PLUM + ROSEMARY COBBLER
I sit here typing, worrying, pondering: where oh where did the time go? And then I realize I sound just like my dad. A man who is, for better or for worse, not really known for his punctuality, but...
View ArticleCHOCOLATE-DIPPED TEQUILA MANGO CHILE PALETAS
It’s the first few official days of summer and popsicle week is here again. This time last year I was pregnant and fairly carefree and craving popsicles and slushy liquids to beat the heat. This year,...
View ArticleCAULIFLOWER FAJITAS WITH SUMMER PICO
Asphalt. The true marker of summertime. You can finally see it since it’s not covered in snow and it’s the closest photo background when stationed next to the grill. And once the temperatures start to...
View ArticleBERRY + MOLASSES ICEBOX CAKE
The muddy definitions of the pastry world. When is a pie a pie and not a tart, tartlette, pastry and is it like how a square is a rectangle, but not all rectangles are squares? Like how some people...
View ArticleBUTTERMILK + BLACK TEA BRINED FRIED CHICKEN | PEACHY FROSÉ
This all started with that ridiculous portmanteau: frosé. I’ve been neglecting my duties as a house-haver and pretending we aren’t about to move in a week by dreaming up fancy dinner parties (next...
View ArticleSOUTHERN MULES W/ PINEAPPLE + JALAPENO
Currently packing up the pantry. Like most folks, we’ve got more in there than we’ll ever use, but we’ve always had the good intentions to reduce, buy only what we need, and focus on minimalism. My tea...
View ArticleHALLOWEEN IN JULY | ALL THINGS PUMPKIN
If given the opportunity, I would spend my rent money on pumpkins. I would gather them around me, piled on top of each other, and create a little squash igloo. There’d be a pie pumpkin tea kettle and...
View ArticleWEEKLY SUNDRIES + TEA ICE CREAM FLOATS
sundries, n. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌndrɪz/ Etymology: plural of sundry adj. used subst.: compare odds n. Definition: Small articles of a miscellaneous kind; esp. small items lumped together in an account...
View ArticleHAM + PEA CHEESY GRITS
I’m fairly certain one of new year’s resolutions year before last was to eat more grits. I’m sad to say I didn’t quite fulfill that goal then, but I’m making up for lost time now. Frankly, I’m being...
View ArticlePIMM’S CUP CAKE W/ BOOZY BUTTERCREAM
The Olympics are on in the other room and Aves is obsessed with watching the swimmers and gymnasts (here’s hoping she has more grace and agility than either of her sports-challenged parents). There’s...
View ArticleCHERRY CHEERWINE PIE
This is our sixth Saturday in North Carolina. Each one (minus last week when I had my wisdom teeth removed) has been spent walking to the co-op grocery for biscuits and iced coffee then to the local...
View ArticleGREENS + GRAINS BOWLS FOR GROWN-UPS & LITTLES | BACK TO SCHOOL WITH BRASS...
This first week back to school was tough. I tried to get swept up in the romance and nostalgia of being back on a college campus, find that sentimental old building, a go-to coffee clutch, the new...
View ArticleSWEET TOMATO MERINGUE PIES
It’s that odd time of year: when tomato season isn’t quite over, but you’re already seeing squash and apples at the farmers’ market. A time when tomato sandwiches aren’t as good as they were a few...
View ArticleHATCH HONEY + CAROLINA PORCH’D’OEUVRES
There’s a scent for every season. And while I’m an unabashed fan of the PSL and all things similarly fragranted, there are other notes that serve as personal hallmarks of this changing time of year....
View ArticleHALVAH PUMPKIN PIE
“Promises and pie crust are made to be broken.” – Jonathon Swift I promised myself that I would get all my work done last week and enjoy the weekend with my kitchen assistants. And when that didn’t...
View ArticleINGREDIENT STUDY: MUSCADINE GRAPES OF NC | MUSCADINE MARMALADE & CREAM CHEESE...
Stretching from Texas to the Carolina coast, the Muscadine grape is a sweet little native-grown gem that ripens in the fall. Around here in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina, the muscadine, and...
View ArticleSWEET POTATO SAUSAGE KOLACHES
I realize that this is my third kolache recipe (see two-ways and pumpkin spice) I’ve posted over the past several years, but as they say — when something ain’t broke, don’t fix it, just keeping baking...
View ArticlePSL HALVA
I’m homesick for a place that really isn’t my home. A place I lived for five years, but not my birth home or my current home. The problem is, my southern self is at odds, mad even, at my missing the...
View ArticleSPICY PUMPKIN + GOAT CHEESE SHAKSHUKA
Exactly one year ago I was heavily pregnant, happy as a possum in a crate full of fermented mountain apples, and over the moon excited to welcome my little one into the glorious season that is fall. We...
View ArticleAPPLE CIDER BAKED DONUTS W/ MAPLE GLAZE
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. And apple cider donuts.”― Anne of Green Gables, probably. As a fellow redhead and staunch apple cider aficionado, I would have to agree. October...
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