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The perfect holiday meal

By Jackie Clay Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 There are no cultures in the world, nor have there been, that did not have feast days. From prehistoric times to yesterday, food has always played an important...

Sweet pepper salad

Recipe of the Week Sweet pepper salad Courtesy of Alice Brantley Yeager You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients 4 medium sweet peppers, blocky, cubanelle, or blunt type 4 medium tomatoes, sliced 2 cups cooked...

Boiled crawfish

Recipe of the Week Boiled crawfish Courtesy of James Robertson You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients 1 sack of live crawfish (35-40 lbs.) 2 26-oz. boxes of salt 5 medium onions, halved 1/2 4-oz. bottle...

Piccalilli — A late summer bonus

By Marcia E. Brown Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 Popularity of the movie Fried Green Tomatoes has sparked new interest the last few years in those ubiquitous green tomatoes that many gardeners have in plenty near...

Ham & Kidney Bean Soup

Recipe of the Week Ham & Kidney Bean Soup Courtesy of Beverly Rossman Ingredients 1 pound spicy or sweet Italian sausage 2 Smoked pork hocks, sawed in half by butcher. 3 medium Potatoes, peeled and cubed 3 Celery...

Cheddar Breakfast Pizza

Recipe of the Week Cheddar Breakfast Pizza Courtesy of Martin Rimmele Ingredients 1 package (15 ounces) refrigerated pie crust 1 cup ricotta cheese 6 slices bacon, cooked, drained and crumbled 1-1/4 cups apple pie filling...

Quince preserves

Recipe of the Week Quince preserves Courtesy of Jackie Clay You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients 3 cups sugar 2 qts. water 7 cups pared, cored, quartered quinces Method When preparing quinces, discard all gritty parts....

Healthy holiday munchies — Guaranteed to take the sneak out of snacking

By Linda Gabris Issue #102 • November/December, 2006 For many folks, holidays are the hardest time of the year to stick with sensible eating habits since seasonal entertaining revolves around so many traditional offerings of sweet...

The convenience of a bread bucket

By Karen Marshall Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 Does making four or more loaves of bread at a time, with no hand kneading, no electricity, and only one container to clean sound appealing? If making one loaf...

Baking Bread

By Linda Gabris Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 Growing up in the rural woods miles away from the nearest country store, store-bought bread was seldom seen in Grandma’s house. So to keep up with demand, she...

Bacon-Avocado Potato Salad

Recipe of the Week Bacon-Avocado Potato Salad Courtesy of Mavis Linder Ingredients 6 medium boiling potatoes 2 avocados, cubed 8 slices bacon 1/2 cup chopped onions, chopped 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice 1/2 cup white wine 1/4 cup...

Garlic – the glorious bulb

By Linda Gabris Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Whether you know it as ail in French, lashun in Hindi, da suan in Chinese, aglio in Italian, fokhagyma in Hungarian or plain old garlic in English, the...

Pasteurizing milk

By Patrice Lewis Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 In the last hundred years of urban migration, the home or small farm dairy became a lost breed. Who needed to keep a cow when it was so...

Eggplant salad

Recipe of the Week Eggplant salad Courtesy of Habeeb Salloum You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients 1 large eggplant (about 2 lbs.) oil for frying 4 cloves garlic, crushed 1 small hot pepper, very finely...

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

By Richard Blunt Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 The southern region of the United States is almost as big as Western Europe, and despite the stereotype that non-Southerners havethat there is only one Southwhen someone says,...

Lazy housewife pickles

Recipe of the Week Lazy housewife pickles Courtesy of Jackie Clay You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients 4 qts. small cucumbers 1 cup dry mustard 1 cup sugar 1 cup salt 1 gallon vinegar Method Wash the cucumbers,...