Most people have heard of macaroni and cheese, but if you’re Southern, you’ve probably enjoyed this classic on more than one occasion. In the South, mac and cheese is such a popular side dish that some folks might even consider it a vegetable. Growing up, if there was a family get together, then macaroni and cheese was certainly in […]
Originally posted on Meals With Mel:
I use to always love talking to my grandmother about food. We would talk about all the new recipes we’ve tried and others we wanted to still make. I vividly remember one day telling her about how I had just made Chicken and Rice casserole but with my own homemade condensed soups. She looked…
There’s a wonderful, eclectic place in Lynchburg, Virginia called the Farmbasket. It started out as a roadside fruit stand in 1964, and today it has evolved into the destination for lovely plants, flowers, and statuary for the garden; specialty food items, including sweet potato biscuits as well as homemade pimento cheese (that’s pimenna cheese if you’re from the South); […]
My name is Tonya, and I grew up on a 300-acre farm in rural Virginia that has been in my family for over 100 years. After graduating from college, receiving my master’s degree in speech and language pathology, and living and working in a small city for six years, I decided to return to the place of my childhood. Here, in this rural area, on this patch of green, where for four generations my family has farmed, gardened, and lived, I, too wanted to be a part of this continuity. As a fourth generation farmgirl, I have many interests that not only include, but also go beyond the basics of farming, gardening, sheep and chicken-keeping. It is all of this and more that I plan on sharing in this blog.
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