Thanksgiving is just around the corner so if you’re cooking your Thanksgiving dinner I’d recommend that you order your fresh turkey today from either The Fresh Market or Whole Foods and pick up the week of Thanksgiving. These markets offer a selection of fresh to organic turkeys to fully cooked meals. Whole Foods offered more [...]

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I love having fresh flowers in my home. Tim and I spent thousands of dollars to put a rose garden in the yard of our Chapel Hill, N.C. home which also included an annual contract for chemical spraying to keep them bug free. Then the local deer population would then eat them. Tim said that it [...]

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If you’re entertaining this weekend and need an easy dessert…I’ve got a real easy one for you. If I’ve cooked several courses for a dinner party and just don’t have the time to make a homemade dessert (or I don’t want to serve a store brought dessert) I’ll serve dark chocolate almonds. Present on a [...]

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