Working all morning long to make sure the roadways are starting to get clear. You can see the interstate behind me and the primary roads are doing well. The preparations, they started overnight. The real reason at first was due to downed trees because of high wind. Then came the snow. It is still flying around me. Trubs were laying down brian and salt to melt the light dusting. The bigger issue was the temperatures. Once they dropped below the freezing point, that turned snow into ice which created slick and slippery conditions. While no road closures have been enforced all morning long, people traveling through the precaution. Only on North Carolina side, it was a little ice on ththe you could see the snow was staying on there. The roads were very clear. Even at lunchtime, hovering around the freezing point. Trucks have driven by us on the interstate. They have been out here. We talked to officials earlier, they said theyll continue to have 12 hour shifts until this event comes to an end tomorrow morning. Morning. You can see the flakes coming down. When will this be over . It is pretty, isnt it . Tomorrow morning we are under an advisory. The region. This is the time loop. The last hour from 11 29 until now, a closer look as to where the snow is falling. That snow is hitting the ground right there north of robinsville. Thats graham county. Swain county, seeing that north of bryson city. North of wanesville. If you are on 40, it will be cold and those roads can be slick at times. Please use caution. Mars hill, seeing the light snow as well. It is all light in nature and also a mix in some of these asheville, including downtown, seeing some flurries throughout the day. Nothing too much to worry about. The next couple of hours, continuing to see a chance mainly in the Higher Elevations, but once again, the advisory goes through tomorrow morning. Black mountain camera for you, this is an area that has seen on again off again showers. Snow, a m at times. It is still cold at 34 degrees. 35 right now, this is our mount pisca shot. We see some breaks in the clouds and some of the sunshine helping with the snow melt. That is at 5,000 feet on our carpet sales. We dont have any chances for rain tomorrow or into much of the weekend. The sevenday forecast, ill tell you when that rain will return. Temperatures this morning were cool but not at freezing at the asheville airport. 36 degrees and so far, this is a category where we put how warm it has been today. 43, so thats 10 degrees below normal. Yesterday, 64 degrees. 40 in bryson city. Right now, 30s from newland up to boon. 40s in asheville. 50 degrees in greenville. 48 into greenwood. The wind is another issue. Keep in mind, we had all the rain so the ground is saturated. The chance for downed trees and power lines with gusts. Right now in greenville, 24 miles an hour, 17 in forest city. 10 in the asheville area. Also, a windchill, making it feel like 37 degrees right now. Leaving the office for lunch, make sure you grab the winter coat. The satellite and radar, heres our low continuing to spin, wrapping around that moisture, the cold air still giving us a chance for light snow showers throughout the day. Very light through this evening too. Overnight, we could see it ramp up a little bit, mainly near the tennessee line. Temperatures will get cold back here in asheville, in the twepts, a few flurries early friday. How much more snow will fall . It wont be significant. The Higher Elevations towards gatlinsburg, heres the legend, the one to three inch range. Maybe a dusting into asheville. Winter weather advisory expires at 7 00 a. M. 44 and flurries in asheville. Tonight, 26, cloudy and cooler. Sunny skies in greenville. Partly cloudy and cooler tonight. Heres that 60 degree mark sunday and monday. 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We try to put something on our sandwich that is more interesting. Green tomatoes you can acquire all year long. These work well any time. We like them in the winter. What we do, we take our own pickling liquid, all kinds of fun flavor, they have a sharp acidic taste. They are kind of firm so that these are pickled . These are pickled. That is a great topping for a urger, anything like that. They also make a nice side. Serve a side of pickles green tomatoes. We have taken on green pickles, diced them up nice and small. Red pepper to add sweetness and color. We can get these red peppers, jalapeno to add spice, diced red oniononion. We season this pack to the pickling thing. What we like to do is that, we take sugar and it is about equal parts just regular sugar and apple sigh der apple cider vinegar. We add salt and white pepper mix. What we are doing, we are touching on all the parts of your tongue that have tasting components. You are getting spice, sweet, sugar all at the same time. Fresh lime juice and this is really, really great relish. I like to serve it on top of fish, pork or Something Like that. Put this on a burger, meat. It is colorful and it is fresh. It allows you to do all kinds of things. For those of you who like to can. Make jars of this and can it and store it through the winter. How long does Something Like this last . You can get a solid weekend of that. You can have several meals and mix it up . Absolutely. Lets get you are the recipe at home. You can send a selfaddressed envelope to 110 technology drive. You can find all of the carolina kitchen pictures and recipes. Go to corner kitchen in biltmore village. Thanks. Thats what is cooking in the carolina kitchen. Coming up tomorrow, the season of lent is a typical time of fasting and abstaining from traditional meats. A catfish recipe that is a beware of what is in your mailbox. See how fake bills cost unsuspecting people thousands of dollars. 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