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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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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I work at the Charleston Library Society which is a pretty special place.  It is the third oldest library in the United States, and the collection of books, letters, maps etc. is unbelievably impressive.  This is the main room of the Library- it is beautiful.  And what better use for this amazing room than a backgammon [...]

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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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It is a tradition in the South to eat black eyed peas and collard greens on New Year’s Day to bring you luck for the coming year- the peas are supposed to represent coins and the collards are the color of money so the dish- called Hoppin’ John- will bring you wealth and luck 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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Saturday was a pretty great day. It started off with pepper jack cheese scrambled eggs and maple bacon and ended with macaroni and cheese fritters with green tomato jam, and in the middle was a fantastic day sailing with great friends and snacking on tater tots.  I reconnected with a friend from college who is [...]

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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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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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