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…
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.
Italian Rotisserie Chicken Salad Stuffed Tomatoes
Keep cool in the kitchen… throw together this no-cook Italian Rotisserie Chicken Salad in no time for a tasty meal on a hot summer’s day.
Tomato-Pimento Cheese Shortcakes With Black-Peppered Whipped Cream
Ahhh … juicy NC summer tomatoes, how we love thee. Since they don’t need much fuss’n over, this simple shortcake is just right for breakfast, brunch or as a side with a juicy steak. A dollop of savory cream is the crowning glory.
Ringing in the new….
Hey y’all! Wheeee doggies, can you believe it’s time to remember to write 2018 on our checks already? LOL For
Soup’s on! Blushing Turkey Soup
Well here we are, just like that ~ looking at Thanksgiving 2017 in our rear view mirror. Did your grandmas
…krave-worthy Krispy Kreme Kroutons!
Krispy Kreme “Kroutons” are a fun treat by themselves, but floating in boiled custard to enjoy at the bottom of your cup is good, too!
What time is it? Muscadine time….
Don’t miss these recipes for Flavor, NC featuring muscadine grapes! Muscadine Crisp. Muscadine Grape Pepper Jelly. Muscadine Shrub. And an experience at John Campbell Folk School…
Fall = Applesauce!
Fall is in the air… well kinda sorta, now that fresh North Carolina apples are making their debut at farmers’
Speaking of tomatoes, fried green ones…
A few years ago while food styling and creating recipes at Our State Magazine, I had the opportunity to create
Peas, please… field peas, that is!
We do love our field peas here in North Carolina! Pea shelling meant life lessons for me as a little girl… oh, if we could only turn back the clock to those days.
…sweet summer corn salad with honey-citrus dressing
Corn…. here, there and over yonder! Oh, the delicious time of summer is here in all its golden glory, and
