Tipper! I just want to let you know that I’m a young lady (of 30)who lives in southeast Ohio and I’ve been watching your channel (and your daughters channel too) since this summer and boy has it been an eye opener! I’ve always grown up doing “old timey” things. My summers were filled gardening and staying suffering hot days with a grandma who refused to have anything but antenna TV or air conditioning. I’ve spent many hours at antique power shows and square dances… I never thought it unusual until adulthood. It was then I realized few children were raised in the manner I was. Your channel has explained SO much to me the “why” behind the food, traditions and language of my family. I never thought I had a culture until you! So, a big hearty thank you for explaining , MY Heritage!
Southern Ohio 54 year old man here. It took sometime to realize that this was my culture. Copied from a post Iafe earlier Grandma made the best breakfast. Biscuit and gravy, eggs, salt pork, fried apples
I live watching her channel too! I grew up in Nebraska but my dads family lives in SE Ohio. I spent two weeks every summer with grandparents helping with huge gardens and eating food from cast iron skillets. Fried green tomatoes, homemade noodles, meatloaf, biscuits & Tracey, sausage, stewed tomatoes, cucumbers, eggs fried in bacon freeze, pinto beans & fried potatoes
I'm from the UK, I live in Northern Ireland and I am fascinated by the food you eat. Much of what you eat, we would never eat or you make combinations we would never dream of putting together. Absolutely fascinating. Watching channels like yours, have given me much inspiration on how to change up what we eat..and I've developed a love for pinto beans 🤣
Pinto beans are great with corn bread and butter. I live in WV and the foods you see here is authentic to our area. However, I use buttermilk to make biscuits. and just a little cooking oil in my mix. you want your doe a little dry and be careful not to over work the doe. preheat your oven to 350 degree F And cook until the tops are golden brown. Best of wishes I hope you give this a try.
Loch - When you have gravy and biscuits like this.... you'll NEVER be the same. It turns breakfast into something heavenly. It's love in a spoon. You'll tell everyone you know about it. Looks disgusting. Smells incredible. My mother's side cooked like this every morning and the smell will drag you out of bed and put you in a mood you'll have memories with.
@@birddog7492 - I would like to ask you if your male or female before I get carried away with my next question. It matters. 🤣🤣🤣 And how old of course. 😕 I just can't see marrying a 12 year old female at my age. Buttermilk in biscuits?!? Do you know anyone who broke this Law? 😟
I started making breakfast gravy, biscuits, sausage and eggs when I was five years old. I will be 70 tomorrow. I love buttermilk biscuits, but I also liked the idea of her “two ingredient” biscuits, so I will try these! This young lady really knows her way around an Appalachian kitchen and cast iron skillet!!!
Such a wonderful breakfast. When I was growing up, my mother was a stay-at-home mom and cooked breakfast for all of us (5 kids) every morning during the week before we went to school. Usually fried eggs, bacon, and biscuits, but sometimes pancakes, french toast or maybe just oatmeal. But it was always ready when I came into the kitchen. I took it for granted that every home was the same. I was so blessed. Thank you for sharing your family tradition.
I didn't realize how much I missed watching my grandmother make breakfast. She's been gone almost 30 years now. She grew up in Hendersonville and cooked just like you. Thank you for your videos.
@@horticultureandhomes yes, I had family that did that. I actually live across the Ohio River from Huntington Wv and Ashland Ky. My family is from Virginia/ W. Virginia and didn't go far from there.
When you added that flour to the grease from the sausage I got misty eyed as it reminded me of my grandmother.. God rest her soul.. she made the BEST gravy and I remember so many days growing up and watching her cook.. it was like magic. Thank you for sharing this.
Yes please! Grandma made the best breakfast. Biscuit and gravy, eggs, salt pork, fried apples, bacon, sausage. I make my grandma's breakfast every Sunday, take a while but it's worth it. She made it every day, rising about 4:30 in the morning to get it started. Coupled with a cup of hot coffee I'm in heaven. My best memories of childhood is grandma up making biscuits and gravy.
I don’t think you get enough credit for your video-making skills. Honestly, putting together a video is really an art-from the viewing angle to the lighting and sound (whether ambient or added), to the editing and production-you’ve really got a talent for this and it is part of what has made your channel so successful. Anyone could video themselves cooking, I guess, but not just anyone could make it look so professionally done. 😊👏🏻
I agree! And videos make me feel so at home. Precious memories of my childhood. I still live in the hills but, sadly so many of these traditions are being lost.
I like how you talk about things that are related to the meal. If I was in the kitchen with my Aunt this is the way she would talk through her kitchen tasks.
I almost cried watching this. This is how I was raised to cook and always did until I became disabled and can't any longer. But, I made sure my son knows how ! Thank you for showing the world how and what you do. Unfortunately it's becoming a lost art, but people like you are keeping it alive.
Takes me back to my youth. My great grandmother had 17 kids. When we all visited on holidays, she, my mom and my aunts would cook everyone a big country breakfast like that. Always sounded like an orchestra of pots and pans while they cooked and when us kids would tackle the dishes afterwards.
Man, I cod listen to you all day. When I was 20 I never thought I'd think watching a woman cooking breakfast was cool. Its Cool to see how people in other countries go about their day. Thanks for the culture lesson. Keep the videos coming.
I used your recipe for sausage gravy and biscuits tonight for supper. I crumbled the sausage up in the gravy instead of doing the patties. ANDD let me tell you! The absolute best I've ever had. My husband made several compliments about it. My mama passed away a couple of years ago and there are so many recipes and things I wanted to learn to cook from her... biscuits and gravy were at the top of the list. This was a bigger deal for me. Thank you so much sweet lady! Much love from South Georgia!
This is my first time seeing this channel and I absolutely love her. There is not a drop of arrogance or contempt. Just a sweet hearted good woman cooking for her family. And I will always be happy to see her in my feed.
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This took me back to my Granny cooking breakfast every single morning that we stayed with her as children in West Virginia! To this day, I can't seem to replicate her mastery in the kitchen! She also made the best dinner rolls that I've ever had, and I've never been able to clone them. Unfortunately, the recipe was lost with her, and I can't for the life of me figure it out. As an adult, I've owned my own bakery, filmed with Food Network stars, and had our wedding cakes appear on magazine covers like PEOPLE magazine, and yet - NOTHING that I've accomplished comes close to my Grannies cooking! :)
But your kids or grandkids will say the same about you if you not try to pretend or impress, just pure love and time to share with them. I wish you the best in your culinary business and when doubt, think what Granny will do.
Biscuits and gravy is at the top of the list of my favorites for breakfast. My mouth got to watering just watching this and hearing the sizzle of the sausage was almost too much!
I'm from south-central Kentucky and all of my family going back a ways are from the mountains. I make gravy the same way as you and learned how from my Mother was taught by her Mother. I always crumble up a sausage patty into mine. Definitely not an everyday meal. More likely dinner here and there. Love your page and all the wonderful comments its received. Nice to see our culture appreciated instead of the usual mocking and belittling that is so common place. Keep up the good work!
Breakfast like this is the reason that breakfast has always been and remains my favorite meal. I even like breakfast for supper. Tipper, you’re one heck of a cook! 💯🇺🇸❣️
I’m sitting here remembering what the intermingled smells of country sausage and frying apples are like and I have to say it’s enough to make me cry. Thank you for bringing this back to me. Sometimes it’s the simplest things.
Bittersweet memories. Fried apples were a staple of my grandma's Sunday dinner. Sometimes we had ham, sometimes chicken, sometimes roast beef... But fried apples were regular fare. And when it wasn't fried apples it was her sweet potatoes. My grandma will be gone 11 years this May. And I miss getting together for Sunday dinner with her and Grandpa. You'll never know how golden a simple Sunday meal with loved ones is until they're gone.
Mother used to fix my breakfast just like that with the addition of fried potatoes. She has been gone now for 27 years but when I go into her kitchen, I can still smell her wonderful cooking. Oh man! I miss my little mountain mother.
Ed……country girl here. This was very similar to a Tennessee breakfast like my mother cooked but my sweet mama too made the best little fried potatoes. She diced them really small and added some onions and fried them in some bacon grease. Oh my I haven’t had food that good since I left home. My parents have both passed now but sometimes I can still smell the kitchen smells from my old homeplace. What sweet memories.
@@duranniemanny5181 I was thinking potatoes instead of apples but apples are good. I grew up eating this but mostly with potatoes. Physical labor food. I still eat this occasionally but just for a treat as I live alone but do enjoy cooking/eating. I especially like to pound chicken filets and fry them like chicken fried steak then I freeze them and reheat in the oven and serve with biscuits and gravy and sometimes with sourdough pancakes. I probably eat that as often as sourdough pizza. I make my own bread. I just love this channel. Many of my extended family/relatives were coal miners in West Virginia.
My Mom cooked just like this, she is 90 now and still has the cast iron pans she used all her life. We were very poor when I was a kid but she could make something good out of the simplest things. Thanks for the video it took me to a good place : )
Hang on to those skillets. They are family heirlooms and valuable. If the power goes out you can cook with cast iron on a fire, , in a fireplace or on a a grill. And the way things are going, we might have to go back to some of the old ways .
Ma'am, my family is from the Appalachia mountains, just a touch further north. Every video you make reminds me of my great uncles and aunts, and my great Grannie. Thank you for keeping all this alive.
Tipper, you are such a CLASS ACT! 😁 Dealing with those who are critical (the nerve!) about how you're making YOUR family biscuits, you have dignity and respect and perhaps just a wee smile too. Oh, MY. My utmost respect for you, girl. Well done. AND A GLORIOUS BREAKFAST!
While in my early 20s in the 80s, I learned to make sausage gravy while working at a Bob Evans restaurant. I live in Lima, which is NW Ohio. As a young child we moved there from western Pennsylvania. Mom knew how to make a big traditional breakfast, but she worked and we ate cold cereal or instant oatmeal. I am so glad I learned about country cooking. From that time on, I've learned to cook and bake with cast iron. I just love it. Having a well seasoned skillet is a treasure!
This was pure comfort. I’m Not from anywhere near Appalachia but my grandma and mom cooked like this every weekend here in Ontario 🇨🇦… the only difference is they added maple syrup to everything ( ha so Canadian) LOVED THIS!!!!!! Thank you for a walk down memory lane
I’ll never forget the first time I tried to make gravy with pan drippings! I was newly married, and my Mamie(grandmother) had shown me how to make it when I was a teenager, so I thought it would be simple enough! I added WAY too much flour, but he said it was good even though I’m sure we could have used it for cement!! Thanks for the food memories, blessings!
Apples seem like much a mainstay in Appalachian cuisine; just the same as they are in traditional English cooking and this brings me alot of joy. The sheer amount of varieties, colours, flavours and textures of Apple cultivars is amazing - and their application in pork products is legendary. Truly, apples are an undersung hero of the kitchen; versatile as a vegetable, seasoning and sweet dessert base. Our lives would be infinitely poorer without them.
"I reckon it'll do" dude is served a meal fit for a king 🤴 uh yum big time love the biscuits and everything in between thanks for sharing with all of us
My grandparents were from Tennessee and Virginia. You cook just like they did. Watching and listening to you bring back so many fond memories! Thank you.
The thing I remember most as a child was watching my mother and grandmas hands while they prepared meals or canning food for the family. Maybe it’s kind of silly but I could feel their love by watching there hands! It was kinda like them saying,I love you, just by watching theirs hands and not saying a word.
My 80 year old mamaw, makes the absolute best homemade buttermilk biscuits and she doesn't even measure anything. I've tried may times to get mine like hers but never can. This breakfast reminds me of what my mom used to make before she passed. Love it. ❤️
Reminds me of my own grandma who passed lots of years ago. Put me on a step-stool to watch as a very small child. She eyeballed all her Biscuit ingredients w the palm of her hand. 💗
I grew up in the Ozarks and we ate very similarly. Granny always had her folgers can of bacon grease on the stove that she'd season with. Now there's so much fuss about hydrogenated oil but, bless her, Granny lived to 96. We would have fried apples on occasion but usually it was fried potatoes. And yes, mostly on the weekends. I'm in NC now and have great appreciation for the Appalachian people and their heritage. This is my first time on your channel but I enjoyed it. I will be back.
I learned to cook exactly like you do. My mother's grandfather was from Kentucky via N.C. and so many ways were passed down to my mother from her mother and daddy. I had to laugh when you were making gravy, mine looks exactly like yours. It is just one of those things you grow up making and don't realize other people don't. I really enjoy your videos, keep them coming. Thanks.
My grandmother was from western Kentucky and this video is EXACTLY like her Sunday breakfasts. I know how that room smells and I would give anything to have her food again.
I loved hearing your stories of the food and the history. Thank you for sharing your regional traditions with us. I would love to go down to Appalachia some day.
Tipper, that is a fine breakfast, a traditional country breakfast. In years gone by the apples would have come from their own trees, the eggs came from their own chickens, the sausage would have come from slaughtering their own pigs, the honey from their own bees and the jelly homemade from their own grapes. We were a self-sufficient people. This is the way my grandmother did things. It was not an easy life, they worked very hard.
I had someone who was talking about living off grid, raising all food, etc, say he couldn't wait to buy his land so he could make s'mores over a wood fire everyday and not ever have to work again. I was raised in Tennessee in a two room shotgun house along with my 9 brothers and parents. I was thinking to myself, Lordy this man is in for a shock! I had bigger shoulders and muscles than most male school mates from packing water up hill every day, clearing land, howing weeds, packing wood and coal, etc. Even kids work every day. It's a must. Honestly it was all we knew so we never gave it a second thought. But yes, it is a lot of work!
And if you didn’t have something your neighbors did💞they bartered a lot when I was a kid. My dad would leave fruit with our neighbors and they would put up several jars of whatever jams or jellies they were putting up for us.🌻🫶🏼💞community supporting small businesses and one another.
My father used to make this on Sunday mornings except for the apples, when I was growing up. It is one of my fondest memories with my father. Breakfast for dinner was always pancakes.
The color of the egg yolks proves they’re home grown, and oh my goodness, this video has made me hungry! I’ve not had fried apples before, so I’ll have to make that one of these days.
Oh my breakfast looks sooooo good! Biscuits and gravy are a very rare treat for us. My favorite breakfast is what my family called migas. It’s fried ripped up corn tortillas with eggs scrambled into them. I eat it over refried beans and topped with salsa. So delicious and simple.
You are so blessed to live this life and to have your wonderful memories from your childhood. You brought me to tears with saying you eat an apple a day. My beloved father did too, he lived to be 86, my mother 89. My daddy loved his apples. 🍎 Thank you so much for sharing part of your life with us.
My grandson and I call it “Brenner” breakfast for dinner. I loved waking up to the scent of coffee and bacon, I just knew my Dad was in there cooking us up a feast, biscuits and gravy, eggs and always fried potatoes and sliced tomatoes along with it.
When I was a young girl and we were all gather at my grandmothers house in middle Tennessee for the holidays my grandmother would spend at least an hour and a half or two hours fixing the most amazing breakfast fried squirrel, biscuits and gravy fried sweet potatoes fried apples jams and jellies of all kinds those breakfast were amazing. Oh how I miss those people and those places they are all gone, but I still have the most wonderful memories of my southern heritage. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.
I'm Australian and I can see the breakfast similarities..the sausage the eggs the biscuits, we call them scones and the gravy.. Looked delicious. The Apple with the pork sausage is a winner.
What a delightful breakfast! Love the skillets and coffee percolator, reminds me of my folks. I was a late in life baby, so my pater was 54 when I was born, and my mother nearly 41! I appreciate all the old time recipes and stories. Health problems keep me from doing much, but enjoy living vicariously.
This was so lovely to watch! So many aspects of your kitchen reminded me of my grandmother (I’m 53) especially the Postum beverage jar! Being from the the west coast I’ve never had the infamous biscuits and gravy but admit I’ll have to try your recipe. As a kid, weekend breakfasts for us consisted of eggs Benedict. I then married and spent 15 years in England and adore a classic British fry up of eggs, back bacon, bangers, fried bread, beans, tomato, & mushroom. Often served with what is called ‘brown sauce’. I believe very slowly and outside the plant based movement, the appreciation for buying meat & dairy directly from the farmer is once again gaining traction. Thank you again!
I'm in the foothills of Kentucky. I've been making gravy since a child. I think you were spot on. People ask for the recipe but all I can tell is the ingredients, the rest is process. Couple things to know. #1 Never stop stirring if the pan is hot #2Never add flour after milk to thicken it. That's how lumpy gravy is made. If too thin, boil it down. See #1 #3 brown/milk gravy is made by cooking the grease/flour hot. For whiter gravy add your milk as soon as the flour melts. #4 you can make gravy from countless types of meat. My favorite is bacon gravy with crushed up bits. My kids love hamburger gravy. My wife perfers Chipbeef white gravy on toast or SOS for you military guys. #5 it's great on thick cut tomatoes if you don't make biscuits. That's for you city folks.
I enjoyed seeing your man load his plate up, I bet he enjoyed every mouthful of your beautifully cooked breakfast. Thank you very much for sharing and for your stories of when you were growing up. It feels like my Grandma or Aunty is right here in my own kitchen telling me stories of them growing up. 🙂
I really like the way you cook. Your kitchen is warm and inviting. It just feels familiar. It’s one of those kitchens that always smells delicious, even when there’s nothing in the oven.
Wow, I watched that whole video from start to finish lulled by her voice and accent. What a comforting breakfast meal and we'll made video. I would be so happy if someone made that breakfast for me every weekend! What a mom!!
My mom was a stay @ home worker. She made hot breakfast everyday for dad & all the children. She also packed a brown bag lunch for all of us & sometimes would make us a sub sandwich for lunch with our fruit & cookies. I feel very fortunate. Even though I worked, I made hot breakfast for my children until in high school they asked me to stop. I love your cooking Tipper. My mom was raised in Georgia so a lot of the same food. 🙂
Granny was not a baker, except for baking lots of country hams. But she made the best milk gravy that we would pour over white bread that we tore up and piled high on the plate. One my absolute favorites, like last meal favorites. Thanks for ringing back those good memories cooking for us.
My grandmother made Chocolate gravy when we were kids... I haven't heard someone mention it in a LONG LONG TIME. My grandpa is still alive at 81, and still fixes breakfast every year on Christmas day. Bacon, Country Ham, Sausage, gravy, eggs, biscuits... Before my grandma passed, I'd always try to bring her some things I'd cooked, since she no longer could, and she got a big kick out of it... I'm the only grandkid out of 10 who can actually cook a meal, and thankfully our newborn son will be able to learn and pass down the things I learned from my grandparents
So much like my cooking which I learned from my mother. The fried apples she especially loved. My father was from the mountains of NC. Scotch Irish and my mothers family was from the Statesville Harmony area. Her ancestors were Dutch and German. We had breakfast many many times for supper and I don't think she missed a day that she didn't makes buttermilk biscuits with Dainty Biscuit self rising flour.
This is what my mom fixed nearly every day. She also made what I call tomato gravy. Open a can of stewed tomatoes and thicken with bacon grease and cornstarch. Delicious. Also, I love fried apples and biscuits. Takes me back.
Ms.Pat I live in Satsuma Alabama...about 20 miles north of Mobile Alabama...my WONDERFUL MOM just brought me a pan of thick tomato gravy with chunks of tomatoes & 4 big cat head biscuits last week...MY MOM IS 75 YRS OLD, STILL LOVES TO BAKE ANY DESSERT, STILL LOVES TO COOK A COUNTRY DINNER, STILL KEEPS THE ROADS HOT WITH 4 OF HER CLOSE FRIENDS & IS STILL ABSOLUTELY AMAZING & AWESOME!!!
Aww, I loved this! It reminded me of growing up on the farm here in Arizona. My Grandma made the same kind of breakfasts and boy did your meal remind me of those days. I sure do miss it...and my Grandma. God Bless.
When I was growing up in Southern Ohio everyone made this. I absolutely love biscuits but prefer mine with jam. On a week day I like to eat soup for breakfast. It's weird I know but it's warm and a complete filling meal.
Living down in the NC mountains, we’d make our biscuits in the morning and I would always eat them by sopping up butter with Karo syrup, though my sugar problem is meaning that I can’t really eat like that anymore. Darn it.
I just found your channel today through this video. It warmed my heart. It’s so nice seeing someone make real food. Your cooking looks delicious and I enjoy your disposition. Thank you.
Thanks, that was a fun video to watch! At 77 yrs old I have never had such a big breakfast, and have never had sausage gravy. My mother was very strict about how much fat we ate but.weekend breakfasts were real special though, because we usually had waffles with maple syrup and sometimes bacon with our eggs, fried or lightly scrambled, and always had fresh squeezed orange juice because we lived in California and they grew in grandmas yard alongside an avocado tree and two persimmon trees. My mom told me my first baby foods were from those trees. No wonder I love them. We sure do like what we were raised on, although I never did learn to like venison. My dad was an avid hunter and brought home a yearly buck that everyone but me raved about. I really liked the wild duck and especially the wonderful fresh trout. When our family camped in the high Sierras in the 50s-60s we ate trout for breakfast, lunch and dinner and it was so delicious! Such flavors can't be captured these days! I have advised my grandchildren to veer far away from a path leading to fast food as a substitute for a real meal. Thankfully, they have listened .
The more I learn about the food in the US the more I want. Traditionally I have never eaten sausage, egg and biscuits the way you make them. A similar approach instead of biscuits are using muffins or when camping we make a similar type of dough called damper. Which is pretty much just flour, water and salt (not everyones recipe). Also learning about what catheads are have helped me understand a song I listen to. Thanks for sharing.
Well, that is just Heaven's own breakfast right there! I love making biscuits and gravy on a Saturday, but have never tried the fried apples. I definitely will give those a try this weekend! "Breakfast for Dinner" has long been on the menu in our house, as well as when I was growing up. I don't know what it is about eating breakfast in the evening, but it just seems right some days.
I’m British, and breakfast for dinner (or tea as we call it here, and I don’t mean the drink, which we also have lots of) is super common. I’m sure you’ve heard of a full English breakfast with sausage, bacon, eggs, beans, black pudding (blood sausage), mushrooms, toast, and haggis (I’m Scottish so I like to add it to make a full Scottish breakfast). It’s the ultimate comfort food.
I was raised in Oklshoms and we had Cocoa and Bisquits and sausagebacon fried apples or peaches and always biscuits just like you did. I still love all that stuff today and I am 75 years old. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
I just loved this. We always had fried apples growing up. None of my kids loved them as much as my oldest. I remember when he had his first place his first year in the army. He proudly sent me a picture of a pork chop, fried zucchini, and fried apples. I’ll never forget it! He said it was a meal his mother would love. ❤️ . I think it’s so interesting that my children will continue to make these same foods from their heritage. Thanks to your channel, we have all learned so much! Including my mother who spent many summers in the mountains with her grandparents. So much of her life I’ve been able to ask her about with a whole different understanding. Thank you!
Felt like sitting in my grandmas kitchen, her teaching her traditional ways of cooking telling tales of her youth and just in general be a little escape from reality for the weekend whenever i went there. Thanks alot for the content, brought back a bunch of treasured faded memories. All the best for you and yours this year 🙌🏼
RUclips randomly suggested this video to me, and I’m so glad it did! As a 5th generation Coloradoan, it’s so interesting to watch the traditional ways of other parts of the country. What a great breakfast and you explain things so well 😊
This takes me back to my early days when I was in Knoxville and I was introduced to cat head biscuits along with the most sublime sausage gravy that became my right of passage into the glorious gift of southern cooking,you would make Edna Lewis very proud.
I should never watch your cookin episodes when I'm hungry! Back before I lost little brother, and then Mom, I'd make a Christmas morning feast. Everyone would sleep here the night before. I'd get up early and start the coffee, cooked bacon, then sausage in the bacon grease. Then, I'd make my gravy using condensed milk initially and thin with sweet milk, adding most of the sausage halfway through, whisking non-stop except towards the end when I'd throw the frozen biscuits in the oven (usually let Mom do that though cause she didn't want me to do it all!) and fry or scramble the eggs. Some freshly-made apple butter for a bonus (we had lots of biscuits!). That was a lot of work but everyone really enjoyed it, so it was worth the labor. Others would offer to clean afterwards, so I could sit and rest, being plumb foundered! 😊 Oh to have those times again. 😥
I'd be happy to eat that breakfast :) We too had breakfast for dinner sometimes growing up (dinner = supper in our house), but that was usually a request made to Dad. Mom was much more rules oriented, and she didn't quite approve. Truth be told, Mom was a pretty bad cook - she could stretch a dollar but hated cooking, and it showed. Dad, on the other hand worked as a cook in a restaurant as a teenager, and although his taste has always stayed fairly plain (basic) he can handle things in the kitchen, doesn't hate doing it, and the results are usually quite good. What I like best about this channel is the authenticity; it shows.
Ain’t nothing wrong with eating like this we all know if it ain’t food that’s gonna get us well it’s stress ,love the recipe for everything keep making these videos
This looks like my grandmothers house. I love and have taught my girls here in England to love red eye gravy and milk gravy. It reminds me so much of ear,y mornings in Appalachia
I like the simple way this family eats... I enjoyed the history behind your meal My Grandma always cooked huge breakfast's early by 5a because it fed our large family until she made dinner by 5p- 6 in the evening. Eggs, grits or potatoes/ biscuits any kind of meat we had available bacon, ham, sausage, smothered chicken/ pork chops, hot links and fish. Fruit was peaches, honey dew melons/ cantaloupe/ watermelon, different berries, apples The trip to town was to get barrels with sugar, flour, rice , oatmeal with horse and buggy. We all worked together on the farm😊 Granddaddy had a smoke house and we jarred food, had pecan trees and a yearly garden, never wasted
I absolutely love watching your videos. My Mom used to slice apples and soak them in pancake batter for apple pancakes. You really feel the love in your kitchen! Thank you for sharing. 💚🌷💗💚🌼🕊️💗
Fried apples reminds me of my Dad and Grandmother. They made fried apples a lot with Sunday dinners in the fall. My grandmother would put a little sugar in hers plus some red hot candies in her fried apples. The red hots made it a wonderful color . Writing this I can still smell them cooking on her stove. Love watching your videos.
I'm a Coastal Florida Southerner (yes, we exist), and I love to watch your videos. You're soft spoken and welcoming to all. You're a great cook, as well. God bless you and your family. 🥓🍳
This is how I cook in the north. My great grandmother was from Appalachia, born and raised. She taught us well. Even though I can't eat none of it, I love making this exact breakfast for my family on the weekend. Milk gravy and all!
That gravy looked so good. We like to shred our sausage and then mix it into the gravy to go over the biscuits. We usually only eat a heavy breakfast like that for supper, and just have a lighter breakfast, maybe just an apple or at most a bowl of oatmeal. I definitely agree that making gravy is one of those things you just have to learn by doing, but it's not hard once you figure it out.
That's how my grandparents did it. Just oatmeal every morning and a very light lunch. Meat and home grown vegetables for dinner, maybe some preserved fruit for dessert. My grandfather lived into his 90's and my grandmother is still kicking.
@David Durrett, I agree. My mother taught each of my five younger siblings and me to cook from the age of nine. With experience, I was making good gravy before I was ten as well as cooking many, many other dishes.
That breakfast looks amazing. Growing up here in Hawaii my granny and mom would fry bananas in butter for breakfast. The fried apples look awesome. Thank you for sharing. Have a great Sunday.
I live in NC. My family is from the mountains (we currently live in another part of the state now) and I remember my mom making a lot of the things you cook .. but especially this breakfast. It was so good. I can make this breakfast from memory .. but you know momma or mawmaw always has that touch that just makes it taste so much better. We always had a big breakfast on the weekends just like you described. Thank you for sharing. :)
I don't know much about Appalachian breakfasts, but this looks just like the breakfasts my mom made. She was taught how to cook from my Texan great granny.
Tipper! I just want to let you know that I’m a young lady (of 30)who lives in southeast Ohio and I’ve been watching your channel (and your daughters channel too) since this summer and boy has it been an eye opener! I’ve always grown up doing “old timey” things. My summers were filled gardening and staying suffering hot days with a grandma who refused to have anything but antenna TV or air conditioning. I’ve spent many hours at antique power shows and square dances… I never thought it unusual until adulthood. It was then I realized few children were raised in the manner I was. Your channel has explained SO much to me the “why” behind the food, traditions and language of my family. I never thought I had a culture until you! So, a big hearty thank you for explaining , MY Heritage!
Hello I am in southest ohio too
We appreciate your support! So glad you're enjoying our videos 😀
I just moved to Central OH from southern Ohio.
Southern Ohio 54 year old man here. It took sometime to realize that this was my culture.
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Grandma made the best breakfast. Biscuit and gravy, eggs, salt pork, fried apples
I live watching her channel too! I grew up in Nebraska but my dads family lives in SE Ohio. I spent two weeks every summer with grandparents helping with huge gardens and eating food from cast iron skillets. Fried green tomatoes, homemade noodles, meatloaf, biscuits & Tracey, sausage, stewed tomatoes, cucumbers, eggs fried in bacon freeze, pinto beans & fried potatoes
I'm from the UK, I live in Northern Ireland and I am fascinated by the food you eat. Much of what you eat, we would never eat or you make combinations we would never dream of putting together. Absolutely fascinating. Watching channels like yours, have given me much inspiration on how to change up what we eat..and I've developed a love for pinto beans 🤣
Pinto beans are great with corn bread and butter. I live in WV and the foods you see here is authentic to our area. However, I use buttermilk to make biscuits. and just a little cooking oil in my mix. you want your doe a little dry and be careful not to over work the doe. preheat your oven to 350 degree F And cook until the tops are golden brown. Best of wishes I hope you give this a try.
Loch - When you have gravy and biscuits like this.... you'll NEVER be the same.
It turns breakfast into something heavenly. It's love in a spoon. You'll tell everyone you know about it. Looks disgusting. Smells incredible. My mother's side cooked like this every morning and the smell will drag you out of bed and put you in a mood you'll have memories with.
@@birddog7492 - I would like to ask you if your male or female before I get carried away with my next question. It matters. 🤣🤣🤣 And how old of course. 😕 I just can't see marrying a 12 year old female at my age.
Buttermilk in biscuits?!? Do you know anyone who broke this Law? 😟
So what is different that Irish eat? The only place I've ever wanted to travel is Ireland. Can't afford though. I'm interested.
This is why we American's are fat 😊
I started making breakfast gravy, biscuits, sausage and eggs when I was five years old. I will be 70 tomorrow. I love buttermilk biscuits, but I also liked the idea of her “two ingredient” biscuits, so I will try these! This young lady really knows her way around an Appalachian kitchen and cast iron skillet!!!
If someone made me an amazing hearty breakfast from scratch like this, I wouldn't stop singing their praises for the rest of my life. :)
Such a wonderful breakfast. When I was growing up, my mother was a stay-at-home mom and cooked breakfast for all of us (5 kids) every morning during the week before we went to school. Usually fried eggs, bacon, and biscuits, but sometimes pancakes, french toast or maybe just oatmeal. But it was always ready when I came into the kitchen. I took it for granted that every home was the same. I was so blessed. Thank you for sharing your family tradition.
Your mother sounds wonderful 😀
Mine too 😊
@@CelebratingAppalachia Yes she was. She's been gone over 20 years but I can still hear and see her in my mind in the kitchen in our old house.
@@marktaylor8659 I was just thinking of Pap this morning. It's funny how they can all the sudden pop into your mind like they're still here 😀
It is amazing how some folks can manage all that!
I didn't realize how much I missed watching my grandmother make breakfast. She's been gone almost 30 years now. She grew up in Hendersonville and cooked just like you. Thank you for your videos.
Made biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, bacon ,and fried apples this morning for my family for breakfast in my part of Appalachia- Southern Ohio.
That's great!
An awful lot of Appalachians wound up in OH, MI, and IN working in the auto industry back in the 50's.
@@horticultureandhomes yes, I had family that did that. I actually live across the Ohio River from Huntington Wv and Ashland Ky. My family is from Virginia/ W. Virginia and didn't go far from there.
I grew up in Lavalette, now im in Wisconsin. It's German sausages here so I order mine online. I miss the hills. God Bless.
@@0Hillbilly I understand missing the hills. I think it's in us hill folks dna. 🤔
There’s something very soothing about the way she talks
When you added that flour to the grease from the sausage I got misty eyed as it reminded me of my grandmother.. God rest her soul.. she made the BEST gravy and I remember so many days growing up and watching her cook.. it was like magic. Thank you for sharing this.
I'm from Michigan and we called that kind of gravy "Grandma Gravy" and it was WONDERFUL, and I sure can't make it the way she did! Gosh, I miss her.
Yes please! Grandma made the best breakfast. Biscuit and gravy, eggs, salt pork, fried apples, bacon, sausage.
I make my grandma's breakfast every Sunday, take a while but it's worth it. She made it every day, rising about 4:30 in the morning to get it started. Coupled with a cup of hot coffee I'm in heaven. My best memories of childhood is grandma up making biscuits and gravy.
I don’t think you get enough credit for your video-making skills. Honestly, putting together a video is really an art-from the viewing angle to the lighting and sound (whether ambient or added), to the editing and production-you’ve really got a talent for this and it is part of what has made your channel so successful. Anyone could video themselves cooking, I guess, but not just anyone could make it look so professionally done. 😊👏🏻
Putting together a meal like that is a real art! What a cook!
@@nealgrey6485 Oh, I agree! I’m just pointing out that most comments are about that fact and not about her production skills. Both are outstanding!
I so appreciate your kind words!! Gives me real encouragement 😀
I agree! And videos make me feel so at home. Precious memories of my childhood. I still live in the hills but, sadly so many of these traditions are being lost.
I like how you talk about things that are related to the meal. If I was in the kitchen with my Aunt this is the way she would talk through her kitchen tasks.
I almost cried watching this. This is how I was raised to cook and always did until I became disabled and can't any longer. But, I made sure my son knows how ! Thank you for showing the world how and what you do. Unfortunately it's becoming a lost art, but people like you are keeping it alive.
this is what i see your a woman and a blessing for your family. Ronald Reid from Yukon,ok
Takes me back to my youth. My great grandmother had 17 kids. When we all visited on holidays, she, my mom and my aunts would cook everyone a big country breakfast like that. Always sounded like an orchestra of pots and pans while they cooked and when us kids would tackle the dishes afterwards.
17 kids?!?!?!Holy Moly🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️🙏
I love how your husband shows everyone how to plate the way he likes it!
Man, I cod listen to you all day. When I was 20 I never thought I'd think watching a woman cooking breakfast was cool. Its Cool to see how people in other countries go about their day. Thanks for the culture lesson. Keep the videos coming.
I used your recipe for sausage gravy and biscuits tonight for supper. I crumbled the sausage up in the gravy instead of doing the patties. ANDD let me tell you! The absolute best I've ever had. My husband made several compliments about it. My mama passed away a couple of years ago and there are so many recipes and things I wanted to learn to cook from her... biscuits and gravy were at the top of the list. This was a bigger deal for me. Thank you so much sweet lady! Much love from South Georgia!
Wonderful!! So glad you enjoyed it. I'm so sorry you lost your sweet mama!!
This is my first time seeing this channel and I absolutely love her. There is not a drop of arrogance or contempt. Just a sweet hearted good woman cooking for her family. And I will always be happy to see her in my feed.
I appreciate the kind words thank you for watching!
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This took me back to my Granny cooking breakfast every single morning that we stayed with her as children in West Virginia! To this day, I can't seem to replicate her mastery in the kitchen! She also made the best dinner rolls that I've ever had, and I've never been able to clone them. Unfortunately, the recipe was lost with her, and I can't for the life of me figure it out. As an adult, I've owned my own bakery, filmed with Food Network stars, and had our wedding cakes appear on magazine covers like PEOPLE magazine, and yet - NOTHING that I've accomplished comes close to my Grannies cooking! :)
But your kids or grandkids will say the same about you if you not try to pretend or impress, just pure love and time to share with them.
I wish you the best in your culinary business and when doubt, think what Granny will do.
It might be Angel Biscuits that you're thinking about.
@@mslaurelms1 Angel Biscuits? Now I have to look those up! Thank you! :)
Biscuits and gravy is at the top of the list of my favorites for breakfast. My mouth got to watering just watching this and hearing the sizzle of the sausage was almost too much!
Same here. Floods me with memories of a lot of grandma's and aunts passed and gone.
I'm from south-central Kentucky and all of my family going back a ways are from the mountains. I make gravy the same way as you and learned how from my Mother was taught by her Mother. I always crumble up a sausage patty into mine. Definitely not an everyday meal. More likely dinner here and there. Love your page and all the wonderful comments its received. Nice to see our culture appreciated instead of the usual mocking and belittling that is so common place. Keep up the good work!
Breakfast like this is the reason that breakfast has always been and remains my favorite meal. I even like breakfast for supper.
Tipper, you’re one heck of a cook! 💯🇺🇸❣️
😀 You're so kind thank you!
Same here!! Breakfast is the best! Biscuits n sausage or chocolate gravy 😋
@@gailcurl8663 - I bet you were a real riot at that one party you got invited to all those years ago. 🤣
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I’m sitting here remembering what the intermingled smells of country sausage and frying apples are like and I have to say it’s enough to make me cry. Thank you for bringing this back to me. Sometimes it’s the simplest things.
I can smell the sausage. Yummy
Same, it makes me miss my Gran so much
I could smell that breakfast through the screen. As someone from Appalachia, this really made me crave my grandmother's cooking :)
Bittersweet memories. Fried apples were a staple of my grandma's Sunday dinner. Sometimes we had ham, sometimes chicken, sometimes roast beef... But fried apples were regular fare. And when it wasn't fried apples it was her sweet potatoes.
My grandma will be gone 11 years this May. And I miss getting together for Sunday dinner with her and Grandpa. You'll never know how golden a simple Sunday meal with loved ones is until they're gone.
Mother used to fix my breakfast just like that with the addition of fried potatoes. She has been gone now for 27 years but when I go into her kitchen, I can still smell her wonderful cooking. Oh man! I miss my little mountain mother.
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May she rests in peace. Looks like you had a wonderful mother.
Ed……country girl here. This was very similar to a Tennessee breakfast like my mother cooked but my sweet mama too made the best little fried potatoes. She diced them really small and added some onions and fried them in some bacon grease. Oh my I haven’t had food that good since I left home. My parents have both passed now but sometimes I can still smell the kitchen smells from my old homeplace. What sweet memories.
@@duranniemanny5181 I was thinking potatoes instead of apples but apples are good. I grew up eating this but mostly with potatoes. Physical labor food. I still eat this occasionally but just for a treat as I live alone but do enjoy cooking/eating. I especially like to pound chicken filets and fry them like chicken fried steak then I freeze them and reheat in the oven and serve with biscuits and gravy and sometimes with sourdough pancakes. I probably eat that as often as sourdough pizza. I make my own bread. I just love this channel. Many of my extended family/relatives were coal miners in West Virginia.
My Mom cooked just like this, she is 90 now and still has the cast iron pans she used all her life. We were very poor when I was a kid but she could make something good out of the simplest things. Thanks for the video it took me to a good place : )
Rite old timers could make a meal out of nothing.
Hang on to those skillets. They are family heirlooms and valuable. If the power goes out you can cook with cast iron on a fire, , in a fireplace or on a a grill.
And the way things are going, we might have to go back to some of the old ways .
😳🤯🤩🤩🤩Keep those pans if possible!!!! But if you want to sell one, I’d pay top dollar if they’re in good condition and have been properly treated 🤩🤩
My mom too ,she was from Alabama
@@bigbub5219 Easier when food and rent was affordable.
Ma'am, my family is from the Appalachia mountains, just a touch further north. Every video you make reminds me of my great uncles and aunts, and my great Grannie. Thank you for keeping all this alive.
Wow, thank you 😀
This the mama everyone needs and wants.
Tipper, you are such a CLASS ACT! 😁 Dealing with those who are critical (the nerve!) about how you're making YOUR family biscuits, you have dignity and respect and perhaps just a wee smile too. Oh, MY. My utmost respect for you, girl. Well done. AND A GLORIOUS BREAKFAST!
Thank you for the kind words 😀 Hope you have a great week!
Bless thier hearts.👏
While in my early 20s in the 80s, I learned to make sausage gravy while working at a Bob Evans restaurant. I live in Lima, which is NW Ohio. As a young child we moved there from western Pennsylvania. Mom knew how to make a big traditional breakfast, but she worked and we ate cold cereal or instant oatmeal. I am so glad I learned about country cooking. From that time on, I've learned to cook and bake with cast iron. I just love it. Having a well seasoned skillet is a treasure!
This was pure comfort. I’m
Not from anywhere near Appalachia but my grandma and mom cooked like this every weekend here in Ontario 🇨🇦… the only difference is they added maple syrup to everything ( ha so Canadian)
LOVED THIS!!!!!! Thank you for a walk down memory lane
I’ll never forget the first time I tried to make gravy with pan drippings! I was newly married, and my Mamie(grandmother) had shown me how to make it when I was a teenager, so I thought it would be simple enough! I added WAY too much flour, but he said it was good even though I’m sure we could have used it for cement!! Thanks for the food memories, blessings!
Apples seem like much a mainstay in Appalachian cuisine; just the same as they are in traditional English cooking and this brings me alot of joy. The sheer amount of varieties, colours, flavours and textures of Apple cultivars is amazing - and their application in pork products is legendary.
Truly, apples are an undersung hero of the kitchen; versatile as a vegetable, seasoning and sweet dessert base. Our lives would be infinitely poorer without them.
We love apples 😀
My name is Mr Peepers
We had apple trees
Apples and pork is very English.
"I reckon it'll do" dude is served a meal fit for a king 🤴 uh yum big time love the biscuits and everything in between thanks for sharing with all of us
My grandparents were from Tennessee and Virginia. You cook just like they did. Watching and listening to you bring back so many fond memories! Thank you.
The thing I remember most as a child was watching my mother and grandmas hands while they prepared meals or canning food for the family. Maybe it’s kind of silly but I could feel their love by watching there hands! It was kinda like them saying,I love you, just by watching theirs hands and not saying a word.
My 80 year old mamaw, makes the absolute best homemade buttermilk biscuits and she doesn't even measure anything. I've tried may times to get mine like hers but never can. This breakfast reminds me of what my mom used to make before she passed. Love it. ❤️
Buttermilk and lard are the best for biscuits.
I always use buttermilk & Hussons Cream self rising flour & that's it. I melt bacon grease in a hot iron skillet & bake them. 😋
I think there's an unwritten rule where all mamaws agree to never measure anything. It's a way to keep the next generation on their toes.
@@Riskmangler I think you are right! Lol
Just keep at it-
All that practice is what makes mammow’s biscuits so good.
You’ll get there!
This is the kind of breakfast my grandmother would always cook when we were at the farm.
Reminds me of my own grandma who passed lots of years ago. Put me on a step-stool to watch as a very small child. She eyeballed all her Biscuit ingredients w the palm of her hand. 💗
I grew up in the Ozarks and we ate very similarly. Granny always had her folgers can of bacon grease on the stove that she'd season with. Now there's so much fuss about hydrogenated oil but, bless her, Granny lived to 96. We would have fried apples on occasion but usually it was fried potatoes. And yes, mostly on the weekends. I'm in NC now and have great appreciation for the Appalachian people and their heritage. This is my first time on your channel but I enjoyed it. I will be back.
Welcome to our channel and thank you 😀
@Harold Zwingley that's right, I was thinking of trans fat.
I learned to cook exactly like you do. My mother's grandfather was from Kentucky via N.C. and so many ways were passed down to my mother from her mother and daddy. I had to laugh when you were making gravy, mine looks exactly like yours. It is just one of those things you grow up making and don't realize other people don't. I really enjoy your videos, keep them coming. Thanks.
My grandmother was from western Kentucky and this video is EXACTLY like her Sunday breakfasts. I know how that room smells and I would give anything to have her food again.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing. Fulton county, KY and this reminds me way too much of growing up there.
My Appalachian Pippa, always gauged his breakfast by fried apples, if he had them he had a good breakfast!🐶🐱🐈
Love that 😀
I loved hearing your stories of the food and the history. Thank you for sharing your regional traditions with us. I would love to go down to Appalachia some day.
Tipper, that is a fine breakfast, a traditional country breakfast. In years gone by the apples would have come from their own trees, the eggs came from their own chickens, the sausage would have come from slaughtering their own pigs, the honey from their own bees and the jelly homemade from their own grapes. We were a self-sufficient people. This is the way my grandmother did things. It was not an easy life, they worked very hard.
Not every one has given up the old ways ,instead of honey we make sorghum molasses, even the milk and cream comes from our milk cow
I had someone who was talking about living off grid, raising all food, etc, say he couldn't wait to buy his land so he could make s'mores over a wood fire everyday and not ever have to work again. I was raised in Tennessee in a two room shotgun house along with my 9 brothers and parents. I was thinking to myself, Lordy this man is in for a shock! I had bigger shoulders and muscles than most male school mates from packing water up hill every day, clearing land, howing weeds, packing wood and coal, etc. Even kids work every day. It's a must. Honestly it was all we knew so we never gave it a second thought. But yes, it is a lot of work!
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@@Thehubb1 The past one and maybe the future one as well.
And if you didn’t have something your neighbors did💞they bartered a lot when I was a kid. My dad would leave fruit with our neighbors and they would put up several jars of whatever jams or jellies they were putting up for us.🌻🫶🏼💞community supporting small businesses and one another.
My father used to make this on Sunday mornings except for the apples, when I was growing up. It is one of my fondest memories with my father.
Breakfast for dinner was always pancakes.
The color of the egg yolks proves they’re home grown, and oh my goodness, this video has made me hungry! I’ve not had fried apples before, so I’ll have to make that one of these days.
Oh my breakfast looks sooooo good! Biscuits and gravy are a very rare treat for us. My favorite breakfast is what my family called migas. It’s fried ripped up corn tortillas with eggs scrambled into them. I eat it over refried beans and topped with salsa. So delicious and simple.
You are so blessed to live this life and to have your wonderful memories from your childhood. You brought me to tears with saying you eat an apple a day. My beloved father did too, he lived to be 86, my mother 89. My daddy loved his apples. 🍎 Thank you so much for sharing part of your life with us.
My grandson and I call it “Brenner” breakfast for dinner. I loved waking up to the scent of coffee and bacon, I just knew my Dad was in there cooking us up a feast, biscuits and gravy, eggs and always fried potatoes and sliced tomatoes along with it.
Love that!
We call it the same thing. Probably have breakfast for dinner a few times a month.
When I was a young girl and we were all gather at my grandmothers house in middle Tennessee for the holidays my grandmother would spend at least an hour and a half or two hours fixing the most amazing breakfast fried squirrel, biscuits and gravy fried sweet potatoes fried apples jams and jellies of all kinds those breakfast were amazing. Oh how I miss those people and those places they are all gone, but I still have the most wonderful memories of my southern heritage. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.
Fried squirrel, what does that taste like
Breakfasts for supper is this girl's favorite.
I had breakfast for dinner last night 🤤
I'm Australian and I can see the breakfast similarities..the sausage the eggs the biscuits, we call them scones and the gravy..
Looked delicious.
The Apple with the pork sausage is a winner.
What a delightful breakfast! Love the skillets and coffee percolator, reminds me of my folks. I was a late in life baby, so my pater was 54 when I was born, and my mother nearly 41! I appreciate all the old time recipes and stories. Health problems keep me from doing much, but enjoy living vicariously.
So glad you enjoy our videos 😀
This was so lovely to watch! So many aspects of your kitchen reminded me of my grandmother (I’m 53) especially the Postum beverage jar! Being from the the west coast I’ve never had the infamous biscuits and gravy but admit I’ll have to try your recipe. As a kid, weekend breakfasts for us consisted of eggs Benedict. I then married and spent 15 years in England and adore a classic British fry up of eggs, back bacon, bangers, fried bread, beans, tomato, & mushroom. Often served with what is called ‘brown sauce’. I believe very slowly and outside the plant based movement, the appreciation for buying meat & dairy directly from the farmer is once again gaining traction. Thank you again!
I'm in the foothills of Kentucky. I've been making gravy since a child. I think you were spot on. People ask for the recipe but all I can tell is the ingredients, the rest is process. Couple things to know.
#1 Never stop stirring if the pan is hot
#2Never add flour after milk to thicken it. That's how lumpy gravy is made. If too thin, boil it down. See #1
#3 brown/milk gravy is made by cooking the grease/flour hot. For whiter gravy add your milk as soon as the flour melts.
#4 you can make gravy from countless types of meat. My favorite is bacon gravy with crushed up bits. My kids love hamburger gravy. My wife perfers Chipbeef white gravy on toast or SOS for you military guys.
#5 it's great on thick cut tomatoes if you don't make biscuits. That's for you city folks.
My family is from southwest Virginia and my grandmother had made similar breakfasts whenever we visited. This brings back lots of memories. Thank You.
What we share as a people in this country. A big breakfast in all it variety. Why can't we get along? We share so much. Boy, that looked so good!!!!!
Yep!
Fried apples were always my favorite snack after getting home from school. This brought back a lot of nostalgia. ❤️
I'm glad you enjoyed it Molly 😀
I enjoyed seeing your man load his plate up, I bet he enjoyed every mouthful of your beautifully cooked breakfast. Thank you very much for sharing and for your stories of when you were growing up. It feels like my Grandma or Aunty is right here in my own kitchen telling me stories of them growing up. 🙂
I really like the way you cook. Your kitchen is warm and inviting. It just feels familiar. It’s one of those kitchens that always smells delicious, even when there’s nothing in the oven.
Wow, I watched that whole video from start to finish lulled by her voice and accent. What a comforting breakfast meal and we'll made video. I would be so happy if someone made that breakfast for me every weekend! What a mom!!
My mom was a stay @ home worker. She made hot breakfast everyday for dad & all the children. She also packed a brown bag lunch for all of us & sometimes would make us a sub sandwich for lunch with our fruit & cookies. I feel very fortunate. Even though I worked, I made hot breakfast for my children until in high school they asked me to stop. I love your cooking Tipper. My mom was raised in Georgia so a lot of the same food. 🙂
Granny was not a baker, except for baking lots of country hams. But she made the best milk gravy that we would pour over white bread that we tore up and piled high on the plate. One my absolute favorites, like last meal favorites. Thanks for ringing back those good memories cooking for us.
My grandmother made Chocolate gravy when we were kids... I haven't heard someone mention it in a LONG LONG TIME.
My grandpa is still alive at 81, and still fixes breakfast every year on Christmas day.
Bacon, Country Ham, Sausage, gravy, eggs, biscuits...
Before my grandma passed, I'd always try to bring her some things I'd cooked, since she no longer could, and she got a big kick out of it... I'm the only grandkid out of 10 who can actually cook a meal, and thankfully our newborn son will be able to learn and pass down the things I learned from my grandparents
So much like my cooking which I learned from my mother. The fried apples she especially loved. My father was from the mountains of NC. Scotch Irish and my mothers family was from the Statesville Harmony area. Her ancestors were Dutch and German. We had breakfast many many times for supper and I don't think she missed a day that she didn't makes buttermilk biscuits with Dainty Biscuit self rising flour.
I remember my grandma making this. Can't wait to cook this up and give my Aussie daughter a taste of my birth country.
Awesome breakfast!! Just like i made before i got disabled. A very bad back unfortunately. God bless you! I live in Appalachia too. Country cook.
This is what my mom fixed nearly every day. She also made what I call tomato gravy. Open a can of stewed tomatoes and thicken with bacon grease and cornstarch. Delicious. Also, I love fried apples and biscuits. Takes me back.
Ms.Pat I live in Satsuma Alabama...about 20 miles north of Mobile Alabama...my WONDERFUL MOM just brought me a pan of thick tomato gravy with chunks of tomatoes & 4 big cat head biscuits last week...MY MOM IS 75 YRS OLD, STILL LOVES TO BAKE ANY DESSERT, STILL LOVES TO COOK A COUNTRY DINNER, STILL KEEPS THE ROADS HOT WITH 4 OF HER CLOSE FRIENDS & IS STILL ABSOLUTELY AMAZING & AWESOME!!!
@@randymiller3949 OH, wow! I'm older than your mom. I'm 78, but I still love down-home cooking.
Tomato gravy pulled apart bread fried taters an liver wurst was a regular meal for us .my mouth waters at the thought
Aww, I loved this! It reminded me of growing up on the farm here in Arizona. My Grandma made the same kind of breakfasts and boy did your meal remind me of those days. I sure do miss it...and my Grandma. God Bless.
When I was growing up in Southern Ohio everyone made this. I absolutely love biscuits but prefer mine with jam. On a week day I like to eat soup for breakfast. It's weird I know but it's warm and a complete filling meal.
Living down in the NC mountains, we’d make our biscuits in the morning and I would always eat them by sopping up butter with Karo syrup, though my sugar problem is meaning that I can’t really eat like that anymore. Darn it.
It’s so good to see folks cook like we do. Your channel is such a blessing!
Thanks so much 😀
I just found your channel today through this video. It warmed my heart. It’s so nice seeing someone make real food. Your cooking looks delicious and I enjoy your disposition. Thank you.
Thanks, that was a fun video to watch! At 77 yrs old I have never had such a big breakfast, and have never had sausage gravy. My mother was very strict about how much fat we ate but.weekend breakfasts were real special though, because we usually had waffles with maple syrup and sometimes bacon with our eggs, fried or lightly scrambled, and always had fresh squeezed orange juice because we lived in California and they grew in grandmas yard alongside an avocado tree and two persimmon trees. My mom told me my first baby foods were from those trees. No wonder I love them. We sure do like what we were raised on, although I never did learn to like venison. My dad was an avid hunter and brought home a yearly buck that everyone but me raved about. I really liked the wild duck and especially the wonderful fresh trout. When our family camped in the high Sierras in the 50s-60s we ate trout for breakfast, lunch and dinner and it was so delicious! Such flavors can't be captured these days! I have advised my grandchildren to veer far away from a path leading to fast food as a substitute for a real meal. Thankfully, they have listened
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The more I learn about the food in the US the more I want. Traditionally I have never eaten sausage, egg and biscuits the way you make them. A similar approach instead of biscuits are using muffins or when camping we make a similar type of dough called damper. Which is pretty much just flour, water and salt (not everyones recipe). Also learning about what catheads are have helped me understand a song I listen to. Thanks for sharing.
Your children will have suck wonderful memories of the meals and family time you had together. What a Blessing! 👍🙏😊😘
Well, that is just Heaven's own breakfast right there! I love making biscuits and gravy on a Saturday, but have never tried the fried apples. I definitely will give those a try this weekend! "Breakfast for Dinner" has long been on the menu in our house, as well as when I was growing up. I don't know what it is about eating breakfast in the evening, but it just seems right some days.
Breakfast for dinner is the best comfort food.
I’m British, and breakfast for dinner (or tea as we call it here, and I don’t mean the drink, which we also have lots of) is super common. I’m sure you’ve heard of a full English breakfast with sausage, bacon, eggs, beans, black pudding (blood sausage), mushrooms, toast, and haggis (I’m Scottish so I like to add it to make a full Scottish breakfast). It’s the ultimate comfort food.
I was raised in Oklshoms and we had Cocoa and Bisquits and sausagebacon fried apples or peaches and always biscuits just like you did. I still love all that stuff today and I am 75 years old. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
You had fried peaches?? I have never heard of that. Interesting!
I just loved this. We always had fried apples growing up. None of my kids loved them as much as my oldest. I remember when he had his first place his first year in the army. He proudly sent me a picture of a pork chop, fried zucchini, and fried apples. I’ll never forget it! He said it was a meal his mother would love. ❤️ . I think it’s so interesting that my children will continue to make these same foods from their heritage. Thanks to your channel, we have all learned so much! Including my mother who spent many summers in the mountains with her grandparents. So much of her life I’ve been able to ask her about with a whole different understanding. Thank you!
Fresh tomatoes sliced in the gravy is so good we cook this way in mississippi also its good eating
Afternoon/Evening Miss Tipper this could make me hungry.
😀 It just might! Hope you've had a good day 😀
Makes you hungry! I gain weight every time I watch her cook.😂
Felt like sitting in my grandmas kitchen, her teaching her traditional ways of cooking telling tales of her youth and just in general be a little escape from reality for the weekend whenever i went there.
Thanks alot for the content, brought back a bunch of treasured faded memories. All the best for you and yours this year 🙌🏼
RUclips randomly suggested this video to me, and I’m so glad it did! As a 5th generation Coloradoan, it’s so interesting to watch the traditional ways of other parts of the country. What a great breakfast and you explain things so well 😊
Thank you for watching glad you enjoyed 😀
This takes me back to my early days when I was in Knoxville and I was introduced to cat head biscuits along with the most sublime sausage gravy that became my right of passage into the glorious gift of southern cooking,you would make Edna Lewis very proud.
I should never watch your cookin episodes when I'm hungry!
Back before I lost little brother, and then Mom, I'd make a Christmas morning feast. Everyone would sleep here the night before. I'd get up early and start the coffee, cooked bacon, then sausage in the bacon grease. Then, I'd make my gravy using condensed milk initially and thin with sweet milk, adding most of the sausage halfway through, whisking non-stop except towards the end when I'd throw the frozen biscuits in the oven (usually let Mom do that though cause she didn't want me to do it all!) and fry or scramble the eggs. Some freshly-made apple butter for a bonus (we had lots of biscuits!). That was a lot of work but everyone really enjoyed it, so it was worth the labor. Others would offer to clean afterwards, so I could sit and rest, being plumb foundered! 😊 Oh to have those times again. 😥
frozen biscuits? don't be cursin on this page
I'd be happy to eat that breakfast :) We too had breakfast for dinner sometimes growing up (dinner = supper in our house), but that was usually a request made to Dad. Mom was much more rules oriented, and she didn't quite approve. Truth be told, Mom was a pretty bad cook - she could stretch a dollar but hated cooking, and it showed. Dad, on the other hand worked as a cook in a restaurant as a teenager, and although his taste has always stayed fairly plain (basic) he can handle things in the kitchen, doesn't hate doing it, and the results are usually quite good. What I like best about this channel is the authenticity; it shows.
Ain’t nothing wrong with eating like this we all know if it ain’t food that’s gonna get us well it’s stress ,love the recipe for everything keep making these videos
You are a goddess of the kitchen..
I am in envy of your family breakfast.
Thank you so much 😀
This looks like my grandmothers house. I love and have taught my girls here in England to love red eye gravy and milk gravy. It reminds me so much of ear,y mornings in Appalachia
I like the simple way this family eats...
I enjoyed the history behind your meal
My Grandma always cooked huge breakfast's early by 5a because it fed our large family until she made dinner by 5p- 6 in the evening.
Eggs, grits or potatoes/ biscuits any kind of meat we had available bacon, ham, sausage, smothered chicken/ pork chops, hot links and fish. Fruit was peaches, honey dew melons/ cantaloupe/ watermelon, different berries, apples
The trip to town was to get barrels with sugar, flour, rice , oatmeal with horse and buggy.
We all worked together on the farm😊
Granddaddy had a smoke house and we jarred food, had pecan trees and a yearly garden, never wasted
I absolutely love watching your videos. My Mom used to slice apples and soak them in pancake batter for apple pancakes. You really feel the love in your kitchen! Thank you for sharing. 💚🌷💗💚🌼🕊️💗
Fried apples reminds me of my Dad and Grandmother. They made fried apples a lot with Sunday dinners in the fall. My grandmother would put a little sugar in hers plus some red hot candies in her fried apples. The red hots made it a wonderful color . Writing this I can still smell them cooking on her stove. Love watching your videos.
I'm a Coastal Florida Southerner (yes, we exist), and I love to watch your videos. You're soft spoken and welcoming to all. You're a great cook, as well.
God bless you and your family.
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Thank you 😀
This is how I cook in the north. My great grandmother was from Appalachia, born and raised. She taught us well. Even though I can't eat none of it, I love making this exact breakfast for my family on the weekend. Milk gravy and all!
That gravy looked so good. We like to shred our sausage and then mix it into the gravy to go over the biscuits.
We usually only eat a heavy breakfast like that for supper, and just have a lighter breakfast, maybe just an apple or at most a bowl of oatmeal.
I definitely agree that making gravy is one of those things you just have to learn by doing, but it's not hard once you figure it out.
Thank you David! I used to work with a lady who made her gravy like that-it was good 😀
Oh yeah, even most of the little Diners around here serve sausage gravy.
That's how my grandparents did it. Just oatmeal every morning and a very light lunch. Meat and home grown vegetables for dinner, maybe some preserved fruit for dessert. My grandfather lived into his 90's and my grandmother is still kicking.
@David Durrett, I agree. My mother taught each of my five younger siblings and me to cook from the age of nine. With experience, I was making good gravy before I was ten as well as cooking many, many other dishes.
I feel that if everybody in the world could experience biscuits and gravy, we would have a much better, peaceful world.
That breakfast looks amazing. Growing up here in Hawaii my granny and mom would fry bananas in butter for breakfast. The fried apples look awesome. Thank you for sharing. Have a great Sunday.
I've never had fried bananas 😀 I bet my girls would love them.
I live in NC. My family is from the mountains (we currently live in another part of the state now) and I remember my mom making a lot of the things you cook .. but especially this breakfast. It was so good. I can make this breakfast from memory .. but you know momma or mawmaw always has that touch that just makes it taste so much better. We always had a big breakfast on the weekends just like you described. Thank you for sharing. :)
I can smell the love in your cooking from here. You remind me so much of my great grandma Tipper. Thanks for the great videos!
I don't know much about Appalachian breakfasts, but this looks just like the breakfasts my mom made. She was taught how to cook from my Texan great granny.