Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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,...
Recipes
Hearty Beef & Sausage Ragù
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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....
All Hail The Sloppy Joe
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Coosaw Island Creamy Cold Crab Dip
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Huguenot Church Blueberry Brunch Cake
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Oven 'Sun-dried' Tomatoes
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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,...
A Summertime Sherry Colada
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Chive & Cheese Cocktail Swirls
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Fruit Galette with Salted Honey
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
3 Ingredient Buttermilk Biscuits
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Grapefruit Sugar Pound Cake
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Crusty Dutch Oven Baked Bread
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Chicken Cutlets with Sun-dried Tomato Cream Sauce
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
How To Make A Crustless Quiche
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Brooklyn Egg Creams and Classic Black & Whites
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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....
Classic Roasted Tomato Crostini
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
A Perfect Margarita Cocktail
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
The Manhattan Cocktail
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Best Chicken and Dumplings Recipe
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Chocolate Raspberry Tart
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
