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Week 5 Budget and Menu
January is going out like a whirlwind here in central North Carolina. This week we are expecting days with freezing temperatures and days in the upper 60s. Hard to know how to dress, hard to know what...
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Week 8 Budget and Menu
Snow! We finally have a real snow here in central North Carolina! And the fact that it came on a weekend makes it even better. No missed work days. No stressful rush hours. Just relaxing and enjoying...
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Week 9 Budget and Menu
So my week went like this: I experimented with cooking stinky buckwheat one night and the next day, my daughter wrote an essay extolling many wonderful aspects of our relationship. Except cooking. Her...
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Week 19 Budget and Menu
Our little family is unbelievably busy this spring! Between softball, Girl Scouts and homework, our evenings are chock full of activity. Rather than drive myself to distraction trying to race home and...
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Sweet Potato Pound Cake with Praline Glaze
My sweet T’s birthday cake! For the record, cake is not health food. I get that. Really. But as we prepare for Thanksgiving (not even a month away!), I’m trying to include as many fresh, local...
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Beef Shank and Sausage Ragu
Some of our wonderful, local farms have beef shanks available this winter. I have to say, I had never even considered buying beef shanks, let alone how to cook them. So, this was another learning...
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Peach Berry Bars
While part of me is gravitating toward all things pumpkin these days, the more rational part (the part that actually goes outside in the 89% humidity) realizes that summer is still going strong, and...
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Shopping at the Winter Farmer’s Market
Assumptions. I know better than to make them, yet I still do. Before we started eating local, the winter farmer’s market (in my mind) was a place of leftover collard greens, cabbage and sweet potatoes....
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Week 33 Budget and Menu
Where did the summer go? It is hard to believe that we are coming up on fall already! I haven’t had the time to can or freeze nearly what I wanted, but we have a few weeks left of summer produce, so I...
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Stocking Up for the Gap Season
Here in NC, we are rapidly approaching the Gap Season, where summer crops are tapped out or on the way out and fall crops haven’t yet started producing much. How could that be??? Didn’t summer just...
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