Southurn Living & Eating

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Living in the  south was a unique  experience for me.  At times it felt like I’

 was the only family member that remembered the closeness and love we all once shared here.   The farm was a happy place for me as a child every summer we visited I carved a new niche in my life and it was amazing.  

Simplicity was the key to southern living.  You did’nt  make more of things than was necessary and you enjoyed nature in everything you did and that included cooking and eating.  Southurn Belles has a similar outlook about simplicity and food .  You start with the freshest ingredients and you can’t go wrong with achieving a healthy Experience.

Southurn Belles garnered their name from the Chefs grandmother who was called “ BELL.”  She was truly a lady of the South and one of the best cooks on the planet. But wasn’t everyone’s Grandma.

Every year Chef Lane spent her summer vacation on the farm and loved the old farm house  her grandpa built.  Even the old wood burning stove in the modest kitchen was special because it was where she learned to cook her first dish and won her grandmothers heart as being her favorite Not ever realizing that years in the future the property had been left to her by way of her grandpas deed to everything he owned.

Today; the most special  thing about the home is that it is still standing, weathered with age and trees that are older than she ever will be still sway majestically in the gentle breeze.

As the new caretaker of the family  home , she wants  to share some of the wonderful experiences that  she  had sitting on the old front porch.  It is her joy to sit on the front porch in the old swing and take a nap during the quiet part of the day. She relishes in the thought that love prompted the building of the structure that would one day be the same place she would tell her first story and share excerpts from a new novel that’s published in over 193 countries . She continues to write amazing stories and feed the mind with happy endings mimicking her beautiful childhood at the old farm house.

 Belles is unique in that there is an almost lost history of old houses still standing in Alabama. The memories of fresh foods being prepared here is what the Chef wants to recreate and share with the world. Nothing fancy, just good clean eats of some of the best darn food under the Southern sun~ They will prepare fresh foods the same way they were prepared back then. We want to give people a peek into the past kitchens and see what it was like to live during that time in a simple way. You can schedule a time to visit the old farm house and see the actual stove Chef Hall cooked on as a little girl during her summer vacation. She learned how to cook the same things her grandmother prepared from her garden from fresh vegetables to fresh beef, poultry, pork and anything else that was cookable.  At Southurn Belles, we are passionate about providing our customers with the highest quality food and service which is why we say that it’s “Dining Worth The Drive.” Opening soon!

We believe that the quality of our ingredients is what sets us apart from other eateries. That's why we outsource our ingredients from local farms and markets  or grow it ourselves whenever possible. We are committed to using only the freshest and highest quality ingredients in all of our dishes. Our breads ,cakes, pies and puddings start with the freshest  free range eggs, real butter and sugar. 

ood esbablishments.  We believe that the quality of our ingredients is what sets us apart from other eateries. That's why we source our ingredients from local farms and markets whenever possible. We are committed to using only the freshest and highest quality ingredients in all of our dishes. Our breads,our cakes pies and puddings start with the freshest eggs.