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...
Unicoi Preserves has really been hopping here lately and my blogging has taken a bit of a backseat. I apologize and promise to try and do better this spring. I owe you a blog post about the Flavor of Georgia competition and Ag Awareness Day in downtown Atlanta...
One of my all time favorite candies is M&M's. When Clark and I got married some 19 years ago this June, we used pastel colored Peanut M&M's in little tulle packages tied with ribbon as wedding favors. Clark's young cousins thought they were great to throw at...
Excuse me while I gush...
This blog post is long past due. Its not about Unicoi Preserves or a recipe, but a blog post about our family. We're two people and we share our home with some retired racing greyhounds. That number of greyhounds went from three to two on December...