After your trip to the orchard, get in the kitchen to make one of these sweet or savory recipes featuring the favorite fall fruit.
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Chef Bill Smith’s Crab Stew with White Bread or Cornmeal Dumplings
Chef Bill Smith offers two variations on an old family crab stew recipe: one served with white bread at the bottom of the bowl and the other with cornmeal dumplings.
Soup from the Sound
Made with just a few simple, on-hand ingredients, Hatteras clam chowder has sustained generations of islanders. And when it’s time to put a pot on, Pamlico Sound provides.
A Mess of Memories: Chef Bill Smith’s Crab Stew
When it comes to cooking authentic eastern North Carolina crab stew, a celebrated chef, born and raised in New Bern, looks back to his grandmother’s handwritten recipes.
12 of Our Best Buttermilk Recipes
Whether you’re using it to add a familiar tang to your pound cake or to marinate fried chicken, buttermilk is a Southerner’s secret ingredient.
Italian Wedding Soup
In this hearty soup, meatballs, veggies, and couscous combine to create a delicious marriage of flavors.
Seven Uniquely North Carolina Soups & Stews
From a mountain buttermilk soup to a comforting coastal chowder, these seven recipes that we claim as our own will keep you warm this winter.
11 Our State Recipes You Loved in January
Flaky buttermilk drop biscuits, creamy potato and sausage casserole, and soul-warming chicken and cabbage soup were among your favorite recipes in January. Find out what else made the list.
North Carolina Brunswick Stew
Packed full of okra, corn, potatoes, barbecue, chicken, and tomatoes, Brunswick stew is a delicious showcase for locally grown ingredients.
