One thing we love about Kernersville is its downtown. We know a number of the small business owners, and we enjoy all the events they do to bring people downtown.
They've now written about the town in our own magazine. Not too shabby for a town of 23,000. Sometimes you just need to brag on yourself.
Kernersville magazine article about Kernersville
Showing posts with label Kernersville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kernersville. Show all posts
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Gnocchi with Chef Reto
Chef Reto, of Reto's Kitchen in Greensboro, not only caters and does private parties, he also teaches! Some friends & I were able to set time to learn from a real French chef, hands-on, in a real catering kitchen. It was a blast! I'm so glad I met Chef at a Yelp Elite event there earlier this year and that he was able to fit us into his schedule.
A few quotes from the evening:
More butter!
Why? Because we can!
Cow patties, please, not turds! (with regards to shape)
Pressure is everything. (with regards to piping)
Loads more photos available on FB (public album)
Chef Reto taught us in an approachable way. His food was amazing and it's also something I can replicate at home. Really! And he took us thru hands-on training on knife skills, including sharpening a knife and the difference between chopping, slicing, and mincing. We learned to pipe, to knead, and that fire in the kitchen can be fun and not frightening. Opa! Even the tomato sauce and vinaigrette salad dressing were simple and from scratch, and again completely duplicatable. I'm excited to apply these things in my own kitchen!
I encourage you to sign up for his open classes (he also did kids' camps this past summer), or get a group of 6-10 friends together and set up a private class!
A few quotes from the evening:
Loads more photos available on FB (public album)
Chef Reto taught us in an approachable way. His food was amazing and it's also something I can replicate at home. Really! And he took us thru hands-on training on knife skills, including sharpening a knife and the difference between chopping, slicing, and mincing. We learned to pipe, to knead, and that fire in the kitchen can be fun and not frightening. Opa! Even the tomato sauce and vinaigrette salad dressing were simple and from scratch, and again completely duplicatable. I'm excited to apply these things in my own kitchen!
I encourage you to sign up for his open classes (he also did kids' camps this past summer), or get a group of 6-10 friends together and set up a private class!
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Fortune's Shawlette
Finely spun yarn makes a project seem to advance slowly because it takes many more stitches to see inches progress. Fortunately I've been crocheting since I was 8yo, so at least the stitches come quickly. The only way my knitting moves with any speed is with chunky yarn on enormous needles. Which makes for lovely, fuzzy, warm items which go underutilized in years like this one, with a 70F Christmas. This shawlette, I've been working on all fall, inbetween other items. I've also discovered I like that I can switch projects readily in crochet because a hook isn't tied to one item the way circular knitting needles are. But I'm glad to know how to do both now, and glad too that Kernersville has a Monday evening "Stitchers Unite" gathering at Eclection, downtown, where I get to see knitting, crocheting, quilting, and embroidery projects advance. So far my only contribution to the group has been the paradigm-shifting, innately Asian concept of keeping your fingers clean as you munch while you craft by eating Cheetos with chopsticks. But in my defense, I haven't been going very long.
Anyways, here's my Fortune's Shawlette in lovely stripey deep pinks and purples. I'll try to get a better photo of it spread out; the colors are truer in the picture of it being worn. (Spread out it was on a navy blue cushion, that's how red-shifted the photo is.)
Thanks also to Colleen for the pattern!
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Come visit us at Credo!
We.
Just.
Bought.
A.
House.
Big Frog took a new job.
And not a job in the building next door to his previous job (although it's the same company!)
We're moving south.
To North Carolina.
(We are so glad to be doing this now, in the internet age, and not 5 or 10 years ago, let alone in 1981, when my parents moved from Michigan to Maryland.)
We took 2 different househunting trips and looked at 40+ homes (really.), culled from the scores of homes we looked at online. (Amazing realtor. Very much in tune with what we were looking for. And bend-over-backwards go-the-extra-mile service.) (Not like the unethical listing agent of one of our first favorites, who let us do a walkthru even though it had already been sold. She didn't cancel our first visit, nor tell us when we called asking for a second visit on the same day. It wasn't until we were talking numbers that she admitted that the sellers had already accepted an offer. Because of that burn, we were hypercautious about being aboveboard on everything.)
And we took the plunge.
photos from zillow.com. The house was listed in April; the dogwoods are obviously not in bloom in Sept.
We're naming this home "Credo", which is Latin (and Spanish) for "I believe".
Goal date is to close on October 3. Please keep praying! We know there are a lot of steps ahead, both with Credo and divesting ourselves of Selah.
God is faithful.
And Big Frog told me he's excited to see who comes to stay with us first.
Exciting times indeed!
(PS EOPS is, as always, on Palm Sunday. This year we're hosting the annual potluck at our actual home! And we're extending our timetable on it to potentially two meals, lunch and dinner, because we have pastor-friends who are local on a slightly bigger scale than we've drawn from in years past. We hope you can join us, but we hope also that you'll visit us long before then.)
Just.
Bought.
A.
House.
Big Frog took a new job.
And not a job in the building next door to his previous job (although it's the same company!)
We're moving south.
To North Carolina.
(We are so glad to be doing this now, in the internet age, and not 5 or 10 years ago, let alone in 1981, when my parents moved from Michigan to Maryland.)
We took 2 different househunting trips and looked at 40+ homes (really.), culled from the scores of homes we looked at online. (Amazing realtor. Very much in tune with what we were looking for. And bend-over-backwards go-the-extra-mile service.) (Not like the unethical listing agent of one of our first favorites, who let us do a walkthru even though it had already been sold. She didn't cancel our first visit, nor tell us when we called asking for a second visit on the same day. It wasn't until we were talking numbers that she admitted that the sellers had already accepted an offer. Because of that burn, we were hypercautious about being aboveboard on everything.)
And we took the plunge.
photos from zillow.com. The house was listed in April; the dogwoods are obviously not in bloom in Sept.
We're naming this home "Credo", which is Latin (and Spanish) for "I believe".
Goal date is to close on October 3. Please keep praying! We know there are a lot of steps ahead, both with Credo and divesting ourselves of Selah.
God is faithful.
And Big Frog told me he's excited to see who comes to stay with us first.
Exciting times indeed!
(PS EOPS is, as always, on Palm Sunday. This year we're hosting the annual potluck at our actual home! And we're extending our timetable on it to potentially two meals, lunch and dinner, because we have pastor-friends who are local on a slightly bigger scale than we've drawn from in years past. We hope you can join us, but we hope also that you'll visit us long before then.)
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