My Life in Appalachia 11
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Along with celebrating and preserving Appalachian heritage and culture I'm always hoping to shine a light on the good life that I live in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. I hope you enjoy this peek into my life in Appalachia.
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Background music: "Midnight on the Water" by The Pressley Girls - find their music here: / @thepressleygirls
Fiddle Tune played by The Pressley Girls: "Haapavesi Waltz"
Recipes in video:
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Biscuits: blindpigandthe...
Kale: saute in butter add salt and pepper to taste
Butternutsquash: blindpigandthe...
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Thank you for this. It sure beats the news. :)
Best part of this video was watching Matt clean and season that large cast iron skillet. For those of us who haven't been doing it correctly, this free lesson was very beneficial!
Thank you for sharing this with us. Our rural heritage should be celebrated! God Bless the humble, industrious, Christian families that formed this great nation.
I feel grateful and truly blessed to have found your channel. Thank you for sharing another day in the life of "Celebrating Appalachia". Also, thank you for the dinner ideas. I always get so hungry after watching y'all cook!
Thank you so much!
God bless you, your family and all your viewers
Thank you for the kindness 😀
I'm so glad that Matt showed how to clean ironware & season it properly. My friend Linda got a new iron skillet. She asked her facebook friends how to prepare that skillet for cooking. She called me up & asked me to come over & show her how. I love Linda but she's hard headed. I told her at least 10 times don't use soap on your iron skillet! She did. So I came over & gave her the drill again. She finally got it through her rock head lol 😆😂🤣. Now she just loves that skillet. She bought another one!
Again I say thank you for sharing your family with us, I wish the rest of this old world could enjoy what we have in these here mountains. God truly smiles on us here in the Blue Ridge and Smokies.
Glad you enjoyed the video! I wish that too 😀
The music, cooking, homesteading, the beauty Appalachia, it's perfect. Thank you!
My Granny, Suzy Tudor was born and raised in Kentucky. She made milk gravy, and red eye gravy, but not chocolate. I think my Granny was holdin out on me! wink
After cooking in cast iron for the last 15 years or so I can legitimately ask the question... why do other pans even exist?
😀 I love my cast iron too! Thanks for watching!
"Yon way" she said. She talks like I do. I don't get to hear such familiar voices much any more. I don't hear many voices at all.
Papaw-thank you! It makes me feel good to know we say the same words 😀
From another Pawpaw, they's still some of us around here. We just get shuffled under the rug till somebody needs us these days. And as my granny used to say, my 'yers [ears] don't work as well as they used to. But by golly we are special people!
Chocolate gravy, So many folks don’t know about this and think we are crazy till they try it. Thanks for sharing your life with us.
Beautiful mountains, beautiful food, beautiful music......a beautiful life! Tfs 💞
From where I live, On the Cumberland Plateau? I can see those far blue mountains from the western side. I think they’re beautiful too.
They are so lovely! I'm glad you can see them to Larry!!
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You live a blessed life. Thanks for sharing it with us. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for watching-so glad you enjoy it!
Greetings from the North GA Appalachians! Love your celebration of this wonderful way of life. My kids go to the folk school camp over in Brasstown. Best wishes to you!
I didn’t have chocolate gravy but I just got through having eggs, bacon, biscuits and bacon gravy!!!! Finished it off with a biscuit and honey from the farm!!! I live on the other side of the Appalachians than you all--eastern KY.
Sounds great! I love breakfast!
Hi!!! Sending lots of love and health to y’all!!! Thank you Thank you Thank you for doing these videos♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🙋♀️❣️🐥🐣💕🥰
Thanks Sue! I hope you have a great week!
Just love your videos. Never knew you could use cast iron pans on a glass top stove. Thought they’d get too hot and crack the stove top. I have a cast iron skillet that was given to my Grandma on the day my Mom was born in 1914. Going to have to learn how to season it as I’m sure it needs it and then start using it!
Thanks for sharing how you re-season your cast iron pan. I've always wondered how to put the oil back in to keep the pans seasoned... thanks! really enjoy your videos. fyi: I live in Hedgesville, West Virginia.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching 😀
Love my old Wagner and Griswold skillets, I clean mine much the same way. Thanks for another beautiful video.
Love watching your beautiful videos
Beautiful blessings from Scotland ❤
Glad you like them!
Loved the video. That Kale looked so good. Cast iron skillets are truly family heirlooms to be passed down. Thanks for another great glimpse into your Appalachian life style. God Bless yall. :)
Thank you 😀 So glad you enjoyed the video. Hope you both have a great week!
I just found your channel and became a subscriber right away . I wish you would give more narration ; not everyone knows what you are doing and you have a pleasant accent !
Now I know how to tend to my iron skillet. Thanks
Thanks for watching Rose-hope you have a good week 😀
Those beautiful girls look just like mommy..
Thank you for showing the pan cleaning and seasoning!
Wonderful video! I appreciate the time and effort. Loved the music, cooking, and gardening. You do live in Paradise!
So deeply moving to witness family as my mother experienced it. Myself, I grew up in a military family, but Dad tried to give us these experiences by keeping us off base and in agricultural settings.
Enjoyed another great video! We always look forward to your videos, loved everything about it. Y’all are definitely very blessed. GOD Bless Y’all. 🙏🏻😇🙏🏻😇
Such a enjoyable and calming series of videos. Thank you so much for sharing.
God bless all here.
Great video, as usual. I was curious about something. Wondering if you plan to do a video about - I don't know if you'd call it folklore or what, but stories or legends shared by your grandparents, etc. Good old ghost stories or bigfoot, etc. I think that kind of thing would be great listening if narrated by you with your smooth, calming voice.
This channel gives me so much peace! Thank you for sharing these moments with us!
We grew up with my Mom playing the piano. We took lessons and played piano, too, and my sister and I were both band kids. We sang around the piano as a family. What a blessing to grow up with the sound of music in one's home! My sister can play guitar and banjo. I always wanted to play the violin/fiddle. I absolutely loved the waltz. What joy to hear these instruments. Thanks for sharing your lives with us! What a yummy supper!!!! Thanks for showing how you season your pan! I have one for cooking in and one that is only for making cornbread. We're having pintos and cornbread tonight!❤️🙏from SC, Jane😊
Nothing like the FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS!!💙💙💙💙💙
I agree!! Thanks for watching 😀
I totally agree, there is nothing stressful about these wonderful videos. The news today brings you down, this family and their videos brings life back. God bless you.
Yeah, I find myself watching homestead shows and yours just to relax and unwind. Thank you
I was so blessed to stumble upon your videos…I find it truly a breath of fresh air in these tumultuous times. You are all so talented and hard working, a trait that seems almost lost in today’s world. Your girls are beautiful and so accomplished on their instruments and so down to earth looking….. what a wonderful diversion from the stressors of watching so many of our young people disparage our country. May the Lord continue to shower you all with blessings!
So glad you enjoy what we do!
First minute and a half was makin' me hungry 🙂
😀 Thanks for watching Gregg! Hope you have a great week!
I ordered me a dutch oven the other day that's something i`ve wanted for a long long time.
We really enjoy cooking in them 😀
That music ...... absolutely beautiful !!! The food ..... mouthwatering !!! Loved the video !!!
Loved the Waltz piece so much! Beautiful
Your comment about seeing your "home" in the blue mountains yonder was intriguing. Can you recommend reading on how people in Appalachia move? Is it common for someone to move from one mountain area to another? Or do most people stay put. Really interested to know. And if you did move, what customs changed for you?
Brian-thanks for the question! Traditionally its more common for people in Appalachia to remain in their same location-or at least nearby. For example I have several family members who like me grew up in this area, mountain holler, where we live as adults today. Of course there's certainly people who move away from the area as well. My husband grew up about 3 counties away from here, but has lived here where we do now for our entire marriage-so close to thirty years. There are subtle differences throughout the Appalachian region as far as customs and traditions go, but overall they are much the same.
As always thank you for taking us along with you. The food looked wonderful and really made me hungry when the chocolate gravy and wilted greens were cooked. Have you tried tomato gravy before? It is wonderful as well. Have a blessed day. 🍀
Long ago and far away. I lived that life but like so much I was to young to realize what I had.
🎶 Artist:
James taylor
Song:
Long ago and far away
Never a truer saying, We don't know what we've got till it's gone.
Go on home Johnnie Harper
Better days never to be seen again, that's for sure. At least we have the memories.
Your family sure made my day. It's rainy and breezy here in Indiana, but this warmed me right up. Thank you for sharing your lives with the rest of us.
So glad you enjoyed it!!
Back in 1966 as a bride I walked to the hardware store and bought a skillet like that. I've cleaned it the way you do all these years. It's my favorite kitchen utensil.
Chocolate gravy is one of my favorite special treats.
Love chocolate gravy 😀 Thanks for watching!
Thankyou! I live in Hollywood California. But my grandmother was born to coal miners in Scranton PA . I've travelled to East Tennessee and West Virginia and the Blue Ridge mountains are beautiful.
Getting back to the all the real simple pleasures in life vs the virtual world... what a joy!
I love you accent. Thinking of moving to WV from Charlotte next year. These vids are great.
youre always cooking something amazing. makes it especially hard when I'm watching these videos from my office and haven't eaten all day.
My mom and day come from Tennessee and watching you make that water gravy made me miss moms cooking. Wish I could live in North Carolina.
Once again great video...now im hungry..lol..loved the music by the way...rag in the bowl..with olive oil...gonna do that..
We grew up on chocolate gravy every Sunday morning before church. Lol. Good times
And ironically I play the guitar and violin. You can move away from the mountains but the mountains are always there.
Now I’m hungry 🙂 I clean my cast iron pans the same way. Thanks for sharing a part of your world ❤️
Thanks for watching! Hope you have a good week Kat!
Loved the music!! They are so good. Brings tears of joy to my eyes! Thank you!! Your husband seems like he’s a great cook! ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️♥️
Thank you so much!! He is a good cook 😀
Well done girls, loved that tune.
We are in Corona lockdown again for one week, here in Melbourne Australia.
Just found your channel, new subscriber from England.
Thank you for subscribing! Hope you continue to enjoy 😀
I think Louis L'amour wrote about the blue mountains. ... Loved the video!
Another great video of Celebrating Appalachia, Thanks for sharing your time and your experience in cooking, gardening,music, and the tips on caring for iron cook ware.You all inspire me,to do the same. God Bless and have a great week. 🙂🙂
Thanks Donald-so glad you enjoyed it! Hope you have a good week too 😀
Love your videos! Was wondering what you were planting and putting the miniature like greenhouse plastic stuff over it in the garden? I reckoned that was to keep it from freezing?
Thank you Donna! We were planting cabbage. The covers are to help keep the bugs away, at least I hope they keep them away 😀 I learned the trick from a farmer down the road last summer so we're trying it out this year. The fabric lets the sunshine and the water through and doesn't protect from freeze, but with cabbage they can stand the cold overnight 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia gives you 3-5 degrees frost protection
Did a little fishing from the bank today, saw a couple bluebirds gathering for their nest, Canada geese, and swans, Sandhill cranes are too. Don’t get to close to those geese or swans you will get a scolding and maybe
Enjoy your videos so much. The gardening, cooking, music and beautiful scenery. Love it all! I like Wagner cast iron better than the new stuff. I think there’s something different in the texture or something. I always look at yard sales and antique shops for other pieces.
Thank you Diane! I agree those old pans are better some how 😀
You and your beautiful family have it figured out. Not enough of this in the world.
Thank you Mr. Matt in showing how to clean and keep your cast iron in good shape!
We spend two weeks a year in Appalachia and it’s just not enough. Thanks for sharing your life with us.
You really know how to make somebody HUNGRY right off of the bat dont ya ! 🙄 ok i had to edit . I just thought i was hungry with the gravy . Then you cook fish n rice n greens . But then comes hubby cooking n yall go all out . 🙄 GGGGGGGG oh that was my belly .
😀 Sorry about that Jerry! Thanks for watching hope you have a great week!
I love your home place. I grew up in the Ozarks, Boston Mountains, I moved over 30 yrs ago. I would go back ,but my children all have made lives in my area. Cannot leave the grandlittles, but I wish we could live like ya'll.
Born and raised in the southern mountains of West Virginia up a holler no neighbors for miles
Excellent homey , just a darn good video! Wagner Cast Iron some of the best also some old Griswold Cast Iron, have some of each!......ATB
They are both such good pans! Glad you enjoyed the video 😀
My gracious y'all do some fine cooking and eating. Makes me hungry. What a joy to have a creek so near. I look so forward to see the things you post. Love the music too😊!!!
Yep, that's how my mother taught us how to clean cast iron. Except for the bread pan, don't remember her ever cleaning it any way except wiping it down with an oiled rag. May I ask, where can I find a percolator like the one on your stove top? Crossing my fingers and hoping you don't say Amazon lol. TFS, really enjoy your channel.
Bertie-Matt's had that percolator forever and we don't remember where he got it. I'm sorry! I hope you have a great week!!
@@CelebratingAppalachia Thank you. Hope you and your family have a great week as well.
@@bertieyearout2690 Any type of camping store should have them . Try Cabela's , Walmart , even Tractor Supply . Hope this helps you .
@@myrthagunter4141 Thank you, I will try those and I appreciate your help.
Another awesome video...I sure needed the peacefulness from it today...
Hope your week is going well!
Brenda
Thanks Brenda! Hope you're having a good week too 😀
Are your two daughter twins? I had thought I was seeing just ONE pretty girl that looked like that... until now.
Ron-they are twins 😀 Thank you for watching!!
Like a Charming visit with you. Lovely. Music is delightful. Made me want to dance again..🌺
I bought a cheap skillet off of amazon a few years ago and it was made in china. I could not get the metal taste out of my food for nothing. I took it to the range ad shot holes in it :) stinking Chinese steel :)
You live a blessed life. Thanks for sharing it with us. ❤️
You are so welcome!!
I hope after you feed all those hungry folks y'all got some leftovers cuz I'm hungry too, could you throw a poo boy a bone. 🍖🍖
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Thank you for another great video and for your tips on taking care of the cast iron. You all are the best!!
That is the right technique on them pans! Nicely done ! Fun stuff thanks for posting💯👍❤️
Watching you cook always makes me hungry😁🥰
🤗 Thank for watching!!
I just love watchin all the lovely things you do. remindsme of ol times with my great grandparents in the same neck of the woods.
Love this! Yall should do the commentary when you cook as well
I've lived in Appalachia my entire life, and I've never heard of chocolate gravy. So weird. Now I have to try it.
that's new to me but can't wait to give it a whirl.
Pretty soon we will all have to live like this again
I never miss a video! I love the moutains. Someday I want to live in the Blue Ridge mountains area. But if you don't mind me askin, how do y'all get an income to live on? Was y'alls place inherited?
Kimberly-the land we live on is family land. As far as jobs go, there is employment in my area of Appalachia. The wages may not compare to wages in larger populated areas, but the cost of living is much lower here.
You have a life many do not experience anymore but are trying to get back. I wish you would explain a little more about what you are doing in your videos. It is nice to see what life may have been like for our ancestors. Also, some are trying to get back to gardening but the skill has been lost through the generations..
just get into it and start failing, learn from your mistakes and develop what works in your area , what i have leaned towards is things that come up every year. chives, rhubarb , onions that produce sets on to then replant those, herbs sage, thyme will come back most years here in Michigan. Always wanted a asparagus patch but never got around to it, that will come back yearly for 20-30 years once established.
This is my favorite channel on RUclips. I get such great pleasure out of watching it.
Thank you Paula!! Hope you're having a good week 😀
I have noticed that there is only second growth trees in your videos. When were the first growth removed
Roger lots of logging done in my area of Appalachia. Logging was a source of employment for many people including my family in days gone by. Hard to say when the first growth was cut for sure, but in the 1920s and 30s Ritter Lumber Company had a fairly large operation in my area of Western NC. I'm sure someone else has the exact answer and maybe they'll chime in with it 😀
have y’all seen any hummingbirds down there yet? the quince bush is blooming and the bumble bees are out up here in wv. i spect it won’t be long for em now
I haven't seen one yet-but should be anytime now 😀 Thanks for watching!
been spectin em hyir in the Smokies fer nigh unto two weeks. all sorts of red flowers abloomin in the hedge.
I wish I had me some of those old cast iron pans. They are just great.
They are my favorite to cook with 😀 Thanks for watching!!
You can find them at just about any antique, or thrift store. There are also videos on RUclips on how to refurbish them to like new condition!
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Thank you for sharing with us!
What a great vid! The special surprise for me was the chocolate gravey! I have never heard of that here in California, but it so makes sense. Super neat, my soninlaw and granddaughter would love this. I always enjoy what you film, you gardening, the music, cooking and your stream. Just a blessing, thank you. Karla in Cali.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love your videos
I love it, it's real life being lived in the mountains! These quiet videos are so very soothing to my spirit!
Awesome video my family use to break out biscuits up just like that. Two of my older sisters were the only ones that made the chocolate gravy. A little flour with Coco mixed in, lol. Wow, that takes me back a few years. Sadly they are all gone now. Your video sure took me back for a few minutes. Thank you so much.
Lawd, I ain't had chocolate gravy in years. MM..MM..MM! You always trigger some great memories. Thanks for sharing.
So much Appalachia packed into one video. You have carved out a life many long for.
Thank you Shirley! I hope you have a great week 😀
The music, I have goosebumps! Thank you
Karen-so glad you enjoyed the music!