A Traditional Appalachian Summer Time Supper & How To Make Creamed Spinach 

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When your daughter put her head on your shoulder and said thank you mama, I love you. She knows the labor of love that goes into feeding the family! So sweet! ❤️

It’s hard to imagine a genuinely southern Appalachian home, without the smell of a big pot of green beans or pinto beans cooking wafting through the house. Reminds me of home, and the sound of our screen door slamming on barefoot, summer days. 💯🇺🇸❣️

I'm from GA and my Big Mama, Ethel made that cucumber salad every summer for my sister and I. She would add mayo, salt and pepper to hers and it was delicious. Big Mama also called the broth from her greens/beans pot liquor and dinner "supper." ☺ This just warmed my heart with beautiful childhood memories of my sweet Grandmother. 💕

What a Feast!!!! Loved everything on the menu. I totally agree with the corn boiling for only 3 mins. I don't peel my tomatoes either. My biggest take away from this video.... is Katie thanking you for the meal and telling you "I love you"! Made me get emotional. Thank you Tipper for sharing. Touched my heart!

This just took me back to my childhood days. Almost had me cryin just sittin here watchin ya'll. Oh, how I wish times were simpler and things weren't so hard. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I could almost smell all those great foods cookin.

This actually made my stomach growl. Everything looked so good. Made me wish I could reach through the screen and load up a plate for myself. Thanks for posting this!

the way you live, love, and cook makes you some of the richest and luckiest people I know. Thanks for sharing.

I've been a vegetarian since I was 18; I'm 73 now. I love all your vegetable dishes. I'm thinking I might move to Appalachia because its so beautiful there. Your family is such a blessing to the world.

I don't peel my tomatoes either. I'm in Ontario, Canada, and I love learning about your Appalachian culture. There's nothing like fresh vegetables from the garden, especially nowadays with the soaring grocery prices. Your meal looks delicious! 😋

Cooking for my family gives me so much pleasure! Nothing finer than southern style cooking by your mama!

I came from a southern family who did not add sugar to our recipes unless it was a dessert or ice tea. Love how we all have our culinary traditions.

I married into a family whose roots are from the hollers of Kentucky. Watching your videos brings back memories of Mom (Steve's Mom) teaching me the recipes that Steve loved. She has passed on, and I carry her memories.

My Mom's family was from PA dutch area and grandma always added sugar to her cucumber salad. Same ingredients but when Mom married Dad he liked a little vinegar in most all salads with olive oil. My sister has Mom's old vinegar cruet hanging above her stove. I can still remember Dad sprinkling a little vinegar and olive oil on salads and cooked greens. Such good times! Thanks for the memories.

Everything looks so good. Sweet of Katie to do the dishes. If I had a side kick like that, I cook more. LOL

We had fresh beans yesterday, and the pot liquor is my favorite part of that dish. We bought a vacant lot near our home for additional green space and garden area. We put three galvanized gardens on the lot so far. We had to go out of state for a family emergency, and our wonderful neighbor planted the beans for us. We have plenty of beans for everyone! That’s quite a meal you made, Tipper. Looks delicious!

Now that was an absolutely delicious Appalachian meal! Wow! I especially liked when you were picking spinach from your garden! Goals. Your cooking videos definitely inspire meal ideas, thank you! What an awesome tradition! ✌🏼

You make me think that I'm sitting in my momma's or granny's kitchen ! Everybody talking and laughing; my hilarious cousin telling jokes... I can smell your cookin' through the computer screen. Bless you and thank you.

This summertime meal looks delicious. During this time of year we take every opportunity to enjoy the wonderful vegetables made available. Often, we elect not to have a meat entree with the meal, we just enjoy the home cooking of the fresh garden vegetables. Almost always have a skillet of cornbread or some homemade biscuits. We always keep a large mason jar of cucumber and onion salad in the refrigerator. Eat it with everything. Add a plate of sliced vine ripe tomatoes and your good. Thanks for making me hungry. - Tennessee Smoky

As always everything looks so delicious. I love how Matt and Katie helped you clean up Reminded me of my child hood growing up with my granny she was the matriarch of my family when she passed my family sadly went there own ways. I love your channel it takes me back . I wish that family values still mattered this is whats wrong with our world today a lot of people have know morel's or family values thank you Tipper.

Tipper, my mom showed me a shortcut to making meatloaf like yours. If you pour the tomato sauce on the slice of bread, it makes it almost melt. Then the bread stirs in nicely to the mixture. I’ve done it that way ever since. Your meal looks delicious. Thank you for sharing.

Tipper, everything looked so delicious! I loved seeing how much Matt was enjoying his supper. Your videos are wonderful.

My mom makes a cucumber tomato salad very similar to that. Chops them up and makes a dressing with salt, pepper, vinegar, oil, and a bit of sugar. SO good! 🤤

Any family is lucky to have someone with the patience to make such a huge homemade dinner like this.

Sitting here again watching yr wonderful vids eating my super, cheese on toast with Worcestershire sauce and a cup of tea..(uk) I enjoy my food more when I watch you cook. Even though I've never eaten Appalachian food lol it always makes me hungry. Different country and culture but you still remind me of my own mother and granny, the love for looking after yr family is just like my own mother. Feels like home, great work tipper 😊❤🤤

My Mom always cooked from scratch with southern love thrown in too. This brought back memories of summer garden and good food. ❤️❤️ Love y’all’s channel.

It all looked absolutely delicious. The blackberry dumplings brought memories of my Mother's blackberry cobbler. Thanks for having us for supper.

W'e're building, so I've been stuck in town. After two years without a garden, I've never appreciated my gardens the way I do now. I miss the dirt and the seeds, the watching and the waiting, the weeding and the worrying, the picking and the cooking, the eating and the canning, and the sharing. Most of all I miss the satisfaction that came from watching my family gather round a table full of food that came from itsy bitsy, teeny, tiny seeds.

Country cooking is just the best, and every country has there own style of country cooking!

OH my goodness! My mouth was watering, everything looked so good! 🥰

That looks so delicious! You can't get food like that at a drive through and you make it look so easy.

This was wonderful. Best part was your daughter. When you complained about the corn silk and she said, “having a few strings, it builds character”. Almost cried, my sweet father would always tell my sister and I that if we complained about something trifling. I’m so glad I found your channel!

A meal fit for a king! I cut my corn off the cob nowadays also, and I never peel the tomatoes. I love watching you make a meal as it brings memories of my momma's cooking & I can almost taste it. Those blackberry dumplings looked wonderful. Tell Katie how sweet she is to do the dishes.

Your food looks so delicious, my family never peeled tomatoes either unless we were making a sauce. I don't peel my carrots and potatoes all the time either. You have such a beautiful loving family.

I am absolutely swooning here! EVERYTHING looks wonderful. My Dad called corn on the cob “roastin’ ears” too. ❤️

You are such a good mother and Matt's awesome, and Katie is too. And of course, Corie and Austin are cool too! Thanks for sharing your lives with us in these videos.

Talk about a Healthy Home Cooked meal… you put professional chefs to shame. How wonderful that you share these lovely recipes. God bless. 🙏😊

Meatloaf sandwich on lite bread sounds delicious now! ❤️

Summertime Thanksgiving on the plate and Christmas for the tastebuds! Wow. Also like the team work for clean up, “many hands make light work”🌻💛🌻

THIS is a plate full of childhood memories for me! So many meals that looked just like this around my granny's table.

You're so right, it's very hard not to go crazy with adding more scrumptious dishes to a lovely supper when there's such abundance! This reminds me of one Sunday when I still lived at home with my folks when my Mama had planned a roast chicken supper with corn on the cob, a salad, and pie. Somehow it turned into that, plus green beans with ham hock, biscuits, pinto beans, mashed potatoes, and two different kinds of pie. Fortunately my brothers and their families were over visiting and helped eat it up. For me it's one of my loveliest cooking memories with my Mama.

My goodness! What a spread! This makes me want to find a farmers' market! Our summer treat was cucumbers and onions soaking in vinegar, water and salt and pepper. I think you have to be in Southeast Ohio to nderstnad that one.

My mama always added a little vinegar and sugar to her green beans, so do I. Smells so good cooking too,try it! We cook our beans down, all liquid gone. Mama always had a jar of cucumbers and onions with vinegar she had made on the table from the garden.

Totally reminded me of some of the stuff that my mother made. And it is that time of year that you want to cook everything from the garden. It all looked so good!

I was so HAPPY to see you doing the Blackberry dumplings the correct way, what i think, Lol God Bless y'all !!

Have absolutely fallen in love with this channel. Such great content, and good people. Much love from Gaston County

I did enjoy that. It would be great to see more of Matt's campfire cooking.

You made my kind of eating for a perfect supper! Boy, it made me so hungry watching the video. It reminds me of my Mama’s cooking & our house always smelled so delicious around supper time. I think the smell of wonderful home cooking is the most homey & cozy smell in the world. It endured me to mine Mom even more & I remember the great food she cooked for her family & I wish we would have thanked her more often.

You just kill me. I haven't had a meal like this in over 10 years now. I love watching your stories but I can only watch so much because I end up crying so much I can't see. I love ❤️ that you do this. I miss my mom and granny. I'm afraid I will not make it back there before everyone has gone on. I really do love you 😍 thank you 😊

Everything looked so good. Iv e never had spinach cooked like that but it looked good too. I flour my okra instead of cornmeal. Thanks for sharing your garden goodies.

Wonderful country cooking. I noticed you have a different stove now. It’s so nice to see everyone working together to clean up the kitchen after you cooked such a tasty meal.

I'm not Southern - live in the Pacific Northwest but I grew up on the same kind of food. Everyone calls it peasant food but it is the best eating you can do.

That actually looks pretty healthy... all those vegetables!

I enjoyed this so much. I grew up in the south and cook like this too. Everything looks so good! Thanks for sharing it with us.

What an amazing meal you put together girl. That looks so good 👍. Thank you so much for sharing your life with us 👍

Brings back alot of memories family reunions and all the good food .. thank you for keeping Appalachia alive

When you cook like that, it takes me back to my Momma’s kitchen. It does my soul good to reflect and remember those wonderful memories. I carry on her tradition of cooking and canning! pS… we say “Okri” in southern Middle Tennessee too! What kind of corn do you have? Silver queen? Just put up 15 dozen yesterday. Right now, I don’t care if I ever see another ear of corn 🌽 after getting it done! Bounty for the winter months ahead. Thank you again Tipper!

I live in Ky, but my Mom cooked like you do. I carry on cooking like she did and I'm passing it on. She would put the salad in the refrigerator overnight and eat it the next day. The cornbread is for sopping green bean juice.

Yummy!!! You cook like I was taught to. God Bless you guys.

Thank you for the video. The food looks amazing and delicious. I usually fry my okra the same as you do. Sometimes I do a deep fry depending on company. A very long time ago, I was on my way to go camping at the OBX, and I stopped by the corn fields and got some silver queen corn from a farmer's stand. When I got to the campground, I found that I didn't have a big pot to boil the corn in. I then remembered how my Mom used to cut the fresh corn off and pan fry it in some butter and bacon grease. And after that time, I've been doing my corn that way ever since. Your sweet family is so full of good humor and kindness. You all are truly blessed to have one another. LOL! If you'd invite me for supper, I'd not only do the dishes, but I'd sweep and mop the floor AND wash 'n dry 'n fold a load of laundry for you.😄 Thank you again for the video and for sharing your wonderful home with others. Take care and blessings to you all. 🙏🏻😊💖

Fabulous meal!! ❤️ thank you! For the easy tip for frying okrey!

What a wonderful feast! Seeing your family express their appreciation for your efforts was lovely! We had our first sweet corn of the season on the grill tonight and it was so delicious! Love summer's bounty!

I remember those summer meals . I wish I had eaten more and hugged Granny more for what she did for me. Thanks for the wonderful memories.

You remind me of my grandmother from West Virginia. I don’t mean that disrespectfully because she would be 86 and your obviously no where near that age but you just remind me so much of her. Thank you for creating your content 💜💪🙏💯

I love your recipes Mrs Tipper, I love summer garden meals too along with my annual thanksgiving feast are my favorite meals to cook and eat! This really looked like a summertime thanksgiving feast!

My Memaw made cucumber salad your way… and also eliminating the vinegar. And using mayonnaise and some sugar. Both are delicious!! Tipper everything looked so good. As we say”You went all out” Looked like a Sunday dinner!!

That's definitely a feast! I love it, and I loved seeing you cook your supper. You are the best. Sure brought back lots of memories for me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. It even reminded me of all the wonderful smells. You see,all my elder family are gone as well as most of my siblings. I am a widow . Sure enjoyed seeing this. God bless you. From Georgia

Nothing gets better than someone who still says dinner and supper

I love watching you cook! My momma was from the mountains in Virginia and cooked just like you.

I love watching you in the kitchen making your family meals and hearing your stories.

My aunt would boil fresh green beans “ to a fry” no liquid left. A deep flavor, delicious.

Love your videos! Especially when you cook all these great veggies (except spinach, yuck☺️)! Thanks for sharing!👌👌🙏👍👍😍😘

I'm really enjoying your channel, as an English person the food is very 'exotic' to me and I'm fascinated by it all! 😃 I would love to be able to grow veggies, but I live in a city and only have a tiny backyard. My great-aunt and uncle used to have their own veggie garden and lived in a cottage in the country, I used to have holidays with them back when I was at school in the 1980's! My auntie was such a good cook and all the veg was from my uncle's garden - I really miss that. Seeing your beautiful home and family reminds me of those happy times in my childhood and how good the food was! I tried your Apalacian breakfast a while ago, some things you cook with (like the types of bacon) we don't have here in the UK, but I managed to cook most of it in the end and it was very nice, the biscuits turned out extremely well - so your recipe is exellent! Of course you probably know - in England a 'biscuit' is what you call a 'cookie' in the US, the American biscuit is more like an English scone! I've visited the US twice, but not your neck of the woods, it does sound so idyllic! 🙂

We love that salad. Momma used Italian dressing sometimes and I have other family that uses Ranch dressing. I usually just use salt and pepper to taste. It's a wonderful Summer salad and so easy to make.

My father and my grandfather both had vegetable gardens. I ❤️ Kentucky wonder beans with potatoes!

Hi Tipper You made me hungry right after supper tonight, and I was already stuffed ! I think tomorrow we're going to have fried fat back, white half runner beans, corn bread from coarsely ground meal, and steamed silver queen rosnears. Sliced cherokee purple tomatoes, cucumbers, and Vidalia onions mixed and salted and peppered.

Absolutely love you and your daughter's channel haven't been on here in a while been out rodeoing was up in Canada now I'm in Salinas California you guys are so blessed you have two beautiful daughters God bless you guys keep up the good work Katie is absolutely adorable

Oh my that all looks so good my mouth is watering. I can make a meal on fried okra, corn on the cob and sliced tomatoes. Unfortunately out here in Pa. I can’t find okra anywhere. I will keep looking and next year I may have to plant a couple just so I can have at least one mess. Love the way the whole family cleans the kitchen! ❤️

Now that is a feast! I love everything your cooked! How in the world can you all eat like this and not be fat?!?!

Fried okry....Divine! My dad had a highly productive garden. I remember is so well, and how I miss those times. Collards, mustard greens, turnips and greens, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, onions, beets, spinach, Brussels sprouts, eggplant, cabbage...mercy me!

I love the summer salad (I also have the Rada tomato knife and wisk..... and several other Rada items..lol, cause they're terrific) they're are many versions of the salad here in my neck of the Appalachians too, my favorite two are 1. After you've chopped the three vegetables, add a spoon full of miracle whip (not mayo) and salt and pepper, stir and fold in till everything is coated and chill in the fridge for at least an hour (you don't want to add a large amount of MW, go light on it and you can always add more if you need to) it is scrumptious! 2. After the veggies are chopped or cut up, add equal parts of vinegar and water to coat everything (you could add a small amount of sugar if you wanted, I don't) salt and pepper to taste and refrigerate to chill and marinade. P.S. that whole meal looks soooo delicious....I wish we were neighbors, like a few houses down, instead of a few states away...bahahaha

I'm gonna put a solid 9.5 on the drool factor for this one. I've wised up and had a snack before watching too. Everything looked so yummy. I like shredded carrots in the meatloaf and I add oatmeal or crumbled crackers. I know Matt probably passed out directly. Thanks for sharing and y'all stay safe.

That was my supper tonight minus the blackberry dumplings and salmon cakes instead of meatloaf. Man I miss mawmaws blackberry dumplings, greatest of memories. God Bless y'all.

Can't get the cooking out of her, she is really the matriarch of the family 😊 her husband too! 😊

What a yummy feast. I live in Hawaii I don't skin my tomatoes. When I lived in London my friend from Jamaica would soak her salad veggies in warm water with course salt for 30 minutes before preparing her salad. It's great to share and glean from this melting pot we call Earth❤️

Looks soooo delicious. You were cooking up a storm! Leftovers of all this would be great. Do you have a recipe for the dumplings cooked on stove like you did? Yummy. Your canned green beans look so pretty! Thanks Tipper.

I haven't heard case knife in ages. That's what we always called a butter knife growing up. This brought back a lot of memories. Greetings from East Tennessee.

This is how I was raised. 🥰 I carry the tradition as best as I can.

A few things; meatloaf is so person specific that when two people marry, one of the things has to be whose Mom's meatloaf will rule, or perhaps a new tradition. I just started Malabar spinach. For fresh corn, I grew up in NE and you went to the farm stand as early as possible and let the corn rest on the counter till the magic moment. Had to be cooked that day, but you had to test the softness of the kernels before committing to the length of the boil time

All your summertime vegetables look so good ! I tried your cornbread recipe and it came out great. Growing up in New England we didn't eat cornbread (my family didn't ). One type of bread we did eat a lot of was rye bread. My Dad would buy the rye bread from a Lithuanian bakery where the bread was baked in brick ovens. We also had white bread which was either Wonder or Sunbeam. I saw your video on light bread. I told my husband how you sprinkled sugar on white bread too like he did as a kid. . He grew up in Florida. I now live in Florida and have been introduced to Southern cooking . I've also tried your Cabbage Patch soup and it was delicious. Thanks for sharing your Appalachian recipes . I need to try your dessert dumplings !

I’m glad you said supper instead of dinner! I grew up with the evening meal called supper, thank you for bringing back wonderful memories.

Cucumber-tomato salad, sometimes with purple onions instead of white, sometimes with red radishes, and sprinkle of fresh dill or parsley - a summer staple in Eastern European countries. My grandma and my mother made this salad for almost every meal. Used to dress it with virgin sunflower oil, or with corn oil. Of course, home-grown tomatoes are the best!

Your cooking always gets my tummy growling and my mouth watering, your family is so blessed to have you in so many ways! I’d be so proud if I ever learnt we are related some how, I love all y’all

My Grandparents had a sustainable homestead and grew all their vegetables and sold potatoes and eggs...Grandma always had sliced tomato and cucumber on the table at meal time during the summer and I still like to do this even during the winter...I always enjoy them with boiled new potatoes...Your style of cooking and meals are very similar to my Grandma...I'm from Ontario Canada so okra and cornbread were not staples but most of your other foods were...Meals were always a treat at my Grandparents...Everything was fresh and cooked to perfection...I remember Grandma going out to the chicken coop and killing a chicken for supper and she at one time used to cook on the wood stove in the heat of summer...You bring back good memories for me...Thank you for sharing all that you do.

Looks so delicious! I could almost smell the goodness! So sweet of Katie to thank her mama!! Really enjoyed watching you put this together.

That looks so good! My mom and dad grew everything you made except the spinach. We even called the corn “roas’in’ ears” like you do. We picked wild blackberries and mom would make dumplings like yours. It was indeed a feast!

I grew up eating all these dishes out of parents garden every summer. My Mom has always had one those knives too. I make the tomato, cucumber and onions regularly. I love a fresh garden meal all summer long with cornbread.

Extremely simple only salt and paper !!! But the highlight is the fact that everything is from the garden, fresh and hope with no chemicals !!!

I am so happy that you shared your meatloaf recipe bc I have never been able to make a good one. My family pulls no punches when sharing the horrors of my many attempts either. But you taught me exactly where I was making my errors (too many breadcrumbs & putting all the liquids inside the loaf instead of on the outside). Thank you!

I just made meatloaf cornbread , mashed taters, peas and corn.and homemade gravy from the drippings ...i always make extra meatliaf i love leftovers..My husband swore he hated meatloaf til he had mine😉...I make the toppung with brwn sugar ketchup mustard and dash apple cider vinager...my MIL made this salad all the time with vinager s&P...