Creative Gourmet Catering

08/16/2025

Thank Goodness I Hadn’t Lost My Touch!

01/18/2023

My Life in A Nutshell

12/06/2022

WOW!

Heirloom Black Carrot Nebula

12/01/2022

True Words by A Excellent Chef.

"Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives." - Anthony Bourdain

09/15/2022

"Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have."
-Anthony Bourdain

07/30/2020

Totally An Honor to Serve Such A Dear Family.My Love Forever ❤️

July 27, 2020

06/25/2020

Jazz in Marciac - August 1, 2010 - The Wynton Marsalis Quintet performing a swinging interpretation of Sweet Georgia Brown, featuring Mark O'Connor (violin) ...

01/07/2020

It’s time to play Kick the Can—of soda, that is. In a 22-year landmark study published in The American Journal

04/05/2017

If ever there was a plant that possessed sufficient charisma to woo the botanically coldhearted, passionflower, with its drop-dead gorgeous flowers and exotic fruits that resemble green dragon eggs, is it. Passionflower is a clambering herbaceous vine—native to the fields and waysides of southeastern North America—that has both medicinal and edible uses. It’s weedy in much of its native range and fairly easy to grow elsewhere, especially if given a wall or trellis to climb. The leaves and flowers are an important nervine sedative and are used to help promote sleep and alleviate pain, such as menstrual cramps and headaches. The inflated fruit cradles a delectable sour pulp.

Passionflower is a short-lived, perennial herbaceous vine—it dies back to its roots in climates that freeze. Plant three feet apart and trellis; it will grow up a five-foot fence or trellis by the end of summer. It makes a lovely medicinal botanical screen. Passionflower will spread throughout the garden if it’s happy; however, it’s easy enough to pull up any runners that are emerging in an inopportune location. Alternately, you can train those rascally runners up a fence or use them for medicine. Passionflower loves full sun and will bloom more profusely in the glow of sunshine, especially if you live further north. If you live in a hot climate, consider planting passionflower where it will get shade by mid-afternoon. Plant in well-drained to average garden soil. Passionflower is hardy to zone 6 and is frost-tender.

~ Passionflower is a wonderful small-space medicinal, and it can be grown easily in urban gardens. We have a full article on cultivating the urban garden, along with 7 of our very favorite herbs: https://chestnutherbs.com/7-medicinal-herbs-for-urban-gardens/

(Passiflora incarnata, Passifloraceae).
Photo © Juliet Blankespoor

02/08/2017

Tickets still available call

With Valentine's Day close at hand, it's time to tag your Valentine and let then know that you want to "Wine and Dine on the Rails!" Tag your special someone in the comments and they can simply click this link for an event that includes a romantic train ride around a historic site, a three course meal served aboard the train by Chef Matt Trexler, and more: http://www.nctrans.org/Events/Wine-and-Dine-On-the-Rails.aspx

07/21/2016

Who has missed us at the Salisbury Farmer's Market?
No need to miss us, give us a call place your order for Pimento Cheese, Chicken Salad, or ready to serve meals
Hope to see you soon!

06/12/2016

Geat privilege today. Serving a brunch for two graduates. Wish I had taken pictures. Shrimp and grits, eggs Benedict, stuffed French toast, veggies egg casserole, beef tenderloin sandwiches, pastries, and fruit! Great Day!