Family Friendly Information and Fun Near Boone, NC
The biggest complaint I see to eating real food is the price that it can cost to follow a healthy diet. While consistent and exclusive shopping at health food stores like Earth Fare can be expensive (even when you shop sales) there are many ways to save money on your grocery bill while eating healthy. On most months [...]
This week I’m making applesauce…a LOT of applesauce…AGAIN. This batch, and probably most of the batches I make in the next three or four weeks are NOT going to get canned. Oh, I’ve canned some too but right now, applesauce is my secret snacking weapon! I’m always looking for healthy snacks to appease the ravening [...]
Yes, I’m still going on about Ratatouille. I can’t tell you how many meals have been graced by delicious ratatouille…. Okay, I’ll admit that my family is getting a little tired of it, but that often happens when I discover some new culinary delight. I make it so often that everyone but me gets just [...]
It starts with a question. The first question is always, where can I go to pick blueberries? Then, where is the BEST place to pick blueberries? Later, how many blueberries should I pick? And those questions lead to a whole slew of other questions, like What do I do with all these blueberries??? How do [...]
Added Note: A couple of friends have brought to my attention that this post ALMOST contains a recipe for a Mardi Gras King cake. I have to admit that until I started googling this morning, I had no idea what a King cake even was! But this colorful bread only lacks a green component and a plastic [...]
These delicious treats started out as appetizers and ended up being dinner! I’m still using up an abundance of tomatoes and this is one of the “keeper” ideas. I particularly like combining some of my favorite foods–crab, blue cheese, and fresh tomatoes–into something new and yummy. I started by carving out the center of four [...]
Okay, Tusday is past, but heck, Wednesdays are pretty tasty around here too…. Not all tomato soups are created equal. Some are WAYYYYYY more equal than others and this one beats them all. We’ve already been eating amazingly delicious oven-roasted tomatoes all week; yesterday, we upped the deeeeelish stakes with about 70 pounds of fresh [...]
Oven-roasted tomatoes, where have you BEEN all my life? I was initially just trying to avoid canning tomatoes when I stumbled upon this incredible way to process lots and lots of tomatoes. I can’t find adequate words to rhapsodize about the depth and richness of flavors these roasted tomatoes contain. (Insert noises of delirium.) Best [...]
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