Low Country Boil
Last week we had the pleasure of spending time at our family house in Morehead City with my some of my immediate family....
Last week we had the pleasure of spending time at our family house in Morehead City with my some of my immediate family....
At the end of September, as the sun set on my (amazing) maternity leave, the three of us headed up to Morehead City...
This Spring has been absolutely lovely. The weather, in what I can only take as a third trimester miracle, has been actual spring...
So, here we are! We're six days into my fourth year teaching Montessori preschool here in Wilmington. I have a cold and there's...
Have you ever heard of sea beans? How about samphire greens? Glasswort? Salicornia? Pickleweed? (that's my favorite). They were totally new to me when...
For two years in a row we've been able to be in Morehead City during the annual Big Rock Blue Marlin fishing tournament....
One of my favorite dishes to serve at parties is my dad's fish dip. In fact, in the past few months I've been...
Last month we headed to Charleston to take advantage of a fantastic opportunity to stay with the Belmond Charleston Place. It was an...
My collards have come up! They're green and beautiful and tender and perfect and I love them. I mean, I always love collards,...
This summer we were lucky enough to be on the receiving end of a seafood windfall. A friend of ours works deep sea scalloping, and...
In the spirit of Labor Day I am taking this weekend to do absolutely no work. That's not true, actually, but I am...
In the 1950's the men of the Hillsborough Volunteer Fire Department decided to build a house in Morehead City, a getaway from the...
One of my favorite things about being a teacher is that I often hear the phrase "I am so lucky because...
Last weekend I headed up to Morehead City for a photoshoot. I've been doing a lot of photoshoots lately, totally booked solid, which...
Last week I was chatting with my grandma on the phone and I made a comment about it being mid-August. No, Elena, she...
For the past five weeks I've been working on a big freelance project that has utterly consumed me and everything around me. I've...
When Julia was here a few weeks ago we finally got the chance to try something we've been wanting to do for a...
One of the many things that makes North Carolina an amazing state is it's ever-changing terrain. From the Blue Ridge and Smokey Mountains...
It was incredibly hard for me to decide what county, what recipe, what food group I was going to choose to launch Tasting North...
We've met some really wonderful people in Baltimore, people who have become our friends and made this city feel like home. We met...
Last year my friend Jamie taught Dan and I how to pick crabs the Maryland way. Jamie is a very particular person who...
One of the things I most love about vacationing at the Swamp House with family is the diversity in food. Sure, some nights...
Like most everyone, I am the result of many different families, marriages, couplings. Most recently I can trace my lineage back to four...
This summer we've been fortunate enough to travel everywhere from Savannah to Philadelphia. Along the way, one food has popped up over and...
First of all, for those of you who have so sweetly been asking, I wanted to let you know that my parents, family,...
Since I moved to Maryland in 2004 I have not eaten a whole crab. I've eaten plenty of crab cakes, more crab dip...
This past weekend we hosted a Seafood Boil in our backyard using my stepmom Maddie's recipe for the Picnic Series. A few dozen...
It wasn't until recently that I really started loving salmon. I'm picky about fish because my family has always been the fishing sort...
Approximately two years ago, Dan and I planted a jalapeño plant and a habanero plant. They grew, and they grew, and then they...
I would like to begin this post with a disclaimer- I am actually a pretty healthy (and diverse) eater. We only eat meat...
One of the things I learned at art school was that I'm not special. That sounds a little harsh. I mean, specifically, that...
People often make rash assumptions about me. For instance, people often assume that because I'm tall, I should play basketball. Then I fall...
This weekend Dan and I journeyed south to Morehead City on some wedding business. It was a great weekend, full of the unexpected...
One of my favorite restaurants in the south is Hyman's Seafood in Charleston, South Carolina. I love the town of Charleston, and don't...
This weekend Dan and I went down to Morehead City to meet with the caterers and the florists for our September wedding. It...
One of the meals that I most enjoy making and one of the recipes that I am always proud to serve is shrimp...
This Christmas I also got a cookbook from my parents titled The Best of the Best from North Carolina. As you can probably...
When I was a kid, our family friend, Captain Fred Cates, used to take us fishing on his beautiful sports fishing boat. Capt'n...
Because I'm the biggest brat in the world, when I sent my parents a christmas card, I asked for oysters. To be fair,...