Eating Greeneville

Farming, bartering and foraging for meals in East Tennessee.


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Year of the Goat Dumplings.

Beef filled dumplings ready to steam/fry in a cast iron skillet

Beef filled dumplings ready to steam/fry in a cast iron skillet

Happy belated Chinese New Years which fell on February 19, 2015.  The Year of the Goat.  The goat represents introversion, creativity, shyness and being a perfectionist.  These are all traits I highly identify with.  In East Tennessee we have been bearing the full brunt of winter these past few weeks.  Seeing as it was Chinese New Years and I was trapped in my house due to icy hills I made egg drop soup and these delicious dumplings.

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Curried Hushpuppies with Apple/Cranberry Chutney. And High School Jobs.

Curried  Hush Puppies with Chutney.

Curried Hush Puppies with Chutney.

What do you kids know about Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips?  Nothing?  That’s what I thought.  It happens to have been my first REAL 16 year old job.  It was located in the Food Court in the Galleria Mall in Buffalo, NY and it’s where my love affair with deep fried balls of corn meal began and ended, until now.

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