My Life in Appalachia 24 | Matt Finally Got Fried Green Tomatoes!
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2022
- 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.
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Fiddle Tune: Original Tune by Katie
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Your house must be constantly filled with the aroma of delicious food cooking , the outside with flowers, fresh earth, and the forested hills , all carried by a crisp autumn breeze. Thank you for the fried tomatoes , the wonderful photography , Katie for the music and the whole family for a visit into what a beautiful family life should be .
Oh my goodness...I just found paradise! A brook, a garden, a big front porch and granny’s flowers all nestled in the mountains. The folks, the food, the fiddle music...a place where memories are made...Appalachian heaven✨
So true, these videos are more than just watching a video about cooking or about any subject you're being invited in someone's home you it's like being inside your home it's like you're sitting down with friends and visiting and getting to know them and their families and how they live it's like making new friends.
Absolute paradise ❤️
Tipper, you have no idea how much I needed this video this evening. My normal quiet neighborhood has been "blessed" with the neighbor's grandson and his dirt bike on fall break. Twelve hours of dirt bike make you truly appreciate the soothing sound of a creek. Thank you!!!!
Glad I could help 😀
I’m so glad Matt finally got his Fried Green Tomatoes! No one deserves it more. He is so grateful for every bite of food that you both have worked to put on your table, plus the effort of cooking it when you do the cooking. I know he is a great cook, in his own right, but he just blesses my heart the way he is grateful for what you prepare. 😊
Yeah. Matt is a cool ol' Diddy! He and Tipper are a great couple! ❤
My life could not be more different than yours- and I love what I learn from you. Thank you for such a positive, educational channel!
Wow, thank you! 😀
It is so peaceful and quiet at your place. It's very pretty too. Plus I live to hear the girls making music. Girl you are indeed blessed.
Thank you Linda 😀
What a reflection of life in the Appalachian mountains. A beautiful place to live, a special creek with clear running water, a mountain fiddle tune played by a lovely lady, and a family style home cooked meal featuring a southern favorite...cast iron fried green tomatoes. Doesn’t get much better. Thank you for sharing all of this. God bless y’all everyday. - Tennessee Smoky
I enjoyed the nature photography. Katie, thanks for the fiddle tune. Tipper, thanks for the fried green tomatoes. Yummy! You’re lucky Matt. Thanks for the great camera work Corie. ❤️
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
Oh, I had missed that (taking dogs out) and glad you mentioned it, so I could go back. I imagine how lovely it would be to hear that (like neighbors and maybe sound travels in those mountains) on such a beautiful day. 12:48
So happy Matt got his tomatoes!
That meal was a feast! Everything looked delicious. You and Matt are both such good cooks!
Everything you cook looks so delicious Tipper! Hope Matt enjoyed his fried green tomatoes!:)
Thank you! He did 😀
Love fried green tomatoes. I enjoyed the sounds of the creek and nature.
Your videos sure bring back memories of my childhood. My parents moved the family to the midwest in 1970 shortly after my brother and I were born. But we would visit my grandparents in Eastern Tennessee every summer. I remember Granny (Mamaw as we called her ) spending the majority of her time in the kitchen. And Papaw sitting out on the front porch telling us all about scriptures in the bible. Fried Green Tomatoes was the one thing my Father always asked Mamaw to make when we visited. We never went hungry with Mamaw. Watching you takes me back to those times. So thank you for these videos. And one question: Have you ever made Steak and Gravy? I never see it so much anymore but I believe it was cube steak fried and then cooked in homemade gravy. I know my Mamaw as well as my Mother used to make it quite often. Keep making these videos and God Bless you and your Family.
My mom did too. Loved it. sigh...memories.
My daddy loved it also! He would tell mama, “ fry it, and fry it brown.” He loved his meat cooked brown to bring out the flavor of the brown flour. Then mama made biscuits and gravy from the drippings. Yum! Now they call it poor man’s steak. Guess we were but never knew it. We were happy.
Thank you! Love those memories! I have a video about cube steak and gravy you can check it out when you have time 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia thank you I will.
Amazing pic of the lizard getting the bug!! Your apple bread looks great!! Loved Katie’s playing for us! So pretty. ♥️🙏🏼♥️
Did it get the bug? I couldn't tell it happened so fast. I even slowed down the playback speed to the lowest speed and it was ...bug here, blink, bug gone! hahaha. Thanks for clearing that up. 😉
Oh this reminded me of sitting on the front porch with mama stringing beans or shucking corn. We had some of our best talks then. Y'alls way of life is so close to how I grew up. I just love watching y'alls videos! Hugs & blessings from VA! 💗
I love your channel, sometimes it makes me sad, sometimes happy. I remember all the time spent with family, especially cousins. I get sad that all the people I loved, and learned from, are gone, but we’ll be together someday. Even before I started my genealogy journey, I knew names of 3-4 generations back, and have photos of parents, grandparents, and great grandparents. We were mainly farmers. Up here no one can answer the question of “Who’s your people?” My children did spend time down home, but as they got older, never enough time. My daughter named her daughter Nora Mae! I said, that sounds Southern, yes. Mom, I is. Even though they live in the Pacific Northwest, Reckon I will make sure they know who their people are. Thanks for listening y’all
Thank you Donna for sharing your thoughts 😀
Matt needs a pepper mill and fresh ground pepper. Christmas is coming up.
😀 Thank you Matthew
I agree 😊
It’s a beautiful life! Thanks for sharing your time and all your talents, your daughter plays beautiful on the violin!
This is the first time I’ve seen how fried green tomatoes are prepared! They looked delicious! I really enjoyed the history on the flowers. I’ve always gifted folks with plants or flowers. It’s an infinite gift. Many intriguing aspects on this channel. Keep on! 👍🏼✌🏼
that scene with you and Corie stringing and breaking beans on the porch is awesome, from the gentle rocking to those wonderful vintage pans to the gentle conversation at hand, truly a blessing! you know from previous comment how I love to see those creek scenes, so very relaxing to watch. Loved hearing Katie play the fiddle. Oh boy them fried green tomatoes looked delicious. Since our tomatoes took all summer to ripen and we ate lots of them fried this year, I got lazy and just dredged mine in corn meal to fry, but they were still dang good. Loved the part about how the flowers got started and that you will continue to pass that down to the twins.
Thank you!! So glad you enjoyed this one 😀
You are right. The trees are starting to look beautiful out in that area right now. My husband and I came up through NE Georgia and western NC yesterday riding and looking at the trees. We even came through Brasstowm, to see the awesome community that you live in!
Everything looked yummy to eat. I loved the beautiful flowers, and the story behind them.
How Corie and Katie will pass on the traditions your families have shared with one another. When Katie was playing her beautiful music 🎻
It was like the mountains were echoing and remembering all the folks that once lived there.
God's beautiful canvas of colors and the beautiful sounds of the mountains are forever beholden to me. Have a blessed and peaceful evening 🙏🤗💕
I enjoy your stories and cooking!
I hope you enjoyed you fried green tomatoes, Matt! That’s something I could definitely eat.😊🇨🇦
Love how most everything in your life has a great story attached & that Granny still remembers them all. I hope you're writing these down.
I may be commenting a lot, but I have to say that I enjoyed watching that old beetle bug prowl around. It made me think of some of my Mom's stories. She said she would play with those big beetles when she was a child and make them "fight" sometimes. Now she was terrified of worms or snakes, but she would pick up almost any "bug", no matter how big or strange it looked. She'd study it for a minute and then figure out how to pick it up without any harm to herself or the bug ( or insect). She was a "wild woman" in that regard.💕 Good memories!
Love those memories Rita 😀
It is a 🎶 Joy having watched Katie over the years gain more and more finesse and confidence on the fiddle. EXCELLENT.
A great visit today in Southern Appalachia! Snapping beans, what is more relaxing than sitting with a loved one talking over the days' happenings, creek song, brought happy memories from childhood days playing and searching for crawdads. Fried green tomatoes yum! Thank you for sharing your lives in the magical Appalachia! You are truly blessed!
Fried green tomatoes seem to be mainly a Southern tradition. Up north here in the Maryland Piedmont, both sides of my family fried tomatoes, but used bigger tomatoes that had just turned pink. Being half ripe, they would keep the shape of the slices when fried. Ripe tomatoes would turn to mush. We just used plain all purpose flour to dredge the tomato slices, no egg wash. The fried slices were piled high on an oval meat platter with each layer being sprinkled with a bit of sugar. Salt and pepper were added individually to taste on one's plate. I skipped the salt, but added more sugar to my serving. As this could only be done at the height of summer tomato season, fried tomatoes were often part of an all garden meal, except for a small dish of some king of meat. Mom-mom would dill pickle the small green tomatoes left at the end of season. They were quite delicious, too.
My husband's grandma ,aunt's a d momma always sprinkled sugar on their fried green tomatoes when the room them out of the frying pan. Also I can't believe it but my lilacs are blooming in October. Most of the leaves dropped because of the draught but they're blooming. Smells just like spring in October. This has been a funny year for all our plants
"This is top notch food as far as I'm concerned" certainly says it all! 😋 It all looks so good. Yay, fried green tomatoes! The photography or videoing is always so nice in these videos. That's a sweet story about how the ageratum got started. Katie & Corie can follow the tradition. It's always a delight to hear Katie on the fiddle. 🌻🍂
So happy Matt got his fried green tomatoes!
I like how you vary your style of making videos. “My life in Appalachia “ is my favorite.
Thank you Tipper. It's always nice to see whats going on in your corner of Appalachia.
Thank you Robin 😀
So much delicious food!! Fall came on fast! We’ll probably get frost this weekend. Trees are turning a bit more. Thanks for sharing the goodness of your Appalachian life with us! ❤️🍁
I grew up in northern Virginia and have always loved Appalachia. These videos are inspiring and wonderful. I’d love to retire on an Appalachian homestead. Thank you for making these!
Oh! My goodness! Y'all got my stomach growl in like a old bear. Biscuits and gravy, fried green tomaters and fried eggs. That sounds like a good old fashioned breakfast to me. The old creek runnin down the hill and the paths up the hillside makes me long for my childhood holler here in So. Ohio.
That’s how we make our eggplant.
Your videos are a blessing to me along with the girls.
My Dad’s people came from Scotland to the Carolinas in the 1630s.
Mine as well, Sandra. My paternal grandma still had some lingering Scottish brogue when I was little. When mom visited Scotland, she bought each of us children the McPherson plaid in scarves or ties.
Katie, you are so talented 💕
I'm envious! I love fried green tomatoes. Haven't had any in years. Thank you for the beautiful scenery. It reminded me of floating leaf boats as a child many years ago. Thank you, Katie, for the beautiful music.
My uncle had a way of canning sliced green tomatoes with the skins still on. a stack of slices in a jar that he would fry up during the winter months.
Now that was a special treat when he popped those out of the pantry in the dead of winter.
My mother loved green fried tomatoes 😊 I remember her making them when I was a little girl!!!
Love that memory 😀
I moved to Appalachia 3 years ago and I love it, so glad to have found your channel… it clearly describes and illustrates the rhythm of the mountains and life here.
I'm with Matt- love fried green tomatoes!!! 🥰
You guys and gals live a wonderful simple life up there as far as I can tell. I actually envy it a little living in reckless city. If I knew somebody in some rural place like that, id be up and gone.
Stringing, snapping beans. 😊 Such smiley memories from your excellent videos. Thanks to ALL of you.
I absolutely love Katie’s song! So beautiful! ❤❤❤ I had fried green tomatoes once in Arkansas...so yummy! I had planted some little cherry tomatoes this year and only got a few off of them, then last week, my hubby said, you got a bunch of tomatoes out there. That plant has finally decided to produce! I’ve got a pretty good size bowel full now and there’s about as many again still out there! There’s probably a lesson in there about late bloomers still being quite productive . Thanks for sharing your wonderful life with me! Jane in SC ❤🙏🏻
I'm so glad you talked about the tradition of sharing flowers. 🙂I live in a different state than my original home place, but I often look outside at a pretty unidentified bush that lives near my kitchen window, blooming tiny white flowers in the spring, and remember our dear family friend from many years ago. We refer to it as "the Russell bush" . It's very prolific and sends out lots of shoots each year. He gave it to my mom, who gave some to me when I moved away. He's passed on now, but just the sight of that bush is a happy reminder of a different era in my life and it helps keep the memories alive in my mind. It's great to get new plants and flowers, but it's most satisfying when they carry a story and are something of a memorial to a life that lives on in the minds of the people who knew and loved them.
I’m not quite sure how I found your videos, but I’m so very glad I did! Hello from my little village in the uk 😊. What a joy to hear all about your life in Appalachia - it’s wonderful to hear about family histories, recipes and the old ways. You share my love of finding forgotten items, like pieces of pottery etc. and wondering about the folks who used them and the stories they had to tell. Thank you!
Welcome and thank you 😀
Terrace the bank with raised beds - walkways can be grass ( mow for compost ) or walkways could be covered with woven fabric to keep grass & weeds down
Your creek is so amazingly clear, gosh, so beautiful. I could watch and listen to that for hours. So peaceful. Thank you Tipper!
Wow, such a relaxing & cozy video with the breakfast & supper food. Made me hungry. You can simply video y’all’s activities during the day like cooking & working in the garden etc & it all is so interesting. Loved Katie’s playing. I love fried green tomatoes, too. The scenes & sounds of the stream are so sedating to me. I always wanted to live in the mountains in a rustic house by a stream. I sure hope heaven has mountains & streams & then maybe I could finally enjoy what I always wanted on earth. I know you are a busy lady, but thanks for carving out time to let us be part of your daily life.
Soothing sounds of Katie’s fiddle and the bubbling brook with great food!!! Thank you.
Your videos are just chocked full of wisdom…something for everyone 😊 The woods and nature and peaceful stream are some of the prettiest landscapes I’ve ever seen! Thank you for sharing your world with us Ms Tipper
So nice of you thank you!
Loved this one so much. I watched it twice. The fried matters looked soooo good!
Thank you!!
Those tomatoes look really delicious! My husband doesn't mind leftovers at all either, and what a blessing that truly is. Your nasturtiums look SO PRETTY. You inspired me to buy some (seeds) and they're growing...put them in late though, so we'll see. At any rate, they're growing and trying and I'll be earlier with them next year. THANK YOU TIPPER, as always. 🙌🏼
They are among my favorite flowers 😀 Thank you!
The goldenrod is beautiful. There’s nothing like the sound of a running creek.
Yea!!! Good for Matt!!! I love fried green tomatoes too. 😋 The lizard got a treat too! 😉
This video is filled with so much, relaxation, tranquility and calmness...It's a breath of fresh air.. The food looks delicious too. Thank you for sharing. May you and your family have a blessed day 🙏 ✨️
A lone fiddle tune in the outdoors is a mighty fine sound. I'm sure the woods critters stop and listen!
That’s the sweetest story about the flowers. Love tradition ❤
I love fried green tomatoes! Wish I had some still growing just for fried green ones. Your video of the surrounding land was so beautiful! I remember when I was first married and moving into our first home - with no nothing growing around it. The mother of one of my husbands friends was showing me her yard and asked if I wanted some starts. She had to explain what that was and after some instructions she gathered a whole bunch of different things for us. They grew so well and I soon had a landscaped yard which provided me with starts to bring up to our 10 acres when we moved to the country. Still have some today after 58 years and am still amazed that it works that way. I read in the bible that God told Isreal to take a tip cutting of the cedars in lebanon and plant it to have forests where they were exiled. I never heard of tip cutting a cedar and thought I would try. It worked then and should still now. Next spring I will try it.
Mary, I've never heard of taking a starter from a cedar! Cedars are one of my favorite trees & I would love to have one in my yard. Could you tell me how to do it ( where to take the cutting from, how to get the roots started prior to planting , or if I need to do that at all) ? I would appreciate it greatly if you could .
@@connieumar2076 I've never done it with cedar and when I read it in the Bible decided to try - next spring. I have often made cutting/starts with woody plants like rosemary - very successfully so I know it is possible but it sure intrigued me when cedar tips were mentioned.It specifically said top tips so I will try with the cedars we have growing like weeds here in Florida. When I do start woody cuttings, I cut about 4-5" of tips that are newly green and stem strong but not yet toughened up, strip the leaves off the bottom and dip the bottom into a root hormone powder, stick it in damp soil, then set it outside under my shrubs to keep the sun from cooking it and I make sure it stays slightly moist. Normally a cut 5-10 tips in the spring and put all in one pot of potting mix and typically get several to grow. You need to experiment with several tip cuttings for best luck. If you have to bring it inside, I would keep it covered loosely with a glass jar raised slightly so it isn't too humid or even just a piece of plastic wrap VERY loosely laying over top. Good luck! I've successfully done hibiscus, orange tree, moringa, elderberry, roses, rosemary, I can't remember all of them. Don't know how many already know this but in the spring at Easter time, when you look up and the tall pines, the growing tips on the top form a cross. Once you see the trees full of crosses you'll never forget.
@@iartistdotme Mary , Thank You So Much for helping me. I have sprouted Rosemary from starts , but never a tree . I had not heard about Easter & the Pines . It is a lovely story & I will remember it @ Easter so that I can see it !!
There are no Cedars left in my part of Oklahoma - not the tall, proud , ones anyway. I will speak to a nursery here to see if I can order one . If not , I'll make a 3 hour drive & hike through the mountains there to see if I can find a young one. If I can , I'll go back in the Spring to get some cuttings to bring home with me...Easter would be the ideal time to go so that I can look up into the pines that I know grow there and see the crosses. Again , Thank You So Very Much . Blessings to You & Yours , Connie
Watching yall makes me feel good because I love the mountains
This brought me back to my Mamaw’s all the family, food, and music. Miss so many family right now. Thanks for sharing
So lovely and beautiful and peaceful. Also loved the green tomatoes ❤️
Thank you so much 🙂
We have has 5 frosts so far and calling for a freeze this weekend. Earlier than normal. Fried green tomatoes and gravy and biscuits looked great. Bet that deer meat was good also. Thank you for sharing ❤
Wow 5 so far!! I've enjoyed this cooler than usual fall and hoping that means I'll get at least one big snow 😀
I have fallen in love with your RUclips channel. I will soon be 74 and grew up in southern Rowan County, NC. Never thought I had a link to Applachia, but I loved visiting the NC mountains before I moved to TX. I know a lot of the speaking terms you define for us - my mother and my father's kin used them when I was a child, so there's definitely a link. I remember eating a lot like you do, too, especially when we had family reunions. I live in Dallas Tx, now and long for the slower pace of life I knew growing up (and thought was boring at the time!). It's still very warm in Dallas (87 right now at 5:56 pm) and we really don't have a fall season, so thanks for the beautiful photos and videos of fall in Appalachia!
I'm so glad you enjoy our videos!! Thank you 😀
I just wanted to say I absolutely love your channel. ❤ Proud of my southern roots and I always love celebrating that and home, Appalachia. Me and mine all come from down in Kentucky but most of us have moved just over the border of Ohio to be with family. These videos make me feel like I’m officially there at home. Although we still keep our traditions and our roots run deep, like nothing has changed, you always miss home and your videos give me happiness and overwhelming joy, I just wanted to thank you and your family! Lots of love to yun’s! ❤🙏🏻
Thank you so much! We appreciate you 😀
I LOVE the fiddle tune!!! ❤I keep rewinding to hear it 🎻👍👍👍😃👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Tks for sharing the awesome pleasures of living in the Appalachians!! And fried green tomatoes....YUMMMMM!!!
It's always a pleasure to enjoy a peek into your good life, Tipper. Another great video. Thank you.
Beautiful playing! Loved it!!!
I just love watching you cook and bake and serve up the platters and plates! So homey! Thank you!
This was a great video. Cornbread and peas!!! Yum!! My favorites. And the fried green tomato is another one of my favorites. And cornmeal is the right way to fry tomato, squash and okrie. Quite often left overs taste better than the first time. We are coming to north Georgia in a couple weeks (Ellijay). I hope the leaves have started to change by then. What a sweet tune Katie. God bless yall!
I hope you have a great trip!! I've really noticed a change in the last few days so you should be good 😀
Hey next time you have fried maters get some Sara chia and mix it with dukes mayonnaise and make you a spicy Remoulade to go with them
Beautiful all around, thank you for sharing!
Just beautiful! Thank you.
Your comments about passing down the ageratums reminded me that I have to go to my cousin's house one of these days and get a start of the peonies my great-grandma Greiner had at her house, and then passed them on to my great aunt Orina who passed them down to my cousin :).
I've always loved the fact that the Deer Hunter is not shy about singing the praises of your efforts in the kitchen! He's a keeper !
Thank you so much for sharing your life with us!
Just beautiful flower and cherish those memories of it and for generation to come . Sometimes we are rich by those treasures than money .
Love spending time with Tipper ❤
Hi Tipper
Oh my goodness fried green tomatoes
We love them also …brown gravy is my favorite too … we make it the same way as you do !!!
mom & papa both could make some good brown gravy …I’m glad they taught me how to make it because there both in heaven now 🥲
Our ways are so alike ❤
Just wanted to say how much I enjoy Katie’s music ,she’s so pretty !!!!
Thank you for another awesome video
Brenda
Thank you Brenda!!
Thank you dear Tipper and family, your posts always comfort me as I plough through these dark days.
Bless you Pippin!!
Beautiful landscape with the wind blowing ♥️
The food is always wonderful but the fiddling is superb!! What a delight.
Enjoy your videos very much as an Appalachian gal living in the Midwest. Of all the sights and sounds, the ticking of the electric stove takes me back to living in my Tennessee childhood home where my mama rivaled Tipper as a cook. ❤❤
Glad you like them! 😀
Love the sound of that creek, and love that the water is so clear!!
Great video! Love the variety! That was some good eating! Love everything you fixed. Great scenery as well!
Thanks Tipper!
Enjoyed your video today. Thank you for the sights, sounds and stories from Appalachia.
Thanks for sharing your stories and the beautiful sights around your home.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
For the fried green maters - we put Cajun seasoning in the corn meal/flour & use butter milk instead of milk & egg. In a pinch we often just use milk & lemon juice.
Katie, I loved your fiddle tune very much. Thanks for sharing it.
Very enjoyable just watching your daily routine. It's like being with a friend. Thank you for sharing your life with us. Our family is in the Arkansas Ozarks and all this is so familiar. My 86 year old mother loves watching your shows with me.
Good morning y'all.
Watching you sit on the porch working your beans, reminds me of my granny. I miss her so. Thanks for sharing. Have a blessed weekend. Love y'all.
What a great video . Really enjoyed it
Loved your video. The creek flowing, the fiddle music, breaking beans on the porch, cooking in an iron skillet. I will forever love the memories of my time in southeastern KY.
Love seeing that little creek flow and the other scenery.
Great video! Those fried green tomatoes looked soooooo good!
I enjoy your channel. Your lifestyle is very comforting.
Matt, you just made me hungry it's a beautiful lush forest you have in your backyard, and not only that you had a beautiful moon in the background. Now watching Tipper and Katie doing beans. The watermelons were Fabulous and I remember my mom throwing a spoiled tomato out of the kitchen winter and it hit the big pile of dirt in the back that my father had dug by hand for the septic tank. well by the next summer we had a hill of cherry tomatoes green and red they were really good volunteers as you say. We can't get Green tomatoes unless we grow them ourselves I have yet to see green tomatoes in the grocery store. I love green fried tomatoes as well. Another Lovely video Tipper and everyone. Looked so delecious the end product. Thanks for sharing.
What a lovely video. Thank you.
I really enjoyed this one. Alot of the land seen in all it's splender. I'm with Matt I love fried green tomatoes. I'm a new Yorker with an Appalachian heart
So very peaceful!