July Neighbors

July Neighbors

Sandi Klingler has a wall full of blue ribbons from the South Alabama State Fair at her farmhouse in Montgomery County’s Fitzpatrick community, but none are more special than the one she earned for her Black-Bottom Pecan Pie back in 1992 in the fair’s Crisco pie-baking contest. more

Summer 2005 Friends & Family

Summer 2005 Friends & Family

Nothing says summertime like the smell of burning charcoal in the air or the taste of spicy pork ribs that are hot off the grill. more

June 2005 Neighbors

June 2005 Neighbors

Ronnie Mobley says the recipes you’ll find in this month’s “Country Kitchen,” are ones she got over time from friends and family. Some of them, she says, she’s “had a hund’rd years.” more

May 2005 Neighbors

May 2005 Neighbors

Pat Buck has learned one thing in his 33-year marriage to Sara: If she cooks some new dish and you really, really like it, don’t tell her. “She won’t ever fix it again,” Pat says. more

Spring 2005 Friends & Family

Spring 2005 Friends & Family

Celebrate National Peanut Month with this Ultimate Peanut Butter Pie, plus try other family favorites from the Country Kitchens of Alfa Farmers members. more

April 2005 Neighbors

April 2005 Neighbors

When you work for nearly 27 years as a county home economist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, you�re bound to amass a collection of simply delicious down-home recipes. Jeannie Hollinger of Wilcox County certainly did, and she shares a sampling of them with readers in this month�s �Country Kitchen.� more

March 2005 Neighbors

March 2005 Neighbors

Back in December, Joy Noble of Macon County was elected to her first term on the Alabama Farmers Federation’s State Women’s Committee. She says it was by default. more

February 2005 Neighbors

February 2005 Neighbors

It was mid-December when “The Country Kitchen” called Evelyn Neal at her home in Jackson County and asked her to be our featured cook for the February issue of Neighbors magazine.

January 2005 Neighbors

January 2005 Neighbors

For a family like the Mazes, that loves good food and anything sweet, finding out that a family member has diabetes could have been a bummer. But the Blount County family has taken it all in stride, with Kay adapting many family favorite recipes to make them low-fat, and lower in sugar. more