Safely Ship Cookies & Bake Goodies in Mail

All the baking in the world of those delicious homemade cookies and goodies won't do a person any good if they arrive as crumbs. Learn how to ship your homemade baked goods to loved ones, friends, college students or our troops by packaging and shipping them correctly. They will taste as fresh as the cookies in Mama's own cookie jar. Article Link Here.

Stuffed & Grilled Jalapeno Peppers

A tasty little grill recipe that oozes cream cheese as it grills slowly over the heat. Serve them up with a juicy steak, spanish rice and short cobs of corn roasted on the grill.

Stuffed & Grilled Jalapeno Pepper Recipe

Snubba's Homemade Chili Recipe

Whether chilly outdoors or hot as a flapjack on a frying pan--we love Snubba's Homemade Chili. A great recipe to make in the slow cooker. Let it simmer all down and let the troops feed themselves as they come in the door. Good for busy days when everyone has their own schedule. Bake up some Spicy Chili Cornbread and you are all set:

Snubba's Homemade Chili Recipe

Southern Relish Recipes

Southern Relish Recipes; One is a hot, spicy relish you can eat right away and the other is a delicious zucchini relish for canning. Grandma sure knew how to make great relish!

Thanksgiving Fruit Cocktail Salad for Your Pilgrims

Serve up a delicious fruit cocktail salad that is sure to please the pilgrims around your Thanksgiving supper table. This is an old family recipe handed down for many generations. Easy to make and it makes a LARGE bowl of salad. So invite plenty of folks over for supper. Great for any occasion, but tradition has it gracing our table every Thanksgiving holiday.

Fruit Cocktail Salad - Old Family Recipe

Woody's Barbecued Roast Beef Marinade

A wonderful marinade for roast beef. Cook your meat on a spit, slowly turning, over a hot BBQ grill and try not to drip saliva down your chin. Delicious marinade for beef. Them southern boys know how to BBQ.

Woody's Barbecued Roast Beef Marinade Recipe

How to Can Mushrooms ~ Especially Wild Ones!

In between providing you recipes, tending the farm and gardening...we've been out picking wild, edible mushrooms. The Chanterelle mushrooms are fabulous this year and we quickly harvested 3 5-gallon buckets of the tasty mushrooms in one mushroom hunt. A couple more buckets and we will have enough pint jars stuffed with Chanterelles to last all year.

Learn how to can mushrooms so you can savor them all year long.

Old Fashion Pickle Recipes: Dill & Beet Pickles

My family has perfected the dill pickle and our pickled beets are favored at many a social function. The basic, old fashion recipe still works best when it comes to pickling.

Old Fashion Pickled Beets Recipe

Grandma's Recipe for Dill Pickles

(These really snap when you bite into them)

Chicken of the Woods: A Wild Edible Mushroom

Chicken of the Woods is a beautifully orange and yellow colored mushroom. When you find it, you will find plenty to can or share with friends.

• Discover Chicken of the Woods Wild Mushrooms

Then learn HOW TO CAN MUSHROOMS, so you can enjoy them all year long.

Pumpkin Butter Jam & Other Pumpkin Recycling Ideas

One of my favorite jams to make in the fall. Recycle those pumpkins and make some yummy treats!

Pumpkin Butter Jam Recipe

Pumpkin-Orange Jam Recipe

Pumpkin Recycling Ideas, Gifts & Recipes

How to Make Homemade Jam

Once you've had homemade jam, you'll never buy store bought jams and jellies again. Learn how simple and quick it is to make preserves in your own home. Making jam for gifts or to be used in a gift basket is an excellent way to show how much you care for someone.

How to Make Homemade Jam

Hot Buttered Rum Batter Recipe

Warm up your toes, your nose and tickle your tummy! There's nothing better than a hot buttered rum on a chilly day. You can make this hot buttered rum batter recipe, stick it in the freezer and just scoop out enough for a few drinks whenever you want. Delicious!

HOT BUTTERED RUM RECIPE

Remove Blueberry Stems the Easy Way

Learn a great trick for removing blueberry stems quickly and easily. Just click here for directions.

Yucky Housecleaning Made Greener

While most of us would rather be doing something more interesting than housecleaning, it is a necessary task in life. Discover how easy these green household cleaners can be made at home. A healthier way to clean both for humans and the environment.

DIY Green Household Cleaning Product Recipes

Fall Cookie Recipes

As the air turns from summer to autumn and the showy leaves of fall start swirling about our feet, it creates an urge in us bakers to get indoors and start baking delicious cookies and fall quick breads. Here are three of my favorite cookie recipes:

• Thanksgiving Fall Cookies
  
• Mrs. Duncan Missouri Sorghum Cookies
  
• Brer Rabbit Molasses Sugar Cookies

The Secret to Sweet Winter Carrots

It isn't how you grow carrots, but how you winter over your carrots that is the secret to producing sweeter tasting carrots from your vegetable garden. Learn how to winter carrots before the next winter frost and you will have sweet winter carrots well into spring.

Winter Carrots get Sweeter with Time

Even the Birds Have to Eat - Pumpkin Seed Bird Treats

Feeding the birds is a good ol' southern tradition. Try making some Pumpkin Seed Bird Treats for your wild bird flock. Great for domestic bird as well.

DIY Gift Baskets

If you are looking to save a few dollars this holiday gift giving season you might consider giving unique gift baskets you can make yourself. People love receiving homemade jams, pickles and other canning or preserves. Learn how to make the following gift baskets:

• Camper Basket ~ For those who love the great outdoors, campers, tenters and the like.
• Healthy Breakfast Basket ~ Know someone on the go? Mornings are hectic. Try this.
• Homemade Preserves Basket ~ Jams & jellies are always greatly appreciated gifts.
• Movie Basket ~ Great for younger families with children or older folks who would rather stay home to watch movies.
• DIY Green Cleaning Products ~ Give the gift of homemade safe, green household cleaning products. Great gift for their health and the environment.

Click here to view all directions, supply lists and recipes for Unique DIY Gift Baskets.

Thanksgiving 2010 Mashed Hubbard Squash Recipe

Serve up a big bowl of Mashed Hubbard Squash instead of potatoes this Thanksgiving and still be able to button your pants the next day. Hubbard Squash is a delicious variety of squash that can be baked in the oven and then whipped up into a gorgeous fall colored orange mashed squash recipe. Go healthy. Avoid those starchy, fattening potatoes.

Mashed Hubbard Squash Recipe Link


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Old-Fashioned & Carmel Popcorn Ball Recipes

Popcorn balls and holidays just go together and nobody knew that better than Grandma. Those huge, delicious old-fashioned popcorn balls were every grandkids favorite when they went to Grandma's house for the holidays. Included are Great-Grandma's Od-Fashioned and Carmel Popcorn Ball recipes.

Popcorn Ball Recipes

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cake

Make a Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cake your kids will absolutely beg for again and again. Moist, delicious and nutritious. Finicky kids will never know your secret ingredient in this cake is zucchini. It is the BEST, SUPER-MOIST CAKE ever. Recipe can be used to make muffins or cupcakes too.

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cake Recipe

Ripen Green Tomatoes

I've thrown in a gardening article because we love using fresh, tomatoes in our recipes and many folks don't realize you can ripen green tomatoes during the winter. Pick them just before the first frost and you will have great tomatoes to use in the kitchen well into next spring.

How to Ripen Green Tomatoes Article

Meadow Mushroom: Discover the Flavor of this Wild Mushroom

Meadow Mushroom Hunting

Mushroom hunting is a great way to spend quality time with family. Meadow Mushrooms are one of the most flavorful and plentiful mushrooms and yet few people know what they are trampling over in their pastures and meadows. If you enjoy Chanterelle, Morel and King Boletus mushrooms you are sure to find the Meadow Mushroom equally pleasing.

The best homemade Cream of Mushroom Soup I ever made used Meadow Mushrooms to bring out the creamiest mushroom flavor ever. Very rich, strong flavor. You don't need too many to cook up a meal and they can be used in main dishes, rice, pastas, goulashes and other recipes. Slice them up for fresh, tossed salads as well. Delicious!

Discover the Meadow Mushroom by learning where, when and how to identify them.

Read: Meadow Mushroom Article

Cooking with Chanterelle Mushrooms

Each fall season sends mushroom hunters after the most delicious, prized mushroom--Chanterelles. The mushroom is a delicious addition to soups, stews, pasta dishes or fried with steak and potatoes. It's fabulous flavors are well-known among backwoods mushroom hunters and are an easy to identify variety. Learn how to easily clean your Chanterelle Mushrooms and then go gather some more.

How to Clean Chanterelle Mushrooms Article

Or Learn

Where to Find Chanterelle Mushrooms Article Link

Every mushroom hunter needs a really good field guide to help them learn about wild mushrooms, how to locate them and how to identify them. A favorite mushroom hunting field guide is 100 Edible Mushrooms.

Southern Recipe Cookbooks

Mama loves her cookbooks, especially those stuffed full of really great southern recipes. Try these excellent cookbooks from Amazon.

Country singer Trisha Yearwood's Georgia Cooking Oklahoma Kitchen is a great southern cookbook.

Or add Y'all Come Eat by Jamie Deen. The Deen brothers know how to cook up some fabulous southern recipes. If you love that cookbook you are sure to enjoy The Deen Family Cookbook by Paula Deen. Click on your favorite cookbook and see what Amazon has to offer.

Plum Butter Jam Recipe

Spread Plum Butter on Sweets

Plum butter is a smooth, slightly spicy butter made using plums. If you like Crab Apple Butter or plain Apple Butter you will enjoy plum butter as well. Plum butter is delicious served on toast, bagels, muffins or even cooking with main dishes. Use it to add flavor to your meals or give as gifts in baskets.


Plum Butter Jam Recipe Link

Crab Apple Butter Recipe

Homemade Jams make Wonderful Gifts

Jam lovers know a good thing when they taste it. If you enjoy Apple Butter, you will love Crab Apple Butter. Made with the tiny red, fall crab apple--and it's spunky tart flavor--this is an old recipe that is sure to spread a few smiles when you bite into toast or a bagel smothered in Crab Apple Butter.

Crab Apple Butter Recipe

Bachelor Jake's Dutch Apple Mini Pies

Like apple pie? What's a bachelor to do when Mama's not around to bake him pie? Try this bachelor invented recipe and you'll be eating fresh, steamy-hot Dutch Apple Pie in less than five minutes. Simple, easy and no mess to clean up. Best of all, it tastes great!

This is my son's southern creation...it is Mama approved.

Bachelor Jake's Dutch Baked Apple Mini Pie Recipe

How to Scale Fish the Easy Way

AWESOME KITCHEN TOOL

DIY PROJECT

Removing scales while cleaning your catch of the day is tough--but making and using this fish scaler is a breeze. Use recycled items to build your own fish scaler in less than 10 minutes. Super easy directions. Great as a gift to the fishing folks in your life or as a kids project for gifts to grandparents. Christmas gift idea.

This isn't a recipe, but it sure makes the cook's job easier. Click on the link to see how to make this great kitchen tool.

How to Make a Fish Scaler Instructions

Hobo Dinners for Hunting Meals

A Hunting We Will Go...

Hunting season is here once again and the men are packing up their gear and setting up camp. Hobo dinners are an easy, inexpensive way to pre-pack meals for your hunting trip. Hunters don't have time for cooking up healthy, good homemade suppers—there’s hunting to be done.

Hobo Dinner Recipe for Hunters & Campers