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Roasted Peach Butter goes for a walk in the woods

It’s a fine day for a walk in the woods with Mrs. Roasted Peach Butter and her five little “offspring.”  Sweet late summer peaches are abundant here in the south, from giant to little and everything in between. They’re ripening on counters, and not-ripening in the fridge and I thought […]

Fresh Farmhouse Cheesemaking Class

If you Asheville folks have a hankering to learn to make artisan farmhouse cheeses from local cow (or goat) milk, do we have a fun evening in store for you!  My daughter Annie Erbsen De Bacco will be teaching a class on Wed., July 16th, and she knows a thing or two about […]

Portable fun

My mind wants me to write this book, but my body does not want to sit in a chair at a desk inside my attic office and get down to business. So I figured out the perfect solution. The 1946 Remington Noiseless Portable Typewriter. I’ve been looking for a manual […]