We Have a New Love
We’ve never dried tomatoes until this summer and oh my we’re in love with them! I’ve been eating the tomatoes…
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Onion, Ungon, or Ingun?
I made a video about our recent onion harvest and discussed onion uses in Appalachia—including in Appalachian language. I finished…
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Easy Recipe for Squash and/or Zucchini Pickles
A few weeks back The Deer Hunter put in a request for squash pickles. I had plenty of squash and…
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Making Garden Salsa
We’ve been making and enjoying garden salsa. The recipe varies by what we have on hand, but its all tasty!…
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Making Cakes and Pies with Zucchini
Over the weekend I tried a new zucchini cake recipe. The cake is chocolate and it calls for vanilla or…
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Pickling More than Cucumbers
To many a mountain woman who grew up at a time when the kitchen stove occupied most of her 16-hour-long…
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Do You Like Cheesecake?
I love cheesecake! But truthfully I never had real cheesecake until I was an adult at a work party. About…
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Cocoa Bread and Peaches
Back last August Melissa Vaughn and I were emailing about Chocolate Gravy and she wrote: “When I found the gravy…
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Rye Bread
“Homemade Rye Bread” by John Parris Murphy Aunt Tennie Cloer, who will be 92 years old in a couple of…
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Strawberry Cobbler
This is the only time of the year I care for strawberries. I’ve never tried to grow them myself, but…
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Old Timey Pear Preserves
Granny’s Pear Preserves recipe has been handed down through her family for several generations. Like a lot of old recipes,…
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Easy Quick Pizza Dough
A couple of comments about pizza crust on a recent post got me to thinking about the weekly pizza I’ve…
