Seasonal Old-time Cooking and Housekeeping From a Vintage Western North Carolina Cabin
If I were a garden fairy, I would bed under the night stars on a hidden tuft of moss and snuggle under my wooly soft Bergartten sage leaf blanket. Bergartten is a big-leafed winsome sage that grows happily amidst the tangles of my Egyptian walking onions. Unfortunately, this human gal isn’t sleeping under a […]
The last blast of summer veggies = crusty rustic grilled fare at our equally crusty rustic mountain cabin in the last couple of weekends. Oh summer, don’t go away! I’m not ready to close the windows! Bits and pieces of meats stashed in the freezer made for some dramatic fireside feasting when […]
If you need someone to make an almond cookie-henge dessert for your next fancy fundraising event for 85 people, then I’m your guy. On its best day, my food is rustic and one wonders how the heck I wound up doing dessert for the John C. Campbell Folk School fundraising dinner last […]
The days grow shorter and my tomatoes grow bigger. And bigger. Because I’m growing a monster roma type tomato, whose seeds were given to me by my friend, Alice, and I swear, they are big enough to be soup bowls. Hey! Let’s make tomato soup and serve it in a tomato bowl!!! If you look at this […]
Your daddy is a butcher Your mama sells the meat And you’re the little weenie who runs about the street … So much for my summer goal of being a more well-behaved writer/cooking instructor/etc. This upcoming Sort-of Appalachian Supper cooking class involves local moonshine. And that reminds me that I need […]
Oh, help me. Where do I even start …. Actually this story deserves more time to tell than I have at the moment, so I think that this is 10th annual Asheville retro pie contest part I. However, we’ve the great honor of being the cover story of the August […]