This past weekend we hosted a Seafood Boil in our backyard using my stepmom Maddie’s recipe for the Picnic Series. A few dozen people stopped by over the course of the day bringing treats and smiles. We ate, a lot, enjoyed the beautiful day, and discussed the moral dilemmas associated with the boiling of seafood. Nieces! [...]
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Chocolate Chess Pie
Chocolate Chess Pie was my grandmother Bobbie’s signature fall and winter pie. It made appearances on every holiday table and was the one pie that made it onto everyone’s dessert plate, along with a dollop of fresh whipped cream. Chess pie is a very southern concoction, the basic chess is sugar, eggs, and butter, with [...]
Bacon Blue Cheese Burgers
Tonight Dan and I returned from a few day trip to Morehead City, North Carolina. You may be familiar with Morehead from such post as this, this, this, or this. It was a great weekend filled with diving, eating, family, and friends. Also, we saw a giant shark and I got stung by a jellyfish [...]
Grape Salsa (The Wedding Post)
So you knew this was coming, the post where I would rave about how wonderful my wedding was and how happy I am to be married to the world’s best fried rice maker (not that my opinion is biased or anything, that rice is damn good). And it’s all true. The wedding was wonderful and [...]
Sweet Potato Pancakes
You know when it’s really late at night and you have a brilliant idea so you’re all NOTE TO SELF: REMEMBER THAT YOU WANT A UNICORN BIRTHDAY CAKE and then the next morning you’ve forgotten and along comes your birthday and no unicorn cake and you’re sad? Or something along those lines? I do that [...]
