Also…my grandmother and great grandmother both lived to be in their nineties and they both cooked like you do. I think the difference between how some people eat today and how they ate had more to do with the quality of food than the actual sugar and fat. They grew their own food and there just weren’t as many additives back then for the things they bought. You and Mr. Brown have created this same situation because you have quality controlled your food by either growing it or by careful buying of the things you don’t grow. Mamaw cooked big meals but the meat was more of a minor note compared to all of the vegetables. Of course the vegetables were delicious because she cooked them with bacon grease and added sugar at times for seasoning but if your meals are heavy on the vegetables those ingredients become minor notes as well. Of course there was always corn bread but it wasn’t the centerpiece of the meal either. The meal you just cooked had three vegetables so it wasn’t like you were carb loading. I’m very sorry to hear that some comments have been less than kind. Your channel is such a lovely place to land…full of love and family. Keep doing what you’re doing you’re providing a wonderful form of entertainment amidst an ocean of unpredictability and worry that our world has become. Many thanks to both you and Mr. Brown.
A lot less health problems too. You worded that to perfection. Ignore the haters they don't know a delicious healthy meal when they see it. Ms. Lori and Mr. Brown y'all keep being yourself we love you just the way you are
You work they need to walk a mile in your shoes 😢 every body got a sad song to say it’s their loss it’s people that’s want things but won’t get up yes I watch you and me you we just don’t know when to stop we’d rather wear out than Rust out I can and help where I am needed labor of love makes a person Herat ❤feel hood and lay down at nite and can go to sleep 💤 your work is not easy and mr Browns very stressful love you both and proud of you I have food fixed for the winter and give to others makes my heart feel so full of love to do Something for someone this is what God wants us to do reach out amen Hate will destroy you 😮 you are a fine family God bless
@@donnasaylor2778 i love your comment and how you said certain folks, through labors of love, "would rather wear out than rust out." That is so accurate. Folks work very hard. People on the internet with hate in their hearts are miserable people. They lack meaning and purpose and they feel good trying to bring others down. Even if they don't internally realize how miserable they are. They only know how to criticize. I think it is a power trip for haters and trolls. trying to pick around for weak spots to tear someone down. It helps them to feel as if they are clever. Hate nearly destroyed me in the past. I had to learn how to understand my feelings. God bless you Donna Saylor.
Miss Lori - I love your channel! I love to watch you cook, regardless of what you’re making. You give of your time and invite people into your home and I want you to know I’m very thankful for that! I’m sorry about the rude people and their comments; that speaks volumes about them. God bless you and Mr. Brown. Your channel is one of my absolute faves!
I just happened on this channel (Miss Lori had me at her Cinnamon Roll video😊) I love to watch and listen when it comes to family life and cooking. Since I live alone these days, it fills a void. I also love to cook and bake.
Hi Lori, I just found your channel a few weeks ago and I love to watch you cook! I don’t understand why people make such hurtful remarks! No one is sitting there with a gun to their head making them watch you! I’m so sorry you think you need to respond to them and explain! You keep doing what you do and the Lord will take care of them!
Lori, I feel like I was sitting in my Granny's kitchen. When you invited us to come watch you cook, this brought back fond memories. I had to share this video about you and Mr. Brown's Arkansas homestead. We love you guy's.
A little bit of sugar takes any bitterness out of the vegetables. Mama always put a tiny bit of sugar in greens, green beans and a lot of vegetables. And to the lard haters there is no pie crust like one made with lard. 😊 And the nice part of being empty nesters is being able to settle for cereal or a sandwich if you want after so many years of cooking for kids and a growing family. It's one of the perks of getting older together 👍
Miss Lori! I love your channel and never feel like you have to explain yourself My Grand-Maw Brown raised 9 children on cotton farm in South Carolina and then worked in the cotton mill in Kannapolis,NC! I can remember helping fry fresh pork skins after a hogs were butchered! I’m 52 this September and I’ve raised my 5 children this way!!! God is so good to give us knowledge!!! Such a beautiful blessing to have this knowledge!!!
I'm glad I subscribed to your channel today, Ms Lori. I lived 30 years in FL and 3 in TX, and you are a breath of Southern hospitality. Plus, I just love your attitude. People are people (and that includes rude ones), but you'll have that. In the meantime, we are blessed to have YOU. Best to you and Mr. Brown!
Miss Lori you’re the best cook!, Watching you prepare meals is so relaxing to me. I feel like I’m sitting in your home watching you cook like I was in my friends house having a conversation. You’re such a sweet and genuinely humble and gracious woman. You always inspire me to be a better cook Miss Lori! ❤️🌻 blessings to you and Mr. Brown.
I just enjoy everything you cook and every story you tell. I believe the way you two interact and how you talk to each other is priceless. The respect is tangible.
Hello Mrs Laurie, I started watching some of your cooking videos a few weeks back when I was looking for a good biscuit recipe. I personally love the one I tried and that got me to subscribe. I strongly believe in " if you have nothing nice to say say nothing at all!" people who make nasty comments do not deserve your time and energy nor an explanation of you are! at the end of the day GOD gave us all the freedom to choose how we live and it is only to him we owe and explanation! I Love your recipes!!!
Those people with the rude comments are not stopping to realize, you grow much of what you eat and preserve, that makes a difference right from the beginning as you follow your recipes to taste. I honestly watch your show and copy many recipes and I feel very healthy. We all don’t follow the same diet, nor can well afford all those keto type diets but, to me, this is cooking tasty and healthy. You chose your food but to me, this is back to my childhood, we ate foods that kept us healthy and active, none or very few junk foods, we ate fruits. So what is better than this?
God bless y’all Ms. Lori. You are such good company for other ladies such as myself. I really appreciate you and Mr. Brown for all your wonderful knowledge and sharing of a Godly life on the homestead.
Ms Lori, I love spending time with you. You and Mr. Brown are wonderful and like family. Your down to earth, honest and a blessing. For goodness sake anyone with half a brain should be able to figure out you don't cook up big meals everyday, you both work everyday plus all you do on your homestead is amazing. I totally understand being so tired and worn out at end of day, and being very satisfied with a bowl of cereal or a fried egg sandwich. Bless you both, would love to share a cuppa Joe with you on the porch and help you around the garden. Take care and God Bless, always.
Miss Lori, I am up in NW WA and it ihas been freezing cold all week. This afternoon, i was feeling the cold in my bones and felt kind of lonesome and discouraged, but I tuned in to you and got a blanket, bundled up, got some hot coffee and sat in your kitchen as you made supper.It really gave me a lift, I got warmed up too and feel better.I enjoyed the mayo cake recipe, and I think i will add some instant coffee when i make it. My best friends Mother used to make something similar for us “girls” when we visited.. She called it her “Wacky” cake, and mixed it all up right in the baking pan. It will be dark here in a few minutes, another cold cold night ahead. Please , you and Mr. Brown stay safe on those icy roads. Thank you for being there for me tonight.💕🙏🙏🙏🙏
It's so relaxing just watching you in the kitchen today. I've had a very stressful week with no end in sight, and this is calming me down. I like the camera view of you in the kitchen too. Thanks for giving me some serenity today, Miss Lori!, I hope your day is going well, it looks like it. Melaney from SoCal.
Follow up to my earlier comment: I went back and looked at several of your tutorials. Now I love Mr. Brown. And you do such a great job demonstrating step by step how to assemble, cook and serve those yummy looking foods. Great thanks.
Inspired me to do purple hull peas, corn bread, fried okra, fried cabbage, and what my grandmother called tomato salad (tomatoes, onion, jalapeños all chopped together with a little salt and pepper) which we eat over our peas for our dinner tonight! ~Cassandra Senter, born in Arkansas!
I love watching you two. I always feel like I'm sitting around listening to dear friends when you are both on. Thank you for allowing us into your home!
Thank you Miss Lori for letting us visit in your wonderful kitchen as you’re cooking dinner. My grandparents lived in southern Indiana and had 12 kids.They weren’t there at the same time but were scattered around the U.S. When we got together for meals, there was a whole lot of love and home grown food. Thank you for your cooking tips and for the recipe for the chocolate Mayo cake. It all looked so good!
Ms. Lorie you shouldn’t have to explain yourself or your way of eating to anyone!! If they don’t like it, they can move on and find a different channel to watch. Personally I love watching you make a meal and it inspires me to make a delicious and hearty meal just like that. I don’t think there is anything wrong at all with your meal I’d be pleased and feel darn blessed to have such a terrific meal on my dinner table. May God bless you and keep your table and pantry forever stocked . Thank you for sharing your kitchen and how you make what you do. I thoroughly enjoyed it!!! 🥰🇨🇦❤️
Growing your own food and preserving it - you are so much healthier, on so many levels, than most people I know. I am inspired. Thanks for sharing a bit of your evening with all of us.
I want to thank you for this. I imagine that sometimes you would like to just skip doing a video, so I want you to know it's appreciated. It was comforting for me to watch this tonight. It felt like sitting in a friend's kitchen while they cook, which I miss. I could almost smell the onions. It's a real gift you have, to chat to the camera like you're talking to someone you know. BTW, I've had that Leone's Italian Cookbook for, oh, forever or thereabouts. I hope you have a good week and if you get ice, that you can just hunker down and stay warm and safe.
Hi Mrs. Lori. Now that is what I would call a hearty, old fashion, down home country supper. Makes me hungry. Your cake looks yummy. You and Mr. Brown have a very blessed week. Stay safe and stay well. Love ya.
My Dad was raised in Kentucky and then moved to Iowa where I have been all of my 72 years. I just found your videos last night and it warms my heart so much. I grew up with squirrel and rabbit and pheasant cooked because he had to hunt to eat and he cooked with lard. He used to have to have lard sandwiches.😂 I would pay NO attention at all to rude people. My parents gardened and canned and knew how to feed us that way. I got away from it and I have a som who cans and you remind me of why I need to get back to my roots. Love you both because you are real and love the Lord. Good for everything you do and you can help me get back to my roots❤️🙏❤️
For Christmas dinner, my Mother-in-law always cooked pork chops and cabbage. She browned the pork chops first, then covered it with the chopped cabbage, onions, diced apples , caraway seeds and brown sugar. Sometimes she cooked it all together on the stove top, and sometimes she would bake it in a covered dish in the oven. I've even tossed it in my crock pot. Along with the pork chops and cooked cabbage we always had mashed potatoes. That yummy sweet cooked cabbage was poured over the mashed potatoes. Yummy!
Thank you so much!!! It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one who has a bowl of cereal for supper once in awhile or an egg sandwich. I love all of your videos. God bless you , Mr. Brown and your channel. Thank you for sharing your supper idea!!!
Ok Miss Lori you’re making me feel all kinds of better. I thought you cooked big delicious meals every night. Fried egg sandwiches, cereal, hot cereal, etc. makes sense for late week nights. Loved your special meal you cooked on this video and I always learn something every time I watch one of your videos. Hush puppy mix on okra is a great idea.
My mother made me a chocolate mayo cake every year for my birthday. Now my husband does. It's my absolute favorite. I have family members who thinks it would be gross because it says Mayo. That's fine, more for me!
We always have sweet tea, but 50 years ago I figured out it was the sugar in it tearing up my stomach. I switched to sweet n low and it doesn't have a weird taste like most artificial sweeteners. I steep about 4-5 Lipton or Newman's organic tea bags in hot water, not boiled, for 10 minutes or so. I pour it into a gallon tea jar with a spigot, add 27 quick shakes of sweet n low from a shaker with small hole on top, then add filtered water and keep in the fridge.
I think you and Mr Brown represent homesteading in the smart and economical way. Pls don’t let the people with negative attitude towards you get you down. You are the best and well loved by many.
Ms. Lori, you are such a sweet lady. You make cooking look so easy. You seem like a “ natural “ at it. You have a way of making us feel like we are in the kitchen chatting with you as you cook the delicious variety of food. The Mayonnaise cake brings back sweet memories from years ago. There’s NO DOUBT that GOD brought you & Mr. Brown together years ago. The world would be so much better if more people shared GOD’S LOVE, as you two. Your love,& contentment is such an example for all of us. May GOD continue to BLESS you both in HIS MIGHTY WAY 🙏🏼♥️. I am looking forward to your next video. Love ♥️from an old timer 🌹
Oh my! This is what I cook when we are lonesome for my Mother and Father-in-law (who both passed). Thank the Lord, we learned from them how to cook like this! You are so right, it's not something we do every day, but now and then we get a "hankerin'" for this good ole southern comfort food and when it happens, nothing else will do! If it's summer, we also slice tomatoes and raw onions. If we could open a vintage restaurant and serve food JUST LIKE THIS we wouldn't be able to fit the people in the place! We were slam full when we watched your video today and we both had watering mouths and were "homesick" for the parents. When the kids were growing up, we also added either fried potatoes or creamed/mashed potatoes, too. (We had a lot to feed!) We also love okra in our gumbo and every way. This mayo cake recipe is one of my favorites since I was very young, too. You can't beat it! If I wasn't so tired from canning meat today, I would probably go in the kitchen and make it right now. LOL! Maybe tomorrow...
Thanks for inviting us over for a "visit". Your meal looks delicious. I'm in the North (Vermont), and my mother used to make a sweet & sour cabbage dish very much like what you made but it had a splash of vinegar in it. She also used bacon grease for cooking, which I stopped using years ago to be more "health conscious", so I mainly used vegetable oils. However, as I've watched you-tube videos from Southern folks, it seems like cooking with both bacon grease and lard as ingredients is really standard. So...I have started keeping bacon grease like my mother did and bought my very first lard yesterday! I won't go crazy with these, but I think they'll be important to get authentic results with some of the Southern recipes I hope to try. I can see where folks used to cooking with just vegetable oils might get anxious about the animal fats, but hope nobody was too unkind in their comments. Please don't let them spoil the enjoyment you're getting (& giving) sharing your traditional cooking with us. I'm sure there are lots of you tube stations for folks who don't cook with animal fats they can tune into, so please don't start feeling self conscious about cooking your traditional home style foods. God bless you & Mr. Brown
Love you Miss Lori ❤️ P.S. Everything you cooked was healthy. It wouldn't have been if you used seed oils in stead of animal fats. You fed your brains and your stomachs! Thank you for sharing the joy, I'd be mad if we didn't get to see you eat it! Next best thing to having a place at your table!
You sure have a kitchen full of antiques! Love them.......Why would there be any haters. Because of the southern accent. That is GOOD southern food. Reminds me of my mothers cooking. We lived in Birmingham, Alabama till I was 8 years. Then moved north, but she continued to cook the southern way. I rememeber her saving bacon grease - my dad loved the FRIED foods! Too much of it not good for you though. Mom was a terrific cook! She could make pies that would win prizes! Made everything from scratch, and so perfectly. Canned in the fall everything there is to can. She was a very hard worker. There were 6 in our family. Love fried cabbage too - in fact love cabbage fixed any way. Going to put some in my soup today. Sounds like you people live in the Ozarks area. How beautiful it is! We were there in our travels when I married. Camped in a private front yard campground!
Thank you for let us into your home and be a part of your precious family. Stay safe and warm. Love you and Pa Brown. He is making memories with the grandchildren. I enjoyed hanging with you today
Miss Lori, thank you so much for letting mr. Howard know that Mr Brown does not eat like this for supper every night! And speaking of fried cabbage, mine have asked for that just this week! God bless!
Wish I had a Mother or even a Grandmother who cooked and put back food like you do. I was raised as a box-baby. Meaning, it if didn’t come out of a box, we didn’t eat it. I am happy to say, my children weren’t raised like that. I learned how to make homemade stuff and now, I’m on to learn about pickling and fermentation. I love this journey. My kids are grown and I find myself “lost” most days. Not anymore! Thank you Miss Lori, you have been a BIG, BIG, help! Bless you and yours. 😊
I’m originally from Iowa and grew up poor but the good Lord always provided food on our table which was surrounded by my Mother and her four children. Oh, was she a good cook and we had food a lot what you fixed in this video. We were on welfare and the state gave us lard, butter, cheese etc each month. My Mother cooked a lot of foods with lard, bacon grease and butter. My husband and I are in our seventies, fairly healthy and we grew up as well as my ancestors on this type of cooking with lard, bacon grease and butter!! I cook this way too even to this day! We also had homemade chocolate mayonnaise cake with frosting. Mom made hers with Miracle Whip as I do too! You are correct in saying that you can’t taste the mayonnaise. It turns out so moist and good! You both made me hungry watching you eat that delicious looking food that I found myself taking bites along with you and Mr. Brown 😅. Thank you for sharing your cooking in the kitchen (I loved it) and sharing your recipes. I loved how you would talk with us while you cooked your meal! Keep the videos coming please! Love, love, love them!! ❤
Thank you so much for the wonderful video, Miss Lori! Everything looks so delicious. I feel like I've spent the evening with you. Thanks for making the world seem right. ❤
Having a way to heat your home and cook during ice storms is such a blessing! My mom and I were just talking about the "Freeze of '83" today. My grandmother lived next door and we had to stay with her for THREE WEEKS because we were iced in with no electricity and she had a gas heater and we didn't. There were six of us in the house with one bathroom and two bedrooms, almost unthinkable today! LOL. We had to heat water on the stove for baths and use kerosene lamps for light. Didn't think anything of it at the time, I'm sure she was ready to be rid of us by the time it thawed out though, ha ha ha!
Your supper is wonderful. My daddy used to call me the queen of pork chops and cabbage cause I like them so much. Fried is the only way I will eat okra. I don't like when it is slimy. Hope you and Mr. Brown stay safe and warm. Please pray for the people of Ukraine.
@ h brailsford. Here's your answer to the slimy Okra.... In. sauce pan slice Okra add bacon grease,onion, and canned tomatoes. Add seasoning of your choice. Let it cook down a little. Then add small can of tomato sauce. Turn heat to medium high til it comes to boil add 1/2 T.vinegar stir. Turn down to low for about 5 minutes. Serve w rice.
Ruth thank you for that recipe. I'm going to cook it today. I love okra and tomatoes makes my mouth drool thinking about it. I also love a good bowl of old fashioned okra and tomato soup with corn and beans with cornbread. We always had a big garden and my Mama canned a lot of food for the winter so we ate well all year long. Best memories of my childhood.
@@mdatichy You are welcome. Btw 💞Labs !!! Ms. Lori I am sorry. I failed to ask you if I could comment to h brailsford before I jumped in. Please forgive me.
I lost my Grandma when I was young, and their fore her recipe’s. Watching you cook and seeing so many foods my grandma made brings joy to my heart. With your recipes it’s like having a piece of my grandma back. Thank you for sharing and caring, bless you and your family.
Hi! Sweet Lori! I so Enjoy this program with you and Mr.Brown, and I am loving this one as I have never seen anyone fry Cabbage. , I Love Cabbage and boiled potatoes in that and fixed me just a can of Corned, beef and simply slice it! Or Homemade Corned Beef Hash with Delicious Hot Biscuits! Your a Precious Christian Couple, and I too Love my Lord! I AM so glad you are on RUclips! I will be WATCHING as much as possible! God Bless You and your Love Ones! In Christian Love Linda!!
Always a pleasure being in the kitchen with you miss Lori! I made your pepper steak one night with mashed potatoes and OH MY was it good!!!! I read several of the Gladys Taber books years ago, you will love her writing, so calming and peaceful! Thanks for all you share, have a blessed day!
I love your intro, it is the best of all the channels, especially the dance lol. I just love watching you all. I have learnt so much from you and I love listening to Mr. Brown sharing the Word. God bless you both
Lori……my Favorite Video you’ve ever made ❣️ You being You, just cooking Supper!! Love y’all 💙 Oh, and love Mr. Brown’s devotionals and readings or studies. And, eat the way you want kiddo! Good ole Country folks being who you are🥰
My paternal grandmother, would fry potatoes and onions every day for lunch. It didn't matter if she was serving something like a sandwich or something else, she always had potatoes and onions on the table for lunch. To this day, I love, love, love, potatoes and onions fried together.
Just love hanging with you and Mr. Brown, just good country friends. I love rendering out my own lard and saving my bacon drippings for cooking, just makes your food taste even better. Sending love and hugs from Tennessee ❤️🤗
Loved hanging with you this evening. Delicious supper Ms Lori! I could almost smell the aromas. I was raised not too far North of you all in Missouri. My Grandparents and Parents cooked with lard, bacon grease, etc. and all of them lived into their late 80s and 90s. It’s as you say, everything in moderation. I have enjoyed watching you and Mr Brown for a couple of years now! Thank you for sharing your wonderful life with us. Love and Prayers!
Looks yummy!! Lard is the best fat to cook with...most healthy! I also put a wee bit of Apple cider vinegar at the end onto the fried cabbage. It gives it just a little somethin' somethin'...love you and your show!!
Lard is essential, a lack of animal fat causes anxiety. Human beings have a coating on their nerves which is restored by animal fat. Seed oils do not restore the sheath. No seed oils are actually dangerous. For long healthy life. Lard and butter are best fats.
I was born and raised in Southwest Arkansas . My family farmed and then eventually started planting a huge garden and we began selling all the produce to the public . It was a lot of work but taught me a lot. I love that I found your channel because it brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for sharing .
You cook the same way that my Mom and Grandma cooked. My parents and grandparents lived in southeast Missouri and I spent my childhood there. You make fried cabbage just like I was taught to make it and still make it. Purple Hull Peas are my absolute favorite 😍 One of my favorite memories from when I was young, is in the evening after supper we would all sit together in the living room with brown paper sacks in front of us, shucking peas and snapping beans, while watching TV 📺 You just made my favorite meal, I wouldn’t change a single item ❤️
I'm new to your channel. I love you guys and the stories while you are in the kitchen, or at the table, just reminds me of how much I appreciate the years of my Mother teaching me how to cook and bake and also cleaning up as well. I'm one of seven children and am the oldest daughter of six girls. My brother is the oldest. Your Words R helping me reach the strength to do more. My mom passed away a year and a half ago. Loss very difficult for us all.
Some people believe they have the right to judge others. Some believe they’re helping you but some believe their way is the only way. Love your videos. .
I always like to visit you in your home. Out the window I see Mr. Brown has his foundation for his new work shop that he has been wanting for a long time. I bet he can’t wait for spring to get here. God bless you and the family, Hopefully spring will be here soon. When you see those little yellow Easter flowers peep out of the ground ,you’ll know it won’t be long. That sure looks good Mr. Brown. don’t you think when someone don’t care for cheese ,something isn’t right. Lol. I just thought I would throw a little country in today. Lol I love you guys,
I love that cake. Also, you make your chocolate icing the same way I do. You can't find a better one I don't think. I also like the hot fudge icing on that cake. I hope you all don't get any damage from the sleet and weather. You never know what to expect anymore from Mother Nature. She changes so much. That supper looked delicious also. Have a great week! Be safe, stay well and God bless.
Ms. Lori I just want to say that I’ve learned so much from your videos. Let me also say that I appreciate you and Mr. Brown for your efforts to share what you know to others. Y’all are a breath of fresh air and such fun to watch. I thank the good Lord for good folks like y’all aren’t ashamed to share your love of the Lord as well. Keep those videos coming. I didn’t have anyone who would take the time to teach me how to cook so it’s been a bit of a struggle teaching myself all these years 😀 I just whipped up this chocolate Mayo cake. Now waiting for it to cool enough to frost. Looks delish! God bless y’all ❤
Miss Lori I love watching you cook and listening to you. You remind me of home. All my family's passed and gone I'm the last of the last. Thank you again take care stay safe and God bless you both
One of my dad's sister's, Aunt Jackie, used to make the best mayo cakes when I was young. When she first told me what it was I thought she'd lost her marbles. But I never should've doubted her as she always was a fantastic cook. However, I failed to get her recipe. Through the years I did happen upon a mayo recipe and somehow lost it. But you can bet your recipe will NOT get away from me as I've written it down and I'm much more organized than I use to be. This is going into my 'Favorite Recipes Cookbook' and I will be making it to take to my son very soon, but in the meantime my birthday is this coming Sunday! Happy Birthday to me!
My Mom would make a chocolate mayo cake. It is the one our family likes the best. My girls call 2 or three times a year to get the recipe. They just can't seem to keep track of it for some reason. (LOL) Blessings to you and Mr. Brown.
I absolutely love you Miss Lori and Mr. Brown. You are both so loving and down to earth. I’m 63, retired now and love your channel because you live such a peaceful, my way of life. Thank You for opening up your home with such love.💝💝💝💝
This is my favorite kind of video. Just hanging around the kitchen with you. When I was little (now a lot older than you) At my grandmother’s house we could watch are my greatest memories . A pinch of this and a pinch of that. You are the only one that cut up your chicken like she did. God Bless you and Mr Brown . Your Tx friend
You and I cook the very same. I'm in my 60's now, healthy as a horse, lol, and I cook a good size supper nearly every night. Sometimes, it's just cereal here too! :) It's just me and my husband, but I still cook and bake a lot. Tonight we had baked chicken, fried cabbage and fried squash with home made bread. God Bless!!
You reciting what you made for dinner reminded of the show HeeHaw and grandpa telling everyone what’s for dinner! So in keeping with the show: Yum Yum!
Thanks for sharing these old ways of southern cooking~ I loved them,too. I’ve been baking the Mayonnaise cake for sixty years ~( I prefer Miracle Whip) we loved/love it! I never put chocolate frosting on it,but we love the silky cooked milk frosting! Cook milk and flour until pasty, then chill in fridge till cold. Then put the cold mixture in mixing bowl,add sugar and vanilla and whip it until it is super silky. Be sure the cake is cold when you frost it. Sorry I’m unable to remember at this minute and can’t get to my old recipes~ I’m 78 and cared for by Hospice. I’m sure someone has the recipe handy. We called it boiled milk silky frosting in our house! God Bless you both!
Thank you for inviting us into your kitchen tonight, Miss Lori! We can hear you just fine without the microphone! 😊 Dinner looks delicious! And I think you’d be hard pressed to find any home cook in America today who cooks as fresh and wholesome food as you do!!! Love you bunches! ❤❤❤ …Aren’t your feet cold?
My mother’s recipe calls for water with a cup of Miracle Whip added and combine that in a 2-Cup liquid measuring cup. You measure the 1 Cup of water in the liquid measuring cup and just add spoonfuls of Miracle Whip to reach the 2-Cup level. Add 1-teaspoon Vanilla Extract and stir it up; that’s your liquids. Just baking soda, not baking powder. But great, moist cake! So nostalgic. This was a Contest Winning recipe back in the 1950’s and was added to the cookbook. I don’t remember if it was Betty Crocker. Could be. My Greet Aunt has a Fudge frosting that compliments the cake very well. It reminds me a little of the Hostess Cup Cakes. But a quite different 7-Minute frosting is wonderful. Mother would tint the 7-Minute frosting with a few drops of food coloring, swirled around. Not completely stirred in. So pretty! Nice for birthdays and Easter.
Lori I love this channel, it has helped me through dark days, you and Mr Brown always make me smile and I find your Southern accent so relaxing too (I’m from the UK) loving all the traditional recipes and I’m gonna definitely be making the chocolate mayo cake but not telling my taste testers beforehand 😊 god bless you both x
I agree with you, I love this channel and enjoy listening to Lori. She is a true Southern lady. My husband and I have been fortunate enough to travel across the USA as well as foreign countries. People always ask us to talk so they can listen to our Southern accent. Foreigners have described our accent as akin to singing, What many people do not realize is Southern accents vary from place to place. If you enjoy Mrs. Lori, I believe you will enjoy “Cooking with Brenda Gantt.” Brenda lives in south Alabama on the Florida-Alabama state line. She has a large repertoire of Southern recipes and operates a bed and breakfast. At the request of some friends during the pandemic, she made biscuits and posted the video on Facebook. She was a huge hit, and in little more than a year, she has over 2,500,000 followers. She is also on RUclips. There are two channels that I watch at least once a day-Mrs. Lori and Mrs. Brenda.
Miss Laurie. I absolutely adore this peek into an evening with you! And thank you for the added bonus of the cake! When I was little, I’d go to my friends house and her mama would serve us a delicious chocolate cake. She wouldn’t give my mom her recipe. She was from Arkansas and she was so sweet. (We live in central California). I ran into her when I was teaching her grand baby at a preschool and I asked about the cake again. She told me she’d give me the recipe later. She never did. Lol. I bet that was the cake! It looks like it. I’m going to try making it this weekend. Tell Mr. Brown my husband comes into the house with a pocket full of eggs every once in a while too. 😂 Thank you and God Bless! 🕊❤️
I always enjoy watching you cooking and canning, chatting about your lives. I have learned a lot by watching. My mother had a recipe for chocolate mayonnaise cake written in the back of her cookbook back in the 60's. Brings back memories!
I just came across this video, and oh my Lord! It brought back a flood of childhood memories! We used to make chocolate mayonnaise cake regularly! And we did substitute miracle whip. There actually was a slight tangy taste from the miracle whip but it was so good! This makes me want to make this cake, but for the first time I will use real Mayo!
Lori, you are cooking just like we do here in Georgia. I love fried pork chops, fried cabbage and fried okra. Simple, good down-home cooking that warms the soul. It's the way we were raised, and my grandma was the best cook I've ever known. Like what has been said below, back then, food didn't have all of the additives and preservatives that "fake" food has now. And it tastes so much better, and is better for you IMO. Please keep doing just what you're doing. Cook like you would if you were alone. I just love to watch your videos and have learned some new things too. Thank you for sharing your love of cooking with us. May God Bless you both abundantly. (((hugs))) ♥
My Aunt Alice would eat onions like apples. She would also fry up a pan of onions (probably in bacon grease), and eat them along with butter bread. It was 1 this morning in Northern Michigan. Really enjoyed this video, watching you cook and having a chat. Blessings to you both!
Ms Lori its such a Blessing to hear and see you cook.Its a beautiful experience and pleasure to be there in your kitchen.I forgot the worries of the world today for the moments spent watching here.Sending light from MN
People are always going to find fault just because they feel they have to! I love what you cook. I cooked this way alot when my husband was living. Now I rarely cook big meals for just me. I love cereal and sandwiches. Sometimes I eat chips and dips.. lol And, sometimes I cook when my grands are here for a few days.. A whole lot of us love how you cook and can and we will continue to watch and appreciate you both! Keep doing what you do and we will keep watching.. 💞🙏🏼
We celebrated a granddaughter birthday today, the one who made me a great grandma. We've been having rain, hail and a tad bit of snow. Ice on the car windows and I'm in CA. Crazy. My Mom always made chocolate mayo cake, with no frosting. I make it myself from her recipe and it's so moist. Can't wait to see yours. I'm still watching you cook. God bless.
Ms Lori that meal looks delicious .I'm so hungry for vegetables that I could of just ate that and the fried cornbread .I started making a stew which I haven't done in years.After getting the meat ,seasoning ,onions and potatoes done (I cook my potatoes separate) .I decided to let it cool off and put it in the fridge .I'll add the veggies and thicken up the broth tomorrow along with the cornbread.I was planning on making an orange crunch cake but after hearing you talk about that cake ,I decided if I have enough cocoa I'm gonna make that instead.Sounds yummy . Thank you .Ya'll stay safe and warm.
I hear you I’m feeling the same way my body is just craving fruit and vegetables lately. I guess when your body craves it it’s really just telling you that it really needs it
Now that's my favorite meal! Only thing missing was fried potatoes and onions---which I would really need to leave off--hahaha . And that cake is so awesome! Autry's is good! Ok---where's my invite? hahaha. I could almost smell that cooking! Have a great week!
Just gotta say as a kid growing up in Central Louisiana, and a mom from Texas, we ate like this every night. But we called the bread you made Hot Water Cornbread. The okra was a new trick for me how you added the hush puppy mix, gotta try that we had it plain pan fried or as okra and tomatoes. But your sooo right, that cornbread is delicious with beans, soups and definitely cabbage. Can't wait to make the cake! Thanks so much and God bless ya'll.
Miss Lori, I'm so glad you shared that recipe for the Chocolate Mayo cake. I've been making it for years and it's always a hit, my family always liked it with 7 minute frosting on it. It's a crowd pleaser for sure. It's always funny watching peoples faces when you tell them it has mayo in it LOL
I so appreciate this channel! I'm a born and raised city girl, but my grandparents and beyond grew up in the country. Sadly, I never learned any cooking skills from them. So, I love watching channels like this to learn what I can!
I love watching you cook. You have a very sweet spirit. Years ago folks ate what they had. You hit the nail on the head….moderation! Blessings to you and Mr. Brown.
I know that meal is delicious, and for those who complain about how you guys eat please don't mention how they feel about what you guys eat. You and Mr. Brown still work and looks great, keep doing what you do I love it and I'm sure lots of others do too. I Love you guys.
Fish fry works good for okra also. I make my own by putting cornmeal flour and spices in my food processor. Then I store it in a baggie in the freezer and use the desired amount as needed. Your supper looks delicious.
Going back and looking at some not so recent videos. Really enjoy a home style meal like this. I have what I call two splurge meals a week. Eating fairly simply the rest of the week. One day a week I have a heavier dinner. Some of the comfort home style cooking similar to this. Then on the weekend I will make a big breakfast with eggs, bacon, grits or potatoes and biscuits. I will still cook a meal , soup, or stew, pasta on the other days. But usually no heavy cheese, very little meats, etc. it’s just easier with my lifestyle. Usually on prep day I make one soup or stew to last a week, and some sort of casserole, and I bake one potato. So other than adding some fresh or cooked veggies. I only cook the one day a week when I prep ( other than the two splurge meals that is…..lol….). The way I look at it , we can still enjoy our country home style foods and continue to keep up with our busy lives and health.
I don't think lard will go bad for over a year at least. Dad told me about how grandpa butchered & stored hogs yesteryear before they had refrigeration. The guys did the outside butchering and then sent the meat inside to the girls. The guys then prepared barrels and boxes to store the meat in the cellar. The girls cooked the meat then they poured a layer of lard into the bottom of the box/barrel. Placed a layer of meat, then another layer of lard, alternating the meat & lard until the container was filled. As long as the meat did not make contact with another piece of meat, it would store all year. They did 9 hogs & 2 beef every fall so they had meat for the year.
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Also…my grandmother and great grandmother both lived to be in their nineties and they both cooked like you do. I think the difference between how some people eat today and how they ate had more to do with the quality of food than the actual sugar and fat. They grew their own food and there just weren’t as many additives back then for the things they bought. You and Mr. Brown have created this same situation because you have quality controlled your food by either growing it or by careful buying of the things you don’t grow. Mamaw cooked big meals but the meat was more of a minor note compared to all of the vegetables. Of course the vegetables were delicious because she cooked them with bacon grease and added sugar at times for seasoning but if your meals are heavy on the vegetables those ingredients become minor notes as well. Of course there was always corn bread but it wasn’t the centerpiece of the meal either. The meal you just cooked had three vegetables so it wasn’t like you were carb loading. I’m very sorry to hear that some comments have been less than kind. Your channel is such a lovely place to land…full of love and family. Keep doing what you’re doing you’re providing a wonderful form of entertainment amidst an ocean of unpredictability and worry that our world has become. Many thanks to both you and Mr. Brown.
Thank you , we'll said
A lot less health problems too. You worded that to perfection. Ignore the haters they don't know a delicious healthy meal when they see it. Ms. Lori and Mr. Brown y'all keep being yourself we love you just the way you are
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Not to mention that when you grow your own food, you get a lot of healthy exercise, too.
I completely agree with everything you said.
Don’t let the haters get to you Miss Lori! You keep doing just like y’all are doing. We love you both!!
You do Enough with the cooking, canning and gardening!
She has haters? I missed hering that part!!! How the hell can a normal sweet woman like this even have haters???? what the hell? people are so sad.
You work they need to walk a mile in your shoes 😢 every body got a sad song to say it’s their loss it’s people that’s want things but won’t get up yes I watch you and me you we just don’t know when to stop we’d rather wear out than Rust out I can and help where I am needed labor of love makes a person Herat ❤feel hood and lay down at nite and can go to sleep 💤 your work is not easy and mr Browns very stressful love you both and proud of you I have food fixed for the winter and give to others makes my heart feel so full of love to do
Something for someone this is what
God wants us to do reach out amen
Hate will destroy you 😮 you are a fine family God bless
@@donnasaylor2778 i love your comment and how you said certain folks,
through labors of love, "would rather wear out than rust out." That is so accurate. Folks work very hard.
People on the internet with hate in their hearts are miserable people. They lack meaning and purpose and they feel good trying to bring others down.
Even if they don't internally realize how miserable they are.
They only know how to criticize. I think it is a power trip for haters and trolls.
trying to pick around for weak spots to tear someone down. It helps them to feel as if they are clever.
Hate nearly destroyed me in the past. I had to learn how to understand my feelings.
God bless you Donna Saylor.
Right…I too sometimes will have cereal, egg sandwich, eggs and toast, oatmeal, etc. for dinner. Nothing wrong with that!!! 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸
Miss Lori you guys just keep living your life exactly the way you’re doing it. Anybody would be lucky to live your life🌷
Miss Lori - I love your channel! I love to watch you cook, regardless of what you’re making. You give of your time and invite people into your home and I want you to know I’m very thankful for that! I’m sorry about the rude people and their comments; that speaks volumes about them. God bless you and Mr. Brown. Your channel is one of my absolute faves!
One of mine to. God bless you both, you and Mr. Brown. 💜💚💜❤🧡🤎💙
I agree with you!! ❤️❤️
I just happened on this channel (Miss Lori had me at her Cinnamon Roll video😊)
I love to watch and listen when it comes to family life and cooking. Since I live alone these days, it fills a void. I also love to cook and bake.
Amen 🙏 Mrs Lori & Mr.Brown are amazing , caring loving people ❤
I am always looking for new ideas keep working 😂
The neighbor baked this in the 70's. They were really poor but she could cook. I still love her. She was my 2nd Mom. Thanks for the videos. 💜
Real life cooking that isn't "staged" - just cookin' dinner after work! Thank you Lori for bringing us along!!!
Awesome video. Love your way of doing things. First time finding your channel and will continue to follow you and Mr. Brown
Hi Lori, I just found your channel a few weeks ago and I love to watch you cook! I don’t understand why people make such hurtful remarks! No one is sitting there with a gun to their head making them watch you! I’m so sorry you think you need to respond to them and explain! You keep doing what you do and the Lord will take care of them!
Lori, I feel like I was sitting in my Granny's kitchen. When you invited us to come watch you cook, this brought back fond memories. I had to share this video about you and Mr. Brown's Arkansas homestead. We love you guy's.
A little bit of sugar takes any bitterness out of the vegetables. Mama always put a tiny bit of sugar in greens, green beans and a lot of vegetables. And to the lard haters there is no pie crust like one made with lard. 😊 And the nice part of being empty nesters is being able to settle for cereal or a sandwich if you want after so many years of cooking for kids and a growing family. It's one of the perks of getting older together 👍
Miss Lori! I love your channel and never feel like you have to explain yourself My Grand-Maw Brown raised 9 children on cotton farm in South Carolina and then worked in the cotton mill in Kannapolis,NC! I can remember helping fry fresh pork skins after a hogs were butchered! I’m 52 this September and I’ve raised my 5 children this way!!! God is so good to give us knowledge!!! Such a beautiful blessing to have this knowledge!!!
I'm glad I subscribed to your channel today, Ms Lori. I lived 30 years in FL and 3 in TX, and you are a breath of Southern hospitality. Plus, I just love your attitude. People are people (and that includes rude ones), but you'll have that. In the meantime, we are blessed to have YOU. Best to you and Mr. Brown!
Thank you
Miss Lori you’re the best cook!, Watching you prepare meals is so relaxing to me. I feel like I’m sitting in your home watching you cook like I was in my friends house having a conversation. You’re such a sweet and genuinely humble and gracious woman. You always inspire me to be a better cook Miss Lori! ❤️🌻 blessings to you and Mr. Brown.
I just enjoy everything you cook and every story you tell. I believe the way you two interact and how you talk to each other is priceless. The respect is tangible.
Hello Mrs Laurie,
I started watching some of your cooking videos a few weeks back when I was looking for a good biscuit recipe. I personally love the one I tried and that got me to subscribe. I strongly believe in " if you have nothing nice to say say nothing at all!" people who make nasty comments do not deserve your time and energy nor an explanation of you are! at the end of the day GOD gave us all the freedom to choose how we live and it is only to him we owe and explanation! I Love your recipes!!!
Those people with the rude comments are not stopping to realize, you grow much of what you eat and preserve, that makes a difference right from the beginning as you follow your recipes to taste.
I honestly watch your show and copy many recipes and I feel very healthy. We all don’t follow the same diet, nor can well afford all those keto type diets but, to me, this is cooking tasty and healthy. You chose your food but to me, this is back to my childhood, we ate foods that kept us healthy and active, none or very few junk foods, we ate fruits. So what is better than this?
God bless y’all Ms. Lori. You are such good company for other ladies such as myself. I really appreciate you and Mr. Brown for all your wonderful knowledge and sharing of a Godly life on the homestead.
Ms Lori, I love spending time with you. You and Mr. Brown are wonderful and like family. Your down to earth, honest and a blessing. For goodness sake anyone with half a brain should be able to figure out you don't cook up big meals everyday, you both work everyday plus all you do on your homestead is amazing. I totally understand being so tired and worn out at end of day, and being very satisfied with a bowl of cereal or a fried egg sandwich. Bless you both, would love to share a cuppa Joe with you on the porch and help you around the garden. Take care and God Bless, always.
Miss Lori, I am up in NW WA and it ihas been freezing cold all week. This afternoon, i was feeling the cold in my bones and felt kind of lonesome and discouraged, but I tuned in to you and got a blanket, bundled up, got some hot coffee and sat in your kitchen as you made supper.It really gave me a lift, I got warmed up too and feel better.I enjoyed the mayo cake recipe, and I think i will add some instant coffee when i make it. My best friends Mother used to make something similar for us “girls” when we visited.. She called it her “Wacky” cake, and mixed it all up right in the baking pan. It will be dark here in a few minutes, another cold cold night ahead. Please , you and Mr. Brown stay safe on those icy roads. Thank you for being there for me tonight.💕🙏🙏🙏🙏
God Bless, xoxoxo
It's so relaxing just watching you in the kitchen today. I've had a very stressful week with no end in sight, and this is calming me down. I like the camera view of you in the kitchen too. Thanks for giving me some serenity today, Miss Lori!, I hope your day is going well, it looks like it. Melaney from SoCal.
Thank you so much
Follow up to my earlier comment: I went back and looked at several of your tutorials. Now I love Mr. Brown.
And you do such a great job
demonstrating step by step how to assemble, cook and serve those yummy looking foods.
Great thanks.
Inspired me to do purple hull peas, corn bread, fried okra, fried cabbage, and what my grandmother called tomato salad (tomatoes, onion, jalapeños all chopped together with a little salt and pepper) which we eat over our peas for our dinner tonight! ~Cassandra Senter, born in Arkansas!
With salt and pepper and a little dab of suger. Memories of childhood when everything was safe
Yummy
I love watching you two. I always feel like I'm sitting around listening to dear friends when you are both on. Thank you for allowing us into your home!
I enjoy the "cooking with you" type videos. Just like visiting with a friend while making supper. Blessings to you💞..
Thank you Miss Lori for letting us visit in your wonderful kitchen as you’re cooking dinner. My grandparents lived in southern Indiana and had 12 kids.They weren’t there at the same time but were scattered around the U.S. When we got together for meals, there was a whole lot of love and home grown food. Thank you for your cooking tips and for the recipe for the chocolate Mayo cake. It all looked so good!
Ms. Lorie you shouldn’t have to explain yourself or your way of eating to anyone!! If they don’t like it, they can move on and find a different channel to watch. Personally I love watching you make a meal and it inspires me to make a delicious and hearty meal just like that. I don’t think there is anything wrong at all with your meal I’d be pleased and feel darn blessed to have such a terrific meal on my dinner table. May God bless you and keep your table and pantry forever stocked .
Thank you for sharing your kitchen and how you make what you do. I thoroughly enjoyed it!!! 🥰🇨🇦❤️
Growing your own food and preserving it - you are so much healthier, on so many levels, than most people I know. I am inspired. Thanks for sharing a bit of your evening with all of us.
It’s so wonderful to spend time with you!!! It’s like being family sitting down with a cuppa and conversation!!!
I want to thank you for this. I imagine that sometimes you would like to just skip doing a video, so I want you to know it's appreciated. It was comforting for me to watch this tonight. It felt like sitting in a friend's kitchen while they cook, which I miss. I could almost smell the onions. It's a real gift you have, to chat to the camera like you're talking to someone you know.
BTW, I've had that Leone's Italian Cookbook for, oh, forever or thereabouts.
I hope you have a good week and if you get ice, that you can just hunker down and stay warm and safe.
Hi Mrs. Lori. Now that is what I would call a hearty, old fashion, down home country supper. Makes me hungry. Your cake looks yummy. You and Mr. Brown have a very blessed week. Stay safe and stay well. Love ya.
My Dad was raised in Kentucky and then moved to Iowa where I have been all of my 72 years. I just found your videos last night and it warms my heart so much.
I grew up with squirrel and rabbit and
pheasant cooked because he had to hunt to eat and he cooked with lard. He used to have to have lard sandwiches.😂 I would pay NO attention at all to rude people. My parents gardened and canned and knew how to feed us that way.
I got away from it and I have a som who cans and you remind me of why I need to get back to my roots. Love you both because you are real and love the Lord. Good for everything you do and you can help me get back to my roots❤️🙏❤️
For Christmas dinner, my Mother-in-law always cooked pork chops and cabbage. She browned the pork chops first, then covered it with the chopped cabbage, onions, diced apples , caraway seeds and brown sugar. Sometimes she cooked it all together on the stove top, and sometimes she would bake it in a covered dish in the oven. I've even tossed it in my crock pot. Along with the pork chops and cooked cabbage we always had mashed potatoes. That yummy sweet cooked cabbage was poured over the mashed potatoes. Yummy!
Thank you so much!!! It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one who has a bowl of cereal for supper once in awhile or an egg sandwich. I love all of your videos. God bless you , Mr. Brown and your channel. Thank you for sharing your supper idea!!!
Ok Miss Lori you’re making me feel all kinds of better. I thought you cooked big delicious meals every night. Fried egg sandwiches, cereal, hot cereal, etc. makes sense for late week nights. Loved your special meal you cooked on this video and I always learn something every time I watch one of your videos. Hush puppy mix on okra is a great idea.
Our family has started doing this switch, especially easier if stay up late/get up late
My mother made me a chocolate mayo cake every year for my birthday. Now my husband does. It's my absolute favorite. I have family members who thinks it would be gross because it says Mayo. That's fine, more for me!
It was the first cake I ever won two blue ribbons for. It is the bomb. People don't know what they are missing! ❤
You can't taste the eggs or oil. I love this cake used to make but don't remember baking powder and soda. Is it needed with all purpose flour?
What a sweet hubby you have, Julie! My late husband did the same thing for me for the seven years I had him. 💕
@@shelwhitley1011 Aww God bless him. He was a gem too!
We always have sweet tea, but 50 years ago I figured out it was the sugar in it tearing up my stomach. I switched to sweet n low and it doesn't have a weird taste like most artificial sweeteners. I steep about 4-5 Lipton or Newman's organic tea bags in hot water, not boiled, for 10 minutes or so. I pour it into a gallon tea jar with a spigot, add 27 quick shakes of sweet n low from a shaker with small hole on top, then add filtered water and keep in the fridge.
I think you and Mr Brown represent homesteading in the smart and economical way. Pls don’t let the people with negative attitude towards you get you down. You are the best and well loved by many.
Ms. Lori, you are such a sweet lady. You make cooking look so easy. You seem like a “ natural “ at it. You have a way of making us feel like we are in the kitchen chatting with you as you cook the delicious variety of food. The Mayonnaise cake brings back sweet memories from years ago.
There’s NO DOUBT that GOD brought you & Mr. Brown together years ago. The world would be so much better if more people shared GOD’S LOVE, as you two. Your love,& contentment is such an example for all of us. May GOD continue to BLESS you both in HIS MIGHTY WAY 🙏🏼♥️. I am looking forward to your next video. Love ♥️from an old timer 🌹
Thank you
Oh my! This is what I cook when we are lonesome for my Mother and Father-in-law (who both passed). Thank the Lord, we learned from them how to cook like this! You are so right, it's not something we do every day, but now and then we get a "hankerin'" for this good ole southern comfort food and when it happens, nothing else will do! If it's summer, we also slice tomatoes and raw onions. If we could open a vintage restaurant and serve food JUST LIKE THIS we wouldn't be able to fit the people in the place! We were slam full when we watched your video today and we both had watering mouths and were "homesick" for the parents. When the kids were growing up, we also added either fried potatoes or creamed/mashed potatoes, too. (We had a lot to feed!) We also love okra in our gumbo and every way. This mayo cake recipe is one of my favorites since I was very young, too. You can't beat it! If I wasn't so tired from canning meat today, I would probably go in the kitchen and make it right now. LOL! Maybe tomorrow...
Thanks for inviting us over for a "visit". Your meal looks delicious. I'm in the North (Vermont), and my mother used to make a sweet & sour cabbage dish very much like what you made but it had a splash of vinegar in it. She also used bacon grease for cooking, which I stopped using years ago to be more "health conscious", so I mainly used vegetable oils. However, as I've watched you-tube videos from Southern folks, it seems like cooking with both bacon grease and lard as ingredients is really standard. So...I have started keeping bacon grease like my mother did and bought my very first lard yesterday! I won't go crazy with these, but I think they'll be important to get authentic results with some of the Southern recipes I hope to try. I can see where folks used to cooking with just vegetable oils might get anxious about the animal fats, but hope nobody was too unkind in their comments. Please don't let them spoil the enjoyment you're getting (& giving) sharing your traditional cooking with us. I'm sure there are lots of you tube stations for folks who don't cook with animal fats they can tune into, so please don't start feeling self conscious about cooking your traditional home style foods. God bless you & Mr. Brown
Love you Miss Lori ❤️
P.S. Everything you cooked was healthy. It wouldn't have been if you used seed oils in stead of animal fats. You fed your brains and your stomachs! Thank you for sharing the joy, I'd be mad if we didn't get to see you eat it! Next best thing to having a place at your table!
I really loved this casual cooking video! I felt like I was a friend sitting at your counter while you cooked dinner. Everything looked delis.
You sure have a kitchen full of antiques! Love them.......Why would there be any haters. Because of the southern accent. That is GOOD southern food. Reminds me of my mothers cooking. We lived in Birmingham, Alabama till I was 8 years. Then moved north, but she continued to cook the southern way. I rememeber her saving bacon grease - my dad loved the FRIED foods! Too much of it not good for you though. Mom was a terrific cook! She could make pies that would win prizes! Made everything from scratch, and so perfectly. Canned in the fall everything there is to can. She was a very hard worker. There were 6 in our family. Love fried cabbage too - in fact love cabbage fixed any way. Going to put some in my soup today. Sounds like you people live in the Ozarks area. How beautiful it is! We were there in our travels when I married. Camped in a private front yard campground!
I JUST harvested 7 cabbages from the garden Wednesday!!! This is soooooo on time!!!
Thank you for let us into your home and be a part of your precious family. Stay safe and warm. Love you and Pa Brown. He is making memories with the grandchildren. I enjoyed hanging with you today
Miss Lori, thank you so much for letting mr. Howard know that Mr Brown does not eat like this for supper every night! And speaking of fried cabbage, mine have asked for that just this week!
God bless!
Thank you
Wish I had a Mother or even a Grandmother who cooked and put back food like you do. I was raised as a box-baby. Meaning, it if didn’t come out of a box, we didn’t eat it. I am happy to say, my children weren’t raised like that. I learned how to make homemade stuff and now, I’m on to learn about pickling and fermentation. I love this journey. My kids are grown and I find myself “lost” most days. Not anymore! Thank you Miss Lori, you have been a BIG, BIG, help! Bless you and yours. 😊
Awe Thank you! Keep up the good work!
I’m originally from Iowa and grew up poor but the good Lord always provided food on our table which was surrounded by my Mother and her four children. Oh, was she a good cook and we had food a lot what you fixed in this video. We were on welfare and the state gave us lard, butter, cheese etc each month. My Mother cooked a lot of foods with lard, bacon grease and butter. My husband and I are in our seventies, fairly healthy and we grew up as well as my ancestors on this type of cooking with lard, bacon grease and butter!! I cook this way too even to this day! We also had homemade chocolate mayonnaise cake with frosting. Mom made hers with Miracle Whip as I do too! You are correct in saying that you can’t taste the mayonnaise. It turns out so moist and good! You both made me hungry watching you eat that delicious looking food that I found myself taking bites along with you and Mr. Brown 😅. Thank you for sharing your cooking in the kitchen (I loved it) and sharing your recipes. I loved how you would talk with us while you cooked your meal! Keep the videos coming please! Love, love, love them!! ❤
Thank you so much for the wonderful video, Miss Lori! Everything looks so delicious. I feel like I've spent the evening with you. Thanks for making the world seem right. ❤
Having a way to heat your home and cook during ice storms is such a blessing! My mom and I were just talking about the "Freeze of '83" today. My grandmother lived next door and we had to stay with her for THREE WEEKS because we were iced in with no electricity and she had a gas heater and we didn't. There were six of us in the house with one bathroom and two bedrooms, almost unthinkable today! LOL. We had to heat water on the stove for baths and use kerosene lamps for light. Didn't think anything of it at the time, I'm sure she was ready to be rid of us by the time it thawed out though, ha ha ha!
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Your supper is wonderful. My daddy used to call me the queen of pork chops and cabbage cause I like them so much. Fried is the only way I will eat okra. I don't like when it is slimy. Hope you and Mr. Brown stay safe and warm. Please pray for the people of Ukraine.
@ h brailsford. Here's your answer to the slimy Okra.... In. sauce pan slice Okra add bacon grease,onion, and canned tomatoes. Add seasoning of your choice. Let it cook down a little. Then add small can of tomato sauce. Turn heat to medium high til it comes to boil add 1/2 T.vinegar stir. Turn down to low for about 5 minutes. Serve w rice.
Ruth thank you for that recipe. I'm going to cook it today. I love okra and tomatoes makes my mouth drool thinking about it. I also love a good bowl of old fashioned okra and tomato soup with corn and beans with cornbread. We always had a big garden and my Mama canned a lot of food for the winter so we ate well all year long. Best memories of my childhood.
@@mdatichy You are welcome.
Btw 💞Labs !!!
Ms. Lori I am sorry. I failed to ask you if I could comment to h brailsford before I jumped in. Please forgive me.
That sounds great!
I agree slimy okra is not to my liking either
I lost my Grandma when I was young, and their fore her recipe’s. Watching you cook and seeing so many foods my grandma made brings joy to my heart. With your recipes it’s like having a piece of my grandma back. Thank you for sharing and caring, bless you and your family.
Hi! Sweet Lori! I so Enjoy this program with you and Mr.Brown, and I am loving this one as I have never seen anyone fry Cabbage. , I Love Cabbage and boiled potatoes in that and fixed me just a can of Corned, beef and simply slice it! Or Homemade Corned Beef Hash with Delicious Hot Biscuits! Your a Precious Christian Couple, and I too Love my Lord!
I AM so glad you are on RUclips! I will be WATCHING as much as possible! God Bless You and your Love Ones!
In Christian Love Linda!!
Always a pleasure being in the kitchen with you miss Lori! I made your pepper steak one night with mashed potatoes and OH MY was it good!!!! I read several of the Gladys Taber books years ago, you will love her writing, so calming and peaceful! Thanks for all you share, have a blessed day!
I love your intro, it is the best of all the channels, especially the dance lol. I just love watching you all. I have learnt so much from you and I love listening to Mr. Brown sharing the Word. God bless you both
Yes!! My favorite intro!
I LOVE THE INTRO TOO. EAT WHAT YOU WANT. NO ONES BUSINESS BUT YOURS❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Lori……my Favorite Video you’ve ever made ❣️ You being You, just cooking Supper!! Love y’all 💙
Oh, and love Mr. Brown’s devotionals and readings or studies.
And, eat the way you want kiddo!
Good ole Country folks being who you are🥰
My paternal grandmother, would fry potatoes and onions every day for lunch. It didn't matter if she was serving something like a sandwich or something else, she always had potatoes and onions on the table for lunch. To this day, I love, love, love, potatoes and onions fried together.
Just love hanging with you and Mr. Brown, just good country friends. I love rendering out my own lard and saving my bacon drippings for cooking, just makes your food taste even better. Sending love and hugs from Tennessee ❤️🤗
Loved hanging with you this evening. Delicious supper Ms Lori! I could almost smell the aromas. I was raised not too far North of you all in Missouri. My Grandparents and Parents cooked with lard, bacon grease, etc. and all of them lived into their late 80s and 90s. It’s as you say, everything in moderation. I have enjoyed watching you and Mr Brown for a couple of years now! Thank you for sharing your wonderful life with us. Love and Prayers!
Looks yummy!! Lard is the best fat to cook with...most healthy! I also put a wee bit of Apple cider vinegar at the end onto the fried cabbage. It gives it just a little somethin' somethin'...love you and your show!!
Agree! I add it to stuffed cabbage rolls. Dee-lish.
Ty Goldie and Nancy for the tips with the cabbage dishes my family loves.
Lard is essential, a lack of animal fat causes anxiety. Human beings have a coating on their nerves which is restored by animal fat. Seed oils do not restore the sheath.
No seed oils are actually dangerous. For long healthy life. Lard and butter are best fats.
I add a little sugar in my cabbage when I fry it!
I was born and raised in Southwest Arkansas . My family farmed and then eventually started planting a huge garden and we began selling all the produce to the public . It was a lot of work but taught me a lot. I love that I found your channel because it brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for sharing .
You cook the same way that my Mom and Grandma cooked. My parents and grandparents lived in southeast Missouri and I spent my childhood there. You make fried cabbage just like I was taught to make it and still make it. Purple Hull Peas are my absolute favorite 😍 One of my favorite memories from when I was young, is in the evening after supper we would all sit together in the living room with brown paper sacks in front of us, shucking peas and snapping beans, while watching TV 📺 You just made my favorite meal, I wouldn’t change a single item ❤️
I'm new to your channel. I love you guys and the stories while you are in the kitchen, or at the table, just reminds me of how much I appreciate the years of my Mother teaching me how to cook and bake and also cleaning up as well. I'm one of seven children and am the oldest daughter of six girls. My brother is the oldest.
Your Words R helping me reach the strength to do more. My mom passed away a year and a half ago. Loss very difficult for us all.
Some people believe they have the right to judge others. Some believe they’re helping you but some believe their way is the only way. Love your videos. .
Yes, I think most of us eat this way. I raised my children cooking like this! We love the way you cook! Don’t like haters!
I always like to visit you in your home. Out the window I see Mr. Brown has his foundation for his new work shop that he has been wanting for a long time. I bet he can’t wait for spring to get here. God bless you and the family, Hopefully spring will be here soon. When you see those little yellow Easter flowers peep out of the ground ,you’ll know it won’t be long. That sure looks good Mr. Brown. don’t you think when someone don’t care for cheese ,something isn’t right. Lol. I just thought I would throw a little country in today. Lol I love you guys,
I love that cake. Also, you make your chocolate icing the same way I do. You can't find a better one I don't think. I also like the hot fudge icing on that cake. I hope you all don't get any damage from the sleet and weather. You never know what to expect anymore from Mother Nature. She changes so much. That supper looked delicious also. Have a great week! Be safe, stay well and God bless.
Ms. Lori I just want to say that I’ve learned so much from your videos. Let me also say that I appreciate you and Mr. Brown for your efforts to share what you know to others. Y’all are a breath of fresh air and such fun to watch. I thank the good Lord for good folks like y’all aren’t ashamed to share your love of the Lord as well. Keep those videos coming. I didn’t have anyone who would take the time to teach me how to cook so it’s been a bit of a struggle teaching myself all these years 😀 I just whipped up this chocolate Mayo cake. Now waiting for it to cool enough to frost. Looks delish! God bless y’all ❤
Thank you so much for your kindness
Miss Lori I love watching you cook and listening to you. You remind me of home. All my family's passed and gone I'm the last of the last. Thank you again take care stay safe and God bless you both
One of my dad's sister's, Aunt Jackie, used to make the best mayo cakes when I was young. When she first told me what it was I thought she'd lost her marbles. But I never should've doubted her as she always was a fantastic cook. However, I failed to get her recipe. Through the years I did happen upon a mayo recipe and somehow lost it. But you can bet your recipe will NOT get away from me as I've written it down and I'm much more organized than I use to be. This is going into my 'Favorite Recipes Cookbook' and I will be making it to take to my son very soon, but in the meantime my birthday is this coming Sunday! Happy Birthday to me!
My Mom would make a chocolate mayo cake. It is the one our family likes the best. My girls call 2 or three times a year to get the recipe. They just can't seem to keep track of it for some reason. (LOL) Blessings to you and Mr. Brown.
I misplace recipes all the time!!!!
So honored to share this time in your kitchen and your dinner table with you very comforting thank you so much
I absolutely love you Miss Lori and Mr. Brown. You are both so loving and down to earth. I’m 63, retired now and love your channel because you live such a peaceful, my way of life. Thank You for opening up your home with such love.💝💝💝💝
This is my favorite kind of video. Just hanging around the kitchen with you. When I was little (now a lot older than you) At my grandmother’s house we could watch are my greatest memories . A pinch of this and a pinch of that. You are the only one that cut up your chicken like she did. God Bless you and Mr Brown . Your Tx friend
You and I cook the very same. I'm in my 60's now, healthy as a horse, lol, and I cook a good size supper nearly every night. Sometimes, it's just cereal here too! :) It's just me and my husband, but I still cook and bake a lot. Tonight we had baked chicken, fried cabbage and fried squash with home made bread. God Bless!!
You reciting what you made for dinner reminded of the show HeeHaw and grandpa telling everyone what’s for dinner! So in keeping with the show:
Yum Yum!
@@jocarson5310 😂Oh man, I remember that too!
Thanks for sharing these old ways of southern cooking~ I loved them,too. I’ve been baking the Mayonnaise cake for sixty years ~( I prefer Miracle Whip) we loved/love it! I never put chocolate frosting on it,but we love the silky cooked milk frosting! Cook milk and flour until pasty, then chill in fridge till cold. Then put the cold mixture in mixing bowl,add sugar and vanilla and whip it until it is super silky. Be sure the cake is cold when you frost it. Sorry I’m unable to remember at this minute and can’t get to my old recipes~ I’m 78 and cared for by Hospice. I’m sure someone has the recipe handy. We called it boiled milk silky frosting in our house! God Bless you both!
Sorry to send such a lengthy comment! I must have stored up comments I didn’t send before 😍
Thank you ,
For your recipe ,
God Bless you,
Give you strength and peace, we Love you
Oh, we LOVE boiled milk icing, too, Ms. Connie! Thanks for reminding me about it. I have a wonderful Cajun recipe for it that I need to dig back out.
Thank you for inviting us into your kitchen tonight, Miss Lori! We can hear you just fine without the microphone! 😊 Dinner looks delicious! And I think you’d be hard pressed to find any home cook in America today who cooks as fresh and wholesome food as you do!!! Love you bunches! ❤❤❤ …Aren’t your feet cold?
My mother’s recipe calls for water with a cup of Miracle Whip added and combine that in a 2-Cup liquid measuring cup. You measure the 1 Cup of water in the liquid measuring cup and just add spoonfuls of Miracle Whip to reach the 2-Cup level. Add 1-teaspoon Vanilla Extract and stir it up; that’s your liquids.
Just baking soda, not baking powder. But great, moist cake! So nostalgic.
This was a Contest Winning recipe back in the 1950’s and was added to the cookbook. I don’t remember if it was Betty Crocker. Could be. My Greet Aunt has a Fudge frosting that compliments the cake very well. It reminds me a little of the Hostess Cup Cakes.
But a quite different 7-Minute frosting is wonderful. Mother would tint the 7-Minute frosting with a few drops of food coloring, swirled around.
Not completely stirred in. So pretty! Nice for birthdays and Easter.
Lori I love this channel, it has helped me through dark days, you and Mr Brown always make me smile and I find your Southern accent so relaxing too (I’m from the UK) loving all the traditional recipes and I’m gonna definitely be making the chocolate mayo cake but not telling my taste testers beforehand 😊 god bless you both x
Thank you,
Be safe and well
I agree with you, I love this channel and enjoy listening to Lori. She is a true Southern lady. My husband and I have been fortunate enough to travel across the USA as well as foreign countries. People always ask us to talk so they can listen to our Southern accent. Foreigners have described our accent as akin to singing, What many people do not realize is Southern accents vary from place to place. If you enjoy Mrs. Lori, I believe you will enjoy “Cooking with Brenda Gantt.” Brenda lives in south Alabama on the Florida-Alabama state line. She has a large repertoire of Southern recipes and operates a bed and breakfast. At the request of some friends during the pandemic, she made biscuits and posted the video on Facebook. She was a huge hit, and in little more than a year, she has over 2,500,000 followers. She is also on RUclips. There are two channels that I watch at least once a day-Mrs. Lori and Mrs. Brenda.
Try it with a pat of butter when it's fresh from the oven! We never frost our mayo cake, just use butter. Omg....I need to make one tomorrow!
Miss Laurie. I absolutely adore this peek into an evening with you! And thank you for the added bonus of the cake! When I was little, I’d go to my friends house and her mama would serve us a delicious chocolate cake. She wouldn’t give my mom her recipe. She was from Arkansas and she was so sweet. (We live in central California). I ran into her when I was teaching her grand baby at a preschool and I asked about the cake again. She told me she’d give me the recipe later. She never did. Lol. I bet that was the cake! It looks like it. I’m going to try making it this weekend. Tell Mr. Brown my husband comes into the house with a pocket full of eggs every once in a while too. 😂 Thank you and God Bless! 🕊❤️
I always enjoy watching you cooking and canning, chatting about your lives. I have learned a lot by watching. My mother had a recipe for chocolate mayonnaise cake written in the back of her cookbook back in the 60's. Brings back memories!
I just came across this video, and oh my Lord! It brought back a flood of childhood memories! We used to make chocolate mayonnaise cake regularly! And we did substitute miracle whip. There actually was a slight tangy taste from the miracle whip but it was so good! This makes me want to make this cake, but for the first time I will use real Mayo!
Lori, you are cooking just like we do here in Georgia. I love fried pork chops, fried cabbage and fried okra. Simple, good down-home cooking that warms the soul. It's the way we were raised, and my grandma was the best cook I've ever known. Like what has been said below, back then, food didn't have all of the additives and preservatives that "fake" food has now. And it tastes so much better, and is better for you IMO. Please keep doing just what you're doing. Cook like you would if you were alone. I just love to watch your videos and have learned some new things too. Thank you for sharing your love of cooking with us. May God Bless you both abundantly. (((hugs))) ♥
Love spending time with you in the kitchen. I learn something every time. You bring joy to your followers.
My Aunt Alice would eat onions like apples. She would also fry up a pan of onions (probably in bacon grease), and eat them along with butter bread. It was 1 this morning in Northern Michigan. Really enjoyed this video, watching you cook and having a chat. Blessings to you both!
Ms Lori its such a Blessing to hear and see you cook.Its a beautiful experience and pleasure to be there in your kitchen.I forgot the worries of the world today for the moments spent watching here.Sending light from MN
I don't think you have to explain how you eat to anybody. Usually critical people are just unhappy about something and hate how happy you both are!
People are always going to find fault just because they feel they have to!
I love what you cook.
I cooked this way alot when my husband was living. Now I rarely cook big meals for just me. I love cereal and sandwiches. Sometimes I eat chips and dips.. lol
And, sometimes I cook when my grands are here for a few days..
A whole lot of us love how you cook and can and we will continue to watch and appreciate you both!
Keep doing what you do and we will keep watching.. 💞🙏🏼
We celebrated a granddaughter birthday today, the one who made me a great grandma. We've been having rain, hail and a tad bit of snow. Ice on the car windows and I'm in CA. Crazy. My Mom always made chocolate mayo cake, with no frosting. I make it myself from her recipe and it's so moist. Can't wait to see yours. I'm still watching you cook. God bless.
Ms Lori that meal looks delicious .I'm so hungry for vegetables that I could of just ate that and the fried cornbread .I started making a stew which I haven't done in years.After getting the meat ,seasoning ,onions and potatoes done (I cook my potatoes separate) .I decided to let it cool off and put it in the fridge .I'll add the veggies and thicken up the broth tomorrow along with the cornbread.I was planning on making an orange crunch cake but after hearing you talk about that cake ,I decided if I have enough cocoa I'm gonna make that instead.Sounds yummy . Thank you .Ya'll stay safe and warm.
I hear you I’m feeling the same way my body is just craving fruit and vegetables lately. I guess when your body craves it it’s really just telling you that it really needs it
Now that's my favorite meal! Only thing missing was fried potatoes and onions---which I would really need to leave off--hahaha . And that cake is so awesome! Autry's is good! Ok---where's my invite? hahaha. I could almost smell that cooking! Have a great week!
Yes please share your recipe for iced coffee. 💕 Love watching you cook. Nothing is as tasty and satisfying as country cooking.
Just gotta say as a kid growing up in Central Louisiana, and a mom from Texas, we ate like this every night. But we called the bread you made Hot Water Cornbread. The okra was a new trick for me how you added the hush puppy mix, gotta try that we had it plain pan fried or as okra and tomatoes. But your sooo right, that cornbread is delicious with beans, soups and definitely cabbage. Can't wait to make the cake! Thanks so much and God bless ya'll.
Everything looks absolutely delicious! Thank you so much for sharing. Stay safe and warm. Have a great weekend!
Miss Lori, I'm so glad you shared that recipe for the Chocolate Mayo cake. I've been making it for years and it's always a hit, my family always liked it with 7 minute frosting on it. It's a crowd pleaser for sure. It's always funny watching peoples faces when you tell them it has mayo in it LOL
This is right where I want to be, spending time talking & cooking with Ms. Lori & Mr. Brown. ♥️🙏🏻🤗
I so appreciate this channel! I'm a born and raised city girl, but my grandparents and beyond grew up in the country. Sadly, I never learned any cooking skills from them. So, I love watching channels like this to learn what I can!
I love watching you cook. You have a very sweet spirit. Years ago folks ate what they had. You hit the nail on the head….moderation! Blessings to you and Mr. Brown.
I know that meal is delicious, and for those who complain about how you guys eat please don't mention how they feel about what you guys eat. You and Mr. Brown still work and looks great, keep doing what you do I love it and I'm sure lots of others do too. I Love you guys.
Yeah Tanya !!!
You and Mr. Brown are amazing people. I love your videos! I made your lunch lady cinnamon rolls and they turned out great! God bless you both.
Fish fry works good for okra also. I make my own by putting cornmeal flour and spices in my food processor. Then I store it in a baggie in the freezer and use the desired amount as needed. Your supper looks delicious.
Going back and looking at some not so recent videos. Really enjoy a home style meal like this. I have what I call two splurge meals a week. Eating fairly simply the rest of the week. One day a week I have a heavier dinner. Some of the comfort home style cooking similar to this. Then on the weekend I will make a big breakfast with eggs, bacon, grits or potatoes and biscuits. I will still cook a meal , soup, or stew, pasta on the other days. But usually no heavy cheese, very little meats, etc. it’s just easier with my lifestyle. Usually on prep day I make one soup or stew to last a week, and some sort of casserole, and I bake one potato. So other than adding some fresh or cooked veggies. I only cook the one day a week when I prep ( other than the two splurge meals that is…..lol….). The way I look at it , we can still enjoy our country home style foods and continue to keep up with our busy lives and health.
I don't think lard will go bad for over a year at least. Dad told me about how grandpa butchered & stored hogs yesteryear before they had refrigeration. The guys did the outside butchering and then sent the meat inside to the girls. The guys then prepared barrels and boxes to store the meat in the cellar. The girls cooked the meat then they poured a layer of lard into the bottom of the box/barrel. Placed a layer of meat, then another layer of lard, alternating the meat & lard until the container was filled. As long as the meat did not make contact with another piece of meat, it would store all year. They did 9 hogs & 2 beef every fall so they had meat for the year.