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 […]
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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 […]
Homemade Maraschino sour cherries, elderflower cordial + the high price of pussyfooting
Ugg. Somewhere due east of remorse is regret. And I have it bad. But at least I didn’t dawdle away the chance to make three fetching early summer flavorings in the aftermath. And I hope you don’t dally either, if you have any of these in mind to make. Before […]
Food that looks like itself … spring veg offal fun
Are you playing with your vegetables again? I hope so. Otherwise, you’ll have to explain yourself to these radishes in need of a hair-do. Fresh-plucked spring veggies are just so darn fun, all you have to do is get out of the way and let them party on your plate. […]
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 […]