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Menu turns and tributes
The latest blackboard specials at Highland Avenue.Coulotte Steak, caramelized rutabaga, pomme purée and Coach Jenkins steak sauceRecent Highland Avenue features. Note the Charles Church Salad, a...
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Local, organic, good, real
The Highland Avenue walk-in. All from NC except our citrus !! Gotta love our farmers!!Thanks to my buddy Herbie and Eastern Carolina Organics for hooking me up.Thanks to my new organic food provider in...
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On the table
Highland Avenue recently acquired some great service pieces. Loving laying the food on this stuff.Thanks to ceramic artist Heather Lee McLelland for handcrafting this awesome butcher block earthenware...
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Thanks Mom
We're hosting our first brunch at Highland Avenue today, for Mother's Day. Blessed to have mine. Thanks Mom.Bulls Bay Benedict, house hot sauce hollandaise, fried greens, blue crab, field greensThe...
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Curing right along
First coppa going into cure at Highland Avenue.Coppa in cure.In other news, I have good mold developing on my hams at new spot.
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Dial set for pork
Getting into the charcuterie groove at Highland Avenue. Great pork from Heritage Farms.The time is now!50-day, dry-aged bacon.Pork belly to be pressed.Making mas guanciale.New charcuterie at H.Ave.....
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Blue Crabs
Little River Blue Crab Cake, fennel salad and spring pea soubise..Softies!Softies late night for my boy Bev Eggleston.Nc soft shell, celeriac salad, organic spring pea vichyssoise and ramp radish tepenade
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Brisket
Heritage Pastrami Pork Brisket, Swiss chard, green garlic, duck egg fettuccini, lemon and white wine... A Pig has sprung!Pork Brisket that's been brined, rubbed, dried before getting its smoke before...
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Cures galore
The cure is on at Highland Avenue... Little piggy on the beach.. Little piggy within my reach... Little piggy gonna be meat!Pancetta going to hangJust a beginning at a new homeAll these lovely cures to...
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The new website!!!
Highland Avenue has a website. Check it out at http://www.highlandavenuerestaurant.com. You'll find copies of the dinner, dessert and cocktail menus, although keep in mind that food menus change...
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Fish Tales
Recent stories from Highland Avenue.Scamp, Summer Chanterelle, sweet corn, cherry tomato, okra, various peppers.Red DrumCarolina Beach flounderMore Red Drum
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Summer Pork, Summer Bacon
In season at Highland AvenueBev Egg Chop, Benne Seed Dumpling, Butter Beans, Smokey Pepper Picalilli, Sorghum Pork Demi Nena Spiced Smoked Lomo just down.Lomo, local fig, watermelonLobster...
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Wild
Natural gifts...Foraged Mushroom Ravioli, cauliflower soubise and marinated tomato
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Raw 2.0
I don't always buy tuna, but when I do iI looks like this.NC-grown New Mexico chiles, roasted in house for a dish inspired by my time in the Manna kitchen with Jameson Chavez.Tuna, golden beet, benne...
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Charcuterie lately
Duck pastramiSmoked sweet paprika cured pork deckle...WHAT!!Lardo just done, the pork from my man Bev Eggleston of EcoFriendly FoodsLobster, beet, lacinato kale, pea, carrot, Lardo, corno di toro and...
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Signs of my times
Highland Avenue, where I'm cooking these days, is housed in a historic building complex that used to be Hollar Hosiery Mill. During the months after we opened in spring, diners knew us by our tall, red...
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East meets West
I live in the mountains, where my toes are covered up outside of work -- and that saddens me. North Carolina and Virginia seafood is my fix when I'm away from my home by the sea. Here some recent...
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Learning curves
I've moved around a lot as a cook. I've shook pans in the islands, in Europe, in Florida, in South America, in Washington, D.C., on the North Carolina coast and now in the North Carolina mountains at...
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Sickness: Can't stop curing
A look at what's been curing at Highland Avenue!Always something hanging around.Tasso cured/rubbed sirloin of Cheshire PorkCoffee Pastrami sirloin and tenderloin to be hung at Highland Avenue.Coffee...
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The Situation Room
Breaking news with Wolf Blitzer, who recently dined at Highland Avenue. Yes, I'm glowing.
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This, that, the other
Stuff recently in the mix at Highland Avenue.Smoked green tomato ketchup.Local new potatoes braised in lard.Rye gougeores for a March of Dimes event.
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