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The BEST Appalachian Recipes for Cozy, Fall, Comfort Food
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items Although you might assume that all Southern cuisine is the same, there are actually a lot of distinct regions with unique culinary traditions. Traditional cooking and food preservation methods and recipes vary even within a single state. In Kentucky,...
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Appetizers/Soups
Breakfast
Lunch/Dinner
Desserts
Appetizers/Soups
Like the rest of the country, I've discovered that most people's palates have widened in this mountainous region. They now adore the flavor of Chinese, Mexican, and other well-seasoned cuisine. Despite this, there is still a desire for the traditiona...
Cornbread Salad Recipe - Allrecipes
A mountain favorite for breakfast, lunch, or dinner are freshly made biscuits. These timeless, buttery, buttermilk biscuits are the ideal choice if you're searching for the ideal biscuit. Look for White Lily self-rising flour for the best results; th...
Classic Southern Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe
With just three basic ingredients, Dolly Parton's skillet cornbread recipe is ideal for time-pressed cooks. It's the closest thing I could find to my own, which has been passed down through four generations of women in my family. All you have to do i...
Dolly Parton's Cornbread Recipe
Any local will tell you that a good basic "tater soup" is a must-have for Appalachian Mountain food culture. Yes, the Appalachian Mountains in the southern United States experience long, frigid winters that occasionally drop into the teens. Nothing c...
The Ultimate Creamy Potato Soup - Sugar Spun Run
Breakfast
In Appalachia, red-eye gravy is a traditional breakfast companion. Black coffee (the stronger, the better) and fried country ham are the two foods needed to make red-eye gravy. In contrast to a thicker, cream-based gravy, it is usually a thinner sauc...
Country Ham and Red Eye Gravy
In fact, I've discovered that the groceries cost more than in many of the places I've been. Why, I've never understood! What I refer to as "good sales" are never present, unlike in Ohio, Florida, and other locations. Local meat markets, bulk stores, ...
How To Make Southern-Style Grits - The Kitchn
Sure you have heard of Country Style Gravy, but what abouy Chocolate Gravy?? This is an absoluate show shopper at any Brunch you may be hosting along with some fresh baked biscuits.
Southern-Style Chocolate Gravy Recipe - Allrecipes
Lunch/Dinner
A bowl of soup beans, lots of tangy chow-chow, and a piece of cornbread are the perfect combination for a cool Southern evening. This was probably a necessity dish. For generations, it provided food for farmers in the Southern Appalachian mountain ra...
Soup Beans
Comfort foods like chicken and dumplings are a real hit. While the dish is not unique to Appalachia, the Appalachian version of this recipe features dumplings known as "slicks" that resemble thick noodles rather than dough balls.
Southern chicken and dumplings
The most well-known aspect of Appalachian cooking is its homemade, straightforward approach. It has a familiar and cozy flavor due to its many similarities to southern cooking. Its heavy reliance on seasonal ingredients, unusual meat choices, and use...
Southern Green Beans with Potatoes and Bacon
When it's too cold to out the grill this is the perfect way to make tender, juicy, delicious ribs. Also known as Country Style Ribs, this is the only way I eat fix ribs in the winter months.
Easy Country-Style Pork Ribs in the Oven - Baking Mischief
Fried chicken is, I believe, a national favorite as well as a favorite of the Appalachian Mountains. I don't think I ever saw my Grandmother fry chicken any other way than in her cast iron skillet.
Deep South Fried Chicken Recipe - Allrecipes
I'll be the first to say that I would probably eat a potato any way you fix it. But there's nothing better than Skillet "Fried Taters" They go with any contry meal be it breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Crispy Skillet-Fried Potatoes Recipe (No Baking or Boiling)
Desserts
There isn't a cake that more embodies Appalachia than the apple stack cake. According to some accounts, this apple cake originated in Kentucky, but according to others, it originated in Tennessee. However, you can find a variation of this stack cake ...
Kentucky Apple Stack Cake
I've been told by many that bread pudding is a staple of Appalachian Mountain cooking. And you'll likely find it on any buffet you find in the area. A delicious take on what some call "Monkey Bread".
Bread Pudding Recipe - Allrecipes
Moonshine is one of the many alcoholic flavors used in Appalachian Mountain cuisine. This spirit was once unavailable to the law-abiding residents of the mountainous area. Brands like "Ole Smokey" are now available directly in your store.
Granny's Moonshine Pie | MrFood.com
Like I mentioned before Alcohol is a favorite ingredient in many Appalachian/Southern recipes, particularly desserts. I love when my MIL makes her delicious Bourbon Pound Cake.
Bourbon Cake Recipe: Authentic Southern Style - Restless Chipotle