Everybody loves Recess! Join me as I skedaddle here and there around North Cakcalacky, and occasionally beyond our borders too!
The world’s slowest blogger and quintessential non-baker took home 1st Place last week in the 1st Annual “Best Southern Biscuit®” Contest at the 2nd Annual Midstate Mills Biscuit Day over […]
THE non-baker ‘cued up 1st Place in “Best Southern Biscuit®” Contest ...keep reading »
I like a good moist coconut cake… not “love,” but do enjoy on occasion. As is the case all around, there have been some ladies in my community, who, over
Part 1: Old Fashioned Coconut Cake… and Caramel Cake from Hell #CakeDisaster ...keep reading »
Looking for a fun #culinaryadventure day trip from the Triangle area? Head over to High Rock Farm in Gibsonville on 11/4 where YOU can roast chestnuts over an open fire, sample
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire… Fun Fall NC Festival! ...keep reading »
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…
What time is it? Muscadine time…. ...keep reading »
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
Fall = Applesauce! ...keep reading »
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.
Peas, please… field peas, that is! ...keep reading »
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!
…sweet summer corn salad with honey-citrus dressing ...keep reading »
A backroads adventure…
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{-noun- a strong, narrow rope, cord, wire, etc., usually stretched between two poles, posts or buildings on which clean laundry is hung to dry.}
A backroads adventure…. the clothesline ...keep reading »
Four years ago today, my sweet Speagle Chamblee crossed the rainbow bridge. As I sat here looking at our pictures in this heat wave, and having seen a friend post
…gone to the dogs! Homemade “Frosty Pet nICE Cream” treats! ...keep reading »
Tomatoes… my love! I doth live for this tasty time of year when they are bountiful at farmers’ markets and in generous friends’ gardens. I make tomato sauce…. plain I
…just sweet n’simple peppered tomato jam ...keep reading »
In honor of it being National Biscuits & Gravy Day, we are revisiting this post from a ways back. Now this isn’t your usual biscuits and gravy recipe… but I’m
