A chilled summertime bourbon cocktail using fresh muddled apricots, simple syrup, and elderflower liqueur. Guaranteed to aide in keeping you chill during this, the summer of quasi-continued self quarantine, An Iced Apricot Bourbon Fizz. To all my male readers, this is NOT a girly drink. It is Bourbon through and through. Ladies, I softened...
Recipes
Hearty Beef & Sausage Ragù
A Ragù is Bolognaise done right... If you were to select the monarch of the pasta sauce world, it would hands down have to be Hearty Beef & Sausage Ragù. A stew of sorts with big hunks of beef and sausage, Hearty Beef & Sausage Ragù is simmered until fall-apart perfection. A gorgeous, glossy and...
All Hail The Sloppy Joe
Messy, yummy, kid-friendly perfection - all hail the Sloppy Joe! Okay all of you busy soccer moms relentless in your continued search for fast, easy, and adaptable recipes, All Hail The Sloppy Joe! I figure it's time to bust out some of my childhood oldies but goodies, given I am still fielding questions regarding quarantine...
Coosaw Island Creamy Cold Crab Dip
A visit to the Lowcountry of South Carolina will change your outlook on life. Yes, I said 'life.' An icy cold beer and a bowl of Coosaw Island's famous cold crab dip will hasten that new found clarity... An icy cold beer and a bowl of Coosaw Island Creamy Cold Crab Dip will put...
Huguenot Church Blueberry Brunch Cake
Huguenot Church Blueberry Brunch Cake is quintessentially old Charleston, this recipe emanating from an 1871 archival reprint from the Huguenot Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Huguenot Church Blueberry Brunch Cake is perfect for breakfast, brunch, or a light dessert. This cake required a few adjustments from the original recipe. This was in an effort...
Oven 'Sun-dried' Tomatoes
A bumper crop of cherry tomatoes makes for sweet, scrum-delyicious Oven 'Sun-Dried' Tomatoes to be used on everything from homemade pizza to chicken cutlets in tomato cream. Best part is, the method is largely hands-off. Among the zillion recipes floating around for use of cherry tomatoes is to make homemade sun-dried tomatoes....in your oven. Oven...
A Summertime Sherry Colada
Sherry, an idiosyncratic Spanish wine whose tradition spans 3,000 years. I am just going to refer to it as a Summertime Sherry Colada because I really do not know what else to call it, other than to describe it. AND IT'S GOOOOOD. Seldom do I get excited about shaker drinks because in this household,...
Chive & Cheese Cocktail Swirls
A super easy appetizer that makes a pile. Chive & Cheese Cocktail Swirls are EASY 'at-the-ready' happy hour snacks I keep on hand for when I shake up a cold libation with family and friends. Pillows of pure deliciousness. This idea is not new. The variations for this have been kicking around for years, and...
Fruit Galette with Salted Honey
Seems to me these delicate summer fruits all come in at the same time, leaving me no choice but to cook 'em all up together...a wildly imperfect sugared masterpiece. A Fruit Galette with Salted Honey is one of those 'don't need to follow a recipe' recipes that comes out amazing every time. They are free...
3 Ingredient Buttermilk Biscuits
A no-fail Southern buttermilk biscuit recipe that will have them thinking you are a pro, even if this is your first time ever making biscuits. Weekend hot breakfasts don't get any simpler or more delicious than luscious 3 Ingredient Buttermilk Biscuits, brushed to perfection with sweet cream butter. Feed your crowd with pleasing and...
Grapefruit Sugar Pound Cake
Grapefruit Sugar Pound Cake is quintessentially summer's breath on a fancy plate. Consume slowly. Grapefruit Sugar Pound Cake is a straightforward cream cheese pound cake, elevated by the addition of grapefruit. It’s summertime after all. And every time I bake it, I am thrust back to my earliest memories of childhood, and of running...
Crusty Dutch Oven Baked Bread
Homemade bread fills the belly and is pleasing to the senses. During this crisis, baking has reduced my daily stress and provided much comfort. Crusty Dutch Oven Baked Bread is ten minutes of preparation that ultimately produces two big loaves of warm and crusty comfort. During the three and one half hour rise time,...
Chicken Cutlets with Sun-dried Tomato Cream Sauce
The beautiful thing about cooking Chicken Cutlets with Sun-dried Tomato Cream Sauce in one pan is that you have only one pan to clean. A cast iron skillet is the perfect tool of choice for this recipe. I was excited last month when completing this new recipe for Chicken Cutlets with Sun-dried Tomato Cream...
How To Make A Crustless Quiche
Regardless of the fillings you choose, the ratios are always the same, resulting in a perfect crustless quiche. A frequent question I receive in the Not Entirely Average in-box is how to make a crustless quiche. Well, how to make any quiche, really. This is honestly a more recent inquiry. It appears to be...
Brooklyn Egg Creams and Classic Black & Whites
The peculiarity of the matter is such that an egg cream contains neither eggs, nor cream... Brooklyn Egg Creams and Classic Black & Whites are both spectacular singular indulgences. A quick trip back in time for a moment, back to 1900s New York. Back in the day, virtually every block in New York City...
Classic Roasted Tomato Crostini
Classic Roasted Tomato Crostini is every good reason to buy a beautiful crusty French baguette. Classic Roasted Tomato Crostini is every good reason to buy a beautiful crusty French baguette. I am not sure if anybody else is tired of eating, but I know for me, quarantine has meant cooking. And not only cooking for...
A Perfect Margarita Cocktail
A Perfect Margarita Cocktail quenches the thirst like no other. The weekend is nearing so I ask, ‘what is your cocktail plan?’ A Perfect Margarita Cocktail begins with a fantastic Blanco tequila and bunches of fresh limes. We do not fool around here on weekends, we go straight to Costco and grab the biggie...
The Manhattan Cocktail
The American 1860's Tincture Fashionable Still The Manhattan Cocktail is the 1860s tincture, fashionable still, the architect however remains of rumored origin. Regardless of its maker, New Year's Day celebrations call for a toast of some libation or another. Well, any celebration calls for a toast of some libation or another really! The Manhattan Cocktail...
Best Chicken and Dumplings Recipe
Chicken and Dumplings is a comfort food classic of rich stock, delicate chicken, a trilogy of sweet vegetables, and tender homemade dumplings… I absolutely cannot wait to share today’s homemade Best Chicken and Dumplings recipe. In fact, as I type this, I am thinking about how glad I am that I made enough for...
Chocolate Raspberry Tart
This stunner of a tart showcases the raspberry like no other, seductively mingling with soft chocolate ganache that has been heightened with a trifling glint of almond. Think this looks too hard to assemble? Think again.... If only I could have known how beautifully beautiful this Chocolate Raspberry Tart would turn out, I'd have...
