A Taste of Fall – Candy Roaster Cookies
A candy roaster is a type of squash once grown widely in Appalachia that is making a sort of modern…
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Tomato Pie
A couple of years ago Jean Elizabeth sent me the recipe for Tomato Pie from Southern Living. I’ve wanted to…
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Ground Cherry Salsa
Delicious meal with ground cherry salsa and watermelon Some Mexican restaurants feature salsa made with tomatillos (Moe’s Southwest Grill offers…
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36 Years of Making Pickles
Last weekend we helped the Chastain family make pickles. They’ve been making them for 36 years. Gerald Chastain is the…
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Homemade Ranch Dressing
Ranch Dressing Mix everything together and let it marry in the fridge for at least several hours. Ranch dressing has…
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Last Beans of the Summer
We picked the last of the beans this week. While we were gone to the beach friends came and picked…
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Winter Squash Harvest
We harvested all our winter squash this week. There’s one missing from the wagon, a blue hubbard squash. The haul…
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Canning Peas for the First Time
Calico and Mississippi pink eye are the only peas we planted this year. We had two patches of the pink…
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Canning Salsa
I never got to make salsa last summer so it was high on my list of things to put up…
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Corncobs For Games & Jelly
Shelling Corn 1939 Highlands Elizabeth Edwards, who operates a business with a strictly mountain flavor, has discovered a delectable use…
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Cornbread & Storytelling
Cornbread is the quintessential bread of Appalachia. Although batter recipes vary, the key to making traditional cornbread is to use…
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The Time For Putting Up
put up verb phrase To put away, store.1969 DARE FW Addit (KY) = to store, put away, or put in storage as in a…
