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What Are We Going to Order from Our NC CSAs?

This week will see not one, but two deliveries. The Produce Box is starting its season and our membership with Carolina Grown has been processed. We’re going to get all ...

Another Community Supported Agriculture Option in NC

With spring coming we’re looking forward to another season with The Produce Box. We found it to be a great buy for us – not only saving money, but improving our family’s menu ...

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Sign Up for The Produce Box This Season

The season is about to begin and if you’re in North Carolina, I highly recommend you check to see if The Produce Box is delivering in your area. They’re starting ...

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Overwhelmed? 9 Ways to Simplify Your Kitchen

One of the biggest struggles I had with learning my way around ...

Stop! Don’t Buy That Knife Set

Knives can be one of the most expensive tools in your kitchen, ...
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14 Kitchen Tools I Can’t Live Without

We all know about the basic things—cutting boards, serving dishes, the right ...

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Honey I.P.A.

I’m not a big fan of most India Pale Ales (I.P.A.) since most are extremely bitter and to me most don’t have offer anything to balance it out.  My husband is a big fan of them so we’ve brewed a couple of batches. We mused around with a few recipes and one that we both [...]

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Testing and Making Small Batches of Beers

So we’ve been brewing quite a bit since we got started. I just finished a batch of Smoked Wheat last week and this past Saturday we went ahead and bottle our first batch, a Maple Brown Ale. Maybe you’re interested in getting started, but perhaps you don’t want to jump all in and put that much money [...]

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Getting Started with Homebrewing

We have recently added another kitchen activity to our cooking list – we brewing our own beer. after taking so many tours of breweries around the area, we thought it would be fun to try it out ourselves. We’ve busy this month with 3 brews fermenting right now. Getting started with brewing wasn’t expensive and [...]

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Vegetable and Sausage Skillet Supper

One of my favorite ways to scrounge up a meal on a busy night is to prepare a skillet dinner. It’s easy prep, easy cooking, and with one pan, it’s easy cleaning. If you’re looking at a delicious skillet dinner, here’s a great one that I found online. Skillet Supper Ingredients Even though this recipe calls for kielbasa, it can easily [...]

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Oakwood Cafe: Affordable and Delicious Argentinian Food

For the last few months a friend had mentioned an Argentine cafe to try out the next time I was downtown. For some reason, I kept forgetting to go there because I was usually meeting and eating at some of my favorite spots since eating out is less common nowadays as we’re cooking more meals [...]

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