Lisa Jeffries Nobling – Raleigh, NC

Tag: Food

  • BBQ Festival? Yes Ma’am!

    I’d reallllllly love to be at the CMA Festival this year in Nashville, TN (after watching JMC‘s performance from last year over-and-over again on GAC) during the weekend of June 5-8, 2008 but if I’m not…

    Annual BBQ festival at fairgrounds
    RALEIGH – The state’s top ‘cue makers will be crowned at The N.C. Pork Council’s Carolina Championship Barbecue Cook-off on June 6 and 7.
    Twenty-five teams from across the state will gather at the State Fairgrounds and begin cooking the night of June 6 to prepare for judging at noon on June 7. The annual contest, sponsored by the N.C. Pork Council, will award the top teams in both culinary and showmanship divisions. Winning cooks will share more than $4,700 worth of cash prizes.

    For more information, log on to www.ncagfest.com.

    How awesome is it that as noted in the same article from above: The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, a Raleigh-based organization that distributes food to the area’s poor and undernourished, and the Wake Tech Culinary Technology program will receive all proceeds made from the sale of competing teams’ barbecue.So I checked out http://www.ncagfest.com/ and there are lots of cool things taking place (oh hush, I’m a country girl at heart!): Celebrate North Carolina’s farm bounty at the first Got to be NC Festival blending the largest assembly of antique farm equipment in the state with a full carnival with games, rides and great food. Mix in the official N.C. Barbecue Cooking Championship sponsored by the N.C. Pork Council, the Got to be NC Agriculture Food Expo featuring tasty foods to sample and buy, antique tractor pulls, fireworks, great music, draft horse pulls, a petting zoo, pig races and fun for the whole family.

    Admission is free except for the tractor pulls, grandstand concerts, rides and games. Gates open Thursday and Friday, 3 p.m to midnight; Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to midnight.

    Schedule, maps, and more are available on the site, too!

  • Crawfish Day at the State Farmers Market

    Who’s up for a Louisiana Crawfish boil?

    Picked up a flyer at the Farmers Market Restaurant while there for breakfast on Sunday:

    State Farmers Market Crawfish Day

    Saturday, June 7, 2008
    From 10:00am until sellout!

    $5.00/lb. live
    $6.00/lb. cooked
    *% lb. min. for live
    *1 lb. min. for cooked
    *40 lb. limit per person

    No pre-orders!

    For more info, call 919-733-7417 or 252-331-4773

    Hosted by: NC Crawfish Grower’s Association & NC Dept. of Agriculture & Consumer Services, Steve Troxler, Commissioner

    And here’s a nice little site with cooking directions, recipes, etc.: Crawfish Boil New Orleans, Louisiana Style Crawfish.

    (Clearly, the image above is not related to this event, but I thought it was party-inspiring nonetheless!)

  • Krispy Kreme Offers Lightly Glazed Doughnut

    For those of you who have never had the luxury of tasting the deliciousness that is a Krispy Kreme doughnut… you have no idea what you’re missing.

    While delicious, sometimes even one is just too much for me.

    I’m really excited about the press release posted today on Carolina Business Connection (by far, one of my FAVORITE local newswires) about a lightly-glazed variation being offered through March 28th. Maybe it’ll be so popular it’ll become a permanent addition… well, a girl can dream, right?

    Read the Press Release Here

    Here’s a little blurb about the feature doughnut:

    “Winston-Salem, NC –February 26, 2008 – Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD) understands that sometimes you need just a little something sweet. For a limited time, Krispy Kreme is offering a Lightly Glazed Doughnut – a hint of sweetness on top of Krispy Kreme’s signature golden doughnut.

    The new featured doughnut is a yeast-raised ring drizzled lightly with Krispy Kreme’s Original glaze.

    “With just a touch of glaze atop one of Krispy Kreme’s original doughnuts, we’ve put a new spin on that one of a kind taste,” said Ron Rupocinski, Krispy Kreme’s Executive Chef.

    Lightly glazed doughnuts are offered for a limited time from now until March 23 at participating Krispy Kreme locations. For more information, please visit http://www.krispykreme.com/.”

    Also, as a side note, I wonder if this would make the infamous Krispy Kreme Challenge Dozen go down any easier? Hmmm…