💕🍳Heart of the Home 🥘💕​

I'm just an old time, country cook. I learned most of my recipes and techniques from my mother, grandmother, aunts, mother-in-law, neighbors and even my husband! Although I wasn't very interested when I was young, I quickly learned the need for cooking when I got married and had a family. And I discovered my joy for cooking! 

Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay

Tips forEveryday: 

• ​If you're late getting supper started, fry up an onion right before your husband comes home. He'll get in a good mood fast when he smells food cooking. Tip from an older lady on keeping your husband happy.

Honeysuckle Farmhouse
One of my first blogs

Chosen as 2010 Top Southern Style
American Cuisine
Blog Award:
CookingSchools.net

Appetizers
Bar-b Que & Grilling  
Breads
Breakfast & Brunch - Coming Soon
Canning 
Condiments
Desserts
Entrees
Pantry Staples
Salads - Coming Soon
Side Dishes
Soups & Stews - Coming Soon

Grandmother

As you can tell from most of my recipes - I'm a Southerner...No apologies here! From my early childhood I can remember shucking corn, shelling Purple Hull peas on the front porch swing, eating peaches and plums straight off the trees, Grandpa walking across a big field to pick figs that were growing along the back fencerow, picking (cutting) okra, fried okra, my grandmothers' homemade peach cobbler with homemade ice cream, and so many other memories that I hold dear. READ MORE HERE and HERE
​More soon. . .

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“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful.
They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.” 
~Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues

SouthernGoodness

• Camellia Beans
• China Doll Rice
• Dixie Lily flour
• ​Dixie Lily Grits
• Jim Dandy Grits
• Luzianne Tea
• Martha White flour
• Southern Charm (either the name changed or they are out of business now)
• Wickles Pickles 
• Red Diamond tea​

Little Extras

Housewarming

THE PERFECT HOUSEWARMING GIFTS
Bread: So that this house may never know hunger. 
Salt: Given with the message “That life may always have flavor.” 
Sugar: Means “So your life shall always have sweetness.” 
Wine: Symbolize's the hope “That joy and prosperity may reign forever.” 
Honey: So that you may always enjoy the sweetness of life. 
Broom: “To help sweep away any evil.”

Amazon Kitchen and Dining

More soon. . .

MyFavoriteRecipes

(coming soon):

• Turkey Tetrazzini 
• Turkey Salad 
• Persimmon Bread 
• ​One Cup Cobbler 
• Orange Slice Cake​
• Chicken Cobbler
• Chicken Spaghetti​

Kitchen

"A good housekeeper is an executive officer, an accountant. She knows sanitation and hygiene; is a household physician and a nurse, she should have a social sense so as to make her family and guests feel at ease and happy." ~Mabel Kittredge, 1918 

​ Pies. . .

Who loves pies???
Desserts and Teatime Goodies 
More pie recipes coming soon.

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Peach Cobbler

Peach cobbler for dessert. Quick, easy, yummy. 1-1/2 cups self rising flour, 3/4 cup sugar, 3/4 cup milk, 1/2 stick butter and a 15 oz can of sliced peaches in heavy syrup. Melt butter in pan, pour in the can of peaches undrained, mix other ingredients in a bowl and pour over the peaches. Bake at 375 degrees for about 25 mins or until golden brown. #peachcobbler 😋

Some photos in slideshow from Pixabay. (No way to link or add to the caption in the slideshow)