Clark & I are often asked how we got into the jelly business. Living in a rural mountain community, we're surrounded by farms and joined a CSA pretty early on. Minimizing our carbon footprint and reducing food miles is important to us. We started freezer preserving tomatoes...
[recipe][wpurp-searchable-recipe]Good Enough Shrimp and Grits with Candied Bacon - Award winning recipe from the 10th Annual Jekyll Island Shrimp & Grits Festival featuring Unicoi Preserves Apple Cider Pepper Spread - Grits: Nora Mill Stone Ground Grits, water, Kosher Salt, Mountain Fresh Creamery Cream, Unsalted Butter,...
Unicoi Preserves Salted Caramel Peach Spread and Country Ham make a delicious and easy gourmet pizza on the Big Green Egg. Use a Stonefire flatbread pizza crust to make this an easy weeknight meal! [recipe][wpurp-searchable-recipe]Peach and Pig Pizza on the Big Green Egg - Unicoi Preserves...
Unicoi Preserves is now two years old! We celebrated our second anniversary last Saturday at Habersham Winery’s 24th Annual WineFest. It’s a fun event and this year there were 20 different Georgia wineries pouring their wines, as well as live music, great food and vendors. Reflecting...
Unicoi Preserves founders Suzy & Clark Neal took home the First Place and Consumer Choice Awards at the 10th Annual Jekyll Island Shrimp and Grits Amateur Cooking Competition on September 19th. Their recipe for Good Enough Shrimp and Grits with Candied Bacon included their Georgia...
Hello again! We have been jamming and jelly-ing as fast as we can around here, but its time for me to stop, and type a little bit to get you up to speed. Exciting news! We are one of 10 amateur cooking teams selected to compete at the Jekyll Island Shrimp...
Hi blog readers! We've had a hectic few weeks here at Unicoi Preserves Spread Headquarters. Let me get you up to speed! Back at the beginning of June, we attended the Macon Georgia Grown Farmers Showcase. It was the first time we had been to an event...
Clark and I had the honor and privilege of being the first overnight guests at the new tree house located at ZipNTime in Helen, Georgia. Camping is one thing, but staying in a treehouse, its even better and is the perfect way to rough it. We...
Cooking is challenging when your stove is on the fritz but its not impossible. I made this tasty, spicy & sweet slaw using our award winning Georgia Apple Cider Pepper Spread to accompany The Pioneer Woman's Spicy Dr. Pepper Pork that I cooked in our crockpot. Clark got this crockpot when...
We live and work in a vacation destination but often lose sight of that and sometimes work more then we play. Last week, we changed that and kicked off the start of a fun weekend by going zip lining at ZipNTime with our friends from Habersham...
Unicoi Preserves turned one year old at Habersham Winery at WineFest this past Saturday. What a fitting place for us to celebrate our first birthday since it's where we debuted our products last May. The Pot Stirrer and the Spread Specialist Phickle Chickle Angie, Spread Specialist Suzy, GM of...
Need a fast and tasty dessert that also happens to be gluten-free? My friend Donna is not only a great cook, she's also the one who keeps my hair fabulous. I was in today to get my hair spiffed up and she told me she had made a...