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.
…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
Wendy’s Dilly Swiss Tomato Pie!
’tis pie season. Tomato Pie Season! As House Chef, food stylist and recipe developer at Our State Magazine for 5
A backroads adventure…. the clothesline
A backroads adventure…
clothes·line ˈklōT͟Hzlīn/
{-noun- a strong, narrow rope, cord, wire, etc., usually stretched between two poles, posts or buildings on which clean laundry is hung to dry.}
Beat the heat with this Green & Gold Okra Summer Salad! No cook’n here….
Published in Carolina Country Magazine Summer 2018 Well I don’t know about where you are, but here in Eastern North
***Happy 80th Birthday Krispy Kreme!***
One of North Carolina’s finest, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, is turning 80 today! And THAT, my friends is cause for celebration.
