A couple of comments about pizza crust on a recent post got me to thinking about the weekly pizza I’ve been making for years. I’ve always liked pizza and I thought I was making good pizza, until several years back the girls were invited to a birthday party at Nanette Davidson’s house. While the kids talked the grownups sat around in the kitchen watching Nanette make pizzas for everyone. Her pizza was so good—the best I’d ever eaten. As I…
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Appalachian Food
Its been a few years since I made dandelion jelly. With extra time on my hands I thought I’d make…
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A few weeks back Emaline B. Winter emailed me to see if I had ever heard of light cornbread. She…