Main Dish

Paneed Tripletail or Sheepshead
Preheat oven to 350. Put seasoned flour into a large shallow pan. Lightly flour filets (using no egg wash or…
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Freezer Sandwiches
Combine butter, horseradish, mustard and poppy seeds. Mix thoroughly. Open all of the hamburger buns and brush both sides of…
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Grillades & Grits
Place one to two tablespoons of the bacon grease in a large heavy skillet and place on high heat. Season…
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Maw-Maw’s Chicken
Preheat oven to 350. In a mixing bowl, combine garlic, buttermilk, salt, hot sauce and Worcestershire. Mix well and pour…
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Pork Tenderloin with Muscadine Glaze
Season the pork with the salt and pepper. In an ovenproof skillet, heat the olive oil over high heat. Once…
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Grouper Orleans
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Place seasoned flour into large shallow pan,. Lightly flour filets. Heater butter in a large…
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Orange County Ham
Place a large heavy duty skillet over medium-high heat. Melt half of the butter and just as it begins to…
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Pasta Roberto
I developed this for a friend’s birthday hosted at my home. It works well with large groups of all ages. I brought it in as a potential menu item during the initial recipe-testing phase of Tabella. It didn’t have a name, but – as a joke— I listed the temporary, tongue-in-cheek title as “Pasta Roberto,” assuming that we would find a better name before we opened. We never came up with an official name, and it still on the menu as Pasta Roberto.
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RSJ’s Vegetable Beef Soup
Heat 1 tablespoon of oil over high heat in a large skillet. Season the meat with half of the salt…
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