Can you start and operate a food business from your home kitchen in North Carolina?
Are you in North Carolina? Do you have the “best” cake recipe from your grandma? or baked goods? or folks say “you need to put that in a bottle and sell it?” Perhaps your home kitchen meets criteria for a home-based food permit. There ARE limitations. Read all about them here…
Grilled Oysters Rangoon
Instead of classic Crab Rangoon, I put the creamy filling on top of meaty North Carolina oysters and crowned them with a crispy pork and sesame crunch… and a dollop of sweet chili crisp.
Homemade Butter Salt and Lemon Pepper Potato Chips
Crispy, salty and zingy with lemon pepper, these homemade chips taste like something you’d buy at a gourmet grocer — but they’re surprisingly easy to make at home.
Easy Spiffy Spicy Tomato Soup with Aunt Dee Dee’s Kitchen Hot Dog Chili Seasoning
Easy fast & flavorful slow-cooker tomato soup with ADDK hot dog chili seasoning & pantry items. Throw, simmer, and enjoy a cup of comfort. Dairy & Gluten Free
Rotisserie Chicken Healing Soup
Savor this simple comforting healing soup during cold and flu season. Just smelling it simmer makes you feel better. But of course, it’s flavorful anytime!
Banana Pudding Pavlova (…upside down banana pudding!)
Everybody loves grandma’s old-fashioned banana pudding with cooked custard. I flipped this upside down and put the meringue on the bottom for this fun pavlova. Make ahead and WoW your holiday guests.
Faye Gay’s Pimento Cheese Ball
It’s hard to beat a good ol’ cheese ball, a throwback to days gone by when it was a staple at gatherings. Faye Gay’s vintage pimento cheese ball is the best!
Lazy Day Slow Cooker Lasagna Soup
A yummy good slurpy soup for a chilly fall eve when daylight is short and nights are long. This slow cooker lasagna soup has “Sunday supper” written all over it.
Cauliflower au Gratin with crispy onion topping
This cheesy side pairs with just about anything. Serve it with a simple supper, or let it hold its own with more elaborate meals, too.
…simply tomato soup
There are few things as comforting as a bowl of “simply tomato soup.” Recipes can be found of assorted varieties. All over the tomato soup map. For me, I don’t care for anything fancy… and many are too heavy on the basil for me. It’s ok, but not a big fan, and a little basil goes a longggg way. Tomato soup need not be fussy… just tomato soup.
Warm Fireside Butterscotch Milk
Snuggle up with your sweeties with mugs of this caramelly, buttery deliciousness. Make scrumptious snow cream too.
Wendy’s Simple Southern Fried Chicken
Fried chicken should be simple. No chunky hunks of fried flour. But lightly battered and fried in the right oil so the perfection of the fried chicken skin is star of the show! Surrounding moist and juicy chicken!
Harvest Time Cabbage & Root Vegetable Soup
The arrival of fall and the changing weather brings a shift in produce at our farmers markets. Root vegetables provide nourishment with so much depth of flavor — simply throwing them in our slow cooker calls for little seasoning, just their own natural goodness. This recipe makes ample soup to freeze for busy nights.
The sweetest of my culinary adventures! Making sorghum Molasses with Mr. Doug Harrell
Perhaps my most favorite culinary adventure of all… making sorghum molasses with Mr. Doug Harrell & family at Harrell Hill farm… Bakersville, NC!
