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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cook’n with NC goodies
…be it one of the thousands of dee-lish products made here by NC food artisans or any of our many agriculture commodities, I’m cook’n with them!
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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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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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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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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***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. Those of us lucky enough to have grown up with
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…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 in this heat wave, and having seen a friend post
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Cheery Grilled Corn with Hoop Cheese & Bacon Dust
I know, I got you with BACON dust, right? Well then let’s add Cheerwine to the party too! Bacon doth make everything more better, and on my “Cheer”y
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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? Well you will be happy to know that grunts and
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…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 in generous friends’ gardens. I make tomato sauce…. plain I
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Sesame Parmesan Squash Crackers
It’s here! Squash season… the start of that time of year when squash seems to be coming at us from every which way. I planted squash seeds in the spring,
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