Nice to meet you!

When I was young, we often got to spend a few weeks with my Granny who lived in Greenville, Texas.  In the Summer she was always busy with picking and canning vegetables.  She made sweet pickles and beets, canned vegetables, but most memorable to me was the jelly she made.  Her staple was usually plum and apple, every now and again she’d have grape, but she always had homemade jelly.

When we got to stay at Granny’s, we quickly learned not to say we were bored, because if you did, you would instantly be put to work shelling peas, hulling corn, or peeling fruit and pecans.  But oh, how I wish I could have just one more day with that brilliant, strong and resilient woman I called “Granny G”.  I have so many questions, and sure wish I had insisted on taking all of her recipe boxes when she asked if I wanted them.  She had five or six of them, I ended up with one, but the great news is that I got the one with pickles and a few jelly recipes!!  Summer vacations at Granny G’s are such fond memories of mine.

My mother is a great mom and person, always there for us and she sacrificed a career of her own to stay at home with the kids.  But this woman did so much and is such an influence on me, if she only knew……  She is a talented artist, I’ll post her drawings someday, she is and has always been creative keeping brush with things like sewing, cooking, doing work for local charities, leading community efforts to feed veterans, supporting the VFD by volunteer kitchen work and cooking up some of her famous hamburgers.  My mother taught me basic cooking skills and passed down to me some talents no longer often seen.  Piping icing onto a wedding cake, painting ceramics, sewing dolls and clothes, making beautiful jewelry, planting flowers and gardens, canning fruits and veggies, preparing delicious candies and desserts and always, I mean always, wanting to feed you!

I am so thankful for my Momma and my Granny G for teaching me the art of food preparation and preservation.

My Mother and Granny G are my inspiration and as I hope to progress, I’ll be bringing some original Momma and Granny G candy and jelly recipes to try.

I hope you enjoy my products as much as I enjoy making them!

Love, Lialou