White Wine Peach Sangria
White Wine Peach Sangria with Albariño wine from Spain, Cointreau, fresh peaches, lemons, and oranges.
Summer Vegetable Succotash
Here is a very Southern summer vegetable succotash - corn, okra, tomatoes, squash, pepper, onion, basil and Benton's bacon.
Low Sugar Blackberry Jam
A step-by-step recipe to make low-sugar Blackberry Jam. We find our blackberries by being urban foragers - finding berries in the city.
Pimm’s Cup – a British cocktail for sunny days
In honor of Andy Murray finally winning the Wimbledon trophy for the Brits this week, I'm making the official cocktail of Wimbledon, the quintessential English summer cocktail - The Pimm's Cup. The Pimm's Cup is a classic English "fruit cup"...…
Zucchini Pancakes – a summer garden recipe
Besides the tomato, is there any vegetable that announces the height of the summer garden more than the zucchini? At a certain point each summer, I start to see it everywhere...at the local Farmer's Market, in my CSA box, in bags…
La Floridita Daiquiri – Hemingway’s favorite cocktail
In Old Havana, Cuba, there is a bar called El Floridita. In 1917, a Catalan bartender named Constantino Ribalaigua Vert began working there and was soon known for the quality of his cocktails. Even if he was an expert mixologist…
How to use Kohlrabi – another CSA box challenge
If you subscribe to a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) each summer, you know the secret thrill that comes from opening your box each week and seeing your farm fresh treasures. Unfortunately, there is often the "what tha'..." moment when you…
Watermelon Vodka Cooler – a Summer Solstice cocktail
Happy Summer Solstice! Today is the first day of summer and it calls for a cocktail that will be great for those hot days spent with friends by the pool. A Watermelon Vodka cooler, perhaps? Maybe when you were younger,…
Carolina-style Low Country Shrimp Boil
Last month, my sister-in-laws came for a visit and brought with them 5 pounds of beautiful, jumbo shrimp, fresh off the boat in Ocean Springs, Mississippi that morning. Squeee! What a treat! To do justice to that treat, we decided…
Michelada – a Mexican tomato beer cocktail
I don't know how it came up in conversation, but my good friend Carolyn was telling me about drinking tomato beer during her summers in Savannah. My first thought about combining beer with tomato juice was "Yuck. That cannot be…