole new level of Southern Goodness.
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Much love and Kisses!
Heidy L. McCallum
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