Mountain Hearth & Hollow

10/29/2026

# # Appalachian Church Cookbook | Traditional Recipes, Mountain Memories & Southern Comfort Food

Pull up a chair and come on into the kitchen! ❤️

Appalachian cooking has something special. It’s the food we gathered around the table to share, the dishes we brought to church suppers, the recipes passed down through generations, and the comforting meals that brought family, friends, and neighbors together.

The **Appalachian Church Cookbook** celebrates the heart of traditional mountain cooking, where food is made with love, ingredients are put to good use, and there’s always room for one more at the table.

From potluck favorites and comforting classics to the familiar dishes that remind us of home, this cookbook honors the traditions and simple goodness of Appalachian kitchens.

Whether you grew up in the mountains, remember the church suppers of your childhood, or simply love old-fashioned home cooking, this book invites you to enjoy a little taste of Appalachian tradition.

🏔️ **A taste of mountain tradition. A table full of memories. A whole lot of homemade goodness.**

📚 **Discover the Appalachian Church Cookbook** and bring a little old-fashioned Appalachian comfort into your kitchen!

If you love Appalachian recipes, Southern comfort food, country cooking, and the traditions that make a house feel like home, you're in the right place.

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10/16/2026

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🌱 30 Daily Guided Entries — Thought-provoking prompts that help you understand where you are and what you need.

🌱 Personal Reflection — Explore your expectations, boundaries, energy, goals, and relationship with yourself.

🌱 Small, Practical Actions — Simple steps to help you create change without overwhelming yourself.

🌱 Weekly Check-Ins — Pause, notice your progress, and reflect on what you've learned.

🌱 Extra Writing Space — A full page after each daily entry for anything else on your mind. Write it out, work it through, or let it go.

🌱 A Letter to Your Future Self — Close your 30-day journey by reflecting on how far you've come and what you want to carry forward.

🌼 Made for Real Life
Download your copy today in PDF format (printable) use it again and again

10/11/2026

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Finding Your Footing: A 30-Day Guided Journal for Real Life A little breathing room for the woman who's been carrying a lot. Life gets messy. Sometimes your...

10/04/2026

🌿🏔️ INTRODUCING THE APPALACHIAN GUIDES SERIES 🏔️🌿

I’m so excited to finally share something I’ve been working on — The Appalachian Guides Series. ❤️

These are NOT cookbooks. Instead, they are learning and reference guides created around the skills, traditions, knowledge, and simple ways of living that have been passed down through generations in Appalachian homes.

📖 The Appalachian Homemaker’s Handbook
A collection of timeless homemaking skills, practical knowledge, traditions, stories, and old-fashioned wisdom for creating a home with warmth, purpose, and a little bit of Appalachian grit.

🌱 The Appalachian Gardening & Canning Guide
An old-fashioned guide to growing, harvesting, preserving, and making the most of what you can grow — while learning the skills that helped Appalachian families make food stretch and last.

And this is only the beginning. ❤️

I’m building this series with the goal of creating useful books you can actually learn from, keep on your shelf, return to, and pass down.

These guides are about more than simply doing things the old-fashioned way.

They're about remembering:

🌿 How to make do with what you have
🌿 How to waste less
🌿 How to grow and preserve what you can
🌿 How to care for a home and family
🌿 How to learn practical skills
🌿 How to keep traditions alive
🌿 And how much wisdom can be found in the simple things

Preserving the knowledge of yesterday.
Learning skills for today.
Passing something meaningful on to tomorrow. ❤️

And yes… more Appalachian guides are coming. 😉

Welcome to The Appalachian Guides Series — where mountain wisdom meets everyday life. 🏔️🌿

— Peggy Holliday
👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8S9K5GT - Appalachian Homemakers Handbook
👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HL88MXV6 - Appalachian Gardening & Canning

10/02/2026

Next 2 books I'm working on 1. Appalachian 10$ meals and 2. Appalachian Homemaking - The art of making do

09/28/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HL88MXV6 2nd book in a series, brand-new release on Amazon. Pick yourself up a copy 😁

09/26/2026

The 2nd Book in the Appalachian- Timeless Skills, Traditions, Stories, and Wisdom series will hopefully be out for sale in a few days. A labor of love to keep old traditions alive and bring them back to today's time

09/25/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKZ3LLMT
The newest cookbook is finally available. Grab you a copy
The Appalachian Church Cookbook celebrates that kind of food—the comforting, familiar recipes that have been passed around community tables for generations.

09/23/2026

Next cookbook up for review 350 pages of recipes, guides on crowd size and how much food to make and a place at the end to add your own

09/19/2026

Formatting and finishing up my Appalachian Garden and Canning book; it's def been some work hope to have it out in the next week, and also almost done with my Appalachian Church Cookbook. Both are turning out really well. 😘