Homemade Grenadine and an El Presidente Cocktail
I'm starting to see the fresh pomegranates back in the stores again this week. I do love cutting them open and popping out those garnet-colored seeds to eat. They stain your fingers bright pink, but I really don't care. They…
Easy Thai Tomato Coconut Soup
Muscadine cocktail – using wild grapes for a fall cocktail
Multi-Colored Ham Vegetable Quiche
If it's been a while since I've been to the market for groceries, it can be challenging to come up with dinner. If I dig around in my fridge, most of the time I have eggs, cream, vegetables, cold cuts…
Autumn Pear Sidecar cocktail
With the end of the hot weather, I think it's time to put away the fruity, fizzy drinks of summer and return to the warmer amber spirits. I do love the classic cocktails that use brandy, rye and whiskey as…
Homemade Sauerkraut – fermented foods at home
It's almost October and the cool weather has started settling in, even here in the muggy South. There is something about the cooler temperatures that sends me back into the kitchen to make food. And one of those foods that is…
Aperol Spritz, an Italian aperitivo drink
I just spent 10 days traveling through Italy and I'm having a hard time adjusting to life back in Atlanta. Besides the daily gelato, I'm particularly missing my afternoon Aperol Spritz. Everywhere we went in Italy, as the heat of…