Seasonal Old-time Cooking and Housekeeping From a Vintage Western North Carolina Cabin
Saturday 3.14.15 at 9:26 is the BIG pi day and Albert Einstein’s 136th birthday. Two years ago, I wrote an authoritative post on how Albert Einstein came up with his Theory of Relativity and various equations that actually totally escape my understanding, which I am yet again re-posting, as now […]
It’s picnic time. Even though it’s 9ยบ outside give or take. Which makes it really hard to write a book about picnic time, which I am doing because it’s not only picnic time, it’s also coming up on deadline time. All last spring, summer and fall my friends and […]
When my husband, Wayne, was 15 and had been playing guitar for, oh, about 6 months, he decided to share his freshly acquired skills in the form of a class held in his parent’s living room. He plastered nearby UCLA with signs saying “Be popular, play the guitar” and somehow managed […]
Yikes!!! Are you having a Thanksgiving pie-making emergency? Well don’t fret, darlin, you’ve come to the right place. Join my daughter Annie and I for an evening of pie-making fun next Wednesday, Nov. 12 from 5:30-8:30. Together we’ll whip up Mrs. Tennis E. Painter’s Appalachian Candy Roaster pumpkin pie (with […]
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 […]
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 […]