Merry a few days after Christmas! We’re still in the throes of a whirlwind holiday extravaganza but I wanted to pop in and share a time-honored Waldron family tradition, the Christmas Morning Special. Each year my Poppie makes this concoction, something he describes as a Southern Comfort Old Fashioned. It’s SoCo, orange juice, cherries, and [...]
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Irish Coffee
Happy almost Christmas! This morning, before we pack up the car and head to the north for a week of Christmas fun, I wanted to share a different kind of holiday cocktail, the morning kind. Personally when it comes to drinking before noon I prefer bloody marys and mimosas, but there is something to be [...]
Oyster Casserole
Like most everyone, I am the result of many different families, marriages, couplings. Most recently I can trace my lineage back to four families, the Rosemonds, Waldrons, Fiorellos, and Ballengers. This past Saturday was the Ballenger family Christmas party, my paternal grandmother’s family. My grandmother, Bobbie, was the daughter of Stanley Ballenger and Flossie Caudell, [...]
Brown Butter Snickerdoodles
This year I participated in the first annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. Lindsay from Love & Olive Oil and Julie from A Little Kitchen organized this event, which brought together over 400 food bloggers who made and sent cookies all over the world. I’m a huge fan of events like this that bring together [...]
Red Sangria
As I was thinking about my Christmas posting schedule it occurred to me that, when it comes to holiday food, I have a lot of the favorites covered. Not to say I’ve posted them all (I’d be putting myself out of business), but I feel good about our holiday recipe list. One area we are [...]
