a tasty little blog about southern baking
Posted in Desserts on Mar 26th, 2012
I woke up around 3 am on Saturday morning from a dream that I can’t remember but with the idea in my head that it would be a fantastic birthday present for Corby and his best friend Hank (their birthdays are just a few days apart) to go to Blackberry Farm in Tennessee. Blackberry Farm [...]
Posted in Cooking on Mar 23rd, 2012
I am not into basketball. I did not go to a Division I college, except that we were Division I in squash. In fact, Trinity holds the longest collegiate winning streak in history- 252 matches in 14 years. They did not lose for 14 years. I mean, that is amazing. Maybe I can get a [...]
Posted in Desserts on Mar 21st, 2012
We got back from Vail last night to 80 degree weather- a very welcome change despite the fact that I was still wearing my wool socks and my feet almost melted off walking to the car. Vail was amazing! I have not been to Colorado in over 20 years and never in the winter, and [...]
Posted in Cooking on Mar 13th, 2012
We had an engagement party on Sunday for my sweet friend Kendall and her fiance Robert. It was a very casual backyard cocktail party, and we had a blast. Since we had gotten back from Disney World the night before, I didn’t have a whole lot of time to get ready for the party, especially [...]
Posted in Desserts on Mar 12th, 2012
We surprised Walker with a trip to Disney World this past week. Corby and I have been planning this since before Christmas, and I was looking more forward to his reaction than to the trip. We had it all planned out- we would pick him up from school and tell him we were taking him [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Cooking, Desserts, Dinner, Pioneer Woman on Feb 22nd, 2012
We took 14 people up to North Carolina with us this past weekend, so including us, there were 12 adults and 5 children (and 2 dogs). It was a packed house, but we all had so much fun! Corby, Walker and I drove up on Thursday night which also happened to be Corby’s birthday- we [...]
Posted in Cooking on Feb 14th, 2012
I love Valentine’s Day. I know that it is a cheesy Hallmark holiday, and other than getting jazzed up to help Walker make his Valentine’s for his classmates, I should just treat it like any other day, but I really love it. I really love those hearts with the sayings on them- I actually don’t [...]
Posted in Desserts on Feb 8th, 2012
I admit that I am pretty slow to the game when it comes to new social media technology. I am terrified of this new facebook layout and won’t even look at friends pages that have the new layout because I don’t understand it. I don’t twitter or tweet or whatever you call it even though [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Desserts on Jan 17th, 2012
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 [...]
