I love making crisps with fresh fruit in the summer. Blueberries, blackberries, and peaches (I’m not picky about the type of fruit) all taste fantastic baked with a simple topping of sugar, butter and rolled oats. Best of all, crisps are quick to throw together and many can be made with frozen fruit for those […]

No one likes the idea of standing over a hot stove during the hottest months of the summer. When the humidity and temperatures rise, food that is light, fresh and simple to make is what I crave. Luckily, on the Gulf Coast we are blessed to have access to beautiful seafood all year round, but […]

I started writing this post about figs, but I really can’t write about figs without telling you about my friend Dot. Dot was the person that got me to try my first fresh fig. I had never eaten a fig until I was in college. I didn’t know what they tasted like, but our friend […]

Gardening is one of many hobbies that I enjoy and I have a lot of favorite flowers–roses, hydrangeas, azaleas, camellias (basically all the Southern classics) and last, but certainly not least, daylilies. Not to be confused with true lilies, such as the Easter Lily, daylilies are considered by many to be the perfect perennial. With […]

It’s hard to believe that it has been almost a full year since my first blog post, but another year has flown by and it’s the season of endings and beginnings once more. I started the blog last year with a post about graduations and now, as I write this post about a graduation, I’m […]