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If you’re eating at a Hatteras Island table be sure to bring an elastic waistband, because just when you think you can’t stuff any more in, they start passing the desserts. Here enters the delicious Hatteras Cake. Hatteras Cake Recipe: Ingredients: 1 lb Raisins 2 c Flour 1 ½ c Sugar 2 tsp Cinnamon 1 tsp Nutmeg 1 tsp Baking Soda 1 tsp Salt ½ c Butter, Melted 1 c...

A holiday table isn’t complete without a vegetable or two. For those who don’t do collards, give cabbage, its more subtle green counterpart, a try! Boiled Cabbage Recipe: Ingredients: 1 Head of Cabbage, Cored and Quartered 5 Strips of Bacon ¼ tsp Onion Powder Chicken Broth Pinch Baking Soda Salt Black Pepper Directions: 1. Fry the bacon in the bottom of a stock pot or Dutch oven. 2. Add enough...

Bouncing around the holiday table, sides are just as crucial as the main course. No one is eating turkey or ham without their favorite sides, am I right? For those of you salty/sweet lovers out there, you’re sure to enjoy this light, sugary treat served on Hatteras Island tables year-round with hot meals, potlucks and holiday feasts! Best part? It can be prepared in advance to take a little pressure...

As the holidays are just around the corner, we can’t help but summon feelings of warmth. Escaping the cool air under a warm blanket. Bringing your home to life with the warm scent of a candle. Filling a room with warm string lights. The kitchen overflowing with smells of a warm meal. A table surrounded by hearts filled with love and warmth. Sure, the football games are exciting, and the...

As the saying goes “sitting is the new smoking”, so hop on out of that desk chair and sign up for one of the 4 Outer Banks 5K’s taking place this fall! 4 5K’s on the OBX HUMC Fishy 5K | September 18th, 2021 Kick off Hatteras Village’s Day at The Docks festivities and run the Fishy 5K, sponsored by Midgett Realty! The race will start and end at Hatteras...

There is always fun to be had on Hatteras Island, no matter the season. As summer is quickly coming to a close and the cooler days of fall will be here before we know it, we want to share two family fun events held annually in Hatteras Village that are must attends, should you be able to make it to this little place that we know and love. 2 Great...

Are you counting down the days for your upcoming Hatteras Island beach vacation? While there is no shortage of good times while you’re here, we have created a collaborative list of the top 3 classes available to you while you’re staying on this little sandbar that we all know and love. TOP 3 CLASSES TO TRY ON HATTERAS ISLAND DURING SUMMER 2021 1. Find Peace with Hatteras Yoga Emerging from...

One of the things that draws people to Hatteras Island is its uniquely pristine beaches. Unlike neighboring beaches up and down the coastline, our seashore isn’t overloaded with giant billboard advertisements on benches, sailboats, and airplanes. Discarded waste isn’t flying out of overly filled trashcans on populated boardwalks and there isn’t a grid of umbrellas every 8 feet because there are nearly 70 miles of beautiful beachfront for you to...

For most of us, the Holidays are a special time of year…in more ways than one! The nostalgia, the hustle and bustle, the coziness of chunky sweaters and warm blankets. Holiday music, intricately designed store windows, inspirational and heart-warming movies that make you want to immediately give your entire bank account to the first person who needs it. Glitter, glitter and MORE glitter–it’s the most wonderful time of the year!!!...

If you’re not completely clear on what Giving Tuesday is, it’s essentially a day that commemorates giving as opposed to consumerism and is celebrated on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, directly on the heels of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. To learn more, visit here. This year, Giving Tuesday on Hatteras Island will fall on December 1, 2020 and as the global landscape has been affected by the unprecedented impact of...

What a guest wants versus what a guest needs is often a blurred line when searching for the perfect vacation rental on Hatteras Island. It may not necessarily be needed, but if it offers enough value to the vacation, the wanted amenity might win out in the end when booking a rental property. With that in mind, we have collected the top sought-after amenities to help our home owners maximize...

2020 feels very much like The Upside Down. Our surroundings look the same, but everything is very, very different. For those of you who didn’t binge watch the Netflix sci-fi series, “Stranger Things”, The Upside Down is basically a parallel universe where everything is just that, upside down or opposite. Nine months into it, like you, we’re just trying to make the best of it. Fortunately for us, we have...