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Seasonal Old-time Cooking and Housekeeping From a Vintage Western North Carolina Cabin

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Muscadine merriment + a perky salad for your Thanksgiving table

November 14, 2013 by Barbara

I know it might be too late now for Muscadines since it was a whopping 19 degrees outside our Asheville door this morning. But this celebrated southern native grape keeps well when refrigerated, and

DIY & Homesteading Recipes

Wood-fired roasted tomatoes for the winter larder + roasted tomato and fresh corn chowder

August 27, 2013 by Barbara

I hope you can grow tomatoes … apparently I cannot. Anymore. The blight of every shape and fungal form has come knocking on our moldy door this summer due to record

Classes Places and things to see Recipes

Southern cowpea, butterbean & legume greed

August 14, 2013 by Barbara

Here’s why you should slow down and take the back roads. You might run into a Georgia roadside stand with zipper peas, crowder peas, lady peas, and pink-eyed peas. Honey

Pie Quirky Food Musings Recipes

Frozen rhubarb cheesecake and a confession

July 9, 2013 by Barbara

July 4th is my birthday and this is the “cake” I made for our birthday dinner. Friends suggested that I post the recipe and so I thought I’d share my version/not-recipe of

Quirky Food Musings Recipes

A fun hangover + gathering recovery everyday parmesan-fried summer squash

July 5, 2013 by Barbara

Maybe 7 inches of rain in 4 days isn’t such a bad thing. No gardening, mowing, weed-whacking, laundry-hanging or long walks in the woods to distract from getting the house back in

Recipes

Crunchy Laundry

May 15, 2013 by Barbara

“If these sheets were any crunchier they would stand up and walk out of the room” declared Wayne as he climbed into bed last night. A high complement where I

Greens log cabin Recipes

A found mountain supper …

April 26, 2013 by Barbara

A lot’s changed since my college days when my friend, Lisa, and I would hitchike up into the George Washington national forest of SW Virgina for a weekend of wilderness camping

log cabin Recipes

Fire roasted supper + black bears over my head

April 8, 2013 by Barbara

It is not halloween and this is not a man in a bear costume standing in our woods. I was just sitting in my bed this lazy morning, drinking coffee,

Recipes

Are you tangerine/orange marmalade worthy?

March 29, 2013 by Barbara

Tell me, I have to know. Are you marmalade worthy? If you say yes, and you really mean it, then I will share a little jar of this labor-of-love-jam

Pie Recipes

I made you a winter squash birthday pi, Albert Einstein! (Plus a Pick ‘n Pie class)

March 14, 2013 by Barbara

It’s 3.14. Pi Day. And Einstein’s birthday. And we’re celebrating around here. But first, I have a basic physics lesson for you that explains quite simply what pi and