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Growing up, my grandparents had 3 fishing ponds behind their house, in central North Carolina. Once a year, the fish became overcrowded, so they would use a huge net to seine the ponds. A huge cast iron stew pot was set over an open fire and filled with oil. They brought the fish in, cleaned them and fried them in that huge pot. We always had vegetables straight from the garden, corn, tomatoes, and I loved whole cucumbers, and ate them peel and all. It's been over 60 years and I remember it like it was yesterday. I love hush puppies, so that hush puppy cornbread is on the menu.

I could tell that Austin is in the house by the HaPpiness in Corie's voice 😉

Yummy again, Tipper! This is in fact a feast. Thank You Lord for providing for us all. 🙏♥️

I just love being in the kitchen with family making home made non processed food like that. You cannot get any healthier or more delicious. No chemicals, good fresh wonderful nourishment and family to nourish your heart. Add The Lord in there and you got everything a soul needs other than water and a roof. Thank you for sharing. I want to move back home and be with my family.

Oh my goodness…fresh fried fish is the absolute best! Everything looks delicious! ❤

When I was a teen, my dad would fry us fish he caught, make salmon patties, and thick fried ham sandwiches. He also made the best chocolate malts. Fall and winter, every Sunday morning, mom made orange rolls for us kids. Before church she would stick a roast in the oven. Mom usually had a big pot of chili on the stove. Dad liked to cook. Mom loved to bake (cheesecakes, Pecan Tarts, Butter Horns, Cinnamon Rolls, etc.) She enjoyed making candies too. Especially at Christmas time. Divinity and fudge. My sister and I bake as well. I enjoy making breakfasts and soups. Sis enjoys canning.

What a wonderful meal you’ve whipped up for your family. I’m a happy guy anytime I am fortunate enough to have fried fish, taters, hush puppies and coleslaw. Nothing says “country cooking” better than a meal like this one. Now, your also starting to enjoy the homegrown vegetables from your garden. I know that y’all are looking forward to a summer full of fresh produce being harvested. God is good and His blessings include good food for us to eat. I enjoyed this video, it made me me hungry for a meal like this. Thank you for sharing. - Tennessee Smoky

My brother and oldest nephew are coming out for a family party at the end of August. Mom and dad are sort of declining and I asked family to come out and see them. My brother loves hush puppes (the little round ones) but I am going to try your recipe for one of the meals. While I might not love fried food, I think I'd be delighted to have your food. Very simple, I love that you grow your own veggies. I enjoy watching your channel.

My Mom and Dad cooked like that! It was delicious 🩷 Yours looked so yummy and I love the way the whole family pitches in to help and enjoy!!❤

Tipper and family…thank y’all for this video…my neighborhood here in Cleveland TN. used to have a fish fry after a good day on the water during the summer where all the fishermen and fisherwoman (my late wife Terri was always lucky with a rod and reel) would meet up at a neighbors house and cook up a feast (we also did ramps back when we were free to gather them)…I’m 70 now (a widower for 6 years) and your KZfaq content always takes me back to the good memories…may God continue to bless you and yours 🙏🙏🙏.

This is a portrait of a happy family. The fish fry looks delicious, Thank you for sharing the precious moment. Its these moment were I cherish the most. Love the video. As always, Sending prayers and blessings

Your killing me! I am so hungry just hearing about your dinner deliciousness.

That’s a feast fit for royalty. Probably better than royalty eats. The entire family had a hand in catching and preparing it,

Thank you so much for sharing your family supper with all of us…Such a blessing tonight 💕💕

Looks like some fine dining there Miss Tipper. What a blessing to have each person at the table contribute to the meal. Not many families sit around the table together at suppertime anymore, y’all are truly blessed to do so. Thanks for sharing.

Tipper I hope you get some of the cucumbers. What a feast. Your hush puppy cornbread is the star right along with the fish. You all enjoy❤

I feel like I’m home with momma in southern Ohio. Lovely 🐾💕

Now that's a man who has done some fish frying in his time. He didn't spend all the cooking time turning it s hundred times. Good job, Sir.

I’m with you, Tipper! I’d rather have fish than steak, chicken, or any other meat on the planet especially if it’s fresh caught and fried up crisp. We fry our fish outside too, and always have slaw, some kind of potato, homemade tartar sauce, and sliced cucumbers & tomatoes in season. Can’t wait to try that hush puppy cornbread. A home cooked meal with family gathered around is a priceless treasure, providing memories that will last down through the generations. ❤❤

I love to hear you talk about granny & sharing the old ways, y'all are such a blessing to have... thank you so very much!! God bless. I'm learning so much!!❤❤

I am so sad I wish I knew you guys and was eating fresh trout. I love trout! YUMMMMMMMMY-O😋😋😋😋😋😋😋

Thank you and your family for sharing your life with all of us. I just want you to know what a blessing u are to me. I feel so close to my W.VA home. You all are so familiar to me. Your ways, the way u say things, reminds me of good old food, family, and the way of life that's so precious to me. I would love to meet you and Matt one day at a book signing. Take care, and God Bless

I love cucumber sandwiches as much as Matt loves his tomato sandwiches. Made the same way. ❤✌

Don't forget to say grace for such a wonderful meal.

Just the sounds of a lively kitchen brings back wonderful memories for me.

Just hearing you list the items you are preparing for supper makes my mouth water. You and your family are blessed by great food and love for each other.

What? 45 minutes ago and all these comments already? What a nice community I found! I think I would have mixed that salad with the slaw and chowed down.

On my grandpas farm in Missouri they always cooked the fish over the fire in a cast iron pot that was a big family fish fry. Looks yummy God bless

Yes thank you for showing us how easy to fix s great easy supper.

I love your girls sense of humor.

What a fantastic meal! How I wish I could go fishing with my Dad again. So cool you have a deer hunter and a fish filleter in the fam. ❤️🇨🇦

I remember those Wesson oil measuring cups. I remember when you could get one if you bought the big bottle of Wesson oil it was attached to the bottle. Your supper looks delicious family time is the best😊❤️

Wow, we could smell the fish cooking down here in South Texas, and the cornbread looked really wonderful! The garden fresh vegetables looked sooooo good. A meal fit for the King! Thanks for sharing the video. We will try that cornbread here at our house! Have a great week! We love watching your videos, keep them coming. God Bless all of y’all!

I was hoping you would show us how you fillet your fish. Sure did look like a good meal. Always nice to see the family sitting around the table eating together.

I love eating fish, and I love going fishing. I have a lifetime fishing license for saltwater, trout and fresh water

That meal reminds me of my Granny cooking in the 70s.God bless that woman,she cooked for 4 people like a buffet. Yours looks great !

Wonderful memories of my dad catching, guttin’ and breadin’ (adding a bit of his Old Style 🍺 to the batter😂)then cooking right there by the lake. I can still smell that deliciousness! Thank you for sharing this!

Reminds me of fish fries at my grandparents house. My grandaddy was an expert fisherman. My favorite were and still are blue gills, but I do love trout. He would freeze extra ones in paper milk cartons. My grandma had an iron skillet that was only for cornbread, one time grandaddy fried fish in it, we thought WWIII was gonna break out 😂

Maybe it's my Scandinavian heritage but, I could eat fish for breakfast. The plate of garden goodies was always there at our fish fry. We called it rabbit food. The potatoes are great like you fix them, Tipper. We sometimes shake some parmesan cheese on them. Slaw always is good at a fish fry. One thing that my granny always put in her "fish slaw" was yellow salad mustard. We're gonna have to try the hush-puppy corn bread. What a feast. Matt cooks and seasons food like I do. Loved this one, Tipper

Tripper, love sitting down with family at supper time. That's the way we always ate at home and those times get forgotten sometimes as we have raised our own families. I think that is a custom that should always be followed.

When I miss home (Central NC), I gravitate toward your videos Tipper. They make me happy.

Oh Yeah ... l forgot to say ... " Katie you look fantastic! Bravo 👏... on the weight lost... you are very much a beautiful young lady ... keep up the good work!

Well, as I was watching this video, I was eating a cucumber sandwich with green onions fresh from the Farmers Market this morning and then stopped at the blueberry farm for the first crop. Very sweet and big!!!

Saw your video Q&A part 1 & learned that your girls are twins. I too am mother of twin girls. My best gift from God! Nearly 3 yrs ago, the younger one passed from heart attack in her sleep. That morning she was scheduled for heart cath by cardiologist but insurance denied procedure. God brought us thru the loss.

I'm like Matt. I could hurt myself over that meal! Mama used to make her own thousand island by mixing ketchup and Dukes sandwich relish spread.

There nothing like fresh fish it's yam yam and God given thing❤and fish is absolutely good for you 👍 have a blessed day are night 🌙

Nothin' better than eatin' fresh caught fish 🐟 I grew up eating them because my dad went fishin' about every Saturday. Whether it was fried bass or smoked mullet. Ya'lls fish fry brought back some fond memories.

Yum and YUM again! The meal always tastes so much better when home grown or home caught. "Blessing's all mine and ten thousand beside....." The Lord is so good to His children.

Our 14 year old granddaughter is very good at filleting fish. Her grandpa cuts the head off, guts them, and then she takes over with an electric knife. Nothing better then fried fish. We coat ours with Andy’s seasonings. Our Walmart sells a couple varieties.

My favorite way of trout and it is one of my favorite fish. I do broil it in the oven. And I pull the bone out if I have to cut it into and no bone left. My fillet it little tiny bit of butter and I used to do slivered almonds it is my favorite favorite way. I would not turn down here fried trout either not for a minute :-)

Thank all of you for this. It is quiet time for me.

Sounds wonderful! My husband cleaned so many fish growing up that he hates fishing now. I've never learned it because my family didn't fish. Love to eat fried catfish when it's gifted to us.

Nothing beats some freshly caught fried fish 😋That is definitely a yummy meal...

Tipper, my Daddy would fish at Lake Sam Rayburn, not far from our house on El Camino Real, The King's Highway, and fillet up a lot of fish and make hush puppies!! It was amazing!! It was Crappie, which I loved. And I was never a bit picky, so I much enjoyed all the bounty!! Tonight watching you made me miss my dear DADDY. He's been with Jesus since 2009, but I figure he fishes with those guys now!

Tks for sharing ur meal w/ us!! Fish fries r the best!

❤wish I was there. I would rather have fish too!!❤😊❤🎉❤❤❤

Yummy, yummy, yummy! I am more of a fish person too, Tipper. My father-in-law used to go deep-sea fishing sometimes and he caught a huge grouper one time, filleted it and we got three suppers that fed 6 people out of that thing. Sometimes we would go out in his boat in the river here and catch trout. He would make homemade hush puppies too and that was some good eaten! I love lemon juice on my fish and I like to dip them in Louisiana tartar sauce. So good! Y’all have a good week. Hugs from the southeast coast of Florida😎🦩🌞🦩😎

Watching this is such a comfort

Fish taters soup beans slaw or fried okra my grandpa was the catfish king of central Texas the family feed the neighbor great memories ❤from TEXAS

The best ingredient of all..... family. You are richly blessed to have each other.

I love the idea of making hush puppy cornbread.

my Aunt Dorothy used to make us kids homemade hush puppies with buttermilk…..❤❤❤❤❤

What a feast! Now this is living!!! I Love the group cleanup in your supper videos 🤸🏼

Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night! Looks absolutely delicious!

Thsnk you for sharing the way you celebrate Appalachia! You are loved.

You know you don't have to filet brook trout, just head and gut them, dredge them in flour and pan-fry them (in bacon fat). The meat peels away from the backbone, fins & ribs leaving you with a perfectly safe - and delicious - meal. The skin gets crispy and delicious because there are no scales! That's the method that has come down the generations of my family for over 100 yrs. Jeepers, I haven't had speckled trout in a hundred yrs. I gotta find a source now.

Delicious spread of fresh fried fish, vegetables and hush puppies, yummy

A fine meal. If I ha to choose Steak or fish It'd be fish. Grew up eating fish often. A year after my Daddy died we were eating fish he caught. Mama would put fish in the paper milk cartons cover the fish in water then freeze them. We had a big freezer. Mullet is my favorite. Rainbow trout is hard to beat though. Somehow fish from the mountains just taste cleaner,fresher. Thank for sharing this.❤

Oh, and great hush puppy hack!!

Wellllll dang.... My mouth watered and...well...dang...super wish I had family near me to make a feast like this...simple as it was, yet totally bountiful

Hello from NJ! I felt like I was there with you making my plate. Nice video.

Thank you so much for that fine country meal. Made with love for family. Great roasted potatoes idea too

We rolled our fish in corn meal before frying it too. Sooooo delicious.

Hi Tipper! It's a home grown supper! So special. I love thinking about in generations past everyone ate that way. Food they raised or hunted and how special it tastes. We always fished in the river around Fresno when I was growing up. We would bobber fish in still pools and catch blue gill and crappie. They were so delicious. I too cleaned my fair share. Karla in Cali.

I love the hushpuppy cornbread recipe and can see many possible variations.

That looks so good. I’m gonna make that hush puppy cornbread next time I cook some fish. 😊

I would eat cornbread 🌽🍅🥒🫑🧅🥬 any time at your house. You cook like our family cooks!

Now that all just looked delicious. Thank you for sharing Tipper. I'd probably eat til I was near busting 😊.

I could eat a meal with only the hushpuppy cornbread and the vegetables from the garden! I have to peel cucumbers with a vegetable peeler. When I use a knife, I tend to peel away half the cucumber. You all are very good cooks!

OMGahhhh, that fried fish looks every bit as good as I *know* it tasted‼️ Wow 🤩 😋

A fabulous fish fry with all the complimentary sides! Sure it was delicious!

what a great meal. I will make hushpuppies like you did.

I’m 35 & cooked & ate a ton of fried fish in my life & have never seen anyone fry it with the skin on like that. I’m not going to knock it till I try it…. I’m just saying that totally shocked me. Everything else was exactly how we’d eat it, even the batter on the fish Matt did.

This reminds me of fishing with my grandpaw as a kid and bringing them home for grandmaw to fry them up. We always had cornbread sticks from the cast iron cornstick pan.

I could only dream about stopping by for dinner someday!😊❤ But what a wonderful dream😊 I Prefer eat fresh caught fish😁

Memories of my family too. Now I'm hungry !

God bless you Ms.Tipper and your whole family, What an amazing wonderful time, Family time and Fresh caught fish and pure blessing from your garden. Im so glad i found yalls channel . Have a beautiful weekend ahead . We are in a horrible heat wave here in Montgomery County, Texas Its gonna be 104 today with heat index at 115 . Got chores done early outside and staying inside ,they warned us. Thank you for sharing your amazing family experience. Mrs josette Tharp Montgomery County, Texas ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Oh my goodness! That all looks absolutely delicious! Reminds me of growing up in West Virginia and going fishing with daddy and my brother on a Saturday morning in the 1960’s.

Looks delicious 😊

Watching this video was like going shopping while hungry. Cookbook is now on order.😆

Now that's a real meal with your family working as a team !

My grandparents were commercial fishermen on the Illinois River. Us kids got to help from netting to selling and everything in between. When I met my husband, he went around telling everyone to bring me their fish to clean, fillet, or score, lol. I can't remember a time I hadn't had fish at the ready. We all pole fish now tho.

Lazy? Uh, huh. I wish I was that lazy. 😏😄 I had a Wesson measuring cup justlike yours. If I remember right, mine came wrapped to the oil bottle. The letters and markings wore off in my dishwasher though. I did send away for red, heart-shaped measuring cups from another oil brand. That supper looks amazing! Perfect summer meal using all the bounty from the land. YeeHaw! 😂

As a child, we often visited Gulf Shores, Alabama for a family vacation. Mind you, it was NOTHING like it is today. It was wonderfully rustic and there was not a high rise to be seen. But we sure did love all the good eating, fresh fish including Hush Puppies! One night my mom decided she could easily duplicate that recipe which was on the back of a bag of local flour. Well, we were all excited! And let me tell you ... they were the most horrible things we ever ate. Hard as rocks! Years afterward, we still laughed about it. In the Midwest, we eat fresh, fried fish with lots of melted butter and herbs such as tarragon and garlic. Y'all sure had a long day. Soon, you need to get a dishwasher. I'm single ... but I would never ever live anywhere without a dishwasher. If you do a bit of searching, you can still find one that is portable ... and would easily slide into that empty space right side of the sink. ... Don't see "Tate's" cookies ... someone had a great snack ...

Well i sat here and was salivating watching this video i so miss fish and eating like that i ate that way growing up many memories from my childhood at my aunts house she cooked like you and Matt wonderful job on that fish and Tipper your family is spoiled Dessert after nearly every meal. I love to see how Matt glowing talks about you and the girls, Austin is such a sweet addition to the family love listening to the background while you cook while the family is together.

HEY, PRESSLEY FAMILY ... looks like you all are eating like Kings & Queens tonight ... yummy 😋. But l need to tell you all something pretty funny and the best compliment a cook could have ... Tipper while you were talking to us and your family had their plates full ... all you could hear in the background was the forks hitting the plates! 🤣 no talking just the forks hitting the plates.

I love fried fish and trout is one of my favorites! Yummy

Tipper you do not have a lazy bone in your body. I was going to ask you if you ever sit still. Enjoy that wonderful supper.❤️ to all.😊

I love Fish 🐠 especially Fried 🐠🐠