Tag: #NorthCarolina
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Turkey Mushroom Casserole
Creamy Turkey and Rice Casserole is a quick and nutritious comfort meal. This recipe serves 2 to four and cooks in 30 minutes. Try it this week for a soul-satifying dinner.
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New Year’s Day Hoppin’ John
Happy New Year and good eating to you and yours from the coastal Carolinas. I’ve been lunching this week with friends visiting Charleston and family from North Carolina as well. While eating out has been nice, I’m looking forward to digging in to a comforting bowl of Hoppin’ John on New Year’s Day for a…
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Spend the 12 Days of Christmas in the Carolinas
As winter approaches, Carolina towns offer various outdoor holiday activities for families. Popular events include the Charleston Christmas parade, Holiday Festival of Lights, and Winterfest in Wilmington. Other attractions include skiing in the Appalachian Mountains, tree cutting in Blowing Rock, and festive celebrations across cities, ensuring a memorable holiday season.
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Spiced Apple Dumplings
Carolina Cuisine is about sharing scrumptious Southern favorites like apple dumplings. Here’s a recipe that yields four delicious and comforting apple dumplings in a warm spiced caramel sauce made without the heavy cream. Nurture and nourish yourself and family, Enjoy!
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How to Cook Dirty Rice, a Southern Favorite
Dirty rice is a favorite Southern recipe that I’m often asked for. It makes a flavorful side dish or main dish and cooked up quickly.
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Golden Fried Apple Pies, Vegetarian
Golden fried apple “hand pies” are a wonderfully scrumptious way to enjoy the fruit of the season. Apple orchards across the Carolinas are wrapping up before the first frost and collecting a large variety of flavorful apples. This recipe makes 4 pies and includes a quick pastry dough recipe or you could buy sheets of…
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2025 Southeast Vegetable & Fruit Expo; N.C. Cooperative Extension
Southeastern Vegetable and Fruit Autumn Expo
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Creamy Pea Salad
English garden pea salad is an easy and delicious way to eat raw vegetables. This no-cook recipe comes together quickly and serves two. Try the side salad made with fresh peas this weekend.
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How to Brew Delicious Tea, Iced or Hot
The weather is beautiful with perfectly blue tinted skies, fluffy clouds, and cool mornings in the 60s here on the South Carolina coast. It’s January in the South, the American football season is wrapping up and the fish are biting. The day is new and it’s almost heavenly here, but first, tea! 🫖 No matter…
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Chargrilled Shrimp Skewers
Happy September to my lovely subscribers. I am truly grateful for each of you and hope you are enjoying reading my quick articles and even trying out recipes written for two. I find it daunting to read heavy, thick recipe books and convert recipes that were written to serve 10 or twelve. Occasionally I still…
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Easy Chicken Recipes
The sweltering days of July in the South have finally given way to wonderfully mild afternoons and refreshing cool mornings, bringing a joyful change from the typically oppressive heat. My family embraces the “mock autumn” weather outdoors as we happily pull out the Weber grill and head to the food market, excited to pick up…
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Discover the Unique Flavors of Carolina Honey
Hey honey lovers! If you enjoy digging into that gooey golden goodness from North or South Carolina, here’s the lowdown on what makes local honey a buzz-worthy addition to your diet. What’s in the jar? Local honey is nature’s nectar, with just a few main ingredients. It’s delicious and good for us for various reasons:…
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Crispy Squash Fritters with Roasted Garlic Dipping Sauce
As the heat turns up in the Carolinas, hearty squash are blooming brightly in the garden. They have large, lovely, velvety soft flower blossoms that tend to hang on a few days before producing a squash bud and falling off. These beauties can be removed in the morning, rinsed off, and eaten as edible flowers.…
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10 Cool Foods for Hot Picnics
The Dog Days of Summer are here with high humidity and temperatures under the Southern sun. However, that doesn’t stop birthday parties, baby showers, and other friend and family events from bringing us together in the heat of the summer. It may be a family beach day, lakeside picnic at the state park, your coworkers…
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5 Easy Ideas for Fresh Peaches
Peaches are ripe on the Carolina trees and farmers are collecting them fresh throughout August. Farm stands and produce markets are a great way to support local peach growers and their families. They are also the best, juiciest, most tasty peach varieties available. Join me as I use fresh peaches in recipes this month and…
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Organic Berry Syrup and Blueberry Pie Recipes, Vegetarian
Classic Blueberry Pie recipe anyone can bake for dessert and a heavenly berry scented house.
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Easy Cheesy Tomato Pie
Tomatoes have done well this extra hot summer in the Carolinas. 2024 has been a rather good growing season prior to the current Tropical Storm Debby. August rain and thunderstorms have turned growing fields into shallow ponds. Most of the rain water will drain quickly from the fields, but the damage has been done to…
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Collard Greens
Collard greens are the Office State Vegetable of South Carolina and are considered a Superfood!
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Candied Pecans
Candied pecans are a crisp, slightly salty and slightly sweet treat from Carolina kitchens. They are a healthy snack and are great for adding to salads, dessert toppings, ice cream toppings, and holiday cookie boxes.
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Pepper Steak, Rice and Gravy for 2
Who doesn’t like steak and gravy? Stop reading now if you don’t. Mom called and asked for this recipe for a comfort food dinner with dad. I’m glad she did because this recipe needs to be here in the Carolina Cuisine network of deliciousness. I start this recipe by making a browned butter roux, then…
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Do You Enjoy a Warm Buttery Biscuit?
There’s nothing like a Southern meal with the down-home goodness of old fashioned fluffy biscuits. This beloved bread originated in Southern plantation kitchens and has spread its soul-food goodness across the country. The biscuit is a simple and quick 3 ingredient bread that requires some countertop space and a little time to work the dough.…
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