Food Tips

I feel pretty...oh, so pretty!  Fields of Athenry Turkey in Purcellville, VA

Three weeks and counting from today and most of America will be roasting a big ol’ turkey.  With each passing year we learn more and more about how our food is raised and what are the healthiest choices.  So, I just wanted to write a quick post to give you a few resources for buying the freshest and safest turkey for …

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Get Your Greens In!

Quick Tip Tuesday You don’t have to know me very long or eat at my house more than once to know that I love greens!  One of the main reasons I love Autumn so much is all the good green stuff like kale, collards, bok choy, tat soi, lettuces, happy rich, rapini are all in season big time here in …

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Daikon Radish Salad

If you were like me many years ago you were wondering, “what do I do with that?”  That, being Daikon Radish…that giant, white tubular thing in the veggie section or at your local farmer’s market!  Well, like little red radishes you can pretty much do the same things with it except daikon is a whole lot easier to work with than its tiny …

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What is “real” southern food?

My Mama-May Fair came to town to celebrate my birthday last week and I wanted to welcome her with a yummy dinner.  After I had finished preparing everything and before we started diggin’ in she said you should take a picture of this for your blog…and minding my Mama like I do, I did! So I just wanted to share …

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End of Summer Soup

As most of you know, I go to my local farmer’s market, Franklin Farmer’s Market every Saturday that I’m in town and SO love my time there visiting with the farmers and folks from the community.  Most of the time I buy way too many fruits and veggies for just me and Alex.  So on Friday night when I see I …

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