Tag Archives: baltimore

Meredith’s Strawberry Pie

This past weekend our niece, Meredith, came up to Baltimore and had a special aunt/uncle & niece visit. This trip was our Christmas present to M this year, we wanted to give her something special, something she’d remember, and thought a weekend alone where she got to pick the activities would be perfect. I’m so [...]

The Baltimore Bomb

I love Baltimore. I mean, it’s not the South, it’s not North Carolina, but it’s home (for now). This city stole our hearts while we were in school, and in the years that we’ve been here our love for the charming, quirky, a little bit crazy town has only grown. One of the things that [...]

B’Eat More Pie Fest

Some of you might know about this already, but I wanted to take a moment to announce a really exciting upcoming festival that I am co-founding.  The B’Eat More Pie Fest is Baltimore’s first pie festival, taking place Sunday, September 11 from 12-3.  The festival will include a pie contest (with both sweet and savory [...]

Picking Crabs, Maryland Style

Since I moved to Maryland in 2004 I have not eaten a whole crab. I’ve eaten plenty of crab cakes, more crab dip than I’d like to admit, a few crab pretzels, and a fair amount of crab laden sushi. But no whole crabs. In fact, the only time I’ve ever had a whole crab [...]

Our Garden

Our dwarf pomegranate tree We have big plans this summer. Big garden plans.  Big vegetable garden plans.  Last year we grew our first outdoor vegetable garden and while it was wonderful it was not nearly as ambitious as we wanted.  This year is completely different.  We have twice the space, ten times the variety, and [...]