Best part of this video was watching Matt clean and season that large cast iron skillet. For those of us who haven't been doing it correctly, this free lesson was very beneficial!
I'm so glad that Matt showed how to clean ironware & season it properly. My friend Linda got a new iron skillet. She asked her facebook friends how to prepare that skillet for cooking. She called me up & asked me to come over & show her how. I love Linda but she's hard headed. I told her at least 10 times don't use soap on your iron skillet! She did. So I came over & gave her the drill again. She finally got it through her rock head lol 😆😂🤣. Now she just loves that skillet. She bought another one!
Thank you for sharing this with us. Our rural heritage should be celebrated! God Bless the humble, industrious, Christian families that formed this great nation.
Again I say thank you for sharing your family with us, I wish the rest of this old world could enjoy what we have in these here mountains. God truly smiles on us here in the Blue Ridge and Smokies.
I feel grateful and truly blessed to have found your channel. Thank you for sharing another day in the life of "Celebrating Appalachia". Also, thank you for the dinner ideas. I always get so hungry after watching y'all cook!
Back in 1966 as a bride I walked to the hardware store and bought a skillet like that. I've cleaned it the way you do all these years. It's my favorite kitchen utensil.
So deeply moving to witness family as my mother experienced it. Myself, I grew up in a military family, but Dad tried to give us these experiences by keeping us off base and in agricultural settings.
I totally agree, there is nothing stressful about these wonderful videos. The news today brings you down, this family and their videos brings life back. God bless you.
We grew up with my Mom playing the piano. We took lessons and played piano, too, and my sister and I were both band kids. We sang around the piano as a family. What a blessing to grow up with the sound of music in one's home! My sister can play guitar and banjo. I always wanted to play the violin/fiddle. I absolutely loved the waltz. What joy to hear these instruments. Thanks for sharing your lives with us! What a yummy supper!!!! Thanks for showing how you season your pan! I have one for cooking in and one that is only for making cornbread. We're having pintos and cornbread tonight!❤️🙏from SC, Jane😊
Greetings from the North GA Appalachians! Love your celebration of this wonderful way of life. My kids go to the folk school camp over in Brasstown. Best wishes to you!
Just love your videos. Never knew you could use cast iron pans on a glass top stove. Thought they’d get too hot and crack the stove top. I have a cast iron skillet that was given to my Grandma on the day my Mom was born in 1914. Going to have to learn how to season it as I’m sure it needs it and then start using it!
Your family sure made my day. It's rainy and breezy here in Indiana, but this warmed me right up. Thank you for sharing your lives with the rest of us.
My Granny, Suzy Tudor was born and raised in Kentucky. She made milk gravy, and red eye gravy, but not chocolate. I think my Granny was holdin out on me! wink
I was so blessed to stumble upon your videos…I find it truly a breath of fresh air in these tumultuous times. You are all so talented and hard working, a trait that seems almost lost in today’s world. Your girls are beautiful and so accomplished on their instruments and so down to earth looking….. what a wonderful diversion from the stressors of watching so many of our young people disparage our country. May the Lord continue to shower you all with blessings!
I didn’t have chocolate gravy but I just got through having eggs, bacon, biscuits and bacon gravy!!!! Finished it off with a biscuit and honey from the farm!!! I live on the other side of the Appalachians than you all--eastern KY.
Thankyou! I live in Hollywood California. But my grandmother was born to coal miners in Scranton PA . I've travelled to East Tennessee and West Virginia and the Blue Ridge mountains are beautiful.
Loved the video. That Kale looked so good. Cast iron skillets are truly family heirlooms to be passed down. Thanks for another great glimpse into your Appalachian life style. God Bless yall. :)
Thank you for sharing your Appalachian life with us…I just found your site last night! Love seeing your cooking ,girls,language and beautiful land you live in…💖
@@CelebratingAppalachia Yes ma’am I sure do…we live in Illinois but we also have a cottage on Roan Mountain Tn…! Trying to make it possible to move there in the near future…my people came from Tennessee and Kentucky! My soul misses that land🙏💖🙏
I just found your channel and became a subscriber right away . I wish you would give more narration ; not everyone knows what you are doing and you have a pleasant accent !
From another Pawpaw, they's still some of us around here. We just get shuffled under the rug till somebody needs us these days. And as my granny used to say, my 'yers [ears] don't work as well as they used to. But by golly we are special people!
Thanks for sharing how you re-season your cast iron pan. I've always wondered how to put the oil back in to keep the pans seasoned... thanks! really enjoy your videos. fyi: I live in Hedgesville, West Virginia.
I love your home place. I grew up in the Ozarks, Boston Mountains, I moved over 30 yrs ago. I would go back ,but my children all have made lives in my area. Cannot leave the grandlittles, but I wish we could live like ya'll.
Enjoyed another great video! We always look forward to your videos, loved everything about it. Y’all are definitely very blessed. GOD Bless Y’all. 🙏🏻😇🙏🏻😇
Great video, as usual. I was curious about something. Wondering if you plan to do a video about - I don't know if you'd call it folklore or what, but stories or legends shared by your grandparents, etc. Good old ghost stories or bigfoot, etc. I think that kind of thing would be great listening if narrated by you with your smooth, calming voice.
My gracious y'all do some fine cooking and eating. Makes me hungry. What a joy to have a creek so near. I look so forward to see the things you post. Love the music too😊!!!
Another great video of Celebrating Appalachia, Thanks for sharing your time and your experience in cooking, gardening,music, and the tips on caring for iron cook ware.You all inspire me,to do the same. God Bless and have a great week. 🙂🙂
Enjoy your videos so much. The gardening, cooking, music and beautiful scenery. Love it all! I like Wagner cast iron better than the new stuff. I think there’s something different in the texture or something. I always look at yard sales and antique shops for other pieces.
What a great vid! The special surprise for me was the chocolate gravey! I have never heard of that here in California, but it so makes sense. Super neat, my soninlaw and granddaughter would love this. I always enjoy what you film, you gardening, the music, cooking and your stream. Just a blessing, thank you. Karla in Cali.
I enjoy the music so much; it is really beautiful! It's so sweet how Matt went and sat across from you on the other side of the panel when you were working on that narrow (for grapes?) bed. And then how you take care of the cast iron, I always like to see how other people do those kinds of things. I use my cast iron not very often for one main reason because the task of cleaning it seems hard to me, but you all make it look easy, and the finish looks like satin. Also, my pan is warped and does not sit flat on the glass cooktop eye that we have so I don't think it cooks very well.
As always thank you for taking us along with you. The food looked wonderful and really made me hungry when the chocolate gravy and wilted greens were cooked. Have you tried tomato gravy before? It is wonderful as well. Have a blessed day. 🍀
Awesome video my family use to break out biscuits up just like that. Two of my older sisters were the only ones that made the chocolate gravy. A little flour with Coco mixed in, lol. Wow, that takes me back a few years. Sadly they are all gone now. Your video sure took me back for a few minutes. Thank you so much.
I recently stumbled upon your channel and I really enjoy it. My family are from Kentucky and your accent sounds just like my cousin. I remember visiting them every summer when I was a kid. They lived back a holler in Bullcreek Kentucky.
Did a little fishing from the bank today, saw a couple bluebirds gathering for their nest, Canada geese, and swans, Sandhill cranes are too. Don’t get to close to those geese or swans you will get a scolding and maybe
Love all parts of these videos. One of my favorite scenes is watching ya'll cook in the iron skillets, so I really enjoyed seeing how ya'll keep them seasoned so well. The creek scenes are especially soothing!! I just found your channel last week and have been binge watching several episodes each night. Such a wonderful relaxing way to spend my evenings.
Sawmill gravy, red eye gravy,chocolate gravy, milk gravy,sausage gravy and so many others my mawmaw cooked all of these for me when I was growin up and I make for mine and my grandbabies.
