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Malinda Dunlap Fillingim

Starving for Food or Fellowship

by Malinda Dunlap Fillingim If you ever find yourself starving for food or fellowship in North Carolina, find a church that’s hosting a dinner on the grounds, otherwise known as a potluck or covered-dish supper. You won’t leave hungry. I came across a bound index card collection of recipes compiled by the women of Wilmington’s… Read More →

Filed Under: Eastern NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: dinner on the grounds, Grace United Methodist Church, Malinda Dunlap Fillingim, Wilmington NC

A (Wet) Day on the Farm-Greenlands Farm

by Malinda Dunlap Fillingim There’s no place better to be than on a North Carolina farm, even on a rainy day. That’s how I felt about my recent visit to the 18-acre Greenlands Organic Farm in Bolivia, right off Midway Road in Brunswick County, NC. The rain did not damper my appreciation for the petting… Read More →

Filed Under: Destinations, Eastern NC, Food, Products, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bolivia NC, Brunswick County NC, Greenlands FarmStore, Heather and Henry Burkert, Malinda Dunlap Fillingim

My Life in Pie

by Malinda Fillingim I knew something was wrong when my step-father, Carl, the Marine from Walnut Cove, told me he was taking me to a restaurant in downtown Swansboro looking over the White Oak River. We never went out to eat unless we were out of town, or something bad had happened. I couldn’t think… Read More →

Filed Under: Eastern NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: Lemon Meringue Pie, Malinda Dunlap Fillingim, Swansboro NC

Recipe for Belonging

by Malinda Fillingim Back in 1972, when I first moved to my step-father’s hometown of Walnut Cove, I was a lonely 13 year old surrounded by people who had grown up together and whose families had lived in the same community for generations. I had to find my own path and create my own sense… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: Malinda Dunlap Fillingim, Stokes County NC, Wanut Cover NC

My Turkey Lesson

by Malinda Fillingim Although I was the teacher, I was the one who had a lesson to learn. As the fourth grade teacher at Haliwa-Saponi Tribal School in Hollister, I had an open door policy when it came to parents and tribal leaders who wanted to observe or volunteer in my classroom. Tribal leaders and… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Eastern NC, Food, Uncategorized Tagged With: Haliwa Saponi, Malinda Dunlap Fillingim, Thanksgiving, wild turkey

Kitchen Memories

by Malinda Dunlap Fillingim One of my favorite past-times is finding old kitchen tools and utensils in thrift stores. A museum of culinary history awaits me each time I hold an old spider pan, French fry cutter, pewter pitcher, or in a recent visit at the Habitat For Humanity Thrift Store in Southport, an old… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Eastern NC, Food, Recipes, Southeastern NC, Uncategorized Tagged With: fried apple rings, kitchen utensils, Malinda Dunlap Fillingim, Piedmont NC, Southport

Plum Granny Farm: Old Land, New Passion

by Malinda Dunlap Fillingim When Cheryl Ferguson graduated from South Stokes High School back in the mid 1970’s, chances are she wasn’t planning on returning to her family’s King homestead farm to live as an adult and become a USDA Certified Organic small family farmer. But that’s exactly what she did. The land, now called… Read More →

Filed Under: Destinations, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized, Western NC, Western NC Tagged With: Cheryl Ferguson, Flavor NC, Malinda Dunlap Fillingim, NC Century Farm, Plum Granny Farm, roasted garlic

A Different Taste of Life

by Malinda Dunlap Fillingim Recently, I was able to participate in a Burmese feast. Students and others brought dishes representing the rich cuisine of the Burmese people. I delighted in the best sticky rice I have ever eaten, enjoyed sugary potatoes, drank something I think was coconut based, and consumed foods with layered textures. This… Read More →

Filed Under: Eastern NC, Food, New South, Uncategorized Tagged With: Brunswick Stew, Burmese, Karen refugees, Malinda Dunlap Fillingim

My Grandmother’s Garden

by Malinda Dunlap Fillingim It’s a shame I have such clean hands. I really miss them being dirty, real dirty, so dirty I have to wash them with the garden hose even before going inside to wash them again and again until my fingernails are discovered under layers of dirt. Dirty hands came easily as… Read More →

Filed Under: Central NC, Food, Uncategorized Tagged With: garden, Malinda Dunlap Fillingim, Sauratown Mountains

The Queen of Clean Goes Sanitary

by Malinda Dunlap Fillingim In my 1941 first edition of Jonathan Daniels’ book, Tar Heels: A Portrait of North Carolina, I read with delight his sentence in the ‘Frying Pan and Jug’ chapter, “North Carolinians don’t eat out unless they have to.” This was the case in my house while growing up. We never ate… Read More →

Filed Under: Destinations, Eastern NC, Food, Recipes, Restaurants, Uncategorized Tagged With: Jonathon Daniels "Tar Heel", Malinda Dunlap Fillingim, Morehead City NC, Sanitary Fish Market

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