The eCookbook I published a couple of years ago is still selling good for me. The name of it is Favorite Recipes from Appalachia. You can find it here.
The small download features ten of my favorite traditional Appalachian recipes.
Biscuits
Chocolate Gravy
Soup Beans
Cornbread
Kilt Lettuce
Pap’s Sweet Bread
Aunt Mary Jo’s Apple Pie
Black Walnut Cookies
Arsh Potato Cake
Candy Roaster Cookies
I’ve received a lot of positive feedback since it first published, with the only negative feedback being: please make a larger cookbook and print it!
For the last year or so Jim Casada and I have been working hard on doing just that.
We are in the final stages of submitting a joint cookbook project that we’ve been talking about and working on for a good long while. Jim’s many years of book writing experience made the whole process very easy for me. I know he encouraged me to be part of the project because he realized I would never take the leap on my own.
While we still don’t know for sure what the cover will look like, we do have a name: Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food: Recipes and Stories. We are both very proud of the book. It has 27 chapters full of wonderful southern Appalachian recipes and stories. The book also features historic photos that were taken throughout the region.
Today’s Thankful November giveaway is a free download of my eCookbook Favorite Recipes from Appalachia. Leave a comment on this post to be entered. *Giveaway ends November 11, 2022.
Last night’s video: Cleaning Out Garden Beds, Saving Seeds, & Our First Ever Deer Damage.
*There will be no post this Friday November 11, 2022. Due to internet changes I am having to switch out the furnishings here on the blog. Hopefully all will go smoothly and I’ll be back up and running by Saturday November 12.
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I enjoy your posts as it reminds me of my youth growing up in the Sandhills of North Carolina – not mountainous but out in the country!
I would love to have a copy of your e-cookbook. All of the recipes sound delicious!
That’s a cookbook I’d love to add to my collection!!!
My husband and I started watching your videos a few months ago and enjoy them. Will the previous recipes be included in your new book? Also, what is the brand of popsicles you and Matt eat?
Thanks
Mary-thank you for watching and reading! Most of the recipes will be in the cookbook. They are Outshine popsicles 🙂
Like many others, looking forward to your new cookbook. I have watched watched MANY of your cooking recipes & am especially looking forward to making chocolate gravy & biscuits for my granddaughters. Thsnks for bring back so many good memories that are so connected to food from childhood.
I look forward to that cookbook!!!
Looking forward to your cookbook. Love reading the Blind pig and the acorn. God bless you and your family.
Love your you tube videos and you blog. Looking forward to your cookbook! Sounds like a good one. Here in WV we love Appalachian anything.
I so love any kind of cookbooks. The difference of all the recipes. Different ways that people make their stuff. Comes down to it, it’s all good. Just pure Country.
I enjoy cookbooks a lot! I have my mother’s very old Betty Crocker cookbook from back in the 1960’s. The family used to love it when I made the homemade cinnamon bun recipe from her cookbook. People tell me that I’m a very good cook and I relish those compliments. Food is a precious commodity and should be appreciated and enjoyed. I must share this quote from my Bible, “And give us this day our daily bread” when God mentions something we had better take notice. I am thankful for the good foods He has so bountifully supplied for us in America. May God continue to bless the farmers that tend the crops, the truck drivers that deliver it to us, and all of us that partake of it. I thank God that we live in the land of plenty.
I have put your recipes in a folder everytime you post one. I have made some of them so many times I do not have to look at them anymore. Especially the biscuits. I am only cooking for one now and my micro wave has become my best friend.
I have been lax on cooking a full meal. I do eat alot of fruits and veggies so I guess I am staying healthy. Your book sounds great.
Looking for to seeing your upcoming cookbook!
I follow Jim Casada Outdoors as well as the Blind Pig. And yes, I regularly copy recipes that either one of you post. I’ve already emailed Jim to get on the waiting list for y’all’s cookbook publication Looking forward to it.
Hi Tipper. Congratulations on your almost completed cookbook! You must be so excited to be publishing such a large cookbook. I love cooking and baking so I really enjoy your posts and YouTube videos about Appalachian food. I recently made your delicious macaroni and cheese recipe and it was amazing! I never thought to put ground mustard in mac and cheese, but it elevated the flavors and I can’t imagine ever making mac and cheese without it now. I would be delighted if you considered me for today’s giveawat for your eCookbook “Favorite Recipes from Appalachia.” Have a wonderful day, Tipper. One love.
Oh my, so looking forward to the book. Your recipes remind me so much of things Grandma and Mama made. Mama would make sweet rice for breakfast and it was a treat when she made it chocolate. And Grandma made popcorn balls for Halloween . Wonderful memories
Did you ever get sweet rice with raisins? That’s was my favorite!
I already have the electronic cookbook and am looking forward to your collaboration cookbook with Jim!! God bless!
If you draw my name, toss it out an draw another. I just bought and downloaded the e-cookbook. Those biscuits and some chocolate gravy are gonna be the first recipes I try.
For Patricia – and anyone else – after downloading the PDF of the e-cookbook, it can be printed easily (assuming you have a printer, of course 🙂 )
I don’t think Youtube is allowing my links so I’ll try it here. It has to do with controlling the deer population while protecting your garden. If the threat is in progress you have the right to eliminate it in North Carolina. https://www.ncwildlife.org/Licensing/Regulations/Nongame-and-Other-Regulations/Wildlife-Depredation#5836328-wildlife-taken-without-a-depredation-permit.
Cabbage and most cole crops grow best in the fall and early winter in our area. That’s when the insect population has
died back and the cabbage moth is no longer flitting around looking for a nice tender cabbage plant to lay her eggs on. That’s also when deer, rabbits and other pests are more likely to venture out near our gardens. Remember fall before last when deer ate up my strawberry patch? Had I caught them in the act, I could have legally nullified the threat.
Also in that comment I suggested that you could close in the ends of your cattle panel rows and everything inside would be fenced in. It probably wouldn’t stop rabbits and other smaller varmints but deer would have to jump. I doubt they would jump into such a small place. Deer lack depth perception. They can see both sides of the fenced in area and can’t tell the distance between the sides so ordinarily shy away.
Another option is a good yard dog!
Ed-thank you for leaving the link here! I will share it with Matt 🙂
Ed, unless the law has changed in South Carolina the landowner can only kill deer out of season if they are destroying a crop grown as a source of income eliminating most people that are just growing gardens. The DNR will issue a permit to kill the deer. I checked into it a good many years ago and even with the permit you were only allowed to kill 6 which wouldn’t be a drop in a bucket. Ben, my friend that plants 25-30 thousand sweet potato plants and also has huge watermelon and cantaloupe fields will be issued a permit each year. I don’t know if there is a limit now. Many of the the smaller size produce farmers will put a single strand of electric wire about 3-4 feet high around the field on post and then back off about 4 feet and run another electric fence around the same field and may even run a 3rd wire. The idea is the deer get caught in between the wires and will leave the crops alone. I have closed in a place with 6 ft. High chicken wire raised about 6-10 inches off ground which makes the top of fence 61/2-7 feet high. The deer easily jump over this. Back when I was growing up and large gardens were a necessity the Deer problem would have been taken care of with lead from from the end of a gun barrel. There were no deer in my area until the DNR begin stocking deer and turkey in the 70’s in my area. The DNR likes to brag about it now, license to hunt them is their biggest money maker. At one time SC had the longest deer season on any state Aug. 15 to Jan. 1.
Randy, why would growing food for your family be different from growing food to sell to obtain money to buy food for your family? The only difference I can think of is the state cannot tax food that doesn’t go through a producer, a buyer, a wholesaler and a retailer before it is consumed.
Tipper resigned from a job that paid her in currency but she didn’t stop working. She switched, from working to earn money to buy food, to producing the food herself. That work has no less value and should, in my opinion, be worth much more. It’s like an animal is stealing her paycheck! I fully understand her disappointment!
The NCWRC only allows you to shoot an animal if you catch it in the act. You can’t shoot all the deer in Wilson Holler just in case one might wander into your cabbage patch. But, if you actually see a deer nibbling on your family’s supper, you have the right to eliminate that threat just as you would if it were a possum in the hen house.
I have a picture from 2 weeks ago my son sent to me while he was deer hunting about 400 yards behind our house. It shows 13 deer feeding in a food plot , all less than 50 yards from his stand and he said he thought there may have been a few more. He didn’t shoot any, he was hoping the big buck he has seen on his trail camera would show up. This is an example of why it is so difficult to grow anything or the main highway will have deer killed by cars overnight scattered along the sides of the road.
I’m still searching for a biscuit recipe that will mimic my grandmother’s biscuits! I’d definitely like to try your recipe!
It would be so nice to try your recipes!
Oh I cannot wait for that cookbook with stories! So grateful for Jim & all the Blind Pig Family. My how you all enrich our lives.
I would really love to win your cookbook but when or lose I’d like to get a copy!
I’m looking forward to your & Jim Casada’s cookbook.
a suggestion; perhaps a representative view (a challenge, I know!) of the Southern Appalachians, surrounded by small pictures of the women (cooking, indoors or out, when possible; maybe in aprons) of the women (and men) who influenced each of your families’ cooking. of course, your & Jim’s pictures would need to be inside with your bios.
That’s the image that popped into my head when I read about your coming cookbook so thought I’d suggest it.
Although you won’t need it, best of luck with your cookbook.
I’m looking forward to your & Jim Casada’s cookbook.
a suggestion; perhaps a representative view (a challenge, I know!) of the Southern Appalachians, surrounded by small pictures of the women (cooking, indoors or out, when possible; maybe in aprons) of the women (and men) who influenced each of your families’ cooking. of course, your & Jim’s pictures would need to be inside with your bios.
That’s the image that popped into my head when I read about your coming cookbook so thought I’d suggest it.
Although you won’t need it, best of luck with your cookbook.
I’m ashamed to admit that I never have cared much for cooking. My granny Beth was a wonderful cook, your posts/videos often put me in mind of her. She always canned a bunch of stuff and made jellies and was always cooking up something delicious. She had the green thumb and loved growing things…food & flowers. Apparently I didn’t inherit those traits, but since I started watching y’all it’s really inspired me to start trying! I found the deer cooking videos y’all posted and as soon as Tim gets a deer I plan on trying Matt’s roast recipe
I’m looking forward to the cookbook. Everything that I have made from your cooking videos is delicious! I am sorry about the damage the deer caused. We live in town and there are some woods and creek way back behind our house and we’ve had them coming around for years. The strangest thing was we were coming home one night, and when we turned onto our street, there were three deer, walking like people down the street. There are also woods across the highway from our subdivision here, so they definitely are around. I enjoyed Matt’s talk about how to prepare a deer. Not everyone can cook deer meat and you can tell he really knows how to go about it the right way.
Wow, that Southern Appalachian cookbook that you’re working on sounds great! I am definitely looking forward to buying a copy as soon as it comes out.
Have you ever thought about writing a book?
Please do!
It would be wonderful to have an organized collection of yours & Jim’s recipe. If I don’t win the download I’ll buy the cookbook. Thanks bunches,
I.ve tried a couple of your recipes as well as some of Jim’s that went well. Those titles bring up memories of Mom and grandmothers and their cooking.
We will sure miss you Friday.
So glad Jim Cassada encouraged you to get out of your comfort zone & write this cookbook with him. No doubt it will be a great success.
I can’t wait to buy it. Will it be available
on Amazon & when do y’all think the release date will be?
I really enjoyed Matt’s information on deer hunting. I have never tasted deer because I love animals so much that I seldom ever eat meat of any kind, but his explanation for hunting deer has opened my eyes about the reasons it is best to thin out the deer…. But I doubt I will ever eat them unless I was starving. I reckon the Bambi movie I saw when I was a kid has messed me up for life No doubt Matt has an abundance of great information to share & I hope he does just that.
Cheryl-thank you for reading and watching 🙂 It will be available on Amazon and it will be available in 2023-we hope by mid year.
Tipper, the first time I watched your YouTube, I was hooked. I have tried many of your recipes and enjoyed them all. Your outside campfire meals I love watching, even the extra work is fun. My family here in Colorado do the same thing, hotdogs over a campfire in the winter are the best. I’m looking forward to your cookbook, my phone gets all messy as I follow your recipes
Your cookbook sounds exciting!
Love your posts.
I can not WAIT for your new cookbook to come out, please let us know the second we can preorder, ok!
Seriously, thank you so much for bringing us into your home and making us feel like friends. I can honestly there’s never been another YouTube channel that has ever captured my attention like you have.
Your kindness, gentleness, story telling (and reading) is unmatched! For me, you’ve made me feel like I did after the Sept 11 attacks….everyone seemed to slow down then, gather around, reminisce about yesterday, watch old tv shows, made homemade Christmas trees that year…..and for some reason you make me want to live that way again….and it’s lasting this time around, bc I’m retired now and no longer forced to pull 16 hr work days, run and gun or miss out on family gatherings.
So thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving me that feeling back! Thank your husband too, I’m sure his love and support for what you do has help make you who you are☺️
I’m sure your new joint venture cookbook will be a hit!! Seems I’m late to the reading some of the time:) I only had a few minutes to listen to Paul, Corrie and you playing “Moving on” yesterday before I left for church. Didn’t have time to comment but my toe was tapping away to the music and Paul’s singing is always good! Viewing your video on deer tracks that came into your garden last night made me think about the tracks I found in my front flower bed. My neighbor is a deer hunter so I am going to have him take a look at the tracks when he gets home from work. Deer cross the road into my yard and go all the way through back to a farmer’s field but I haven’t had them bother anything yet, although, that may be their tracks in the front flower bed. Hope your internet change goes smoothly!!
I really enjoy your videos and get a sense of what it’s like to live in Appalachia. The country girl DNA in me is drawn to your down home style and easy going, but informative conversations.
I love reading Cook Books! That was something me and my mother did, starting as a child. She loved trying out new recipes and so do I .
Looking forward to the new one being available…love the one I have. God Bless
I love reading the stories that come with the recipes and I look forward to your new cookbook with Jim.
I watched your video this morning and can’t figure out how to leave a comment on youtube. My house is surrounded by 16 acres of woods, and deer visit often in the fall to snack on the acorns from the white oaks at the edge of the cleared area where my house is. You can watch them from my living room windows, and my deer hunting neighbor said he wished he could set up a deer stand in my living room 😉 My late husband used to hunt and had the same philosophy Matt has. Fortunately, my neighbor hunts and shares with me and two other friends. We set up an assembly line to cut and trim the meat. After it ages in iced layers for about 10 days, I get a good run of canned deer meat out of what he provides. I have two very large garden boxes and always plant marigolds and basil around. Deer supposedly do not like the smell. So far, it has worked.
It was your recipe for cornbread that I watched you make that got me hooked.
Your cookbook sounds so exciting! Can’t wait to try your recipes here in the piedmont. My grandmother always called Irish potatoes “Arsh potatoes”. She was born in 1910. Your book will bring back many memories!
I found you 10+ years ago while searching for a pickle recipe! Keep the flame burning!
Good luck with your change out and I can’t wait for your paper book to come out. Evidently I need one that is able to absorb juice, take ink well, and have pages for book markers and bent corners. Messy finger tips are welcome. LOL
I look forward to buying a copy of your new cookbook. I made your Arsh Potato Cake and loved it.
I want to try some of your recipes when I get a chance! I love kilt lettuce, but we have always called it scalded lettuce down the mountain a ways. Thanks for presenting Appalachian culture in a favorable light and helping to keep it alive!
Mom never owned a cookbook or used a recipe as far as I can remember. Well, since I’m not the kind of country cook she was, I sure could use your chocolate gravy and biscuit recipe.
I look forward to trying black walnut cookies.
I am confused – is it going to be printed sometime in the future? Or be available only in e-book format? I like my cookbooks with fingerprints here and there 😉
Patricia- the eCookbook will not be printed. The book Jim and I are working on is a different project and will be published in 2023 🙂
I love cookbooks! Tha ones that tell a story are the best.
You have always given your readers wonderful recipes, very Appalachian. You have done so much to keep tradition alive. Please count me in. Would love to have one to treasure and use.
I will have to get both of the books. I collect cook books and especially the ones that tell a story.
Can’t wait for cookbook, love your and the girls videos. Makes my day ❤️
Looking forward to book!
Sounds like a good book.
It is a good book.
I am looking forward to your new cookbook. I would love to try some of your recipes, especially the apple cake recipe. Thank you!
I so look forward to the printing of your cookbook! Already your delicious mac n cheese, chicken n dumplins, and best tomato/ cucumber salad have become favorites at our family table.
My son and I came across your video’s a few months ago on Youtube and we have been hooked ever since. My best friend’s mother made the best biscuits I had ever had growing up, and even though the recipe was shared with me, I could not make them to save my life! Can you guess what the first video of yours I watched? Yep, your biscuit recipe! And now, I can whip up a batch of the best biscuits “I” have ever made! Thank you for your beautiful videos and for teaching me how to make biscuits.
Ok, go ahead and put in my order for the cookbook you and Jim are writing. I can hardly wait to get it and read it and cook out of it! I have made most of your recipes in your e book and loved them all. I so appreciate our time together each day with your blog, I look forward to reading and connecting every day.
I cannot wait until your cookbook comes out! I know it will be full of great recipes and now I’m looking forward to the stories and pictures too.
I look forward to your cookbook! Just the thought of chocolate gravy and biscuits… makes me think of visits to my late Big Mom…Oh sounds so good!!! Best of luck with your book, Tipper.
Exciting! I look forward to your new cookbook.
Looking forward to the new cookbook.
I will be buying it if at all possible as soon as it comes out! Really enjoy all of your videos! God bless you and yours❤❤
Looking forward to some of the recipes I enjoyed as a child when we visited my grandparents. Mammy always spoiled me with chocolate gravy and biscuits.
I got so dadburned excited at the mention of some of your mouth watering recipes! Absolutely yum on all the foods you have listed in your E cookbook! I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt your cookbook venture with Mr. Casada will be positively wonderful! For a cover of the book, I think you and Jim standing near a wonderful dish or several gorgeous dishes ‘round your table or outdoors would be beautiful picture! Tipper, you’re a very lovely lady and you should be proud of your attractive appearance!!! I think you’re the cat’s meow myself!!!!
I’m looking forward to your cookbook! I know it will be great.
The recipe book should be a good one. Over the last few days I have been reading Jim’s new book, Fishing For Chickens. I can relate to a lot of things he has wrote about in the book. I lost everything I tried to grow this year in my small garden to deer except for my tomatoes, maybe because they were in cages. The deer were jumping over a 6 1/2 ft. high fence. They sure are destructive and cause a lot of wrecks even to the point of some people being killed. Good luck on whatever you have got to do Friday, I do not understand computer technology.
Tipper, I look forward each day for your post. I feel a kinship as a N. Ga girl that now lives in Tn.
My hubby and I spend as much time as possible in your neck of the woods. Murphy, Blairsville, Blue Ridge , and Brasstown really call to us.
Looking forward to the books release!
Can’t wait for the book to be published! Praying for a smooth computer switch.
How exciting! It is sure to be a rounding success!
I’m so excited about the upcoming cookbook! What a treasure it will be.
The desire to share beloved Family recipes that bring us such wonderful memories of our family and our foods is as natural as Spring rains and Fall colors. Thank you for sharing yours.
Best of luck on the internet change! I’m very excited about ur new cookbook!!
Looking forward to the cookbook ! Tried your biscuit recipe this past weekend they turned out great
Looking forward to the cookbook!
how wonderful!! can’t wait for the book, love watching them on YouTube
I Want It! I Want It! I Want It! That joint venture cookbook of you and Jim’s is going to be a Best Seller. Can’t wait to see it in print and have my own copy. How can we sign up for the first printing?
The cookbook is a great idea! You are an excellent cook and if anyone knows Appalachian cooking it’s you. You are very blessed to have Jim teach you so much over the years, he had been a faithful mentor. I am looking forward to the new cookbook!
I have tried some of your recipes in the past (especially your 2 ingredient biscuits) and I look forward trying some of your eCookbook recipes.
Good Luck on your book Tipper, I’m very excited to see how it turns out! I’m sure it will be great. Hope everything goes ok on Friday too.
I collect cookbooks and often read them like novels. I’m looking forward to getting your printed cookbook, but the ecookbook will have to suffice in the meantime.
Oh how wonderful! I have an obsession with cookbooks. Congratulations!
An offer too good to refuse—thank you!
I’m certain that the $4 is a wonderful bargain and I will go that route when my
daughter shows up with her credit card one day. What a great project you and
Mr. Casada have been working on.
Love Matt’s discussion about deer hunting last evening. Your story is very much like my own.
The deer have found my small front yard flower garden and have decimated it. All
my beautiful rose bushes chewed to the ground, in spite of the thorns. Forget a gun, I
could cheerfully strangle those critters!
I got some small satisfaction from my 15-year-old grandson’s first deer a few weeks ago.
It is a comforting thought that there is extra meat in the freezer for his family. Now to
find Matt’s tips on venison preparation.
I am so looking forward to your new cookbook with Jim, but I would love a copy of your eBook to tied me over until your new one is published.
Congratulations! This will be great & im really looking forward to the day we can see this work of Art. Take care!
Good luck on yuor switchout on Friday.
We look forward to your cookbook and trying some of recipes within. I just got back from two beautiful weeks in Northwest Maine. I enjoyed the regional cuisine and beauty of the area.
Have a great day
I love cookbooks. It’d be a great addition to my collection.