How did the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission know we are growing our own sweet potatoes? I just received an e-mail urging me to enter a “bloggers recipe contest” sponsored by the sweet potato commission. I might have blown it off, but the reward for best recipe is $1,000. That got me thinking maybe I […]
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My wife, the baker in the family, took one look at our recent harvest of overwintered carrots and knew what she had to make: carrot cake. I know what you are thinking: There could hardly be anything more mundane than carrot cake. But trust me: once you’ve made it with carrots you’ve grown in your […]
Here’s some of the venison we recently received in trade with one of the neighbors for pickles and other preserves we put up in the summer. Apparently the neighbors have family with a farm in southern Virginia and have been plying us with venison in exchange for our home-grown produce. What they are most interested […]
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