
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…

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.

…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.

…gone to the dogs! Homemade “Frosty Pet nICE Cream” treats!
Four years ago today, my sweet Speagle Chamblee crossed the rainbow bridge. As I sat here looking at our pictures

Cheery Grilled Corn with Hoop Cheese & Bacon Dust

Grunt?… or Slump? Campfire Blueberry Peach Fruit Grunt
So which is it…. Grunt? or Slump? You might have seen these descriptions for fruity desserts and wondered…what the heck?

…just sweet n’simple peppered tomato jam
Tomatoes… my love! I doth live for this tasty time of year when they are bountiful at farmers’ markets and

