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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After surviving the Saturday night sleepover of 11 eight-year-old boys, we got to have some grown-up fun by 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 hiatus. It was a spectacular […]
There are so many reason why Sean Brock won the James Beard Award in 2010- McCrady’s and Husk are amazing restaurants, but we tried his backyard pulled pork recipe this weekend for a football watch party we were throwing, and I now think Sean Brock is a god. I am maybe slightly biased because Corby […]
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 […]
Corby has been making German pancakes on the weekend for breakfast, and since those don’t really have anything to do with Southern Baking, I have not blogged about them despite how amazing they are. He adds vanilla, cinnamon, powdered sugar, syrup- they are pretty special. But, the thing I like best about the German pancakes […]
We have a new food magazine in Charleston called The Local Palate. The first issues arrived in my mailbox last week, and it is fabulous!! Here is their “about us” from their web page www.thelocalpalate.com and find them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/thelocalpalate : We are a culinary magazine that focuses on the food culture of Charleston. […]