North Carolina Cooking - Old Southern Recipes Made Simple & Cheap - Including Old Tales!

NORTH CAROLINA COOKING - Old Southern Recipes Made Simple & Cheap(INCLUDING OLD TALES FROM THE SOUTH) As Remembered by Brothers Bobby and Ricky Gurkin

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Final Post by Rick Gurkin

Well my friends, this is it - the final post that I will be making in tribute to my late brother, Bob Gurkin. It has been a pleasure posting...

Shamus and the Hot Air Balloon

Shamus O'Tool was watching one of them explorer channels on TV and happened to see a whole bunch of hot air balloons out of California o...

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Bob Gurkin and his Newfoundland Stories

My brother, Robert (Bob) McCollum Gurkin, was born in St. Johns, Newfoundland on March 17, 1942. Our father, James (Jim) Lewis Gurkin was on...

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Shamus O'Tool and the Boat

Shamus O'Tool was working as a carpenter in St. John's and decided he wanted to build himself a boat. Every day he would bring home ...

HOOHAWWW - True Story by Bob Gurkin

Many years ago, the Dismal Swamps covered most of eastern North Carolina. With the digging of huge drainage canals, and eventually roads and...

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Giant Old Fashioned Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

1 - 1/2 cup raisins 1 cup chopped walnuts 1 cup softened butter 1 cup packed brown sugar 3/4 cup granulated sugar 2 tsp vanilla 2 eggs...

Onion Ring Loaf (ala Tony Roma's Recipe)

4 to 6 white onions 1 cup milk 3 eggs, beaten 2 cups pancake mix salt and parsley oil to taste Slice onions crosswise and separate int...

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