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KARACOOKS
KARACOOKS
Good Food · Honest History · Strong Opinions
  • A navy Gwinnett Stripers sweatshirt folded on a stack of sweatshirts beside an open storage bin of sweaters on an olive comforter

    Sweatshirt Day

    ByKara October 19October 19 Personal, Writing

    Sweatshirt Day has no date, but you know it when it comes. This year it was September 27: the sweater bag came out, the AC went quiet, the window opened.

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  • A white-tailed buck in velvet antlers standing in deep green undergrowth, looking toward the camera.

    Creek House Wildlife #3: The Ones You Sometimes See

    ByKara October 11October 6 Our Creek House, Writing

    The ground has its own residents, and most of them don’t want to be seen: deer, box turtles, skinks, rat snakes, a mole I know only by his tunnels, and otters I’ve never laid eyes on.

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  • A downy woodpecker and a Carolina chickadee feeding together on a mesh suet-nugget feeder at the Creek House

    Creek House Wildlife #2: Everyone Else Who Showed Up

    ByKara September 20August 30 Our Creek House, Writing

    The owl wouldn’t be photographed. Everyone else did. A field guide to the loud, feathered, ridiculous cast at our feeders: three woodpeckers, two hawks, a catbird that sounds like a cat, one ghost-white finch, and the geese who own the place.

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  • A $32 thrift haul laid out on an oak table by a window: white au gratin dishes, a pressed-glass pitcher, an amethyst Westmoreland candy dish, a Dansk wood serving board, a gray plate, and a silver platter.

    Thirty-Two Dollars, Four Stops, One Purple Candy Dish I Didn’t Need

    ByKara August 13August 13 Behind the Blog, Writing

    I have a rule about thrifting that I break constantly: don’t buy it unless you have a place for it. Reader, I don’t have a place for a purple candy dish. I bought the purple candy dish anyway. Let me walk y’all through the damage. Here’s a thing folks don’t always know about me: I…

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  • An orange tabby cat leans in from the left to sniff two jars of homemade chili crisp on a tray, on a wooden dining table.

    Blogging With Cats – Part 1 of ?

    ByKara August 6July 16 Behind the Blog, Writing

    Food blogging in a two-cat house means feline quality control. Finn inspected the chili crisp, put his nose in the lens, and tail-bombed the hero shot.

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  • A white-tailed doe stands at the edge of a shallow creek, looking toward the camera, with an eroded root-tangled bank behind her.

    Friday Roundup #33

    ByKara July 24July 24 Friday Roundup, Writing

    Friday Roundup #33: a curious creek-walk doe, our tattoo consults, a great dinner at Noosh, brussels sprouts sprouting, and a Duma Key reread.

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  • Macro close-up of a deep magenta and purple dinner-plate dahlia, its petals spiraling inward to a tightly coiled, pale-tipped center.

    Friday Roundup #32 (First Concert Since March Edition)

    ByKara July 17July 18 Friday Roundup, Writing

    Friday Roundup #32: our first concert since March, the great email reckoning, Wicked parts one and two, and the dinner-plate dahlias gone wild in the rain.

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  • A bee on an orange cosmos bloom in the back garden, hero image for Friday Roundup #31

    Friday Roundup #31

    ByKara July 10July 12 Friday Roundup, Writing

    Friday Roundup #31: a July 4 thunderstorm, a macro session with the garden bees, a big salad craving after too much bo ssam, and re-reading Killers of the Flower Moon.

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