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Three people standing by a small Christmas tree; center person holds red tin reading "Happy Holidays"

Christmas Cookie Tradition

For the past several years the team members at our N.C. Cooperative Extension officehere in Brunswick County have gathered together to bake cookies in December. Theoffice’s training kitchen is…

Platter with dip sprinkled with paprika, crispbread, round crackers, cubed ham, grapes, olives

Entertain with Grazing Boards

If you’re having a few folks over this holiday season, you might want to try somethingdifferent and make a grazing board. These arranged displays of food are designed fornibbling and snacking and…

NC Produce in Season

Even in colder weather, you can get fresh North Carolina produce. The availability of local fruits and vegetables vary by time of year and weather, but there is still fresh produce available. So,…

Person holding can labeled "Organic Garbanzo Beans" over mixing bowl with whisk

Baking With Egg Substitutes

Substitution is sometimes the name of the game. Perhaps you have family memberscoming for the holidays that are vegan or vegetarian and don’t eat animal products.Maybe it’s an allergy. Someone just…

Thanksgiving Food Safety “Rules”

I’ve been writing these columns for a long time. Each year around this time I feel theneed to write about Thanksgiving food safety. But, I’m also aware that each year many people don’t follow this…

Safe Plates Food Safety Manager Certification

N.C. Cooperative Extension in Brunswick County offers Safe Plates Food Safety Manager Certification. This comprehensive course is appropriate for food service managers and supervisory staff in…

More Fall Squash Flavors

I recently wrote about eating pumpkins (I hope you gave them a try). What many people don’t realize is that pumpkins are a type of winter squash. This is a great time of year to checkout the other…

Let’s Eat Pumpkin

Welcome to November. We’ve passed Halloween and are sliding (quickly) towardThanksgiving. It’s the time of year that we continue to think about pumpkins.That pumpkin on your front porch can be more…

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One Chicken Several Meals

I recently wrote about food waste and how with a little planning you could save money, time and waste by creating several meals from the same already cooked food. The idea is to make multiple meals…