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 those times when we still write a CHECK! As we […]
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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 tell you too, that “the older you get, the faster
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…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!
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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…
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Fall = Applesauce!
Fall is in the air… well kinda sorta, now that fresh North Carolina apples are making their debut at farmers’ markets! And with that, comes comfort foods, like applesauce. Who
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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 some “sauces” for Fried Green Tomatoes! We Southerners know summertime
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Squishy Fig Gingerbread… oooh la LA!
It’s no new news that I’m not the baker. I can do it when need be, but all that chemistry of proper measurements annoys me… I’m not particularly into tedium,
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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.
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…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 I don’t know about you, but I just can’t get.enough.CORN!
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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 years, I often prepared and styled recipes from church and
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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.}
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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 Carolina, we’re in the middle of a ridiculous heat wave….
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