Today was a wonderful Saturday morning because I went to not just one, but TWO Farmers Markets! I’m devoted to the Cary Downtown Farmers Market, but I love Farmers Markets in general. When we are out of town and have a free early Saturday morning, we usually try to check out the local Farmers Market … More I Love the Smell of Alliums in the Morning
Today in my home town of Cary, NC, they are having the nation’s ONLY Pimento Cheese Festival. I believe this is the first large scale version of this Festival since pre-COVID. They have live music and a pimento cheese sculpturing contest and other activities. But mostly, they have a LOT of food with pimento cheese. … More Sad Trombone WAH WAH. I Don’t Get to Eat Spicy Pimento Cheese Ice Cream Today.
Another post in the saga of my food detox program (click here to read about that). Yesterday I asked people to consider what their last meal would be if they were going on a restricted diet, and listed what statistics say are the top 10 most popular foods in the typical American diet (click here … More One Door Closes, Another Opens
Image by John Hain from Pixabay If you were about to start a food detox program like the one I described I was doing in a previous blog post (click here to read that), what UNHEALTHY and BANNED food do you think you would have for your last meal before starting your healthy eating regimen? … More The Last Supper, American Style
I told my friends that a solar eclipse is like a National Homeschoolers holiday. Homeschoolers LOVE things like this…natural events that students can see and participate in and study from so many angles. When the last one in our area happened in 2017, we OF COURSE got glasses and watched it, but we also made … More Hope You Had a Happy Eclipse Day!
Anyone who has been on my blog knows I’m a devoted Farmers Market advocate (just enter Farmers Market or Cary Downtown Farmers Market in the blog’s search function to bring up tons of my posts on the subject). So opening day of the regular season has always been a big day for me. However, yesterday … More And So It Begins: My Internal Spring Cleaning
For those of you who might think this is about my long lapse in blogging…well, it’s not. Or at least not primarily. What I really want to acknowledge is that today is a day I celebrate every year–the opening day of the regular season of my local farmers market, the Cary Downtown Farmers Market! (but … More We’re Back!
Long-time readers know that my traditional Halloween dinner are stuffed peppers with jack o’lantern cut-outs that allow the stuffing to show through their bell pepper containers. But since I’m home alone this Halloween, I chose something a little simpler. This is homemade refried black beans, cooked with peppers, onions, and cheese (although you leave out … More Meatless Monday: Halloween Edition
It’s no secret to those who read my blog regularly that the Cary Downtown Farmers Market is one of my most happy places. I’ve loved it for years and years, but I really depended on it for keeping me sane during the COVID isolation, since it provided both safe community AND healthy local food. But … More Want to Find Your Smilely Face? Go to Your Local Farmers Market This Saturday
I can’t believe that yesterday was the Summer Solstice! That means that starting today, the daylight will be getting shorter every day. I know that “officially,” this is the start of summer, but instead it feels like a wake-up call to how much of my summer has already passed. Still, I try to celebrate the … More Happy Summer Solstice!
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