We had a fantastic time at the Palmetto Tasty Tomato Festival on Sunday! Forrest was the event photographer, so I hung out and ate as many tomatoes/tomato dishes as possible. It’s awesome to see the variety of heirloom tomatoes being grown at City Roots and by others throughout the midlands. They’re beautiful and delicious! Our …
Category Archives: Food
STUFFED.
I won’t say that I’m a chicken wing connoisseur, but I DID grow up with a dad from Buffalo, NY, the place that put chicken wings on the map! Every time we’re there, we end up on a quest for chicken wings at some place or another. SO, maybe I lived with a wing connoisseur…that …
secrets.
My grandmother makes a killer potato salad. And like all self-respecting grandmothers out there, it has no recipe. I picked her brain for the ingredients and gave it a whirl. Red potatoes, hard boiled eggs, sweet pickles, bell pepper, salt, pepper, and the tiniest bit of mayonnaise. I’m terrible at following directions, so of course …
weekenders
It’s been a slow, lovely weekend. We spent yesterday afternoon on the lock in the river with Nick, Shannon, and a few friends. Then we came home, cleaned up, and enjoyed a dinner of Caw Caw burgers (a fabulous new beef-pork blend from Caw Caw Creek in Columbia), spinach salad, and sauteed summer squash. Oh, …
hometown brew
So, a brewery opened in Florence. And the beer is pretty excellent. Right now they’re brewing a Goldilocks (golden) Ale and a LeRoy Brown (brown) Ale. I was all over that Goldilocks Ale. We had dinner there, as well. The best thing we tried was a barbeque egg roll appetizer. I heard that this place …
garden update
POTATO HARVEST! So what if our garden only produced 8 spuds (9 if you count the rotten one)? We are super proud of these little guys. These jalapenos are pretty exciting, too. Lots more ready soon.
oh honey, you baked
“Whenever a boy comes, you should always have something baking.” -Cher, Clueless Classic. Forrest is coming home this evening. He’s been in Florida for the 48 Hour Film Project this weekend. More on that later, I’m sure. I’m heading back to Flo-town tomorrow morning for work and I wanted to leave him with a treat …
Fig pizza? YES, please.
So there’s this amazing restaurant across town called Rosso Trattoria. I’m obsessed with their fig, prosciutto, and goat cheese pizza- it’s salty and sweet and excellent. Forrest and I tried our hand at making our own version of that pizza last night. As luck would have it, my grandmother makes preserves every year from my …
First taste of Summer!
Rember those little tomatoes from the other day? Well they were ripe when we got home today! Only two were ready, so we each got one. They are sweet little suckers, but they still have a bit of that nice tomato bite. Now we just need our other tomatoes to start ripening up so we …
hey there, beautiful
In celebration our third anniversary last night we cleaned up, put on our fancy clothes, and headed over to the Hampton Street Vineyard! It isn’t really a vineyard, but their crab cake was on the cover of Columbia Metropolitan last month. AND it was beautiful and I knew when I saw it that I had …
Domesticated Artists 