Thankful November – Smokehouses
“The smokehouse was a necessity in our lives. Father cured and stored hams, shoulders, and side meat in the smoke…
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Thankful November – Cooking Deer Tenderloin
Over the weekend we celebrated the first real cold air of the season by cooking our supper outside. We built…
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Making Pepper Jelly
We finally had our first hard freeze over the weekend. I knew it was coming and went out in search…
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Making Tea Cakes
Over the years lots of folks have asked for my tea cake recipe. Since I started making cooking videos even…
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Parched Peanuts
Today’s guest post was written by Keith Jones. I never particularly cared for that most southern of snacks, boiled peanuts….
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Raw Apple Cake
Over the weekend I was looking for a taste of fall and ended up making a very tasty apple cake….
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Sousemeat and Livermush
“Now, when they killed the hogs, they used all the parts of the hog—all of them. Out of the head…
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Ground Cherry Pie
Ground cherries grow wild around and in our garden areas. The plants always produce, but this year they’ve made a…
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Making Pickled Corn
Decades ago, families throughout the Southern Appalachians would salt-pickle barrels of corn on the cob. Ernest Parker of Gilmer County,…
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Garden Greens in Appalachia
While cultivated collards, turnip greens, and mustard varieties have been known to escape or naturalize and grow wild in old…
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Blueberry Yum Yum…But Not the Right One
A few weeks back I got to thinking about the desserts that were popular when I was a child. We…
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Making Syrup
“Making syrup required a lot of hard work from the planting through the pouring up of the molasses. I remember…
