Quick Refrigerator Pickles – easy garlic pickles
Making quick refrigerator pickles is easy, with no heat-processing involved. Here is a recipe for Spicy Garlic Refrigerator Pickles.
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.
Blackberry Thyme bramble cocktail
Blackberry Thyme Bramble Cocktail Recipe a refreshing summer drink incorporating fresh blackberries, thyme-infused simple syrup, lemon juice, gin, and club soda. Includes making the thyme-infused syrup and the cocktail
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…
Buford Highway – Atlanta’s food melting pot
Atlanta is known for many things - its sprawling suburbs, horrific traffic and never ending construction among them. Even if you hate sitting on the Downtown Connector at rush hour, there is no denying that this city has a certain…
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…
Bibimbap at Woo Nam Jeong Stone Bowl House
The daughter and I went on a food adventure last week and so, as we always do, we headed to Buford Highway. Among the many, many immigrant populations that you will find represented along Atlanta's melting pot is Korean. Up…