I am generally not a fan of baby showers, but I went to one for a friend last week that was truly delightful. It was a sit-down dinner at an absolutely beautiful home, and all of the women were so smart and fun to be around that I had a wonderful time. The best part […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 class […]
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 […]