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The 2013 James Beard Foundation Awards ceremony is upon us, and I feel that this is an appropriate time to put voice to feelings I’ve had for a few years now. The JBFA, as they’ve come to be known, are the self-proclaimed “Oscars” of the food world; a Who’s Who of dining, the Glitterati of [...]
James Strange, fellow wokstar with Wok Wednesdays and the face behind the YouTube cooking channel Power Plant OP, is out with a new video based on this week’s upcoming Wok Wednesdays recipe. Check out how James tackles Velvet Chicken with Asparagus from Grace Young’s Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge, and if you’re inspired use the [...]
The Market, Raleigh’s soon-to-open full service restaurant, grocery, and catering operation, is about to launch a Kickstarter campaign to help raise funds to help them outfit their space to be able to can and jar much of what they sell in the grocery store and serve in the restaurant. Chef Chad Michael McIntyre is hosting [...]
This past Friday I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down to a homemade lunch cooked by one of my favorite food bloggers, Jennifer Perillo. Jennie was in North Carolina to promote her cookbook, “Homemade With Love”, and a few bloggers gathered at the home of Ilina Ewen in Raleigh for an intimate lunch and [...]
Spring has finally arrived here in North Carolina (after a few fitful starts and stops) and with it comes one of my favorite food seasons – asparagus season! Asparagus is definitely a vegetable I’ve grown to love over the years; you couldn’t have paid me to eat it when I was a child while these [...]
[Note: I have recently begun writing for the NC Folklife Institute's NCFood blog. The articles will be hosted on their website, with excerpts posted here. Enjoy!] This spring you might notice a few new faces at your local farmers’ market. Sure you’ll see spinach, arugula, eggs, and asparagus, but tucked in between these market mainstays [...]
I’m a bad, terrible, no-good blogger. As leader of Wok Wednesdays I help choose the recipes, facilitate discussions, conduct giveaways, and maintain the WW blog and Facebook group, but lately I’ve neglected the one integral part of the whole experience – posting my own Wok Wednesdays results! Mea culpa, dear friends.As we enter spring, allow [...]
I’ve been fortunate enough in my life to have five grandparents. Grandpa Joe, Grandma Ellie, Grandma Ruth, Grandpa Leo, and Grandma Libby. Grandma Ruth, my father’s mother, passed away before I was born, and a beautiful, brave woman named Elizabeth Chaffee married my Grandpa Leo, becoming mother to eight kids who had just lost their [...]
Your mother’s spaghetti and meatballs. Uncle Joe’s famous chili. Grandma’s pecan pie. Heirloom recipes are memories as much as they are a set of instructions. They can transport us to another time and place. Treasured recipes passed down from generation to generation almost become members of our families; they tell our stories as well as [...]
The 2013 Farm to Fork picnic will be here before you know it! Called “the country’s beast all you can eat feast” by Bon Appetit magazine, Farm to Fork is an annual fundraiser and food event that brings together some of the regions best chefs with some of our most beloved farmers and food artisans [...]
Barbecue. Pimento Cheese. Craft beer. Wine? Yes, wine. North Carolina is quickly becoming a leader in East Coast wine production, with over 100 wineries and three American Viticultural Areas. North Carolina is also expanding its wine selection beyond the sweet scuppernog wines that the state is famous (or infamous) for producing. Perhaps no winery embodies [...]
We go through a lot of sour cream in my house. I use it in baked goods, as topping for tacos, chilis, and curries, and more often than not just as a dip for chips. I’ve been known to demolish half a pint of sour cream in one sitting. Full-fat; none of this low-fat nonsense! [...]
Dear readers, I have been remiss. In all my years writing about North Carolina food, traveling around the state stuffing my face, and touting places like Durham and Asheville as culinary meccas, I have neglected a gem of a city. Winston-Salem is a mere hour and a half from the Triangle and has a lively [...]
Every year around this time people make their New Years’ Resolutions and invariably one of them involves eating healthily. Perhaps its the not-so-distant memories of December’s holiday binges that make us reach for the water bottles and salads, but either way the focus on healthy eating and dieting is never more in focus than in [...]
If you haven’t found Hannah Hart, the soused genius behind My Drunk Kitchen, consider this my holiday gift to you. Happy Holidays, I hope everyone has a fun and delicious week!
Regular readers of this blog will know by now that I absolutely love Asheville. The mountain air, fun activities, and (most importantly) amazing food keep me coming back to Asheville year after year. From nibbling delicious chocolates at French Broad Chocolate Lounge to sipping brews at Highland Brewing Company, dining and shopping at the Grove [...]
I love Kickstarter, and the whole crowd-funding concept, and I recently came across a great campaign for a fascinating new product. Crio Espresso is the world’s first espresso made from 100% cocoa beans! The beans are fairly traded from farmers who practice sustainable and organic farming. Check out the video and donate to their campaign [...]
Its the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and chances are you have a refrigerator full of leftovers staring you in the face, and the thought of another turkey-stuffing sandwich makes you cringe. Never fear! I’ve got a recipe round-up filled with ideas for how to turn your Turkey Day refuse into leftover gold! Turkey Pho – [...]
I thought I’d take a moment to share with you all what I’ll be enjoying this Thanksgiving. My husband and I will be hosting my parents, my sister and brother-in-law, his mother, and his two younger siblings. In an effort to cater to all tastes (some of our family members are, shall we say, less [...]
Starting this week and going straight through until Thanksgiving, I’ll be taking to Twitter to give tips and advice on all things turkey. I’m encouraging all of my followers and food blogger friends to join in the discussion by using the #turkeydaytips hashtag. Each day I’ll post some new tips for everything from brining the [...]
Its been a crazy couple of weeks in Green Eats Blog land! In between finishing one job and starting another, I had the pleasure of attending TerraVITA, and once again was vindicated in my belief that it is the best food event in the Triangle. Here are some snapshots of what I’ve been up to: [...]
I have a confession. Roast turkey is my least favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal. Its bland, its a pain in the ass to cook, and it really adds nothing to the overall taste tableau of the holiday table. The genius of Thanksgiving is in the accompaniments – the sides, the drinks, the desserts. In years [...]
A while back I bought a traditional Thai sticky rice steamer. While I abhor most single-use kitchen gadgets, I have an unending addiction to traditional cooking tools from across the globe, and thus found myself leaving my local Asian grocery with aforementioned steamer last month. I bought what I thought was the correct rice (Calrose [...]
Recently my husband and I had the opportunity to attend a wine dinner hosted by The Fairview Dining Room at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club in conjunction with Grgich Hills Winery. Six wines paired with six small plates from Chef Jason Cunningham made for a memorable and delicious night. Those of you who [...]
I grew up in apple country, New England. Every fall my family went apple picking near our home in central Connecticut, or western Massachusetts, or New Hampshire. It didn’t really matter where as long as we came away with a couple gallons of apple cider, a dozen apple donuts, and close to a bushel of [...]
No, this is not a post about Glee. Sorry if you were expecting that. Pease console yourself by singing a mash-up of sad songs while dancing to impromptu-yet-oddly-seamless choreography. It’s a new direction for me! Starting in November I will be starting a new job as a pastry assistant for a trio of fantastic Durham [...]
Dock to Door Seafood, the Triangle’s premier delivered-to-you seafood company, is partnering with The Wine Feed in Raleigh on a fantastic event called Hook + Vine. Featuring fantastic wine, great North Carolina seafood, and some of the areas most talented chefs, this is an event you won’t want to miss! Dock to Door is partnering [...]
