About Recipe

I don't know how my Croatian Mom did it. Yes, she was abruptly widowed at the young age of 38 in 1960, with no education (never graduated from high school), and four young children to raise on her own in big time coal-mining land, Southern West Virginia. Despite few conveniences, working her hands to the bone, no time for herself, being frenzied to the nth degree, she always had a hot hearty healthy breakfast for us on the table early every morning before school. Yes, she hammered into us the importance of that first meal of the day. I can assure you that these skillet spiced apples & coconut come with a lot of love, respect and admiration from my Mom, Katie, who was a saint and a woman steeped in substance.