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.
…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
Browned Butter Orange-Scented Strawberry Chess Pie!
Southern Colcannon… get’n my Irish on for a day! (1)
UPDATE…. my Southern Colcannon and “Cabbards” recipes were published in Our State Magazine in March 2015! This is such a
Pantry Purge has its rewards… NEKKID nut butter!
During our most recent snow “event” last week, cabin fever set in. So instead of being lazy like I did
…crunch time ~ Let’s ROLL!
Sunshine.Finally. Enough with this winter already. Here’s hoping we are on the back side of this one here in my
…a few new snow concoctions!
We have had well more than our desired share of snow this winter here in central North Carolina. Sitting here
