Last night we had family over, and one person had never eaten true Southern food. In all, there were 11 of us. I cooked a whole covered dish supper for them. Cornbread, baked macaroni and cheese, turnip greens, green beans, pan-fried okra, blackeyed peas, deviled eggs, tea, Cheerwine, fried chicken, biscuits. There's nothing I like better than cooking for a crowd of people.
Hello I'm an African American woman from Colorado. However after watching your show, I've discovered I'm really from Appalachia. 😊 All the food you cook is the same food my mother and father cooked. Not only is the food the same, the way you cook it is the same. I have truly enjoyed watching you today. I can't wait to share your channel with my mother. Thank you
And I am from north Texas and what and how you cook is very similar to what and how my mother, who was 2nd generation French and born in 1925 cooked also. I also had ancestors who traveled from North Carolina to southern Illinois in the 1850’s and my paternal grandmother in Pulaski also cooked much like you do as well. I think country cooks are very much the same. Thank you. Nancy in east Texas
@Azuelgirl8830 Country folks are country folks, no matter where we find ourselves. "We come from the West Virginia Coal mines, and the Rocky Mountains and the Western skies. We're from North California to South Alabam', and little towns all around this land. Country folks can survive."
I'm Afro American and grew up on a small vegetable and hog farm in North Florida and it is amazing how similar our meals were to what you grew up on and what you cook. I mean incredibly near identical. Altho we call yellow corn field corn and white corn sweet corn...we fry them both in sweet butter and only add salt to yellow corn. It is a joy to watch you cook and an inspiration because I'm inspired to wash my dishes so I can go throw down in my own kitchen! It just goes to show that people are people and we are, a lot of us, very similar.
I come from family that were raised in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee. I was taught to cook by my grandmother who cooked pretty much like you are showing. In my 20s and going to college, I had a black roommate and it turned out we loved the same foods. I remember going to visit his folks and loving his Momma’s cooking. Turns out poor folks from the South eat the same things. Much like the roots of our music comes from the Gospel music of our Churches, our comfort foods come from the same place: what poor folks could grow or afford to buy. Since growing up, I’ve had the opportunity to travel over much of the world. Although I’ve eaten at some of the fancies restaurants in France and such, I’ve found I love the comfort foods of common poor folks of every part of the world. It’s based upon getting every bit of flavor and nutritional value out of the cheapest of ingredients. And it works. Thanks for sharing what your folks brought to the table.
The one thing no one has touched on was the amazing ability of the "housewife" to be able to orchestrate the cooking so that everything ended up getting done at the right time so everything was served hot. It always amazed me how my own mama could do that and understand when something needed started to finish right on time with everything else. It's a true talent. 😊
That looks like some fine eating. I remember growing up as a kid in the mountains and all I wanted was a hamburger from McDonalds, and we were eating like Kings from the garden. Too young to know how good I had it.
My grandparents had a garden and a small farm, and I did prefer what they offered to McDonalds. But I know what you are talking about. I grew up just north of Houston. At one point, as my dad was building up his small business (Used appliances sales and service), he had the license, and would go to Galveston to get shrimp to sell at times, and he bought a small shrimp boat as well. I do recall us kids saying, "Aw, shrimp again? We want a hamburger." and how we had my parents laughing at us. Momma made the hamburgers, so it wasn't all that funny. He did the shrimping for a little while and sold the boat, as he had to focus on the business. It wasn't too terribly long before we began missing shrimp as a regular thing instead of an occasional thing. Even young, we understood that it was wrong on several levels to bellyache at all about being served shrimp for supper----the least of those reasons being that fresh, head-on gulf shrimp were going for $4 and $5 per/lb, and ground check was around a dollar per/lb.----but you know kids. I ate from McDonalds yesterday.
I was lucky to have a true "hillbilly" mother from outside Owenton, Kentucky. Some of my family had outhouses, smokehouses, etc. My mother grew up in the 40s with no refrigerator, and they put lunch meat wrapped in wax paper in a bucket, in the well. My mother's family lived on the same land that they were granted after coming to America from Northern Ireland in the 1740s-ish. They farmed tobacco, and whatever they could grow. My Grandad raised hogs. A true country ham, from my uncle Leo and aunt Geneva's smokehouse was beyond great. Homemade biscuits and sausage gravy was Sunday breakfast. My older cousins made moonshine, which maid them decent money. Proud of my Appalachian and Scots-Irish roots.
Yummy! I’m a lifetime Georgian. My dear mother cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner almost every day. She also did almost all of the housework. I didn’t know how great I had it at the time. I thought everybody’s mother did the same until I started working, and would go home to a home cooked meal for lunch every day. My friends at work kept telling how fortunate I was. Mama is 96 now! I know that I’ve been greatly blessed! ❤❤❤
I'm from NH, I didn't have a clue about fried corn, cornbread, biscuits, salt meat, strawberry pie (shoney's) , okra, sweet potatoes, fried squash, fried chicken, barbequing meats, or anything southern. Most of our meals were boiled or baked. We ate beef, baked chicken and lots of seafood. I came to Memphis, TN in 1979. Talk about a wake up call, I can make a meal now fit for a king. The Lord had much patience with me 🙂
Raised up in Alabama this is how we ate growing up. There wasn’t all these fast food places and it was a treat when you did go out to eat. People say it’s a heart attack waiting to happen. I would argue…….these fast food heart attack in a sack places that we eat at today are far worse…. With our girls grown….some nights my wife and I will just eat cornbread and vegetables with slice tomatoes and onions. This is REAL FOOD,
@@sheilad83Muscle Shoals right here-my Mamaw used to make supper like this all the time in the summer. She generally had a few raw hot peppers in a saucer on the side next to the tomatoes.
Of all the reasons I don't love Walker county, growing up there did wonders for my taste buds! I miss Grandmother, she'd make us this feast or something like it every sunday. Homemade pecan pie too, straight from the box!
@@firecross625 , hey, where did you live in Walker county? My ex's family has been there in jasper and the close surrounding area. Garner. His mom owned a beauty shop by a huge country bar. Betty Garner, Richard Garner, Sandy Garner?
@@sheilad83 I say I grew up in Jasper when anyone asks, and that's where I "associate" with I guess, but I grew up in a nowhere neighborhood off of 78 between Jasper and Sumiton. I went to Walker High, and I think I knew a few Garners, Sandy specifically rings a bell although I can't put a face to the name. My family is from all over the county though, and some in Marion. Jasper, Sumiton, Dora, Carbon Hill, Eldridge especially. Rumor has it my great grandma made the recipe for the bbq sauce they use at Lacey's in Carbon Hill, if you know the place! I'm a little young to remember things like that beauty shop or the country bar, sorry! I went to college out of town and now I'm living in Huntsville, and at this point Huntsville's "my city" more than Jasper ever was. I still have a soft spot for Walker co though, that place raised me and it won't be any time soon I forget it.
I have a special fried corn memory. When i was in my early 20's I worked at a hospital clinic and befriened an older couple that kept inviting me for dinner. Well one day i went and she made fried corn, that was her specialty. It was so good and i think what made it so good was her years and years of experience making it for her family. I loved those sweet country people so much and i think about them often.
This is definitely the food I grew up on in rural country Georgia . One time I was cooking some black eyed peas and collard greens and cornbread and my dear friend Wade who grew up in Detroit asked me “What you know about collard greens!?” I told him I knew! What he called soul food was what all of us Southern girls grew up on and still cook. It’s the best.
Im from rural Georgia too & I definitely agree. My great grandmother cooked all these foods! I learned most of them as well. Im from Athens, Georgia. “What you know about collard greens” 😂😂😂😂 definitely a staple in rural Georgia.
Matt……… I hope you realize how lucky of a man you are. When you’re lovely wife cooks like this when “it’s just the two of us eating tonight”, you are truly BLESSED.
My Father let me stand on a chair while he cooked us breakfast on the weekends, now I have fond memories when I make my grandchildren biscuits and sausage gravy with scrambled eggs, fried potatoes and bacon.
I am writing this through tears. I have so many happy memories of my Grandmother’s fried corn!!! I can remember the precious time I was alone with her. Oh! I can remember every detail of her kitchen! But had no idea what she was actually doing. We would sing songs while she cooked! I will never forget her cooking! I am time traveling with you tonight! What a feast! I am so grateful to you for showing how these legendary meals were created! I never knew until now! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Aren't "grandma memories" wonderful? My grandma cooked food everyday for around 50 people at a county home. I don't remember so much about the food, but I do know those people ate well. My grandma passed when she was 86, and I was 50. That was ten years ago. Oh, how I miss her! So thankful for memories.
This was wonderful to watch! I am a 71 year old woman who was raised by a mother who grew up on a farm in the mountains of Big Stone Gap, VA. Your cooking is just as I was raised to cook. I cannot use my cast iron anymore as I cannot lift them. My wrists are too weak. But when I was young, the fried chicken I made (my Yankee husband went wild over it), the milk gravy, greens, okra, cornbread, fried squash, etc. was loved by my family. Their favorite was creamed corn. It was a messy pain to make cause I made big batches and froze the left overs, but it was worth it. Mom taught me to scrape the cobb like you do. When I showed my daughter in laws (I had boys) how I prepared the corn and other dishes, they ran for the hills. My poor sons. They lost their momma's good southern cooking unless they come see me. Thank you for bringing back the best memories of me and my mom in the kitchen whipping up those delicious meals!
@@charlene-allgood Truly! So many girls want easy cooking. I understand, but to learn a few great old recipes to enjoy and pass down to your family is a beautiful tribute to your forefathers.
I told my sons to NEVER ask their wives to ask me how I made something. If they wanted to know themselves, they could. Or if my sons wanted something the way I made it come home and I'll make it. It made me so hurt and angry when, as a newlywed, my husband said I should ask his mom or grandma how they fixed a food because theirs was so much better.
Fried corn, what a great memory of my grandmother “MaCox.” She was the best cook in our family and made the best fried corn. She always cooked it until it had some brown bits in it from the caramelized corn juice. She passed at the age of 98 in December of 2019, thanks for the memory.
@@joycedallas1579 OOOHHH YEAH...!!!...My grandaddy,could cook some of the best Cracklins I've ever eaten in my life...but you don't want to be nowhere around when he started cooking those Chittlins...they stunk to high crap like a sewer...I can't stand those at all!...!!
Man I miss sharing meals like this with my parents and grandparents. Some people think that all that grease and butter isn’t healthy, but country cooking is usually about the vegetables and not the meat. Just a strip or two of meat and pile the plate with vegetables from your garden, grandpa’s garden meemaw’s garden and the neighbor.
@@Tradebear yes it’s like bacon. They call it fat back and sometimes salt pork. Sometimes it can be very salty. It’s also good cooked in beans or mustard green, or any kind of greens.
Thank you for showing us a traditional meal from your childhood. It looks delicious. I could see adding some form of baked beans too, with these foods. 'Loved the image of a little you standing on a chair so you could watch your aunt cook the corn, giving it a stir now & then, while being gradually taught in the old ways. Note: Both Olive or Avocado oil are real,& good for you, for salads or for cookiñg, & organic sweet butter is always good to use, unless it has turned rancid. If the cooking oil tastes bitter, that's a sign that it's rancid. Eating rancid veg oil can make people quite sick for a few days, within a short amount of time. Hope you don't mind my 2 cents, but your health is at risk. The hydrogenated fats, like the ones that are truly deadly to us, harm us by blocking our arteries & gunking up our organs. I noticed that you had put out a tub of marjarin. That's one of the most dangerous of foods that became popular way back when, in the 60s? But most people didn't know this stuff back then. Just hope you stop consuming it. Hydrogenated corn oil is whipped until it turns into a semi-solid. Sometimes they mix a lesser quality butter into the whipped oil & sell it that way too, but you're still eating hydrogenated fat & shortening your lives. They use hydrogenated fat in most commercial baked goods too, including pizza crust. white breads, etc. Due to using overly refined poor quality white flour too, those baked & boxed foods are a double threat or a tripple threat if they include some form of sugar. They make us all fatter too. Our bodies can process real foods, but man made foods are not natural, so we don't process them well. Now, since food in the US has been poluted for a few decades, we now have dangerously overweight children & some have developed the adult, acquired Type II Diabetes.
My beloved husband was born at home. It was dirt floor shack. His parents were sharecroppers in Southeast Missouri. He remembers eating beans and biscuits three times a day for years. He still loves beans. He didn't get much fruit except for government prunes. He loves all sorts of fruits now. He said when he left home to go work as a draftsman in the big city.....he could eat 3 bananas, 2 oranges and 3 apples for lunch. Tipper your dinner looks Dee-lisc-ous. I have a tendency to get high cholesterol. So I watch the amount of fried foods I eat. ❤ My husband would have one thing to say about this meal..."I'm in high cotton getting to eat such mighty fine vittles."
My dad grew up extremely poor in New Mexico and was raised off of beans and potatoes for almost every meal and still to this day loves to eat beans and potatoes. Fruit was a Christmas present to them.
Fried corn, corn on the cob, cream corn were all my favorite memories of growing up under my mom and granny's cooking. AND silver queen corn was king at my dad's house. The only kind he planted, and he swore by it as the best. One year he planted about 40 acres of it, and let it turn to shell corn. We helped him shell it, then he took it to a Grist Mill in North Georgia and had it ground into cornmeal. We each [3 kids] got a 50 lb flour sack full of cornmeal for Christmas that year. If only I had a chance to re-live that experience.
Love from an old Englishman who lived in Va for ten-years. Those mystical mountains and the fabulous taste of that simple food, such memories! Thank you.
I loved the crunch sound when you sliced the cornbread. My grandmother didn't use cast iron for her cornbread because she was cooking for so many. She used a large cake pan that was warped slightly so that one corner piece of cornbread was thinner and therefore crustier than the rest. That was my piece growing up, as everyone else wanted thicker pieces. They just don't know what they were missing!
When a woman I worked with told me that she had no cast iron cooking pans, I was shocked! I literally and truly did not know that cornbread could be cooked in any other pan than a black skillet! But I ate her cornbread, and it was good, so I got proved wrong on that belief!
@@lynlandham3779 Growing up in suburban Southwest Fort Worth, I don't remember seeing a cast iron skillet. My mother used several non-stick pans, and some average metal pots and pans.
Happiest time of my life, standing on a chair beside Granny and rolling out the dough for dinner rolls. My sister and I were laughing yesterday. We picked two large trash bags of Malabar spinach and cooked it up, vacuumed sealed it and froze it for winter. It was a lot of work. But we were laughing about being little kids and just knowing that Granny and Gramps were conveying a very special “grown-up” privilege upon us when they let us pick the garden. We were so proud to be thus honored. :)
@@CelebratingAppalachia It was a wonderful time. We also planted the fall garden, but with the heat, we may have jumped the gun. I don’t know how much germination we’ll get. Anyway, we spent the day working and reminiscing and laughing. That’s as good as it gets for a couple of old gals. God is good.
My grandmother made the greatest fried corn in history! When I was about 12, I started spending the summer with my grandparents. To teach me hard work. After a long day in the tobacco fields, nothing was better than a big dinner with fried corn. One of my greatest childhood memories!
Memories again of home. The crunch of the edges of that cornbread. The sliced fresh tomato. The fried summer squash. And beans for sure with the cornbread. We didnt have fried corn as I think Dad preferred on the cob. All that's missing from one of my childhood dinners is Daddys green onions pulled out of the garden and sweet tea. How I would love to sit around that supper table once more with my family on a summer evening enjoying the food and each other. Thanks again for sweet memory. God Bless
Oh memories in Oklahoma wilted lettuce with freshly pulled green onions from garden & cracklings corn bread & beans. I love salt pork my husband doesn’t.
My mom would fry the corn till it caramelized. We had many a meal of soup beans, sometimes with ham hock, and fried potatoes with sliced tomatoes and chopped onions.
Growing up on a farm in West Virginia "brown" pinto beans, fried potatoes, biscuits/cornbread was typically served at almost every meal and always something added to it from the garden and or some animal we raised or hunted/fished. I miss those days. Best food!! Especially cooked in bacon grease
I'm originally from Michigan, and I went to Appalachia and wound up helping poor people fix up their houses. They said I have Forever Friends there and I plan on going back in 2023 sometime. Holiday Blessings to you dear Lady!! 🙏
I am Italian , I have a deep passion for food and for history, those two passion combine together in a deep curiosity about the world and people’s different histories and experiences . I cook food from all over the world , my children grew up with so many different cuisines they now eat an incredible variety of foods , I am so proud of that ! Today I received ( from Amazon ) Edna Lewis’s ‘ the taste of country cooking ‘ that you recommended in a previous video , what an enchanting book ! I too have memories of cooking with my grandmother . Thank yiu for a lovely video 😀
JG - all great, and heartwarming. I wish you and your family the best. However, can I point out one ironic thing from your comment above ? You ordered a book from Amazon. Amazon is eliminating all differences, and competition. You tell of your curiosity for world cooking which I too follow, love, and try to cook. But Amazon will totally stifle that opportunity. They even standardize non-standard things. Please, get your future books from Mom&Pop bookstores where possible - when you travel, seek out local bookstores. Don't contribute to being an Amazon clone, even if they have a book you desire. Happy cooking.
I too am fascinated by foods from all over the world. Of course you Italians have some of the best! I learned to cook recipes from French, Chinese, Thai, Indian and Mexican cuisine, and a couple of your Italian dishes. I love the cuisine from my part of the world as well, the Southern United States. It's so rich and savory! I think it's as good as anyone's! ☺️
18:16 You said it. Most people in cities have no idea what a good sun-ripened tomato tastes like. The artificially ripened tomato's they sell in grocery stores have ZERO flavor.
It’s so easy to grow tomatoes, even in a bucket on a little patio. I’m not sure why more people don’t do it. They’re so delicious when you pick them fresh!
When I lived in South Carolina, my friends who lived across the road introduced me to tomato sandwiches. Sliced tomatoes from the garden, salt and pepper, mayo and white bread. The best sandwich ever.
Same here. My Mom did the same thing. She was the ultimate Mom.. down home cook.. master at multitasking.. making lunches.. scrubbing floors.. mowing an acre of green lawns.. sewing homemade clothes.. made tons of macrame items.. etc.... the list goes on & on My Mom's the Best. She's almost 80 now 💞🙏🏽💞
If I’m cooking more than 3 things, nothing is going to get done at the same time, chances are I’ve burnt one of the dishes and I’ve had to substitute most of the ingredients because I either didn’t have or cannot find what I knew I had in my pantry. I’m a mess.
"the house smelling like love and warmth".... Perfect description... Lookout Mt, Tenn was Heaven for me growing up. Mom and Grandma taught me how to cook. My wife never had southern food until she met me.
My mom attended Appalachia Teacher's College, and she grew up in NC, and so I have a special fondness for the Appalachia region, and am very familiar with many of styles of cooking that you do. My mom told me about life during the depression, and how cornbread, beans and greens helped them all survive - and that is actually very healthy food! Some young folks think they've discovered it! 😆 Thank you for your wonderful videos, and God bless you and your family ♥
We love fried corn. My family is from Eastern Kentucky and cornbread, soup beans, fried potatoes, and fried corn were regularly on the menu. Most of my friends were not blessed with such simple food. Once I made a big batch of fried corn and froze it to take on vacation in September. My friends who were with us teased me about fried corn and tomatoes. "is that all we're having?" they complained. They were doubtful when I poured the corn over the thick slices of ripe tomatoes. As you can imagine, they were in love. Such a lovely memory.
I'm also from E KY and yes it's amazing I sometimes make a "Hillbilly Feast" and its all the food you said haha. I have not ever made fried corn but I have eaten it many times
Ma'am, I was raised in Los Angeles California. Watching you cook all that wonderful food made my mouth water. Thank you so much for sharing your lovely recipes, and heritage.
I'm blessed beyond measure that this is the food my family raised me on. My Granny was from Eastern Kentucky and our roots go back to the Carolinas. Steeped in beautiful food traditions, I raised 3 kids on garden foods, we canned, made bread, our own butter, jams and my husband hunted. We gave them a much of my Appalachian and his East Texas upbringing as we could. Brings me wonderful memories.
I’m watching this with tears in my eyes. If I could go back just for one supper at my grandparents and sit down at their table. Especially during the summer. Sliced tomatoes. Fried okra and squash. Pinto beans. My imagination and memories just go haywire thinking about it. Cornbread. Corn on the cob or cream style. Sliced cucumbers in Italian dressing with sliced onions. There’s not a day that goes by that these thoughts cross my mind and a tear rolls down one of my cheeks. We weren’t well off by no means and we lived on a gravel road on a rural route but I would’ve never known it until now.
Your family was rich in the important things in life. Children are not experienced enough to have that kind of knowledge. Intelligent adults value more lasting wealth like family and land and survival skills as you do now. Money is made up for control of the masses
Sitting around a big table at oumas house on the farm all ten children and the grandchildren eating the most delicious food no electricity lots of canned foods all the memories floods back still miss you ouma
My word, ma’am. That’s about a delicious of a supper spread I’ve seen in many years. Fried corn, tomatoes, fried squash, beans and cornbread. Makes me miss my mamaw even more. I’m so glad to have found you. Now have to look and see if you’ve got a fried okra video. Matt is a lucky man. But then, so are you to have all this knowledge about cooking the best foods.
I'm an old fart who grew up in Sevier and Knox counties, Tennessee. I ate all of these growing up. Mama's fried corn was the best of all. She would take a huge bowl (Did I say huge? It was _HUGE._ lol) of Mama's Fried Corn and another humongous bowl of her secret recipe banana pudding to church on Pot Luck Sunday and they would be the first empty bowls. I remember the banana pudding being gone before anyone was even ready for dessert. I haven't heard "streaked meat" spoken in 40 years. Now I am all by myself up here in Washington state and I'm telling you, these people up here need to learn how to cook. 😉 Ma'am, that is literally a meal anyone would ate would love. Thank you so much.
Gosh this reminds me of my mother. I grew up in a family of 9 so mama had to cook for us all and god tht woman could cook. She never burned it, she just knew how to cook good wholesome country eatin. I miss her so much.
I also live in Washington State (howdy neighbor!). I was born in St. Louis, Missouri to parents straight out of the Ozark’s and my mother was a consummate Southern cook if there ever was one. My parents moved the entire family to central Washington when I was five years old where I and my four elder siblings were raised on a farm. As I was the youngest of five kids, eventually the cooking became my job (the older kids had jobs, college, etc.). I learned right away, the best things to eat came directly from our huge garden or neighbor’s orchard (we had permission to pick as much fruit as we wanted). Fried green beans, fried potatoes, and fried apples were always a huge hit. Wild asparagus that grew along our many fence lines was amazing with scratch cornbread and hollandaise sauce. New peas and potatoes were delicious with a wilted green salad drizzled with hot bacon grease. We usually “just” had corn on the cob, but I’m really excited to try it fried! Corn with a large plate of freshly sliced ripe tomatoes and new green onions along with fresh radishes was amazing with a fresh glass of cold cow’s milk from our best milk cow, Dot. I can say honestly I was thrown into the deep end when it came to suddenly becoming the “chief cook and bottle washer,” but fortunately (for everyone!) I had watched my mother and sisters pretty carefully in my years before getting the job, and I had a Betty Crocker cookbook - which I still have to this day! Fear not! There are one or two Southern-taught cooks in Washington state! You just gotta know where to look! lol!
Mom was a true Appalachian cook and I hope that I do her dishes proud. She made a lot of fried corn over the years and we all loved it. She would cook it in bacon grease. She baked a pan of cornbread just about every day. When she was older and lived alone, she used a small cast iron skillet. Of course she broke out the big skillet when company was coming.
My Mom And Dad and everyone's in the family was from Alabama. My brother and I grew up on black eyed peas corn bread pig tails fresh biscuits and water gravy. Turnup greens boy after every meal I'd have me some hot corn bread and butter milk. That brings back such wonderful memories. My Mother and Daddy and my brother are all gone. I'm the only one left in my family. Thank you so much Ms Tipper for the wonderful memories.
My grandma used to grow leaf lettuce and we would go out to her garden and pick fresh pieces of lettuce and get some tomatoes off the vine and she would wash the lettuce up then she would pour a little hot bacon grease over it and drizzle a little vinagear on it and slice up the tomatoes and it was always so good! Not to mention she made cucumbers fresh from the garden with vinegar and sugar and onion they were so good. And when she made chicken and dumplings ( yellow corn meal? ) you were blessed if you could two or three of those dumplings! Simple and really good food. Back when food was actually real food.
Pretty rare that I wish I had family. This made me wish I did lol. If I don’t cook ain’t no food to eat. Can’t imagine having someone make amazing southern food for me like this. Your husband is a lucky man.
Wish i could watch my sweet grandma cook like that again on her old wood stove. Everything just seemed to taste better cooked on wood fire by grandma. lol
You’re so right! That tomato, soup beans and a big slice of a Vidalia onion. I could do without the squash but we could replace that with fried potatoes (I refuse to say ‘taters’) . Gosh, I just ate supper now I want THIS meal! And that crunch on your cornbread was just perfect!!
Mad I can appreciate what you're saying I'm from the Deep South are from Atlanta Georgia and we do to it really southern food there and everything is from scratch nothing comes from a package do not I will not eat processed food of any kind
Love your channel. Am 81, grew up in Ozarks and this particular meal brought back such wonderful memories. I bought white corn yesterday with frying it in mind. Yum!
I closed my eyes and could actually smell my granny's cooking. She's gone now and I miss her every day. What I'd do to have one of her buttermilk biscuits with some butter and honey or cane syrup again. She had bacon grease on most of her vegetables all her life and she lived to be 91.
Yep, my family on my dad’s side all lived well into their 90s and many even into their 100s unless they died of a weird accident, like my great uncles - one died being kicked in the head by a mule and one by a tiny cut on his arm that turned into tetanus. Almost all veggies were cooked with bacon grease and rendered fat was used in baking. All of the veggies and fruits were always fresh. But they all worked hard too. I think what we do with our time and how we treat our bodies outside of what we feed them is even more important than our diet and therein lies the bigger problem. They rarely needed to go to a grocery store. All they bought pretty much was flour and sugar and making things like baking soda and baking powder. Everything else they grew and traded the surplus with neighbors that had chickens, pigs, and cows. They usually got a pig from a neighbor that they traded veggies with. They would smoke the big cuts and put the rest in their salt barrel. They also ate a lot of fish, crawfish, shrimp, crab, turtles, rabbits, duck, wild turkey, boar, and squirrels, which they caught and cleaned themselves. Cow meat was a luxury. Most steaks and sausage we had was actually venison. The only cow meat she would get would be the chuck roast and she made the best roast I’ve ever had and haven’t had any as good since.
I used to love when they processed the sugar cane. We'd chew on the stalks and dip them into the syrup, long in to the night after we should be in bed. I can still hear the squeaking as the horses walked in circles. Running around barefoot on the cool dirt.
@@TheFrugalMombot Key thing here: homegrown. It's the chemicals that are killing us from the pesticides, the fertilizers, etc. My family had many live into late 90's, 100's. Lot's of manual labor, they walked everywhere, and most of their food was homegrown.
Fellow Appalachian here from eastern KY. My mom was and still is a great cook. Never had fried corn but we had poke salad or lettuce and onions (leafy greens and green onions tossed like a salad with hot grease mixed in). For the meat we would almost always have pork chops. I love that you know how its done with the cornbread, my mom would do it the same way with warming up the grease and skillet prior to adding in the batter. Gives it such a great crust. And anytime we did have soup beans and cornbread (almost all the time), we would quarter a sweet or yellow onion and eat it with the beans and cornbread. If anyone has not had a home crown tomato fresh out of the garden they are missing out. And fried squash is a delicacy. Thank you for your videos and preserving what has been almost wiped out. I love the vocabulary, but Appalachia for me was about the peoples good hearts, the mountains, and the food.
I’ve gone back to cooking and eating like this the last few months and have actually lost a little weight. Notice how well balanced the meal is. And food prepared like this is very satisfying and filling, so you tend not to overeat or find yourself looking for snacks between meals. Great tutorial.
Awesome food and I'm floored by the similarities! My Daddy's people came to Texas from a bit north of Florence, Alabama in 1839. I grew up eating "Purt'near" everything I've seen in your videos except Ramps... Thank YOU from the bottom of my heart for all your efforts at instruction and education!
i INSTANTLY love this lady. it would be so fun with my kids to be at her house while she's cookin & readin stories on a stormy winter night. We live in the Bay Area California. i love her accent
Hon, you love her accent? That’s no accent, that’s original American down to earth language. No pun intended, but you Cali’s have no accent unless you came from Oklahoma. (Grin)
@@grams5025 I’m from Cali (LA) too…yes u guys (the south) talk different…it sounds like an accent…it’s mad soothing tho & food is love in any culture, accent, language, etc…I’m definitely gonna make me some fried corn one of these days!! 🙌🏼🔥
My grandma always made fried corn, fatback and yes always sliced tomatoes. Thank you for one of my most missed moments with her. All of it looked delicious!!
Raised in N. Minn. This episode reminds me of my dad introducing me to fried cabbage as a little girl, I'm now 77, still love it. It seems to be a lost recipe from the Depression. He taught me to sprinkle it with vinegar lightly along w/S&P. He was Swedish and a great cook.
My grandmother showed me how to make fried corn when she was still alive...and she made it the same way, with the bacon grease AND butter. Sooooo good. Thanks for the memory!!
That reminds me of eating at my grandparents house during the summer after we tended to the garden in the morning. We always had a big meal at lunch. Two or three vegetables from the garden, corn bread, a casserole and two different meats. It was the best. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. You are doing great work on this channel.
That dinner looks absolutely perfect. Quite similar to what my grandmother cooked in east Texas. She grew up on a farm in the early 1900’s. She cooked breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day of her 55+ year marriage. We loved eating any meal at her house. She always had a jar of bacon grease by the stove. And of course cakes and pies and really sweet iced tea.
Also grew up in east texas... and there is definitely a mason jar with bacon grease in it that sits right next to the crisco i use to season my cast iron lol.
My dad’s side of the family are Cajun and my grandmother used to make this corn but she called it maque choux. I could never find the recipe for how she made it because traditional maque choux has the holy trinity in it, but I prefer it this way. The corn really shines. They also used to keep a huge barrel of salt in their bedroom where they stored their pork. I spent summers and thanksgiving with them and have so many great memories of cutting off a little of the fat back and tie it with a string tied to a stick and I’d go down to the ditches and catch crawdaddies.
We lived near some salt water marshes in Delaware when I was a kid. My biological mother would let some chicken pieces sit in an old cooler on the porch for a few days and get nice and rotten. Then we would go way out on a wooden boardwalk into the marshes, and sit on the side of it. We'd all have a long piece of spring with a chicken part tied to the end. We'd lower them in and catch blue crabs. After a few hours we'd have a big cooler full. That was dinner. We did that a lot, we were dirt poor. Later on I found out that marsh is in a State Park, and crabbing there is illegal! 🤷♀️🦀
ME TOO!! I used to go out back behind my grandparents house and fish for crawdads! They had a creek that flowed about 80 yards behind their house and Nana would find me a piece of old bacon (raw of course) and I'd tie it to a string - then I'd tie a big screw up the string about an inch. I'd go to the little bridge that went over the water (bridge is wooden, old and about 18 feet long - creek is about 12 feet wide - never more than 18 in. deep & usually more like a foot - all very tiny!) and sit in the middle, dangle my feet in if it was really hot, drop my line into the water and watch the crawdads come out from under the rocks to grab the bacon. Those little devils would really hang on, so I could pull 'em up and drop them in my bucket (which had a little creek water in it) for my Papa and Dad to use for fish bait. They'd just cut off the tails and pop the meat out, to put on their hooks. Ya know, we never thought to actually eat the crawdads! And I wish we'd tried it!! Lots of places do and I'll bet they'da been really great!! I did this from 5 to 9 yrs old. That's one of my favorite childhood memories and I had NO CLUE that other kids ever did it so THANKS for sharing your great story! 💙💙💙!
@@toniecat1028 oh this made me happy! Many say they’re similar to lobster, little land lobsters, but I think they’re even better than that. Now, we did usually flush the wild ones out by keeping them a few days and monitoring what they ate, as it improves the taste. Kind of like what you’d do with bull frogs for frog legs, as it pretty much eliminates any of the fishiness or you do similarly even grasshoppers or crickets if you eat bugs. I’m glad you enjoyed! Sounds like a wonderful day to me even as a grown woman. I miss it.
South Eastern Kentuckian here. This makes me want to drive back home to my mammaw’s for a good country dinner. We had several “garden suppers” which were just cut up and salted tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, some soup beans, some cornbread, and some cooked corn and green beans. I didn’t appreciate it as much as a kid, but I sure do miss it now.
I’m a CA girl but I remember visiting my Great Grandmother in AR and watching her cut corn off the cob on a stump and frying it. I thought I’d never tasted anything better. I love eating corn still that way today! Brings back the sweetest of memories!
Use a high smoke point oil like peanut or avocado or grape seed and add a chunk of butter to it. If you only use butter the butter tends to burn unless you've clarified it. Also, imo, cast iron is the only way to fry corn.
I ate this exact meal made by my grandmother many times many decades ago in Arkansas. She even did her fried corn exactly as you did. The only difference in that entire meal was that she cut her squash differently because our fried squash were round. What an amazing meal. Brings back some wonderful memories.
Food aside, love the kitchen cabinets. And, I could just listen to this woman talk without end. What a gorgeous accent. Back to the food, i remember riding my motorcycle from New York down to West Virginia around ‘81 or ‘82 and stopping by a small cafe. the waitress told my the special was ‘soup beans’, corn bread, and collard greens. As immediately smitten with this Appalachian waitress as I was, I would have ordered anything she suggested. When I heard the woman in this video casually mention ‘soup beans’, it brought me back 40 years. It’s not a term we hear in New York. That waitress Had an accent much like this wonderful woman here. I was as completely mesmerized then as I am now. One the most memorable meals of my life. Eating that wonderful food and having a breezy chat with that Appalachian waitress felt incredibly exotic to this New Yorker. It’s funny how this video took me back to that. Thank you.
I've never eaten fried corn. It looks like something I would really like. My dad will sometimes fry up a little salt pork to eat with his breakfast. Most of the time we use it to flavor soup beans. I don't eat it but I love a big pot of beans in the winter time with a big pan of cornbread. My dad makes the best corn bread, just corn meal and buttermilk. I crumble up a piece of corn bread, put some beans and soup on top with a little chow chow and I've got some good eating. There's a cooking show I used to watch all the time and when the lady cut corn off the cob, she would use a bunt pan. The hole in the pan would hold the cob while she sliced the kernels off with a chef knife. The kernels fell down into the bowl of the pan and didn't make a mess all over the counter.
Our family is from eastern Kentucky, our cornbread and fried corn were similar, our fried squash was cubed, and shaken in a paper bag, half flour and half corn meal. I miss our green beans the most.
That looked absolutely scrumptious! I love how he crumbled the cornbread and put the beans on top! And you’re absolutely right about tomatoes! I can eat them right off the vine with a little salt, or on a sandwich with a little Mayo. Nothing in the world better than homegrown! So sad when the season is done here.
This comment section is so wholesome. Food really does bring people together and it's amazing that we can sample a bit of every cultures cuisine of we want to try it. I feel blessed to be able to try different foods. My heart goes out every day to the truly hungry out there. 💗
My dad was from KY and he taught my mom from Germany how to cook like this. I grew up on this type of food. We ate fried corn, fresh picked green beans with bacon grease, great northern beans and beet salad with corn bread made in a skillet and sliced tomatoes. So delish.
Watching your video brought back some very good memories of my childhood. The meal you prepared, was about identical to the meals my mother prepared, especially in the summer months. Growing up my mother prepared three full meals a day, as my father came home for lunch daily. My father was not a fan of “leftovers “, this included dessert. On average mother made two desserts nearly everyday. She didn’t use prepackaged boxed anything. When making biscuits or cornbread, she never measured out ingredients. One of her pet peeves, being served a biscuit, bread or cornbread that wasn’t golden brown. She would comment, she didn’t care for blonde backed goods. Mother was an amazing person, as well as a great cook. Best regards
Goodness, that's looks soooo good. The way he fixed that plate ,look like he was fix'en to go show to some judges. That plate was perfect. I give it a 10
My goodness , Matt and the girls have sure been blessed to have you cooking meals like that for the family. We have eaten most all of that up here in Manitoba Canada , but never had fried corn. You can guess what I'm going to try cook up. We have farmers markets here so when I get a chance to get to one , I'll be buying some corn. Thank you Tipper. I'm new to yours and the girls you-tube channels and enjoy them all. Wally
I so remember eating these meals at my grandma's house and my aunt's houses in eastern Kentucky and my Mom still cooks this way at 76 years old in Indiana. I still eat this way in the summertime in Indiana. I feed my kids and grandkids meals like this in the summertime. Best meal's ever.
Watch this for the second time. Loved! Thanks Tipper. I grew up watching mama & grandmama making fried corn. We all loved eating with breakfast. I am now teaching it to my granddaughter. One day she will inherit my iron skillet that’s been in my family for 4 generations.
I am from Louisiana, not Appalachia but you certainly wakened memories for me and actually cooked the same way I am passing on to my children. Thank you
My goodness, this is a supper we used to eat when I was a kid. Mom always cooked with fat back. Sometimes we even ate it for breakfast with fried eggs and fried grits. So good!❤
Oh my goodness, Tipper! This lools so good. To watch you cook is akin to being by my mommas side while she did the same. And, let it be said, she learned from the best, my Grammaw, and her momma and her mommas mamma! Food really does connect us all. Thank you for taking the time to share this with us all!
@@CelebratingAppalachia Oh, did I ever! And thank you again for the kraut video. I'm sure I wasn't the only one to ask. But, it sure felt like you made it just for me! You and yours is a true blessing in this world.
@@CelebratingAppalachia would love to have some crackling cornbread broken up into some buttermilk.... now I need to go get a jar of my kraut I canned and cook it for supper
I remember my oldest sister Kathryn making fried corn. She used a long wooden corn cutter that had a really sharp medal piece in the middle. And used a knife to get the corn milk. She made the best corn!! My momma always said that Kathryn cooked it better than her. I have that corn cutter in my kitchen. It hasn’t been used in a long time. But after watching you cook that corn, we just might have to get it out again!!🌺🎚🙏❤️😃
Watching your videos makes me so hungry. I love how Matt loves and thinks you are the best cook. I know you are after watching all kinds of cooking videos. Watching you has given me the desire to grow my first garden.
That entire meal reminds me of eating at Mama’s and getting to “be there” while you cooked supper was just so special. Thank you so much for this video! Be well!
In The mid 70s when I was a kid, Dad and I visited his oldest sister, and the oldest living in his family, in East Texas. My two then teenage 2nd cousins were there. They were at her house often. She was in her mid 70s at the time. She cooked us all an epic lunch, consisting of fried chicken, fried corn, and probably some fresh veggies from her country garden. It's been a long time since I've had some great country cooking.
I was born and raised in Chicago. I've never seen such beautiful food. That tomato was like none I've ever seen at Jewel. My 12 yr old daughter and I love to cook together. I'm moving to Appalachia. I was thinking NE Kentucky. Love your channel. Your husband is a lucky man. God bless you both and your family.
That's because she didn't buy it from Jewel, she grew it. I'm outside of Chicago, I grow tomatoes that look just like that and taste even better than they look.
Those tomatoes really are special. They need to be grown in the ground and properly tended. They are very slow and and won’t ripen until late August. If the fall is mild and we get a good Indian summer they will grow big and fat. If we get early frost or another tomato plant chokes them out. You won’t get any. Better luck next year.
My mom was from eastern Kentucky and growing up I remember having all kinds great dishes from the mountains. Simple but so delicious. Those cast iron frying pans can't be beat.
I'm from northern Ohio, but a sibling of mine attended 5 years of college in Kentucky and it allowed me to learn such a love and appreciation for the ways Appalachian people have shaped America. Thanks for sharing :)
Appalachia, and America, were already shaped BEFORE Europeans and other foreigners invaded these lands. All they ever did, and continue to do, is steal and exploit.
This brings back memories of my grandma making pan-fried zucchini and summer squash, skillet cornbread, and topping it off with sliced fresh tomatoes. My granny was the tomato and zucchini queen! Oh, goodness... now I'm thinking about those tomato (and sometimes red onion) sandwiches on homemade white bread with homemade mayo!
Born and raised in western Tennessee and I’ve eaten all of these delicacies. Especially proud to see Matt crumble the bread and put his soup beans on top. THAT is how a country boy eats beans and cornbread. I can cook pretty good but my fried corn fails miserably. You make it look easy enough so I’m inspired to try again this summer. Awesome video 👍
I was born and raised in the flat lands but we grew up on fried corn fried cabbage , corn bread , ham hocks and beans , 2 of my all time favorite foods are fried corn and fried cabbage !!
My mom was from Marion, VA. (Coal miner's daughter) she cooked things you cook. I am missing her Sunday's Dinner's , I cook just like her and that is a Blessing. Your meals remind me of what I forgot. Thank You for being a common family inherited cook. The little things in life are Precious. I hope you have a show on ground sirloin and ground pork tenderloin a pound and half each mixed together and fried until done and make a beef gravy and put the meatballs in the gravy and simmer, cook the kind of rice you like and have about 3 cups I think it was her best Sunday Meal and she would have sugar snap peas and new potatoes in cream sauce and corn cut off the cob and homemade bread with a summer salad if you never tried it, please call it the Ruthie's best meatball's and rice. God Bless 🙏.
I'm so culturally separated from Appalachian culture. I grew up in the inner cities of Los Angeles. But I'm so fascinated with peoples from all over the US and the world. I'm always eager to try their recipes. We ALL eat and so it always gives me this feeling of community and shared joy to experience their food. That cracklin' corn bread....WHOOO! I'm on an almost all meat diet for fitness reasons. But every now and then, my body needs a carbohydrate bomb. I was scrolling through and came across this video. The cracklin' corn bread looked so easy, I had to pause the video and try it because I had all the ingredients. WOW it's so good! And so easy to make. I made it just like you did, but it's so simple, I'm sure it can be embellished with other ingredients if you got creative. I know this is an old video but thank you for sharing your culture with us!
I’d never seen boiled yellow squash until I joined the Air Force and had dinning hall food. I’d slip a little square of butter into it to help make it better. I grew up on fried yellow squash. I still cook it that way. That’s a mighty fine supper you cooked there Ma’am!
Both of my grandparents were from Kentucky. It’s funny I find this two days from the anniversary of my papaw passing away. I have taken a lot of their cooking to heart. We do fried corn a lot, my wife and daughter love it! I think what got me was the tomatoes….every time my papaw sat down to eat there was sliced tomatoes sitting on a table. Thanks for the memories I really needed this!!!
This reminds me of what my mother would cook. She was good at frying corn. We would also have black eyed peas and pour the juice from a jar of canned peaches over the peas. Thanks for taking me down memory lane.
When you pulled out the amber glass for the hot water I almost cried. Just like the cups my granny had in Mississippi, she'd make cornbread greens and black eyed peas for my mom every time she'd drop us off and pick us up for the weekend or school holiday week off. 💗
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Last night we had family over, and one person had never eaten true Southern food. In all, there were 11 of us. I cooked a whole covered dish supper for them. Cornbread, baked macaroni and cheese, turnip greens, green beans, pan-fried okra, blackeyed peas, deviled eggs, tea, Cheerwine, fried chicken, biscuits. There's nothing I like better than cooking for a crowd of people.
Sounds delicious!
This sounds so good. Please adopt me.
Wish I would have been there 😊
Wow! You got it going on😮
I love me all kinds of food! Please adopt me!
Hello
I'm an African American woman from Colorado. However after watching your show, I've discovered I'm really from Appalachia. 😊 All the food you cook is the same food my mother and father cooked. Not only is the food the same, the way you cook it is the same. I have truly enjoyed watching you today. I can't wait to share your channel with my mother. Thank you
Welcome and thank you 😊
I’m white but this was the way my Granny did corn in Texas.
That plate for the cornbread is the same as my grandparents had
And I am from north Texas and what and how you cook is very similar to what and how my mother, who was 2nd generation French and born in 1925 cooked also. I also had ancestors who traveled from North Carolina to southern Illinois in the 1850’s and my paternal grandmother in Pulaski also cooked much like you do as well. I think country cooks are very much the same. Thank you. Nancy in east Texas
@Azuelgirl8830 Country folks are country folks, no matter where we find ourselves. "We come from the West Virginia Coal mines, and the Rocky Mountains and the Western skies. We're from North California to South Alabam', and little towns all around this land. Country folks can survive."
I'm Afro American and grew up on a small vegetable and hog farm in North Florida and it is amazing how similar our meals were to what you grew up on and what you cook. I mean incredibly near identical. Altho we call yellow corn field corn and white corn sweet corn...we fry them both in sweet butter and only add salt to yellow corn. It is a joy to watch you cook and an inspiration because I'm inspired to wash my dishes so I can go throw down in my own kitchen! It just goes to show that people are people and we are, a lot of us, very similar.
So true! Thank you for watching 😀
Amen. And food likes travel. It emigrated. Lol
Let's face it fresh vegetables and hog meat is heaven on earth 🌎
Would love to see you two in the kitchen!! As long as I can sample the product. Heheh
I come from family that were raised in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee. I was taught to cook by my grandmother who cooked pretty much like you are showing. In my 20s and going to college, I had a black roommate and it turned out we loved the same foods. I remember going to visit his folks and loving his Momma’s cooking. Turns out poor folks from the South eat the same things. Much like the roots of our music comes from the Gospel music of our Churches, our comfort foods come from the same place: what poor folks could grow or afford to buy. Since growing up, I’ve had the opportunity to travel over much of the world. Although I’ve eaten at some of the fancies restaurants in France and such, I’ve found I love the comfort foods of common poor folks of every part of the world. It’s based upon getting every bit of flavor and nutritional value out of the cheapest of ingredients. And it works.
Thanks for sharing what your folks brought to the table.
The one thing no one has touched on was the amazing ability of the "housewife" to be able to orchestrate the cooking so that everything ended up getting done at the right time so everything was served hot. It always amazed me how my own mama could do that and understand when something needed started to finish right on time with everything else. It's a true talent. 😊
Agree. The true mark of a great chef
My mama tought me that and I would watch her do it nightly I've tought my daughter this art🙂
It is a learned skill, that’s for sure!
I have to say I am good at that because of watching my mother who was extremely good at it!
I agree I am really bad about that
That looks like some fine eating. I remember growing up as a kid in the mountains and all I wanted was a hamburger from McDonalds, and we were eating like Kings from the garden. Too young to know how good I had it.
That is the truth!
My Pop in Kentucky had a big beautiful garden and the produce was so tasty. I miss his tomatoes, corn and cantaloupe.
I know, I have reverted back to healthy eating like this, it's what my southern mom cooked growing up. Papa could garden like nobody's business.
Tomatoes and rice yum. String beans cooked in bacon grease
Most of us have to grow up to appreciate real food
My grandparents had a garden and a small farm, and I did prefer what they offered to McDonalds.
But I know what you are talking about. I grew up just north of Houston. At one point, as my dad was building up his small business (Used appliances sales and service), he had the license, and would go to Galveston to get shrimp to sell at times, and he bought a small shrimp boat as well. I do recall us kids saying, "Aw, shrimp again? We want a hamburger." and how we had my parents laughing at us. Momma made the hamburgers, so it wasn't all that funny.
He did the shrimping for a little while and sold the boat, as he had to focus on the business. It wasn't too terribly long before we began missing shrimp as a regular thing instead of an occasional thing. Even young, we understood that it was wrong on several levels to bellyache at all about being served shrimp for supper----the least of those reasons being that fresh, head-on gulf shrimp were going for $4 and $5 per/lb, and ground check was around a dollar per/lb.----but you know kids.
I ate from McDonalds yesterday.
I was lucky to have a true "hillbilly" mother from outside Owenton, Kentucky. Some of my family had outhouses, smokehouses, etc. My mother grew up in the 40s with no refrigerator, and they put lunch meat wrapped in wax paper in a bucket, in the well. My mother's family lived on the same land that they were granted after coming to America from Northern Ireland in the 1740s-ish. They farmed tobacco, and whatever they could grow. My Grandad raised hogs. A true country ham, from my uncle Leo and aunt Geneva's smokehouse was beyond great. Homemade biscuits and sausage gravy was Sunday breakfast. My older cousins made moonshine, which maid them decent money. Proud of my Appalachian and Scots-Irish roots.
Great story!!
My family is from Kentucky and lived here for over 200 years
Land that was "granted" actually means "stolen from the people who already lived there, the Native Americans".
@@unoriented_x4957 Why don't you stop beating a dead horse Karen!
Living the life
Yummy! I’m a lifetime Georgian. My dear mother cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner almost every day. She also did almost all of the housework. I didn’t know how great I had it at the time. I thought everybody’s mother did the same until I started working, and would go home to a home cooked meal for lunch every day. My friends at work kept telling how fortunate I was. Mama is 96 now! I know that I’ve been greatly blessed! ❤❤❤
I'm from NH, I didn't have a clue about fried corn, cornbread, biscuits, salt meat, strawberry pie (shoney's) , okra, sweet potatoes, fried squash, fried chicken, barbequing meats, or anything southern. Most of our meals were boiled or baked. We ate beef, baked chicken and lots of seafood. I came to Memphis, TN in 1979. Talk about a wake up call, I can make a meal now fit for a king. The Lord had much patience with me 🙂
Raised up in Alabama this is how we ate growing up. There wasn’t all these fast food places and it was a treat when you did go out to eat. People say it’s a heart attack waiting to happen. I would argue…….these fast food heart attack in a sack places that we eat at today are far worse…. With our girls grown….some nights my wife and I will just eat cornbread and vegetables with slice tomatoes and onions. This is REAL FOOD,
TRUTH!
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I'M IN ST. CLAIR CO. ASHVILLE AL NOW, IN THE COUNTRY!
SWEET HOME ALABAMA BABY! ❤🇺🇲❤
@@sheilad83Muscle Shoals right here-my Mamaw used to make supper like this all the time in the summer. She generally had a few raw hot peppers in a saucer on the side next to the tomatoes.
Of all the reasons I don't love Walker county, growing up there did wonders for my taste buds! I miss Grandmother, she'd make us this feast or something like it every sunday. Homemade pecan pie too, straight from the box!
@@firecross625 , hey, where did you live in Walker county? My ex's family has been there in jasper and the close surrounding area. Garner. His mom owned a beauty shop by a huge country bar. Betty Garner, Richard Garner, Sandy Garner?
@@sheilad83 I say I grew up in Jasper when anyone asks, and that's where I "associate" with I guess, but I grew up in a nowhere neighborhood off of 78 between Jasper and Sumiton. I went to Walker High, and I think I knew a few Garners, Sandy specifically rings a bell although I can't put a face to the name. My family is from all over the county though, and some in Marion. Jasper, Sumiton, Dora, Carbon Hill, Eldridge especially. Rumor has it my great grandma made the recipe for the bbq sauce they use at Lacey's in Carbon Hill, if you know the place!
I'm a little young to remember things like that beauty shop or the country bar, sorry! I went to college out of town and now I'm living in Huntsville, and at this point Huntsville's "my city" more than Jasper ever was. I still have a soft spot for Walker co though, that place raised me and it won't be any time soon I forget it.
I have a special fried corn memory. When i was in my early 20's I worked at a hospital clinic and befriened an older couple that kept inviting me for dinner. Well one day i went and she made fried corn, that was her specialty. It was so good and i think what made it so good was her years and years of experience making it for her family. I loved those sweet country people so much and i think about them often.
This is definitely the food I grew up on in rural country Georgia . One time I was cooking some black eyed peas and collard greens and cornbread and my dear friend Wade who grew up in Detroit asked me “What you know about collard greens!?” I told him I knew! What he called soul food was what all of us Southern girls grew up on and still cook. It’s the best.
Black eye peas, collards or turnip greens, hog jawl and cornbread is what we cooked here in Georgia for good luck every new year. Yummy 😋
That is one of my favorite meals. Mama always put some ham/ pork/fatback in the beans and collards so it was extra yum and filling.
Healthy wealthy and wise growing up in SE La. they put 7 kinds of greens for a super lucky one I guess.
Im from rural Georgia too & I definitely agree. My great grandmother cooked all these foods! I learned most of them as well. Im from Athens, Georgia. “What you know about collard greens” 😂😂😂😂 definitely a staple in rural Georgia.
We Southerners are truly blessed. I have had food from everywhere but I will take pintos and cornbread anytime.
Matt……… I hope you realize how lucky of a man you are. When you’re lovely wife cooks like this when “it’s just the two of us eating tonight”, you are truly BLESSED.
My Father let me stand on a chair while he cooked us breakfast on the weekends, now I have fond memories when I make my grandchildren biscuits and sausage gravy with scrambled eggs, fried potatoes and bacon.
I am writing this through tears. I have so many happy memories of my Grandmother’s fried corn!!!
I can remember the precious time I was alone with her.
Oh! I can remember every detail of her kitchen! But had no idea what she was actually doing. We would sing songs while she cooked!
I will never forget her cooking!
I am time traveling with you tonight!
What a feast! I am so grateful to you for showing how these legendary meals were created!
I never knew until now!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
You are so welcome! I'm so glad you have those wonderful memories 🙂
Me too
Thank you so much for this great meal especially the fried corn. My mother would have loved this meal. Bless you & your family! RMH/Ohio
Aren't "grandma memories" wonderful? My grandma cooked food everyday for around 50 people at a county home. I don't remember so much about the food, but I do know those people ate well. My grandma passed when she was 86, and I was 50. That was ten years ago. Oh, how I miss her! So thankful for memories.
This was wonderful to watch! I am a 71 year old woman who was raised by a mother who grew up on a farm in the mountains of Big Stone Gap, VA. Your cooking is just as I was raised to cook. I cannot use my cast iron anymore as I cannot lift them. My wrists are too weak. But when I was young, the fried chicken I made (my Yankee husband went wild over it), the milk gravy, greens, okra, cornbread, fried squash, etc. was loved by my family. Their favorite was creamed corn. It was a messy pain to make cause I made big batches and froze the left overs, but it was worth it. Mom taught me to scrape the cobb like you do. When I showed my daughter in laws (I had boys) how I prepared the corn and other dishes, they ran for the hills. My poor sons. They lost their momma's good southern cooking unless they come see me. Thank you for bringing back the best memories of me and my mom in the kitchen whipping up those delicious meals!
To bad the daughter in laws didn’t embrace learning a dish or two from you ☹️
Yummy!!!! I’ll have a plate please ❤
@@charlene-allgood Truly! So many girls want easy cooking. I understand, but to learn a few great old recipes to enjoy and pass down to your family is a beautiful tribute to your forefathers.
I told my sons to NEVER ask their wives to ask me how I made something. If they wanted to know themselves, they could. Or if my sons wanted something the way I made it come home and I'll make it. It made me so hurt and angry when, as a newlywed, my husband said I should ask his mom or grandma how they fixed a food because theirs was so much better.
Fried corn, what a great memory of my grandmother “MaCox.” She was the best cook in our family and made the best fried corn. She always cooked it until it had some brown bits in it from the caramelized corn juice. She passed at the age of 98 in December of 2019, thanks for the memory.
My dad raised hogs to eat. I love cracklins
@@joycedallas1579 What is cracklins?
@@dona62851 pork skin
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@@joycedallas1579 OOOHHH YEAH...!!!...My grandaddy,could cook some of the best Cracklins
I've ever eaten in my life...but you don't want to be nowhere around when he started cooking those Chittlins...they stunk to high crap like a sewer...I can't stand those at all!...!!
Man I miss sharing meals like this with my parents and grandparents. Some people think that all that grease and butter isn’t healthy, but country cooking is usually about the vegetables and not the meat. Just a strip or two of meat and pile the plate with vegetables from your garden, grandpa’s garden meemaw’s garden and the neighbor.
Is that the common meat they serve down there for supper, like a thick type bacon?
@@Tradebear yes it’s like bacon. They call it fat back and sometimes salt pork. Sometimes it can be very salty. It’s also good cooked in beans or mustard green, or any kind of greens.
Me too Makes me want to redo my modern kitchen to something appropriate. Folks lived longer and better lives I guess I need to get a farm and garden.
At the right temps the oil isn't soaking in !
Thank you for showing us a traditional meal from your childhood. It looks delicious. I could see adding some form of baked beans too, with these foods.
'Loved the image of a little you standing on a chair so you could watch your aunt cook the corn, giving it a stir now & then, while being gradually taught in the old ways.
Note: Both Olive or Avocado oil are real,& good for you, for salads or for cookiñg, & organic sweet butter is always good to use, unless it has turned rancid. If the cooking oil tastes bitter, that's a sign that it's rancid. Eating rancid veg oil can make people quite sick for a few days, within a short amount of time.
Hope you don't mind my 2 cents, but your health is at risk.
The hydrogenated fats, like the ones that are truly deadly to us, harm us by blocking our arteries & gunking up our organs.
I noticed that you had put out a tub of marjarin. That's one of the most dangerous of foods that became popular way back when, in the 60s? But most people didn't know this stuff back then. Just hope you stop consuming it.
Hydrogenated corn oil is whipped until it turns into a semi-solid. Sometimes they mix a lesser quality butter into the whipped oil & sell it that way too, but you're still eating hydrogenated fat & shortening your lives.
They use hydrogenated fat in most commercial baked goods too, including pizza crust. white breads, etc.
Due to using overly refined poor quality white flour too, those baked & boxed foods are a double threat or a tripple threat if they include some form of sugar.
They make us all fatter too. Our bodies can process real foods, but man made foods are not natural, so we don't process them well.
Now, since food in the US has been poluted for a few decades, we now have dangerously overweight children & some have developed the adult, acquired Type II Diabetes.
My beloved husband was born at home. It was dirt floor shack. His parents were sharecroppers in Southeast Missouri. He remembers eating beans and biscuits three times a day for years. He still loves beans. He didn't get much fruit except for government prunes. He loves all sorts of fruits now. He said when he left home to go work as a draftsman in the big city.....he could eat 3 bananas, 2 oranges and 3 apples for lunch. Tipper your dinner looks Dee-lisc-ous. I have a tendency to get high cholesterol. So I watch the amount of fried foods I eat. ❤
My husband would have one thing to say about this meal..."I'm in high cotton getting to eat such mighty fine vittles."
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My dad grew up extremely poor in New Mexico and was raised off of beans and potatoes for almost every meal and still to this day loves to eat beans and potatoes. Fruit was a Christmas present to them.
Fried corn, corn on the cob, cream corn were all my favorite memories of growing up under my mom and granny's cooking. AND silver queen corn was king at my dad's house. The only kind he planted, and he swore by it as the best. One year he planted about 40 acres of it, and let it turn to shell corn. We helped him shell it, then he took it to a Grist Mill in North Georgia and had it ground into cornmeal. We each [3 kids] got a 50 lb flour sack full of cornmeal for Christmas that year. If only I had a chance to re-live that experience.
Love from an old Englishman who lived in Va for ten-years. Those mystical mountains and the fabulous taste of that simple food, such memories! Thank you.
Thank you 😀
Did you put on extra weight there?
That's a very fascinating story, I'd love to know more, I'm an American who loves a lady from Yorks hire
The girl playing the fiddle. was awesome, more more please!!!!
I loved the crunch sound when you sliced the cornbread. My grandmother didn't use cast iron for her cornbread because she was cooking for so many. She used a large cake pan that was warped slightly so that one corner piece of cornbread was thinner and therefore crustier than the rest. That was my piece growing up, as everyone else wanted thicker pieces. They just don't know what they were missing!
I love the crust too 🙂
When a woman I worked with told me that she had no cast iron cooking pans, I was shocked! I literally and truly did not know that cornbread could be cooked in any other pan than a black skillet! But I ate her cornbread, and it was good, so I got proved wrong on that belief!
@@CelebratingAppalachia yes, Ma'am, the crust is the best part. Well, the fat back, too.
@@lynlandham3779 Growing up in suburban Southwest Fort Worth, I don't remember seeing a cast iron skillet. My mother used several non-stick pans, and some average metal pots and pans.
@@CelebratingAppalachia When my grandmother would make cornbread, I'd only eat the crust, lol
Happiest time of my life, standing on a chair beside Granny and rolling out the dough for dinner rolls. My sister and I were laughing yesterday. We picked two large trash bags of Malabar spinach and cooked it up, vacuumed sealed it and froze it for winter. It was a lot of work. But we were laughing about being little kids and just knowing that Granny and Gramps were conveying a very special “grown-up” privilege upon us when they let us pick the garden. We were so proud to be thus honored. :)
What a wonderful time you had with the spinach! I need to do that too 🙂
@@CelebratingAppalachia It was a wonderful time. We also planted the fall garden, but with the heat, we may have jumped the gun. I don’t know how much germination we’ll get. Anyway, we spent the day working and reminiscing and laughing. That’s as good as it gets for a couple of old gals. God is good.
My grandmother made the greatest fried corn in history! When I was about 12, I started spending the summer with my grandparents. To teach me hard work. After a long day in the tobacco fields, nothing was better than a big dinner with fried corn. One of my greatest childhood memories!
My Grandma was the best❤😂.
We almost had the same childhood.
I learned so much from my Grandparents.
I miss them with every breath I take
Memories again of home. The crunch of the edges of that cornbread. The sliced fresh tomato. The fried summer squash. And beans for sure with the cornbread. We didnt have fried corn as I think Dad preferred on the cob. All that's missing from one of my childhood dinners is Daddys green onions pulled out of the garden and sweet tea. How I would love to sit around that supper table once more with my family on a summer evening enjoying the food and each other. Thanks again for sweet memory. God Bless
What wonderful memories 🙂
You're right. Oklahoma country cooking and green onions is what my father ate with beans, fried potatoes and squash, w/ sliced tomatoes.
Oh memories in Oklahoma wilted lettuce with freshly pulled green onions from garden & cracklings corn bread & beans. I love salt pork my husband doesn’t.
That looks delicious
I loved my mother's supper of fried corn, sausage patties, biscuits and gravy, cantaloupe and tomatoes.
Sweet memories.
My mom would fry the corn till it caramelized. We had many a meal of soup beans, sometimes with ham hock, and fried potatoes with sliced tomatoes and chopped onions.
Growing up on a farm in West Virginia "brown" pinto beans, fried potatoes, biscuits/cornbread was typically served at almost every meal and always something added to it from the garden and or some animal we raised or hunted/fished. I miss those days. Best food!! Especially cooked in bacon grease
Oh…that sounds like the perfect meal.
Now I’m homesick
Sounds like my MIL's childhood. She grew up in the hills of Kentucky.
That sounds amazing, I’m craving that right now! Your mom knew how to make her family happy for sure!
I'm originally from Michigan, and I went to Appalachia and wound up helping poor people fix up their houses. They said I have Forever Friends there and I plan on going back in 2023 sometime.
Holiday Blessings to you dear Lady!! 🙏
Lovely ❤
@@josefinagarza241 Thanks ❤️
I am Italian , I have a deep passion for food and for history, those two passion combine together in a deep curiosity about the world and people’s different histories and experiences . I cook food from all over the world , my children grew up with so many different cuisines they now eat an incredible variety of foods , I am so proud of that ! Today I received ( from Amazon ) Edna Lewis’s ‘ the taste of country cooking ‘ that you recommended in a previous video , what an enchanting book ! I too have memories of cooking with my grandmother . Thank yiu for a lovely video 😀
JG - all great, and heartwarming. I wish you and your family the best. However, can I point out one ironic thing from your comment above ? You ordered a book from Amazon. Amazon is eliminating all differences, and competition. You tell of your curiosity for world cooking which I too follow, love, and try to cook. But Amazon will totally stifle that opportunity. They even standardize non-standard things. Please, get your future books from Mom&Pop bookstores where possible - when you travel, seek out local bookstores. Don't contribute to being an Amazon clone, even if they have a book you desire. Happy cooking.
I too am fascinated by foods from all over the world. Of course you Italians have some of the best! I learned to cook recipes from French, Chinese, Thai, Indian and Mexican cuisine, and a couple of your Italian dishes. I love the cuisine from my part of the world as well, the Southern United States. It's so rich and savory! I think it's as good as anyone's! ☺️
@@andrefasset3266 totally agree, I have never used Amazon and never will.
18:16 You said it. Most people in cities have no idea what a good sun-ripened tomato tastes like. The artificially ripened tomato's they sell in grocery stores have ZERO flavor.
I only buy heirloom tomatoes at the grocery store. We can get really good tomatoes at the farmers markets too.
Amen to that
It’s so easy to grow tomatoes, even in a bucket on a little patio. I’m not sure why more people don’t do it. They’re so delicious when you pick them fresh!
When I lived in South Carolina, my friends who lived across the road introduced me to tomato sandwiches. Sliced tomatoes from the garden, salt and pepper, mayo and white bread. The best sandwich ever.
We grow a lot in the city, including all kinds of tomatos...especially tomatos.
This takes me back to my mom cooking with all burners going and the house smelling like love and warmth 😊🥰
Same here. My Mom did the same thing.
She was the ultimate Mom..
down home cook..
master at multitasking..
making lunches..
scrubbing floors..
mowing an acre of green lawns..
sewing homemade clothes..
made tons of macrame items..
etc.... the list goes on & on
My Mom's the Best. She's almost 80 now
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If I’m cooking more than 3 things, nothing is going to get done at the same time, chances are I’ve burnt one of the dishes and I’ve had to substitute most of the ingredients because I either didn’t have or cannot find what I knew I had in my pantry. I’m a mess.
"the house smelling like love and warmth".... Perfect description... Lookout Mt, Tenn was Heaven for me growing up. Mom and Grandma taught me how to cook. My wife never had southern food until she met me.
Yes😊I think that describes it exactly.
such a sweet heartwarming memory of your loving Mother...God bless you...
My mom attended Appalachia Teacher's College, and she grew up in NC, and so I have a special fondness for the Appalachia region, and am very familiar with many of styles of cooking that you do. My mom told me about life during the depression, and how cornbread, beans and greens helped them all survive - and that is actually very healthy food! Some young folks think they've discovered it! 😆 Thank you for your wonderful videos, and God bless you and your family ♥
We love fried corn. My family is from Eastern Kentucky and cornbread, soup beans, fried potatoes, and fried corn were regularly on the menu. Most of my friends were not blessed with such simple food. Once I made a big batch of fried corn and froze it to take on vacation in September. My friends who were with us teased me about fried corn and tomatoes. "is that all we're having?" they complained. They were doubtful when I poured the corn over the thick slices of ripe tomatoes. As you can imagine, they were in love. Such a lovely memory.
I'm also from E KY and yes it's amazing
I sometimes make a "Hillbilly Feast"
and its all the food you said haha. I have not ever made fried corn but I have eaten it many times
Food fit for Royalty. Provided by the King Himself. Amen
Lord my grandmother made meals like that. I miss her cooking so much!
Ma'am, I was raised in Los Angeles California. Watching you cook all that wonderful food made my mouth water. Thank you so much for sharing your lovely recipes, and heritage.
Awesome comment!
I'm blessed beyond measure that this is the food my family raised me on. My Granny was from Eastern Kentucky and our roots go back to the Carolinas. Steeped in beautiful food traditions, I raised 3 kids on garden foods, we canned, made bread, our own butter, jams and my husband hunted. We gave them a much of my Appalachian and his East Texas upbringing as we could. Brings me wonderful memories.
I'm from the Smoky Mountains NC and I still prefer Fatback to Bacon and Cats head biscuits or whole cake to light bread and buttermilk to sweet milk.
my 84 year old mother still cooks just like this. So good!!
That's fantastic ❤
The older I get the more I appreciate how good a home cooked meal is and the effort put out by the cook for their family
I’m watching this with tears in my eyes. If I could go back just for one supper at my grandparents and sit down at their table. Especially during the summer. Sliced tomatoes. Fried okra and squash. Pinto beans. My imagination and memories just go haywire thinking about it. Cornbread. Corn on the cob or cream style. Sliced cucumbers in Italian dressing with sliced onions. There’s not a day that goes by that these thoughts cross my mind and a tear rolls down one of my cheeks. We weren’t well off by no means and we lived on a gravel road on a rural route but I would’ve never known it until now.
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Your family was rich in the important things in life. Children are not experienced enough to have that kind of knowledge. Intelligent adults value more lasting wealth like family and land and survival skills as you do now. Money is made up for control of the masses
Sitting around a big table at oumas house on the farm all ten children and the grandchildren eating the most delicious food no electricity lots of canned foods all the memories floods back still miss you ouma
Well, learn to cook it. I did the first thing I learned is my bay doesn't need to be busy. I cut out all the extra stuff.
Food is real nostalgia connected to memories, days gone. The world has changed so much. Blessings
My word, ma’am. That’s about a delicious of a supper spread I’ve seen in many years. Fried corn, tomatoes, fried squash, beans and cornbread. Makes me miss my mamaw even more. I’m so glad to have found you. Now have to look and see if you’ve got a fried okra video. Matt is a lucky man. But then, so are you to have all this knowledge about cooking the best foods.
I'm an old fart who grew up in Sevier and Knox counties, Tennessee. I ate all of these growing up. Mama's fried corn was the best of all. She would take a huge bowl (Did I say huge? It was _HUGE._ lol) of Mama's Fried Corn and another humongous bowl of her secret recipe banana pudding to church on Pot Luck Sunday and they would be the first empty bowls. I remember the banana pudding being gone before anyone was even ready for dessert.
I haven't heard "streaked meat" spoken in 40 years.
Now I am all by myself up here in Washington state and I'm telling you, these people up here need to learn how to cook. 😉
Ma'am, that is literally a meal anyone would ate would love. Thank you so much.
So glad you enjoyed it!
there was a large contingent of people who came out to WA from Appalachia, there's been some books written about it
Gosh this reminds me of my mother. I grew up in a family of 9 so mama had to cook for us all and god tht woman could cook. She never burned it, she just knew how to cook good wholesome country eatin. I miss her so much.
I also live in Washington State (howdy neighbor!). I was born in St. Louis, Missouri to parents straight out of the Ozark’s and my mother was a consummate Southern cook if there ever was one. My parents moved the entire family to central Washington when I was five years old where I and my four elder siblings were raised on a farm.
As I was the youngest of five kids, eventually the cooking became my job (the older kids had jobs, college, etc.). I learned right away, the best things to eat came directly from our huge garden or neighbor’s orchard (we had permission to pick as much fruit as we wanted). Fried green beans, fried potatoes, and fried apples were always a huge hit. Wild asparagus that grew along our many fence lines was amazing with scratch cornbread and hollandaise sauce. New peas and potatoes were delicious with a wilted green salad drizzled with hot bacon grease. We usually “just” had corn on the cob, but I’m really excited to try it fried! Corn with a large plate of freshly sliced ripe tomatoes and new green onions along with fresh radishes was amazing with a fresh glass of cold cow’s milk from our best milk cow, Dot.
I can say honestly I was thrown into the deep end when it came to suddenly becoming the “chief cook and bottle washer,” but fortunately (for everyone!) I had watched my mother and sisters pretty carefully in my years before getting the job, and I had a Betty Crocker cookbook - which I still have to this day!
Fear not! There are one or two Southern-taught cooks in Washington state! You just gotta know where to look! lol!
Yummy 😊😊😊 summer time eatin' is the best!!!
Mom was a true Appalachian cook and I hope that I do her dishes proud. She made a lot of fried corn over the years and we all loved it. She would cook it in bacon grease. She baked a pan of cornbread just about every day. When she was older and lived alone, she used a small cast iron skillet. Of course she broke out the big skillet when company was coming.
Good times…… great family memories!
Why did you leave her to live alone you mean american? I would have GLADLY lived with your granny. You didn't deserve her.
My Mom And Dad and everyone's in the family was from Alabama. My brother and I grew up on black eyed peas corn bread pig tails fresh biscuits and water gravy. Turnup greens boy after every meal I'd have me some hot corn bread and butter milk. That brings back such wonderful memories. My Mother and Daddy and my brother are all gone. I'm the only one left in my family. Thank you so much Ms Tipper for the wonderful memories.
My mother loved cornbread with buttermilk, too. I love most greens, but turnip greens are my favorite.
So glad you have those good memories 😀
Hey, I'm from Shelby Co.
I'm in St. Clair now!
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My grandma used to grow leaf lettuce and we would go out to her garden and pick fresh pieces of lettuce and get some tomatoes off the vine and she would wash the lettuce up then she would pour a little hot bacon grease over it and drizzle a little vinagear on it and slice up the tomatoes and it was always so good! Not to mention she made cucumbers fresh from the garden with vinegar and sugar and onion they were so good. And when she made chicken and dumplings ( yellow corn meal? ) you were blessed if you could two or three of those dumplings! Simple and really good food. Back when food was actually real food.
Scalded lettuce!
I've heard of it, but never had it! Sounds great! ❤
My mother in law made it with loose leaf lettuce (Black Seeded Simpson), scallions and bacon. She called it Wilted lettuce. Yummie@@buckshot5896
Pretty rare that I wish I had family. This made me wish I did lol. If I don’t cook ain’t no food to eat. Can’t imagine having someone make amazing southern food for me like this. Your husband is a lucky man.
I cook for myself everyday. We can share a meal or two.
Wish i could watch my sweet grandma cook like that again on her old wood stove. Everything just seemed to taste better cooked on wood fire by grandma. lol
I love how clean your kitchen is and the cast iron pans you use are perfectly seasoned. You should have your own show on tv
Matt is a blessed man he is eating like a king. I would have cut some raw onion up on those beans and cornbread.
More vitamin c than orange juice
I put Vidalia Onions IN my soup beans.
@@robbielynnhowle Listen to what she says about corn. Sweetcorn has not been 'tampered' with.
You’re so right! That tomato, soup beans and a big slice of a Vidalia onion. I could do without the squash but we could replace that with fried potatoes (I refuse to say ‘taters’) . Gosh, I just ate supper now I want THIS meal! And that crunch on your cornbread was just perfect!!
Mad I can appreciate what you're saying I'm from the Deep South are from Atlanta Georgia and we do to it really southern food there and everything is from scratch nothing comes from a package do not I will not eat processed food of any kind
Love your channel. Am 81, grew up in Ozarks and this particular meal brought back such wonderful memories. I bought white corn yesterday with frying it in mind. Yum!
I closed my eyes and could actually smell my granny's cooking. She's gone now and I miss her every day. What I'd do to have one of her buttermilk biscuits with some butter and honey or cane syrup again. She had bacon grease on most of her vegetables all her life and she lived to be 91.
Yep, my family on my dad’s side all lived well into their 90s and many even into their 100s unless they died of a weird accident, like my great uncles - one died being kicked in the head by a mule and one by a tiny cut on his arm that turned into tetanus. Almost all veggies were cooked with bacon grease and rendered fat was used in baking. All of the veggies and fruits were always fresh. But they all worked hard too. I think what we do with our time and how we treat our bodies outside of what we feed them is even more important than our diet and therein lies the bigger problem.
They rarely needed to go to a grocery store. All they bought pretty much was flour and sugar and making things like baking soda and baking powder. Everything else they grew and traded the surplus with neighbors that had chickens, pigs, and cows. They usually got a pig from a neighbor that they traded veggies with. They would smoke the big cuts and put the rest in their salt barrel. They also ate a lot of fish, crawfish, shrimp, crab, turtles, rabbits, duck, wild turkey, boar, and squirrels, which they caught and cleaned themselves. Cow meat was a luxury. Most steaks and sausage we had was actually venison. The only cow meat she would get would be the chuck roast and she made the best roast I’ve ever had and haven’t had any as good since.
I used to love when they processed the sugar cane. We'd chew on the stalks and dip them into the syrup, long in to the night after we should be in bed. I can still hear the squeaking as the horses walked in circles. Running around barefoot on the cool dirt.
@@TheFrugalMombot Key thing here: homegrown. It's the chemicals that are killing us from the pesticides, the fertilizers, etc. My family had many live into late 90's, 100's. Lot's of manual labor, they walked everywhere, and most of their food was homegrown.
My mom also put bacon grease on her vegetables and she lived to be 99.
Awesome food 🙏
Fellow Appalachian here from eastern KY. My mom was and still is a great cook. Never had fried corn but we had poke salad or lettuce and onions (leafy greens and green onions tossed like a salad with hot grease mixed in). For the meat we would almost always have pork chops. I love that you know how its done with the cornbread, my mom would do it the same way with warming up the grease and skillet prior to adding in the batter. Gives it such a great crust. And anytime we did have soup beans and cornbread (almost all the time), we would quarter a sweet or yellow onion and eat it with the beans and cornbread. If anyone has not had a home crown tomato fresh out of the garden they are missing out. And fried squash is a delicacy. Thank you for your videos and preserving what has been almost wiped out. I love the vocabulary, but Appalachia for me was about the peoples good hearts, the mountains, and the food.
We called the salad, a killed down salad
I fry squash or zucchini by cutting it into about 1/2 inch cubes adding salt, pepper, and cornmeal to coat Fry as you would fried okra. Much easier
I’ve gone back to cooking and eating like this the last few months and have actually lost a little weight. Notice how well balanced the meal is. And food prepared like this is very satisfying and filling, so you tend not to overeat or find yourself looking for snacks between meals. Great tutorial.
Awesome food and I'm floored by the similarities! My Daddy's people came to Texas from a bit north of Florence, Alabama in 1839. I grew up eating "Purt'near" everything I've seen in your videos except Ramps... Thank YOU from the bottom of my heart for all your efforts at instruction and education!
i INSTANTLY love this lady. it would be so fun with my kids to be at her house while she's cookin & readin stories on a stormy winter night. We live in the Bay Area California. i love her accent
Hon, you love her accent? That’s no accent, that’s original American down to earth language. No pun intended, but you Cali’s have no accent unless you came from Oklahoma. (Grin)
@@grams5025 I’m from Cali (LA) too…yes u guys (the south) talk different…it sounds like an accent…it’s mad soothing tho & food is love in any culture, accent, language, etc…I’m definitely gonna make me some fried corn one of these days!! 🙌🏼🔥
My grandma always made fried corn, fatback and yes always sliced tomatoes. Thank you for one of my most missed moments with her. All of it looked delicious!!
Raised in N. Minn. This episode reminds me of my dad introducing me to fried cabbage as a little girl, I'm now 77, still love it. It seems to be a lost recipe from the Depression. He taught me to sprinkle it with vinegar lightly along w/S&P. He was Swedish and a great cook.
That sounds delicious.
"Kål är gott" means "cabbage is good" in Swedish. Greetings from Stockholm
🥰🥰🥰🥰fried cabbage 😋 is heaven on earth
Your Dad was a sweetheart 💕. I can tell by your comment
I made fried cabbage last night. I cooked them in the fat I crisped up kielbasa in, with onions and a touch of balsamic vinegar. They were so yummy!
My grandmother showed me how to make fried corn when she was still alive...and she made it the same way, with the bacon grease AND butter. Sooooo good. Thanks for the memory!!
That reminds me of eating at my grandparents house during the summer after we tended to the garden in the morning. We always had a big meal at lunch. Two or three vegetables from the garden, corn bread, a casserole and two different meats. It was the best. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. You are doing great work on this channel.
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That dinner looks absolutely perfect. Quite similar to what my grandmother cooked in east Texas. She grew up on a farm in the early 1900’s. She cooked breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day of her 55+ year marriage. We loved eating any meal at her house. She always had a jar of bacon grease by the stove. And of course cakes and pies and really sweet iced tea.
Yum!.
I love east Texas 😍
Also grew up in east texas... and there is definitely a mason jar with bacon grease in it that sits right next to the crisco i use to season my cast iron lol.
My dad’s side of the family are Cajun and my grandmother used to make this corn but she called it maque choux. I could never find the recipe for how she made it because traditional maque choux has the holy trinity in it, but I prefer it this way. The corn really shines. They also used to keep a huge barrel of salt in their bedroom where they stored their pork. I spent summers and thanksgiving with them and have so many great memories of cutting off a little of the fat back and tie it with a string tied to a stick and I’d go down to the ditches and catch crawdaddies.
We lived near some salt water marshes in Delaware when I was a kid. My biological mother would let some chicken pieces sit in an old cooler on the porch for a few days and get nice and rotten. Then we would go way out on a wooden boardwalk into the marshes, and sit on the side of it. We'd all have a long piece of spring with a chicken part tied to the end. We'd lower them in and catch blue crabs. After a few hours we'd have a big cooler full. That was dinner. We did that a lot, we were dirt poor. Later on I found out that marsh is in a State Park, and crabbing there is illegal! 🤷♀️🦀
ME TOO!! I used to go out back behind my grandparents house and fish for crawdads! They had a creek that flowed about 80 yards behind their house and Nana would find me a piece of old bacon (raw of course) and I'd tie it to a string - then I'd tie a big screw up the string about an inch. I'd go to the little bridge that went over the water (bridge is wooden, old and about 18 feet long - creek is about 12 feet wide - never more than 18 in. deep & usually more like a foot - all very tiny!) and sit in the middle, dangle my feet in if it was really hot, drop my line into the water and watch the crawdads come out from under the rocks to grab the bacon. Those little devils would really hang on, so I could pull 'em up and drop them in my bucket (which had a little creek water in it) for my Papa and Dad to use for fish bait. They'd just cut off the tails and pop the meat out, to put on their hooks. Ya know, we never thought to actually eat the crawdads! And I wish we'd tried it!! Lots of places do and I'll bet they'da been really great!! I did this from 5 to 9 yrs old. That's one of my favorite childhood memories and I had NO CLUE that other kids ever did it so THANKS for sharing your great story! 💙💙💙!
@@toniecat1028 oh this made me happy! Many say they’re similar to lobster, little land lobsters, but I think they’re even better than that. Now, we did usually flush the wild ones out by keeping them a few days and monitoring what they ate, as it improves the taste. Kind of like what you’d do with bull frogs for frog legs, as it pretty much eliminates any of the fishiness or you do similarly even grasshoppers or crickets if you eat bugs. I’m glad you enjoyed! Sounds like a wonderful day to me even as a grown woman. I miss it.
South Eastern Kentuckian here. This makes me want to drive back home to my mammaw’s for a good country dinner. We had several “garden suppers” which were just cut up and salted tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, some soup beans, some cornbread, and some cooked corn and green beans. I didn’t appreciate it as much as a kid, but I sure do miss it now.
I’m a CA girl but I remember visiting my Great Grandmother in AR and watching her cut corn off the cob on a stump and frying it. I thought I’d never tasted anything better. I love eating corn still that way today! Brings back the sweetest of memories!
I wonder if I made it vegetarian by just using butter and seasoning if it would taste any different than simply boiled corn with butter on it.
Use a high smoke point oil like peanut or avocado or grape seed and add a chunk of butter to it. If you only use butter the butter tends to burn unless you've clarified it. Also, imo, cast iron is the only way to fry corn.
That jar of bacon grease you have is like having a jar full of gold to me.
Same here! I keep a Mason jar full of it in my fridge. I use it to make gravy and biscuits or when I need to season my cast iron pans after cooking.
Any cook worth their salt always saves all their bacon fat, not just Southern ladies!
Got one of my own girlfriends kid, adults can't stand it dumbing down of America
Great for popping corn as well.
Absolutely is, American Gal!!!👍
I ate this exact meal made by my grandmother many times many decades ago in Arkansas. She even did her fried corn exactly as you did. The only difference in that entire meal was that she cut her squash differently because our fried squash were round. What an amazing meal. Brings back some wonderful memories.
Exactly ...
the only difference ...
We always cut it in rounds too!
@@Leslie-wb8cb We always cut it in rounds...time consuming...when we're in a hurry we cut it long ways like Ms.Tipper...just as good...
Thinking the same thing here in Texas.
Food aside, love the kitchen cabinets. And, I could just listen to this woman talk without end. What a gorgeous accent. Back to the food, i remember riding my motorcycle from New York down to West Virginia around ‘81 or ‘82 and stopping by a small cafe. the waitress told my the special was ‘soup beans’, corn bread, and collard greens. As immediately smitten with this Appalachian waitress as I was, I would have ordered anything she suggested. When I heard the woman in this video casually mention ‘soup beans’, it brought me back 40 years. It’s not a term we hear in New York. That waitress Had an accent much like this wonderful woman here. I was as completely mesmerized then as I am now. One the most memorable meals of my life. Eating that wonderful food and having a breezy chat with that Appalachian waitress felt incredibly exotic to this New Yorker. It’s funny how this video took me back to that. Thank you.
So glad you enjoyed the video 😀
I've never eaten fried corn. It looks like something I would really like. My dad will sometimes fry up a little salt pork to eat with his breakfast. Most of the time we use it to flavor soup beans. I don't eat it but I love a big pot of beans in the winter time with a big pan of cornbread. My dad makes the best corn bread, just corn meal and buttermilk. I crumble up a piece of corn bread, put some beans and soup on top with a little chow chow and I've got some good eating. There's a cooking show I used to watch all the time and when the lady cut corn off the cob, she would use a bunt pan. The hole in the pan would hold the cob while she sliced the kernels off with a chef knife. The kernels fell down into the bowl of the pan and didn't make a mess all over the counter.
Great tip! Thank you for sharing!
A BIG BOWL OF BEANS, CORN BREAD AND RAW ONIONS...
A REAL DOWNHOME MEAL ! 👍👍😁🇺🇸
I loooooove chow chow! I make a mean green tomato relish, an old family recipe that starts out “take 2 pecks of green tomatoes”…!
You would love it
that lady that used the bundt pan was Paula Deen.
Our family is from eastern Kentucky, our cornbread and fried corn were similar, our fried squash was cubed, and shaken in a paper bag, half flour and half corn meal. I miss our green beans the most.
We cut ours into rounds in East TN.
My husband is from Philly, the first time I made green beans, he asked me if I was going to cook them all day long, I said well yes, why wouldn’t I?
@@jo-clairecorcoran5783 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Right??? My husband thought the same thing the first time I cooked ‘em😁😆
Daddy's family is from South Eastern Kentucky. Grandma cooked like this.
That looked absolutely scrumptious! I love how he crumbled the cornbread and put the beans on top! And you’re absolutely right about tomatoes! I can eat them right off the vine with a little salt, or on a sandwich with a little Mayo. Nothing in the world better than homegrown! So sad when the season is done here.
Sorry fone actin up. Typos. I meant I thought I was only one are tomatoes like that
I lived down in the bootheel of Missouri for about 10 years and learned to cook all those things. Still my favorites!
This warmed my heart. I’m from west Texas but my Grandmother used to make meals similar to this in cast iron, made he miss her very much.
where at in west tx, i grew up in odessa
I was raised on this food and especially fried corn and I make it for my family and now my great grandsons call it Geges corn.
This comment section is so wholesome. Food really does bring people together and it's amazing that we can sample a bit of every cultures cuisine of we want to try it. I feel blessed to be able to try different foods. My heart goes out every day to the truly hungry out there. 💗
I’m really enjoying the comment section. ❤️
🙏true
My dad was from KY and he taught my mom from Germany how to cook like this. I grew up on this type of food. We ate fried corn, fresh picked green beans with bacon grease, great northern beans and beet salad with corn bread made in a skillet and sliced tomatoes. So delish.
Watching your video brought back some very good memories of my childhood.
The meal you prepared, was about identical to the meals my mother prepared, especially in the summer months.
Growing up my mother prepared three full meals a day, as my father came home for lunch daily.
My father was not a fan of “leftovers “, this included dessert. On average mother made two desserts nearly everyday.
She didn’t use prepackaged boxed anything. When making biscuits or cornbread, she never measured out ingredients. One of her pet peeves, being served a biscuit, bread or cornbread that wasn’t golden brown. She would comment, she didn’t care for blonde backed goods.
Mother was an amazing person, as well as a great cook.
Best regards
Goodness, that's looks soooo good. The way he fixed that plate ,look like he was fix'en to go show to some judges. That plate was perfect.
I give it a 10
My goodness , Matt and the girls have sure been blessed to have you cooking meals like that for the family. We have eaten most all of that up here in Manitoba Canada , but never had fried corn. You can guess what I'm going to try cook up. We have farmers markets here so when I get a chance to get to one , I'll be buying some corn. Thank you Tipper. I'm new to yours and the girls you-tube channels and enjoy them all. Wally
Thank you Wally! I hope you like the corn 🙂
@@CelebratingAppalachia cant imagine not liking any your recipes.
I so remember eating these meals at my grandma's house and my aunt's houses in eastern Kentucky and my Mom still cooks this way at 76 years old in Indiana. I still eat this way in the summertime in Indiana. I feed my kids and grandkids meals like this in the summertime. Best meal's ever.
Watch this for the second time. Loved! Thanks Tipper. I grew up watching mama & grandmama making fried corn. We all loved eating with breakfast. I am now teaching it to my granddaughter. One day she will inherit my iron skillet that’s been in my family for 4 generations.
Thank you Alicia 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachiano
I am from Louisiana, not Appalachia but you certainly wakened memories for me and actually cooked the same way I am passing on to my children. Thank you
My goodness, this is a supper we used to eat when I was a kid. Mom always cooked with fat back. Sometimes we even ate it for breakfast with fried eggs and fried grits. So good!❤
My Grandma cooked like this. She's been gone a lot of years now, but I still miss her meals. Thank You for sharing!
There is nothing like the hills of Appalachia and a little literature mixed with good food. Thanks.
Always a tomato and an onion on the table, every meal. God Bless.
Goes good with everything 🙂
Save some for me!
We always had a slice of tomato and a sliced up cucumber (cut long ways) on the side of our meals when they were in season.
We had sliced cucumber also salt and pepper. Yummy. My granny would make a big pot of butter beans with sliced tom cucumber onion cornbread and honey.
@@annecampbell2058 we had cucumbers sliced into bowl with vinegar over them .... one of my favorites to eat with fried okra
Oh my goodness, Tipper! This lools so good. To watch you cook is akin to being by my mommas side while she did the same. And, let it be said, she learned from the best, my Grammaw, and her momma and her mommas mamma! Food really does connect us all. Thank you for taking the time to share this with us all!
Thanks so much-I'm so glad you enjoyed supper 🙂
@@CelebratingAppalachia Oh, did I ever! And thank you again for the kraut video. I'm sure I wasn't the only one to ask. But, it sure felt like you made it just for me! You and yours is a true blessing in this world.
@@CelebratingAppalachia would love to have some crackling cornbread broken up into some buttermilk.... now I need to go get a jar of my kraut I canned and cook it for supper
I remember my oldest sister Kathryn making fried corn. She used a long wooden corn cutter that had a really sharp medal piece in the middle. And used a knife to get the corn milk. She made the best corn!! My momma always said that Kathryn cooked it better than her. I have that corn cutter in my kitchen. It hasn’t been used in a long time. But after watching you cook that corn, we just might have to get it out again!!🌺🎚🙏❤️😃
Watching your videos makes me so hungry. I love how Matt loves and thinks you are the best cook. I know you are after watching all kinds of cooking videos. Watching you has given me the desire to grow my first garden.
Thank you! And Yay for the garden desire 😀
That entire meal reminds me of eating at Mama’s and getting to “be there” while you cooked supper was just so special. Thank you so much for this video! Be well!
In The mid 70s when I was a kid, Dad and I visited his oldest sister, and the oldest living in his family, in East Texas. My two then teenage 2nd cousins were there. They were at her house often. She was in her mid 70s at the time. She cooked us all an epic lunch, consisting of fried chicken, fried corn, and probably some fresh veggies from her country garden. It's been a long time since I've had some great country cooking.
I was born and raised in Chicago. I've never seen such beautiful food. That tomato was like none I've ever seen at Jewel. My 12 yr old daughter and I love to cook together. I'm moving to Appalachia. I was thinking NE Kentucky. Love your channel. Your husband is a lucky man. God bless you both and your family.
Northeast Kentucky is a great place to live!
That's because she didn't buy it from Jewel, she grew it. I'm outside of Chicago, I grow tomatoes that look just like that and taste even better than they look.
@@MissTrixie29 Nice.
Those tomatoes really are special. They need to be grown in the ground and properly tended. They are very slow and and won’t ripen until late August. If the fall is mild and we get a good Indian summer they will grow big and fat. If we get early frost or another tomato plant chokes them out. You won’t get any. Better luck next year.
I live in North western Va and this is typical food where I come from ! Fried taters , biscuits and gravy !
Fresh tomato sandwiches ! Sooo Good
My mom was from eastern Kentucky and growing up I remember having all kinds great dishes from the mountains. Simple but so delicious. Those cast iron frying pans can't be beat.
I'm from northern Ohio, but a sibling of mine attended 5 years of college in Kentucky and it allowed me to learn such a love and appreciation for the ways Appalachian people have shaped America. Thanks for sharing :)
Appalachia, and America, were already shaped BEFORE Europeans and other foreigners invaded these lands. All they ever did, and continue to do, is steal and exploit.
So thrilled to see you not leave food behind in the bowl. Gotta scrape it all out and don't waste any!.
That’s what must Aunt Mary always taught me. Never waste a bit!
This is also just a plain old southern meal…I’m from the low country and this is exactly what we grew up on. ❤️
I was not a fan of the chocolate gravy by very very popular..
I'm a low country gal too. This sure had my mouth waterin! 🤤
This brings back memories of my grandma making pan-fried zucchini and summer squash, skillet cornbread, and topping it off with sliced fresh tomatoes. My granny was the tomato and zucchini queen! Oh, goodness... now I'm thinking about those tomato (and sometimes red onion) sandwiches on homemade white bread with homemade mayo!
Born and raised in western Tennessee and I’ve eaten all of these delicacies. Especially proud to see Matt crumble the bread and put his soup beans on top. THAT is how a country boy eats beans and cornbread. I can cook pretty good but my fried corn fails miserably. You make it look easy enough so I’m inspired to try again this summer. Awesome video 👍
Also from west Tennessee and this looks like every meal I ever had at my grandmothers!
I was born and raised in the flat lands but we grew up on fried corn fried cabbage , corn bread , ham hocks and beans , 2 of my all time favorite foods are fried corn and fried cabbage !!
My mom was from Marion, VA. (Coal miner's daughter) she cooked things you cook.
I am missing her Sunday's Dinner's , I cook just like her and that is a Blessing. Your meals remind me of what I forgot.
Thank You for being a common family inherited cook. The little things in life are Precious. I hope you have a show on ground sirloin and ground pork tenderloin a pound and half each mixed together and fried until done and make a beef gravy and put the meatballs in the gravy and simmer, cook the kind of rice you like and have about 3 cups I think it was her best Sunday Meal and she would have sugar snap peas and new potatoes in cream sauce and corn cut off the cob and homemade bread with a summer salad if you never tried it, please call it the Ruthie's best meatball's and rice. God Bless 🙏.
I'm so culturally separated from Appalachian culture. I grew up in the inner cities of Los Angeles. But I'm so fascinated with peoples from all over the US and the world. I'm always eager to try their recipes. We ALL eat and so it always gives me this feeling of community and shared joy to experience their food.
That cracklin' corn bread....WHOOO! I'm on an almost all meat diet for fitness reasons. But every now and then, my body needs a carbohydrate bomb. I was scrolling through and came across this video. The cracklin' corn bread looked so easy, I had to pause the video and try it because I had all the ingredients. WOW it's so good! And so easy to make. I made it just like you did, but it's so simple, I'm sure it can be embellished with other ingredients if you got creative. I know this is an old video but thank you for sharing your culture with us!
Yay! So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching 😀
I’d never seen boiled yellow squash until I joined the Air Force and had dinning hall food. I’d slip a little square of butter into it to help make it better. I grew up on fried yellow squash. I still cook it that way. That’s a mighty fine supper you cooked there Ma’am!
Both of my grandparents were from Kentucky. It’s funny I find this two days from the anniversary of my papaw passing away. I have taken a lot of their cooking to heart. We do fried corn a lot, my wife and daughter love it! I think what got me was the tomatoes….every time my papaw sat down to eat there was sliced tomatoes sitting on a table. Thanks for the memories I really needed this!!!
This reminds me of what my mother would cook. She was good at frying corn. We would also have black eyed peas and pour the juice from a jar of canned peaches over the peas. Thanks for taking me down memory lane.
Interesting peach juice and peas I'll have to try that 🙂
I like pickled pear or pickled peach juice on my peas, green beans and butter beans!
@@CelebratingAppalachia I meant pickled peaches juice.
@@phillipvines4269 Oh-Okay 🙂 I still need to try it 🙂
My dad loooves fried corn. He always made it crispy brown and carmelized so that’s the way I love it too. Fried in butter and bacon grease. Yum!
When you pulled out the amber glass for the hot water I almost cried. Just like the cups my granny had in Mississippi, she'd make cornbread greens and black eyed peas for my mom every time she'd drop us off and pick us up for the weekend or school holiday week off. 💗