While I’m (obviously) a proponent of drinking cocktails year round, there are some drinks that just taste better in the summer. This is one of those cocktails: fresh peaches squeezed into a pitcher with lemon juice, bourbon, jalapeno simple syrup and a few sprigs of thyme. Perfect for sipping on the screened-in porch. Thank you […]
A couple of years ago, I learned that my friend Dan’s favorite dessert is pineapple upside-down cake. I had never made (or even eaten!) pineapple upside-down cake, but it sounded pretty good, so I figured I’d try it. Long story short: It was delicious and really easy to make. Anyway, I saw this recipe when […]
For UGA’s first football game of the season, I wanted to make something breakfast-y that said “Georgia.” And there are few things that invoke both Georgia and breakfast foods more than Waffle House. I had seen and heard of Waffle House before I moved to Athens for college, of course, but I’m pretty sure I had […]
Fruit salad: It doesn’t sound very exciting, because it normally isn’t. But that’s because most fruit salad contains cantaloupe (gross) and doesn’t include mint sugar. This version is super easy (you literally just cut a few things up and stir) and is so good that every time I make it, someone asks me for the […]
You may have thought I’d had enough of peaches. But then I saw this post about peach butter on Smitten Kitchen. And these nice farmers had boxes of lovely peaches at the Farmer’s Market. So I figured, why not? I mean, come on. How adorable is that peach with the leaf still attached? It’s like […]
I don’t drink much wine. I like red wine, but after you’ve had red wine come out your nose (at a restaurant, no less), you tend to avoid it. And I don’t really care for most white wines. But I do like champagne and prosecco. Especially as part of a cocktail. A bellini is basically […]
Originally I was going to have a recipe for grilled chicken with peach barbecue sauce. Sounds great, right? It was one of Gwyneth Paltrow’s recipes in Bon Appetit a month or so ago. The first thing I made from that issue was sweet corn gelato (from the letters section, where people ask how to make […]
I know you were probably wondering how the sweet tea fits in with the peach theme of the week. Well, you could make peach iced tea. But I have a better idea: Sweet tea rice with peaches, jalapeno and pecans. You cook the rice with sweet tea instead of water. And you can drink a […]
When I was little, Baskin Robbins was our ice cream of choice. I think it is actually a part of my DNA, because my mom (and dad) at so much BR when she was pregnant with me: baseball nut and butter pecan in particular. I was always partial to daquiri ice, but when that wasn’t […]
Happy Fourth of July, y’all! We actually kind of had our holiday dinner yesterday, because Toby had to work both days and Hilary’s husband has to work today. So Matt and Hilary came over yesterday. When I was deciding what to make for dinner, this was the only thing I was sure I would make. […]