Season 8, Episode 42. November 27, 2021. Thanksgiving Dressing and Black Walnuts

In this episode, we are setting the table with several favorite food memories involving dressing and black walnuts for Thanksgiving weekend.

“Dee Dee” Mary Constantine (Retired food writer for the Knoxville News Sentinel, ) shares a memory and recipe for her Daddy’s cornbread dressing. Dee Dee also shares her audio remembrance of her interview with Shirley McMurtrie of Union County TN and Shirley’s method of dry canning black walnuts along with Shirley’s recipe for Black Walnut Candy.
Beverley Nells of Blount County TN shares her family’s dressing recipe by way Beverly’s Mama “Peggy Sue Sikes, who was from Lennox TN. Now Beverly’s Mama Peggy Sue Sikes is gone, Beverly is the person in the family who makes this dressing for Thanksgiving and Christmas every year. This is a cornbread and toasted white bread dressing recipe.
And in Fred Sauceman’s Potluck Radio series - we revisit his segment on the historic happening of turkey herding in Tennessee

Season 8, Episode 21

BattleField Farm & Gardens & the Broccoli Lady

Today we are setting the table with urban community gardening, and broccoli casserole. Our first guest is Chris Battle who created BattleFiled Farms and Gardens in East Knox County his motto is “Fighting food disparity, building community”. We also hear a wonderful short story by Fred Sauceman about the late Glodine Davis of Johnson City known as “The Broccoli Lady” and the recipe and memory of her beloved broccoli casserole.

Links: BattleField Farm and Gardens: https://www.facebook.com/battlefieldfarmandgardens/

Link to a story written by Fred Sauceman that ran in the Johnson City Press February 20, 2018 in memory of Glodine Davis “The Broccoli Lady”.

https://www.johnsoncitypress.com/the-broccoli-lady/article_eee54cc2-a830-59bf-b4fe-4a92267f0ad6.html

Fred Sauceman: https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman

Emi Sunshine (who arranged and sang our our theme song when she was only 9 years old): https://theemisunshine.com/

Glodine Davis “The Broccoli Lady” Broccoli Casserole recipe by way of Fred Sauceman

Ingredients:

2 fresh bunches broccoli, cut into florets and boiled (frozen can be used, but it isn’t as good)

small onion chopped

2 beaten eggs

1 stick of butter cut into thin slices

2 cans cream of mushroom soup

1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese

1 sleeve Ritz crackers crushed / or Townhouse Crackers

Directions:

Boil broccoli florets for about 5 minutes. Drain.

Mix broccoli with 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup, onion, 2 beaten eggs, grated cheddar cheese and butter slices.

Bake at 350 degrees until it is bubbly

And remember “The Broccoli Lady, GLodine K. Davis”

Sadly, Glodine passed away December 2nd, 2017. This is a link to Glodine K. Davis’s obituary. https://www.johnsoncitypress.com/obituary/glodine-k-davis/article_b9cc0151-3806-5bc9-b8e8-dce6136ab93e.html

Chris Battle of BattleField Farm and Gardens: https://www.facebook.com/battlefieldfarmandgardens/

Glodine Davis in her kitchen. This image appeared in an article written by Fred Sauceman in 2018 in the Johnson City Press: https://www.johnsoncitypress.com/the-broccoli-lady/article_eee54cc2-a830-59bf-b4fe-4a92267f0ad6.html