The South Will Rise

This past Friday, Walker, Corby and I rode our bicycles over to Carolinas, a local restaurant that has been around forever.  My father’s office building is right across the street, and literally, he goes there every day for lunch.  And much to their enjoyment/chagrin, he has the same thing every day.  He orders a chopped […]

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Happy New Year to everyone!!  I am finally coming out of the fog of jet lag from our trip to Vietnam which was awesome!  It was such an amazing trip, and I am the luckiest girl to have gotten to spend such a special vacation with my family.  I feel so lucky and blessed that […]

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September is National Biscuit Month which clearly makes it my new favorite month.  It is also National Honey Month, National Rice Month, National Mushroom, All American Breakfast, Better Breakfast, Chicken, Self-Improvement, Courtesy, Hug a Texas Chef, Cholesterol Awareness, and Organic Harvest Month just to name a few.  Clearly, the need to have a month dedicated […]

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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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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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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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Knoxville’s first annual International Biscuit Festival recently wrapped up. So, how did it turn out? Let’s see what KnoxNews had to say: Biscuit Festival has big turnout By Mike Blackerby Judging by the turnout, East Tennesseans sure love their biscuits and all of the accoutrements that go with the delectable flour-based discs. Saturday’s first International […]

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“Grazing is a state of being in the South. In fact, many of our community cookbooks from the twentieth century are front-heavy, with so many more hors d’oeuvre and finger-food recipes than main courses (or even desserts) that it makes you wonder why we even bother with the rest of the meal.  It’s actually plain […]

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Creating the perfect biscuit is a theoretical question with as many answers as there are scientists racing toward finding a unified theory of Everything. With Knoxville’s first International Biscuit Festival on the horizon (June 4th and 5th), featuring a biscuit bake-off, this blog would be amiss if it didn’t feature a favorite classic biscuit recipe […]

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