Growing up in coal fields and farm lands… money was always tight for many families. Appalachians have learned to make do with some surprisingly excellent cuisine on a very tight budget! I should know because many of these are my favorites to eat. Now I’m gonna be honest a lot of these are not diet … Continue reading Appalachian cuisine on a tight budget
We started using this idea while camping. Easy to prepare ahead of time and delicious. Pickled eggs! To make egg salad sandwiches you just slice and dice the pickled eggs, add a bit of mayo, slap it on some bread and you are ready to eat! Super easy and incredibly delicious! Now we like eating … Continue reading A summer tradition: pickled eggs and egg salad sandwiches the easy way!
So I did a bit of experimenting! I decided to use my bread recipe and make bread with cocoa powder mixed into the flour. See previous post for the bread recipe. I added 1 heaping spoon full of cocoa to the flour as I sifted it. Then added the yeast water as normal and followed … Continue reading Chocolate bread? Sooooo good!
During Black Friday sales on Amazon I scored this fabulous cast iron bread cloche! This thing is awesome! It looks small (only 7” diameter) but makes a perfect loaf of bread! Bread is getting expensive so off on an adventure and I e found the perfect recipe for easy bread! I seasoned the bread cloche … Continue reading Bread! Yummy!
We love our electric turkey cooker. It makes a fabulous turkey! With the holidays it gets a lot of use! but it has so much potential for other uses as well! Well worth the purchase! 2023 Christmas dinner … it even makes a nice brown roasted skin and the dripping are used for broth and … Continue reading How to use an electric turkey cooker for other things… and some other helpful tips and kitchen tools.
This recipe started by accident. Mamaw was making strawberry cookies which is a family favorite (recipe in a previous post) and accidentally used a white cake mix instead of a strawberry cake mix. Of course we all had to try them and we all agreed they would be fabulous if she added some cranberry raisins … Continue reading The Don-Ella cookies, a yummy recipe accident
This recipe started by accident. Mamaw was making strawberry cookies which is a family favorite (recipe in a previous post) and accidentally used a white cake mix instead of a strawberry cake mix. Of course we all had to try them and we all agreed they would be fabulous if she added some cranberry raisins … Continue reading The Don-Ella cookies, a yummy recipe accident
There is a trick to home canning green tomatoes, that I found by accident, if you want to fry green tomatoes this winter and not have them a falling apart soggy mess! It is the season (early fall) to grab those green tomatoes off the vine and put them up for a winter and spring … Continue reading How To Can The Best Green Tomatoes and What To Do With Them
My husband hates grape jelly. Store bought grape jelly is taboo in our house. But I wanted to play and make some homemade grape jelly just for fun! So I bought 4 LBs of dark purple grapes (they are in season and cheap!) and brought them home. He reluctantly agreed to experiment with it “just … Continue reading Homemade grape jelly
Every year I have to try and find this recipe because it’s a family favorite! Which means looking thru old Facebook messages from my sister to find it again lol…So this year I’m going to be smart and I’m just going to post it to my website. I’m assuming “mamaw” probably got this recipe from … Continue reading Strawberry cookie recipe
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