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WIAW 188 – North Carolina Weather

WIAW 188 – North Carolina Weather

So I’ve been here in North Carolina a bit over a month and a half, and temperatures have gone from 12°F to 83ºF. I am told this is not typical… In fact, both extremes are downright odd.  (I was rather relieved to know that 83° 

WIAW 141

WIAW 141

So there we go – I launched my first – free – E-Course! Modular Meals: Saving Time in the Holidays. It’s a stripped down version of the planning for meals concept I follow, using more commercial products than I usually eat, because we’re coming into 

Broccoli Rabe Sauté

Broccoli Rabe Sauté

When I shopped at Greenmarket last week, I did not limit myself to fiddleheads, even if they were my most exciting purchase. The market brimmed over with spring greens! Spinach, of course – sauteed with eggs for lunch the other day. Meltingly tender Swiss chard. 

Fiddlehead Ferns

Fiddlehead Ferns

Looking at older posts, I notice that I’ve spend much of the last few months saying, again and again, “But in the Northeast, we don’t…”  Here in the Northeast, nothing grows in February. Our Fall harvest is plentiful, but then abruptly over. We only get 

Sauteed Asparagus

Sauteed Asparagus

It is finally Spring! (I say on June 1st, which is the first day of Meteorological Summer in these parts…) But the fruits and vegetables that the rest of the nation eats all Spring are June bearing, here – and it was a late Spring,