Southern Sundays

During the summer, it has become a ritual in my house to make a Southern (or, at times, Southern-inspired) dinner on Sundays.  It happens to coincide with the season of TrueBlood on HBO.  I don't live in the South--not even close, really--but it gets plenty hot here in the summer and I call that good enough.  The tags will tell you which recipes came out of this weekly experimentation.