Ideas to make your home brighter & your heart lighter
As much as I love my Stan’s inspired Southern Style Pimento Cheese, sometimes I want something a little fancier. This gourmet 3-cheese pimento cheese spread fits the bill. I’ve been serving it for years at summer parties and cookouts. It takes a little extra effort to prepare, but it’s well worth the work. This recipe [...]
I may be the south’s foremost expert on pimento cheese. (Or is it pimiento cheese?) Back in my newspapering days, I was assigned to write not one, not two, but three articles about this southern delicacy, for three different publications. For a while, I joked that pimento cheese was my “beat.” There was a period [...]
Especially as the weather warms, you may find the neighbor ladies and I relaxing in lawn chairs in our driveways or the cul-de-sac. Or you might think we’re relaxing, when in fact, we are really discussing important CEO-level business. These flip-flops and wine sessions are our version of golf course business meetings. Discussions touch on [...]
Some days just call for a meat and potatoes meal. When it’s so cold outside that you need some good old comfort food to warm you up. Those days, I turn to my trusty Better Homes and Gardens new Cookbook that is anything but new. But I rarely do any cooking exactly by the book. [...]
If I don’t cool it with the nostalgia, Marty McFly might come knocking at my door. I was channeling my inner 5th grader last week with my 80s-inspired Valentine’s Day cootie catcher love notes. And now, I’m blasting even farther into the past to the 1970s and cooking up a family fondue feast. Instead of [...]
What do you do when the weather outside is frightful? When sleet and ice close schools early, but there’s not a single snowflake to be found? Well, you could stay inside and pout and complain about the weather. Or you could throw an impromptu hot chocolate party for the neighborhood. That’s exactly what we did last [...]
Some things don’t last long in our house. Pillows that are actually on the sofa. Picture perfect rooms. Hershey’s kisses. Chex cereal mix. So you can imagine what happens when we combine Hershey’s kisses with Chex cereal. Blink, and it’s gone. (Pillows and picture perfect rooms have nothing to do with this post, but I thought I’d keep [...]
Every fall, I have a come-to-Jesus moment. I’ll be driving along, then three words will summon me to the nearest church parking lot. BRUNSWICK STEW SALE! Can I get an amen? Photo via TVNewsBadge Oh how I love Brunswick stew. It is the taste of fall in the South. But, Brunswick stew season is fleeting. [...]
I was born under the sign of Pot Pie. The astrological charts will tell you I’m a Capricorn. But in my family, we believe in food signs, not star signs. As in, what did your mama eat before she gave birth to you? Whatever it was, it’s sure to be one of your favorite foods. [...]
I love guacamole. But I’m the only one in our house that does. And guacamole is one of those dishes that is best served fresh. Leftovers just don’t cut it. Because once air hits an avocado (even when it’s mashed up in guacamole), it starts turning brown. The color change doesn’t affect the taste. But [...]
