Today I’m sharing a quick and easy recipe from mine and Jim’s cookbook “Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food – Recipes & Stories from Mountain Kitchens,” it is very tasty and so easy and quick to put together.
Carrot Salad
1 cup grated carrots
1 large apple, diced
1 cup celery, chopped
1 green or red pepper, chopped
Mayonnaise
Salt and pepper to taste
Toss the first 5 ingredients together. Add mayonnaise to taste. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
TIP: Salad may be altered by increasing or decreasing ingredients according to individual preference.
TP
The salad only takes a few minutes to make and really adds a brightness to any meal you’re having.
On Tuesday, August 22, Jim and I will be at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City, NC from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. We will be signing cookbooks and meeting folks who want to chat about the cookbook. We would love to see you there!
You can purchase our cookbook here. We will also have cookbooks available for purchase at the library.
Last night’s video: The First Taste of Fall, Matt’s Deer Season Disappointment, & We Are Happy to Live in Appalachia!
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Hi Tipper. Hope all is well. Just wanted to advise that I didn’t get your blog yesterday
Tipper I didn’t get today’s post from you
Didn’t receive a Blind Pig today (8/22)
Thanks,
Tipper
Arnold – I don’t know if you are thinking about me as I have mentioned I am from San Diego, I was born and raised there. I write about that a lot on Tipper’s blog and you tube channel. I moved to North Carolina a few years ago, but my parents, brothers and sisters are still in San Diego. Everyone is fine in my family – a few leaky roofs from Hurricane Hilary, but nothing serious otherwise. I have many friends spread throughout the Central Valley (Barstow, Yurmo, Apple Valley, Twenty Nine Palms, Anza Borrego) in the desert, who were a little harder hit, but they are all ok, too. I was worried about a friend in Barstow who had a stroke two weeks ago, and had just returned home Saturday, but he is ok, too. He lives by himself. It was very kind of you to wonder about one of Tipper’s commenters from there. Even if it wasn’t me you were thinking of in your comment – I can say for everyone that was hit by Hilary – Thank you for your concern!!!
Donna. : )
It was you I’m was thinking about! I’m glad your folks have come through without much damage!
This salad does look so refreshing and easy to make. I went back and listened to the recording of Pap and Granny singing “Time Has Made A Change In Me.” I loved hearing them sing together. I know you cherish this recording, Tipper.
I have searched through many of Paul’s videos and have yet to find any of Pap and Granny singing together. Please if you or Paul could find them and post them I would greatly appreciate it. Granny has such a beautiful voice and I would dearly love to hear them singing together. Praying for Granny and all of you
A
Jan-sadly there aren’t any videos. We do have a few recordings. You can hear one at this link: https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/time-has-made-a-change-in-me/
It looks so refreshing and good. I seen this and definitely going to try it. I am so glad for all the recipes . I love your cookbook. Tell Granny hi and we love her and still praying for her.
Mama made carrot salad a lot when I was growing up but all she put in hers was shredded carrots, raisins, and Miracle Whip. If she didn’t have Miracle Whip, she used mayo and added a pinch of sugar. We ate a lot of carrots at home because she always said they would make our eyes stronger. Well, we all ended up wearing glasses, LOL. I haven’t made this in a while and your recipe sounds really good, especially adding in apples. I’m all for something cold in this hot weather we are having. Have a blessed day everyone!
Who is the lady that lives in San Diego, California? Southern California was hit by Hurricane Hilary over the weekend. Reckon she is OK?
Arnold-I’m not sure but I hope she is okay!
I enjoy carrot salad. It was a very traditional dish to make in the old days in the spring time when you needed to use up your carrots you had stored in the root cellar before they started sprouting and going bad.
Looks great. I make the fake Chick fil a carrot salad with shredded carrots and a little crushed pineapple….adding a sprinkling of raisins.
I’ll try this apple recipe.
That looks good! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Some of the old timey salads were the most tasty and easy to prepare. I have problems with keeping lettuce fresh for salads so always trying to put together something where the ingredients are less perishable. For simple good Appalachian meals, your cookbook has the best. On a very hot day in my travels out into the remote areas of Appalachia, a caregiver handed me a dish of chopped into chunks cabbage with tomatoes and simple mayo dressing was so refreshing. I cannot get mine to taste as well, perhaps because I am not eating it after coming in on a hot day.
I thought I might try that carrot salad so I went and checked the date on my mayonnaise. It says “Best by 09/30/22”. Reckon that’s too far out of date?
That’s got me to thinking. “Why do I need mayonnaise if I can go that long without using it?” Somebody might say “Well it must have been out of date when you bought it!” Well no, I always check the dates on everything that might have an expiration date, especially (not eXpecially) milk, eggs and mayonnaise.
To add to all that I have an unopened ½ gallon jug of sweet milk in my refrigerator that says sell “by Aug 13”. How long do you reckon that’ll stay good?
For a lot of things I don’t worry to much about the dates, if you read some of the dates closely, it will only say BEST if used by this date not meaning it needs to be thrown out. I am very strict about dates on milk, if you have ever swallowed a gulp of sour milk you understand. You might be pushing it on the mayonnaise, stick you finger in it and taste it!
If you use mayonnaise that infrequently, you should consider making your own in small quantities. It’s very easy but doesn’t have the preservatives that store-bought mayo does; so it only lasts a few days even in the fridge.
When growing up in the Midwest during the 50s, various family members would make carrot salad but ingredients was Carrots, Raisins, Miracle Whip and on occasion, crushed pineapple. I was 4 or 5 when it seemed like a bit of dessert with the main meal!
I have never had carrot salad, but this recipe may change that. Looking forward to viewing the garden cleanup video, always enjoy them. Congrats on the success of your cookbook. Love mine!
To be honest, I had all but forgotten carrot salad and yours certainly looks cool and refreshing for a hot day! I would also like to plug for your cookbook. If anybody has newlyweds, grown kids setting up housekeeping, college kids, something for the teen Hope Chest, new church cookbook, engaged young ladies, seasoned pros looking for something different to prepare, fancy folks sick of putting on airs in the kitchen, and basically anybody who loves Appalachian cooking and eating! This cookbook is a great Christmas, birthday, wedding or anniversary gift! It’s that time to be thinking of Christmas again… I use this cookbook more than I thought I would. It’s turned out to be quite handy and the recipes are mostly user friendly. I love mine and can think of 3 adult younguns getting it as a gift this year at Christmas- if the Lord allows me to live that long. God bless all and remember the sweet and the matriarch of Wilson family- Miss Evelyn Louzine or gracious Granny in your prayers for strength and healing!!! Have a blessed day!
I like the sounds of that salad, lacking a few things I will pick up today
Another Carrot Salad that we like, and is also very easy is:
Grate carrots, (as many as you want for the size salad you want), sprinkle with a little salt, add raisins to taste, and mix in enough Miracle Whip Salad Dressing to moisten it. VERY GOOD!
One variation is to add drained, crushed pineapple. Very good also!
I grew up eating this alot. My mom believed in carrots! LOL
I watched the video and it sounds like Matt’s luck is like mine. I joke and say if if get picked for jury duty I will show up with a noose over my shoulder wearing a tee shirt that says hang them all, let God sort them out. I had first seniority on my crew at work and had first choice on my vacation days as long as I had them scheduled by February, after that it was on a first come basis. I know I bumped some others out of some prime days but I had earned this seniority. Again I joke and say I always pull for the underdog unless my dog is on top, my dog was on top.
I have cleaned my garden up except for three late tomato plants. I tried growing them from seed but after getting about an inch or so tall, they would not grow anymore. I needed Tipper’s help. I wound up ordering them online. They are new ones for me, they are a cross between the Cherokee Purple and Carbon tomato. Because of the hot weather they are growing slow. This week is suppose to be the about the hottest of the year, real temperature of 100 degrees forecast for Friday.
Matt, I sound like a fuddy duddy old hen but be careful with your kyack, I have two friends that are brothers and true river rats. One of them almost drown after flipping his kyack and getting stuck in it. His was the one where you did sit in the hole.
Yours is the recipe I know. Yum!
The first lesson to learn with a kayak is how to make it roll back to the upright position. No one should use one until they’ve mastered that with someone standing by to assist until they do.
Robert-Matt’s is a fishing kayak so if it turns over he will fall out 🙂 he always wears a life jacket just in case.
Salad looks good. We make it a little different. We use carrots, crushed pineapple, raisins, mayo, sash of salt & sugar. It was interesting to see a different recipe. Salads are so good in the summer. Enjoyed video last night. Looking forward to that big snow you are going to get!!! Yesterday we listened to some good music – Pap, Paul & the girls! We love to hear them sing – beautiful harmony. I didn’t realize how many beautiful songs Pap wrote. Prayers for all. Take care and God bless ❣️
I’m enjoying the garden clean up video. How do you cure your potatoes? My internet is spotty lately and of course there’s all kinds of reasons given. Thank you for that carrot salad recipe; it reminds me of my grandmother’s. I’ll have to make some, haven’t for awhile. Enjoy your trip and may you be blessed with traveling mercies.
JC-we usually don’t grow enough taters to have to worry about them making it through the entire winter, but we lay them out on the porch out of direct sun until they are either all eat up or cured enough to bring into the kitchen 🙂
JC, my parents and my father in law would put dry sand under their home (underpinned but no basement) and lay the potatoes on the sand in a single layer not touching one another. They would keep pretty well during the winter months. Sweet potatoes were a different story, before the high schools had curing or storage buildings for them, people would store them in the field in a small teepee like structure with corn stalks covered with dirt for the sides and leaves, pine needs or maybe straw covering the dirt floor, and would place tin over the top to keep the rain out. I described this from memory, it may not be exactly correct.
Carrot salad will be great for these hot days coming this week. Enjoyed the garden clean-up video and wow what a bounty of potatoes!
Have a great book signing today and continued prayers for the family.
Enjoyed last nights video. Y’all mentioned commercials…do you remember seeing the 1970’s JFG tea and coffee commercials that were connected with the Raburn Gap, GA Foxfire project? Local community people were incorporated into the commercials. Certainly showcased Appalachia. You can find them on YouTube.
Robert-I’ve never seen them but will look for them 🙂
Well now wasn’t that fun? Cleaning out the garden. Actually, fun might not be the correct word but rewarding it is. The bounty it has produced for you guys for the rest of the year and maybe til the new ‘correctly labeled plants for next year. I am sure Matt, as your new assistant, will be able to handle it with precision that you and Corie didn’t have….LOL. My next question is, when it is too cold for popsicles, what will be your treats at the end of the chore? On a more serious note, Praying for Granny daily. God Bless you guys in your days ahead.
Looks like a refreshing salad. Great for a hot day!