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Old 11-13-2014, 07:03 AM
 
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I'm trying to get some gardens going in my yard. Everything tastes better when you grow it yourself. I did have some containers I grew some cucumbers in, and man they were good. Growing my own herbs has been good too. I kept a container of Basil, Thyme and Oregano. I used it all the time, and now I have it inside, but I don't know how well it will do. I'd like to have a few chickens for fresh eggs too!!!! A person can dream right???

I've seen Sorghum down in Berea. It's all made local. Or jarred local. I'm not even sure what Sorghum is? I know it's sweet. Must be like molasses.
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Old 11-13-2014, 07:06 AM
 
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Okay, here is what Sorghum is. You all probably already knew this!


Sorghum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 11-13-2014, 07:08 AM
 
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And made into sweet syrup.



Sweet sorghum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 11-13-2014, 07:34 AM
 
Location: In the Pearl of the Purchase, Ky
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The way I like eggplant is on somebody else's plate. lol On the corn, just add some bacon grease and butter in the skillet and while it's cooking, add a tiny bit of flour for thickening, plus salt and pepper. That's my wife's recipe.
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Old 11-13-2014, 09:35 AM
 
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I remember mom saying that lot's of families around the Owensboro area grew Sorgum Cane and made molasses, quite a bit back in the day. My family in Kentucky, sometimes would also use "Sorghum Molasses" and get it from somewhere so there must be somewhere around there where they are still growing it.

My grandmother would also drink a glass of straight Buttermilk sometimes during breakfast too .. yuk!

Big gardens and canning seems to be a big tradition in rural Kentucky, at least around where my people are from. EVERYONE around ther grew gardens and was involved in canning, and, it was an "all" summer affair. At my grandparents house....whether you like it or not, if you stayed the night and there was work in the garden, you got up and went out and helped as they had a "huge" garden.

Sometimes we whined a bit if it was a little hot out and we'd have to get out and dig new taters and pull and snap beans for dinner time that day and canning....well my popaw would say: "Well, you suuuuuure do like to eat it don't yah?" LOL.

They have a long hall way going the length of the house in the middle, used to be shelves and full of canned stuff., Sadly now, popaw is gone and my granny is in her upper 80's and not going to good. Where the garden used to be, is just a patch now....kinda sad now that I think of it. However, several of my aunts and uncles still garden.

They made tomato juice, different kinds, canned a zillion quarts of snap beans, new taters, pickles, chow-chow and hot, and sweet relish, sauerkraut ( yuk LOL ) okra, onions. They also had HUGE muskmellons ( Canteloupe ) and Watermelons and Honey-Dews. I remember sitting there on their porch in July in Kentucky with a table laid out. We'd slice some fresh red tomatoes, and maybe some sliced muskmellon, have a shaker of salt there and a tall glass of iced tea or kool-aid and we'd eat so many tomaters we'd turn green and get sick....I'm not kiddin yah!

They always had a pot for dinner time ( around 1:00 in the afternoon ) with some new red potatoes, green beans, onions, a hock of ham and okra. They'd boil it in a pot and then my grandmother would make pinto beans and fry some cornbread cakes. I mean "fried" as in lard, fried cornbread. Sometimes they had some boiled Mustard or Turnip greens also. This is what they ate virtually "everyday" I can count maybe on 3 or 4 fingers times when they "didn't" have fried cornbread on the table. They ate it with "everything" They were retired by the time my cousins and I came along so all summer work was...the garden and canning. The dinners they made were so good...I mean...soo good, the best food I've EVER eaten to this day. I'd give a million dollars to have a dinner table like they set again.

Those were the days.....

I'm sharing with you guys one of my most "cherished" photos of my granny and popaw in Kentucky, standing there with their garden. This photo was taken sometime in the early to mid 90's I believe. In the background is the huge garden they used to tend.......well, we all used to help tend LOL!

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Old 11-14-2014, 10:04 AM
 
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Great memories there Eric! Thanks for sharing. Love the garden your grandparents have in the photo.
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Old 11-14-2014, 11:13 AM
 
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Great memories there Eric! Thanks for sharing. Love the garden your grandparents have in the photo.

Thanks! My grandfather ( we called him affectionately "popaw" in my family ) passed away sadly in 2001. My granny is still living up in Kentucky but she's in her upper 80's and as of late she hasn't been doing very good. They were both staunch catholics, but what I call "Kentucky Catholics"...different from the type of catholics that folks in other parts of the US might be used to.

They were pretty much just old fashioned country people, hillbillies, born and raised back in the "hills n' hollers" of Hancock County Kentucky. They liked gardening and canning, square dancing on weekends and my grandfather was a big Fox hunter and coon hunter and he loved to fish. He used to raise hunting dogs in Kentucky and sell them. He was a WW2 vet and taught me alot about life....and good music

They believed in an honest days work, such hard working, honest people.

Popaw and I were "best buddies" practically inseperable....spent alot of time together. With them it was a window back in time to life in Kentucky that most people have maybe lost or forgotten.
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Old 11-14-2014, 06:13 PM
 
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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On mom's side every meal must have pinto beans and corn bread.
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Old 11-14-2014, 07:08 PM
 
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On mom's side every meal must have pinto beans and corn bread.
I love the fried cornbread fritter cakes my grandmother made, like pancakes made of cornmeal, fried in lard but not sweetened. I cant eat pintos without them!
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Old 11-15-2014, 09:54 AM
 
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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Cornbread recipes vary in mom's family even among sisters (my aunts). Some use regular milk and no eggs, some use eggs and no milk, I do it the right way with both buttermilk and eggs and a dab of sugar.

Salmon / mackerel patties are a common side item too. Any one else eat those? You take a can of fish, take the meat off the bone and skin, smash saltine crackers and mix them together with eggs and water, shape them into a patty and fry in a little grease.
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