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Smoked Chicken and Paprika Brunswick Stew
Cooler weather is on its way to the High Country. It is still warm enough to grill and eat on the deck, but I packed away my summer clothes tonight and have the hot tub cranked up and ready to go for the first really chilly night. And we are slowly transitioning from “summer food”…
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Chicken Meatballs with Pasta al Pomodoro
My boys are both in high school now, and both are running cross-country. My older son is driving now so the two of them leave the house around 7:45 in the morning and are gone until 6:30 or 7:00 in the evening. I am hearing faint whisperings of an empty nest. At first I felt…
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Teaching Teens to Cook: Turkey Sloppy Joe Sliders
For a couple of summers now, I’ve suggested that my boys (now 17 and almost 15) start learning how to cook. This summer, out of necessity, I’ve given them no choice. Over the past year, when I’ve been too busy or tired to make dinner, I’ve summoned them to the kitchen and insisted they stay…
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Stops Along the Way: Cork & Bean, Bryson City, NC
A few weeks ago I took a Saturday afternoon paddling trip down the Tuckaseegee River* in a canoe It was a gorgeous day, warm in the sun and chilly in the shade. My friend and his daughter are both experienced whitewater paddlers. I have mostly flat water kayaking experience on lakes, bayous and creeks so…
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German Chocolate Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting
My newly seventeen year old son, Iced T (his current choice of blog persona) , arrived home today from a 10-day trip which took him from Charlotte to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin for the Club 420 Nationals then on to Michigan State in Lansing for engineering camp. By all accounts, it was a grand adventure. He…
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Summertime & the living is easy
There is so much to love about summer meals — savoring the abundance of fresh seasonal produce, grilling on the deck at the end of the day, dining al fresco and lingering at the table, sipping crisp whites and rosés. We spent this weekend at the lake so I stopped at Josh’s Farmers Market on…
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Makin’ Bacon
This post is a bit of an experiment — can I pull content, recipes, photos, etc. of my favorite posts on Another Marvelous Meal and plonk them down here? The answer appears to be yes. Homemade bacon… not something you made in a 1970s home economics class, but how hard could it be? Answer: ridiculously…