A modern Appalachian woman's kitchen adventures
I saw this meal on Instagram a couple of weeks ago and was so excited to try it (thank you @healthyeats_amberleigh). Then we all get sick. And even with feeling crappy and having a reduced appetite, I kept thinking about this dish. So, I put the ingredients in my Wal-Mart Plus cart so I’d be…
This potato soup recipe is on a ton of food blogs and I hesitated to post it here since it’s so readily available. But I did veer a little bit from many of the recipes that I saw and I had a few notes to make so I thought I might as well add it…
Spaghetti is one of my husband’s favorite foods. To be honest, my spaghetti cooking prior to meeting him involved opening a can of Ragu and mixing it with some browned hamburger. Making a more homemade sauce just didn’t seem like it was worth the effort. He made this spaghetti for me while we were dating…
Salmon Patties are one of my very favorite Appalachian foods. Fresh salmon wasn’t something that was available in grocery stores in the area that I grew up and I don’t think I’m alone when I say my first experience with salmon was the canned variety. I always loved when my mom would fix Salmon Patties,…
I love Chinese food. My first experience with it came in the late 80s/early 90s when a Chinese restaurant opened in a town that neighbored my hometown. Chinatown of London, Ky was probably the first Chinese food that many people in my our area ever tried. Maybe it’s because it was the first but no…
No food represents Appalachian cooking more than the humble pinto bean. Known as soup beans to most of us around here, these yummy legumes are filling, Â affordable, and easily stored which made them an excellent choice for our ancestors who passed this dish down generation after generation. As a child, I alternated between eating them…