Seasonal Old-time Cooking and Housekeeping From a Vintage Western North Carolina Cabin
YIKES!!! Almost burned the fapple tart while writing a post about the Ladies Cookin’ on a Wood Cookstove class. I’ve been cooking on a wood cookstove since I was 21 and that’s been a few years. A lot of years, actually. And a lot of cookstoves. Anyway, since a bunch of ladies have been […]
Oh rhubarb fig jam-spread, please don’t leave me. There are only three of you and one of you is half gone now. I am already heartbroken. OK, I’m not THAT heartbroken because I have learned to make rye bread on which to spread you; and when you are gone, I will still have Rye. As much as I’d actually […]
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 […]