Category: Food

#Spice July 28

I truly suspect that many people are trying to SPICE up their lives during the pandemic. Did you know one way to SPICE up a meal is with SPICES. Just so you know I...

#Peaches July 16

If you live in the United States especially the South this is the time of year for fresh peaches. Our neighbors Jef and Dencie Lambdin recently brought us some PEACHES from the Low Country...

#Rub July 2

Saturday is the 4th of July. I will go out on a limb and say a good number of people in this country will be cooking on the grill. Some of the people doing...

#Sunday June 28

As a child growing up in Northern NJ my family ate dinner together every evening. Even with that regularity there was something predictable and wonderful about SUNDAY family dinners. One of my friends lamented...

#Calabash June 12

This is a story about CALABASH. In March of 1978 I was a 25 year old assistant basketball coach at Pembroke State now called UNC Pembroke.  The university sponsored a men’s college golf tournament...

#Recap April 30

Today’s post is a RECAP of what I experienced and learned with the 30 Day Baking Challenge for the month of April. My goal this month was to learn how to bake using eight...

#Shortages April 22

Back in January when I decided to do twelve 30 Day Challenges I knew one month was going to involve baking. I didn’t realize that choosing the month of April would coincide with a...

#Garden April 15

When I retired in 2018 I decided I wanted to have a garden. Thanks to my friend Jeff Frederick tutorial three years ago I learned about a container garden. I started my 3rd year...

#Cookies April 14

On Good Friday I took on my third baking challenge for the month of April. I decided to make chocolate chip COOKIES from scratch. I found a recipe book in my wife’s collection of...

#Muffins April 8

One of the cutest things I have seen my granddaughter Bryleigh Paige Revels engaged in was singing “Do You Know The MUFFIN Man” while she was playing at our house before COVID-19 denied me...