I Made Three Bean Salad for the First Time!
When I go to a homecoming or dinner on the grounds I always keep an eye out for Three Bean…
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Old Fashioned Chess Pie
I first tasted Chess Pie at the John C. Campbell Folk School and that’s also where I learned to make it. Chess…
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Kraut
kraut A noun Sauerkraut, widely made in the mountains, stored in barrels and kept for winter consumption. The food is…
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Our Mother’s Day Meal
Yesterday we cooked a Mother’s Day supper for Granny and Miss Cindy. As I was cooking, I wondered if there…
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Soupy Taters
Like most everyone else in Appalachia potatoes, or more commonly called taters, make up a large part of our diet…
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Green Onions and Salt
Ethelene Dyer Jones sent me the following piece about her memories of eating from the spring garden as a child: A…
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Lettuce and Onions
killed salad, kilt salad noun A salad made by pouring boiling grease over lettuce or other greens. Same as wilted…
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Granny’s Carrot Cake
Several years ago I decided I wanted to make a carrot cake. I searched and searched online till I found…
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Corn Fritters – Hoe Cakes – Johnny Cakes = YUM!
Some folks call them corn fritters while others call them Johnny Cakes or Hoe Cakes. Whatever you call them the…
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Ann Applegarth’s Irish Soda Bread
Back in 2015 Blind Pig Reader Ann Applegarth left the following comment on a post I wrote about Irish…
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Hamburger and Beans
Using ground meat in some way usually comes to mind when one thinks of creating a cheap make-do kind of meal. There’s…
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Pam’s Cubed Steak
I didn’t used to be a fan of cooking cubed steak. I always fried it like Granny did and like…
