Eating Floyd...

The Breakfast Challenge, Appalachian Mountain Style What am I gonna make for breakfast? Biscuits.  Biscuits are a must.  Flour from Big ...

Phoning it in. Michael is doing one of his long days at work.  He's out of here by 6 am and probably won't be home until after mid...

We've been experiencing summer temperatures and spring rains all at the same time here in Floyd.  I've been desperate to get the coo...

What Michael and I learned from the DDC (and other sources) about what we grow, what we eat, and how it's affecting our future plans and...

This week is a double Dark Days Challenge: The Vegetarian Challenge. I was able to score some really nice baby bok choy at the Oasis Mar...

This week's meal consists of some traditional Southern comfort foods.  I'm a transplanted (damn) Yankee but tasty comfort is univers...

Last week Michael planted a tubful of leek seeds and it's time to get the seeds started for our early cole crops.  We try to get those c...

Valentine's Day Dinner Continued We got to eat Valentine's Day Dinner dessert first with last week's DDC Sweets theme chall...

There are many ways to my guy's heart; garden paths, little twisted alleys, smooth stretches of highway, but one of the most reliable an...

This Dark Days Challenge was truly a challenge.  The whole week was challenging.  The day after last week's party I came down with the m...

Mid-Winter Soup Fest This is the first themed challenge of the DDC - The Soup and One-Pot Meal Challenge.  Coincidentally this weekend was...

Oh! Julia! I've had a copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking in my cookbook library since I moved out of my parents' house i...

I noticed that while everybody was on Week 7 of the DDC, I was on Week 6.  That's because I started the challenge the first week of Dece...

Cabbage Rolls and No-Knead Rolls Most people do their deep housecleaning in the spring when they can open the windows and air out the hous...

Kale Pasta Recently I've been exploring making our pasta.  It took me several tries to be able to produce a consistent nicely texture...

The solution to this week's challenge feels like cheating.  It's not, it's exactly the result I was aiming for when I froze th...

A quick glimpse last week at some of the other DDC participating bloggers posts, including mine, reveals that we may winter squash ourselves...

The more I think about the Dark Days Challenge the more I realize what it entails.  I thought I was doing pretty well already.  What veggie...

HAL appears to be dying.  A little over a week ago we had some kind of power surge and it took our desk top PC down.  We took it in to Ben K...