The South Will Rise

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!  I feel like I have been eating non stop this holiday season, and it has been wonderful.  We spent Saturday night with a bunch of friends and one of the many yummy nibbles served were Rolo pretzel bites.  Such a simple yet awesome snack- salty, sweet, crunchy, chewy- […]

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I have always wondered about figgy pudding- what is it?  I do very much like the line in the Christmas carol about it, demanding figgy pudding is just kind of funny to me.  So, of course, I googled it, and while I don’t think it will make it into the holiday repertoire of traditions, it […]

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This past Saturday, we were invited to a friend’s house for a chocolate making lesson which might be the best kind of lesson ever.   Chefs Mark Gray and David Vagasky have started Cacao’s Artisan Chocolate in Charleston (www.cacaoscharleston.com), and their chocolate is really really amazing.  They sell their chocolates in Southern Season in both Charleston […]

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My sister-in-law is an excellent baker.  She makes the best chocolate chip cookies, brownies, etc, and she is incredibly generous with her baking.  I am not sure where she finds the time as she is also a lawyer.  We went to an oyster roast this past weekend with her and my brother, and she brought […]

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I did not grow up with Nutella, and  I actually only tried it about two years ago.  It was ok, but I didn’t love it.  I have never bought Nutella nor made anything with Nutella and to be honest, I don’t really get it.  Is it healthy chocolate because friends I know who are real […]

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