My Eastern Kentucky Reunion Journal

                           What is your favorite tea?                                        Mine is walnut.                   Please leave your comments below.                                                                      Thanks,  ...

     Dear Tea Friends,           Cool early mornings lead to lovely FALL days!  Perfect time for getting out and enjoying a morning walk, then treating yourself with a cuppa tea, coffee, cider or  chai latte and a baked pastry or breakfast sandwich.  I'll be looking for you in the morning!                                                                  xo  Betty

     Let's warm up by the fireplace...the weather is surprisingly cool and we need cozy socks and snuggly blankets.  There is no doubt that fall is officially here, which in our household means that Halloween is just around the corner!  My hubby has kindly taken out our boxes of fall and Halloween decorations and I just need to decide where everything goes.  Decorating for fall and Halloween is one of our favorite things to do.                                                                       xo  Betty

A young picture of Ida Mae in Eastern Kentucky... She never used recipes, everything she made was made-from-scratch.   This blog is in memory of my sweet mother, Ida Mae.   xo  Betty                                            When you fill the cup of happiness                                               for others, there will be enough                                ...

                              The Sweet Taste of Fall...   We are orig0nley from the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, my mother, Ida canned the best Pickled Corn Relish. I found a recipe that may be the way she made it. Mother didn't use recipes, did all canning and cooking by memory. I'm going to try it!   Considered an Eastern European Recipe...once corn started to be cultivated in Europe, there was no looking back.  It has worked it's way into many recipes and Eastern Europeans, picklers extraordinaire, "put up" or canned fresh sweet corn to make the long, dark and cold winters not so miserable, and to remind them of the fresh vegetables they would have once the summer came.   Eastern Kentucky mountain people canned Pickled Corn Relish as a staple. I love it with pinto beans and cornbread....

Merry Wonderland of Delectable Dishes ~ Transform your Holidays into a flavorful festival of fabulous foods! These dishes are so yummy you'll want to serve them again and again before the next Holiday rolls around.  Join us for a taste-tempting trip through a merry wonderland of delectable dishes!

Ida's Ky Mountian Kitchen ~    Ida in pink.  Ida & Clifton, grandparents of my five children..Youngest, Angie, in front of mamaw, Jamie, green dress, Cindy, Scott behind, then Craig (almost as tall as papa).  Those were the good old days. Ida was always in the kitchen cooking or canning vegetables from their garden.  Her Corn Relish was tops, sooo delicious.  I have found Corn Relish in the store only once.  Seems no one has it.  Now, I'm canning that same good flavor.  Corn Relish is wonderful with pinto beans!