Category Archives: Food
Crepes — perfect for main dish or sweet dessert
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
The first good crepes I ever had were years ago at a restaurant in Highlands, N.C. We ordered the strawberry crepes for dessert, and they were a huge success.
This was pre-internet, so the library and old cookbooks were the
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Bring on the brownies
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
Chocolate is a truly wonderful ingredient. If you’re suffering from the 
winter doldrums, baking something with chocolate will bring hope into the kitchen. Just smelling a warm brownie fresh from the oven is an uplifting experience.
So get out a mixing bowl 
and try some of these outstanding brownie recipes. Everybody has a favorite brownie. I love the chewy ones and am especially fond of the corner
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Zucchini doesn’t have to be bland
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
Zucchini was never a favorite at my house. It didn’t seem to have much flavor, and frankly, we’d just have soon eaten a slice of cardboard.
But there is more than one way to prepare this prolific producer, so we’ve been looking into various recipes to help get zucchini out of its rut.
I hope you will give these a try. You
Go green for the New Year
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
Eating greens on New Year’s Day is a time-honored tradition we 
enjoy, because not only are greens delicious and good for us, they’re supposed to bring greenbacks our way all year.
Cooking and eating greens on
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Nothing says Christmas like cookies
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
When you bite into a Christmas cookie, you’re doing more than 
eating dessert. You’re revisiting every past Christmas stored in tastebud memory.
Christmas cookies should jumpstart the celebrations we all look forward to. There’s nothing like walking into a warm kitchen from the cold outdoors with the scent of spices and baking in the air.
These recipes are unapologetically packed with richness and
Make your own coffee treats
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
Some like it hot, but some like it cold.
The recipes this week are for a variety of coffee drinks. They’re all different, all good, and all easy. Why spend a fortune buying designer coffee drinks when you can make your own at home, save money and have as many refills as your system can stand?
Not everybody likes coffee. Or at least think they don’t like it. That usually means they started out tasting really bad
These cookies are not just for Santa
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
There are many great cookie recipes out there, and everybody has favorites.
However, Christmas cookies are in a special category. These four recipes are associated with Christmas in my family and give an extra memory to the kitchen.
The best way to make these cookies is with children. Even small children can do some task. Cracking eggs, taking the wrapper off the butter or helping mix are just a few of the things they enjoy doing. Older children are great for the heavy work of creaming butter and sugar together and mixing. Everybody enjoys dumping in flour. And the
Holiday breakfast casseroles made easy
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
Holidays often bring family and friends into your home, often for overnight or weekend stays.
The breakfast casserole recipes featured this week make breakfast for guests less work-intensive for the cook. Some of these can be put together the night before so all the cook has to do is start the coffee and preheat the oven.
It’s great to be able to sit at the table with the rest of the family rather than spend that time alone with the frying pan.
These dishes really fill
Last minute Thanksgiving deserts
By Olivia Fowler
For The Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
If you’re the hostess for your family Thanksgiving dinner and people 
are coming in from other locations, it can be difficult to get everything ready for a crowd. Especially if you’re the lone ranger in the kitchen.
I think we all try to do as much ahead as possible and freeze what we can, while at the same time putting clean sheets on all the beds and scrubbing floors.
These desserts are not complicated and don’t take a great deal of time
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Go nuts with pecans
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
We can’t enjoy the holidays unless we have access to pecans.
They are considered an essential ingredient for all kinds of treats.
Featured this week are recipes designed to tempt your sweet tooth, and although all four of these are delicious, they don’t even scratch the surface of the vast array of recipes out there using pecans.
I hope you enjoy making and eating these treats.
