The South Will Rise

I made Red Velvet Whoopie Pies last night to take as dessert to a dinner party.  The recipe was very simple recipe for the red velvet part- a box of cake mix, eggs, water and oil.  I made two different fillers, a marshmallow and a cream cheese icing.  Everything went very well, and they looked [...]

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Back in December there was a devastating fire at Keegan Filion Farm down in Walterboro.  This farm provides a lot of produce and meat to restaurants in the area that support local farmers, and in keeping with that support, many of the restaurants in Charleston held a “barn raiser” yesterday to raise money to help [...]

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I love The Local Palate (www.localpalatemag.com), the new cooking/food magazine in Charleston.  Yesterday, they put up a link to all of their recipes http://www.localpalatemag.com/recipes.html, and I tried the Peanut Butter Pie recipe.  You know those days in the kitchen where everything goes wrong- you drop eggs on the floor, you burn butter, your flour explodes [...]

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Since I get to write about food and baking all the time, here is a quick post on the opposite.  I took a Blast 900 (www.blast900.com) class this morning, and it was amazing!  I feel like I made up for all the candy I ate at the gingerbread house party.  It is an hour long [...]

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We went to my sister’s gingerbread house party in New York last weekend, and Walker was so disappointed that he couldn’t take his gingerbread house on the plane home, we decided to have a gingerbread house party as well.  Thanks to my mother’s genius when she was making houses for my sister’s party, she made [...]

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I was asked last night if I went to the Elizabeth Taylor Jewelry Auction Preview while I was in New York last weekend.  I did not.  I heard the preview catalogue was $300 and since I  don’t like magazines and really don’t like catalogues, I think that is a little on the ridiculous side.  Despite all [...]

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I love New York.  I am so glad I do not live there anymore, but I really do love it.  We had such a fun weekend, and the weather, although not cold and Christmas spirit inspiring, was fantastic.  The food was even better.  We went to a lot of places, and I don’t think all of [...]

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I hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving!  I am still so full, but it was all worth it.  I remade a lot of recipes that I have put on this blog this past week for family members that I have not seen in a while.  We started off on Wednesday night having my parents, all of [...]

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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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Despite the fact that it is almost 80 degrees in Charleston today, I have been craving hot chocolate.  Maybe it is because I know in some parts of the country, ski season is just around the corner and I am missing my days as a ski instructor in upstate New York, or maybe it is [...]

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