This colorful cabbage salad has plenty of crunch thanks to carrots, apples, and walnuts.
Roasted Buttered Turnips with Thyme
This flavorful, no-fuss fall side will become a new family favorite.
Side Dish Stars: 4 Recipes for Your Holiday Spread
These recipes do more than play second fiddle to the turkey: Prepare them with North Carolina-grown ingredients like squash, apples, and sausage for a holiday spread that sings.
In the Kitchen: Squash & Sausage Skillet
Caramelized butternut and acorn squash meet delicious sage sausage, kale, and white beans in a cast-iron skillet — and it’s all topped off with a Parmesan-walnut-bread crumb crust.
Fried Pork Chops With Onion Gravy
Seared pork chops cloaked in silky gravy offer warming comfort on a cold evening, and this dish comes together in just 30 minutes.
Buttermilk Cornbread with Sorghum Butter
Sweet, melted sorghum butter is irresistible on piping-hot skillet cornbread.
“Killed” Lettuce
In this Appalachian recipe, fresh lettuce is tossed with hot bacon grease, vinegar, and green onions, causing the lettuce to wilt and “killing” it.
Apple Dumplings
These Granny Smith apples are wrapped in a buttery dough, baked in a cinnamon-brown sugar syrup, and topped off with vanilla ice cream.
Flavors of Appalachia: 4 Mountain Recipes
Generations of mountain cooks have made the most of ingredients sourced from their own backyards. Their recipes comfort and sustain us — in western North Carolina and beyond.
