The South Will Rise

My sweet son Walker finally got home from New York this week, and I have, of course, been spoiling him rotten from missing him so much.  I asked him what he would like for dinner the other night, and he replied meatloaf.  This was a little surprising since I haven’t made meatloaf for him in [...]

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I can’t believe that Christmas has come and gone already.  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!  Corby and I went up to the mountains in North Carolina since it is Walker’s year to spend Christmas with his dad   While we missed Walker tremendously, we had such a relaxing great time just the two [...]

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Since I started writing this blog, I have been making a wish list of bakeries I want to visit.  Red Truck Bakery (www.redtruckbakery.com) in Old Town Warrenton, VA is definitely at the top of the list.  First off, I really love that they turned an old Esso Station into a bakery.  Second, I really love the [...]

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After surviving the Saturday night sleepover of 11 eight year old boys, we got to have some grown up fun by the way of the Charleston Cup.  The Charleston Cup is a steeplechase race that started twenty five years ago.  However, this is only the eighteenth running of the race as they took an eight year [...]

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We got into Nashville this past Friday afternoon just in time for dinner before the Avett Brothers concert at Bridgestone Arena.  I have only been to Nashville once in the past and that was to look at Vanderbilt for college, so it doesn’t really count.  Fortunately for me, thanks to Corby’s fantastic ability to find [...]

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Corby has been making German pancakes on the weekend for breakfast, and since those don’t really have anything to do with Southern Baking, I have not blogged about them despite how amazing they are.  He adds vanilla, cinnamon, powdered sugar, syrup- they are pretty special.  But, the thing I like best about the German pancakes [...]

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We have a new food magazine in Charleston called The Local Palate.  The first issues arrived in my mailbox last week, and it is fabulous!!  Here is their “about us” from their web page www.thelocalpalate.com and find them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/thelocalpalate : We are a culinary magazine  that focuses on the food culture of Charleston. [...]

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I was searching for new fun recipes when I came across this website www.bourbonbarrelfoods.com, and what isn’t fun about bourbon?  Here is a little bit about the company from their website: Bourbon Barrel Foods is a maker of gourmet food products that reflect the rich heritage of Kentucky’s Bourbon Country, “The Napa Valley of the Bluegrass.”  [...]

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I am about to head off for a long weekend in Oklahoma and Arkansas- two states I have never been to.  We are headed to Oklahoma this afternoon to spend two nights with the Pioneer Woman (www.thepioneerwoman.com)  and her husband.  Corby and the Pioneer Woman’s husband have been friends since they were 4 which is [...]

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I am not sure what is better than waking up on a crisp summer morning in the mountains to homemade cracked pepper and cheddar cheese biscuits.  I found a wonderful recipe in the Charleston City Paper from Robert F. Moss who has a fantastic blog!  We have tweaked it a little bit to add the cracked [...]

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