We’ve been on a mission to get out of debt for the last year. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting there. In the grand scheme of things we don’t owe as much as most folks or at least as much as most folks we know. In our quest for debt freedom we’ve made some lifestyle changes like getting rid of paid tv programming. Another area we’ve focused on is the cost of food. We rarely eat out, its just…
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Appalachian Food
I was flipping through an old cookbook and noticed a recipe for Magic Cookie Bars. I hadn’t had them in…
One of my fellow Appalachian Instagrammers alerted me that it was national soup month with one of his posts last…
If you ask me butternut squash is one of the good things about the winter months. You can store them…
Once January rolls around I feel the need to decrease my dessert cooking from the warp speed of the holidays,…
“Till later years, we’d raise our own meats for Christmas. We’d kill hogs in November and save the backbones and…
“Christmas was a big time for us. We would make stack cakes. They would be in real thin layers and…
“I guess the most unusual item was the dandelion salad. In the fall, about October when things died down, we…
“Aunt Mo. Norton: We always dressed up for Christmas dinner in the new clothes that we got. Our whole family…
“Along with pork, our most commonly served meat was poultry. Mother raised chickens, and we had eggs and chicken to…