Good Times and Special Events

Lunar New Year: Remembering the Flavors of a Family Reunion

Lunar New Year: Welcoming Spring

Summer Plum (or Raspberry/Blueberry) Torte, Easy and Elegant

Foster’s Farm Dinners: Chapel Hill Creamery’s 5-Cheese Mac-and-Cheese

Southern Chocolate Pound Cake with Chocolate Pecan Icing

Our Very Special Christmas Tree of 2016

Pableaux Johnson and His Red Beans Road Show

Deviled Eggs: The Party Perfect, People-Pleasing Food

Craftsy Class: Classic Pies Made Easy

Nancie’s Favorite Fourth of July Cake

Easy Strawberry Icebox Pie

Thai Coconut Ice Cream with Caramelized Pineapple: A Sweet Vegan Treat!

Happy Pi-Day! 3-14-15 via Ronni Lundy’s Sorghum Pecan Pie

Turkey Bone Gumbo: Leftovers as Pleasures and Treasures

Pimento Cheese Crisps: “Pimento Cheese, The Cookbook” by Perre Coleman Magness

Black History Month Cookbook Round-Up: A Feast for Cooks and Readers

Lunar New Year Farewell: Mom’s Special Dish and Good-Luck Lettuce

Banana Cream Pie from Beth M. Howard’s “Making Piece” on Leite’s Culinaria

Take a “Stand Against Racism” Today, with the Wonderful YWCA!

Dinner with “The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen”

Rebecca Lang: Around the Southern Table and Sweet Potato Casserole

“Pretty Is as Pretty Does”: On Beauty and How We See It

“Under the Tuscan Sun Dinner” at Fearrington House with Francis and Edward Mayes

Fearrington House “Under the Tuscan Sun Dinner” with Francis and Edward Mayes

September 11: Gratefully Remembering New York Times “Portraits of Grief”

Happy 100th Birthday to the Hughes Family and Pine Knot Farms: A North Carolina Century Farm

Midnight Snack on My First Night Back in Bangkok: Thai Rice Soup/kao tom

Spoonbread with a Shortcut “Salade Nicoise”

Video Visit to a Great Little Cafe Near Bangkok’s Royal River Hotel

Thai Lunch with Ellie and Paul

My Thailand Adventure, July 2012

Traveling to Thailand

Brooklyn’s “Four & Twenty Blackbirds” = Pie Heaven