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Don’t miss your chance to show off your casserole cooking skills at the Lenoir County Agricultural Fair. The fair begins on October 2 and runs through October 7th and is filled with all kinds of fun for the whole family!! The Casserole Cook-Off has become an annual event providing all of you great cooks out there a chance to share your favorite casserole recipes.
Okra is beginning to show up at your local Farmers Market and roadside stands and when it is ripe and ready it is also quite abundant. Okra is either one of those vegetables that you love or you simply love to hate. Known for its scrubby texture when overcooked, okra is actually crunchy, crisp, and absolutely delicious when handled properly.
One bowl meals seem to be on every menu now, one bowl filled with grains or noodles, veggies, and protein, one-bowl meals are healthy and filling, which is a winning weeknight combo. There are many simple, healthy creations you can make at home, all served up in one bowl!
Seems to me that Super Bowl parties are the “unofficial” diet breakers. Right when you get into the flow of eating healthy, here comes the Super bowl party and all of those fabulous recipes that come with it!! Traditional game day foods are crowd pleasers, but they can also be some of the worst foods for you health-wise.
Whether you are trying to stick to your New Year’s Resolutions or just want to get back on the healthy eating track after a little too much seasonal excess, here are some new and different recipes for you to give a try! Many of these will fall under the Mediterranean Diet.
Get out the cookie sheets; it’s time to start baking the Holiday cookies and treats. Nothing feels and smells like Christmas as much as Holiday baking. Many of you know that I am not a baker…it is much to precise of a science for me.so the recipes you will see in this cookie baking article will be very easy and almost foolproof!
It’s not a secret that berries are really good for us, strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries, are all packed with fiber, antioxidants and many other super nutrients. Often overlooked until Holiday season are cranberries, nope they aren’t just for cranberry sauce and stringing garland!!
Load up the tents, tables, and chairs all in red, blue or even purple…it is time to step up your tailgate for homecoming!! Games are great, but as you know half the fun is in the parking lot before and after the game!
Fall is the season for everything pecans!! The pecan is the “original” supernut, especially in the south. Pecan trees are abundant all-over eastern North Carolina and soon to be dropping in abundance. The much sought after nut is a complex whole food, packed with multiple health-promoting nutrients and bioactive compounds. Each delicious pecan is a nutrition powerhouse.
I have never been the biggest fan of turnips, but I have discovered over the past few years that if prepared in the right way, they will take on a variety of unique flavors depending on your recipe. Turnips are often mistaken for a member of the root family, in reality the turnip belongs to the cruciferous family whose cousins are Brussels sprouts, kale and broccoli. Even so, most often consumed is the bulbous root of the turnip.
Let’s hope you won’t need this information, but it is Hurricane Season and we are in eastern North Carolina, so here you go!! The best way to survive a disaster and to be able to quickly recover is to “be prepared”!!
Pumpkin-flavored grocery products reaped over $511 million in 2019, and that was an increase of 4.7% from the amount in 2018 , companies such as Starbucks report a 10% sales increase the week that pumpkin pie spice debuts for the season.
Pears are generally ready and ripe to pick in our region in late summer and early fall. Pears are not heavily produced in North Carolina but many of us remember a pear tree or two in our Grandparents yards. We certainly produce enough that you can find them at your Local Farmers Market.
When visiting your local Farmer’s Market and roadside stands, be sure to seek out the Heirloom tomatoes like German Johnson or Purple Cherokees, they are often the ugliest tomatoes but they also often the tastiest!!
Fruit or a vegetable? Technically the cucumber is a fruit because it contains the seeds to reproduce, but typically cucumbers are grouped and grown with veggies due to their use. But if you are a cucumber lover does it really matter? Cucumbers may not boast having the highest nutritional value of some other fruits and vegetables but it still has many of it’s own merits! Check it out!
