appetizers

I don’t know how it works in your house, but around here, as soon as the weather starts to warm up, we start grilling as much as possible!  Our favorite grill fare (by far!) is a good old fashioned cheeseburger (or veggie burger, as the case may be), and to me nothing goes better with a home-grilled burger than made-from-scratch coleslaw. I know coleslaw can be a pretty controversial–and highly subjective–topic.  Some people prefer a creamy mayo-based dressing, while others insist the only way to eat coleslaw is with a vinegar base.  And then there is the  sweet versus sour camps….it is almost enough to make your head spin!  Personally ... read more

I am not a true Southern gal.  In fact, I was born about as far north as you can get within the continental United States, in the northwest corner of Washington State, only a few miles from the Canadian border.  But I’ve always dreamed of being a Southerner. As a little girl, I watched Gone With the Wind and was instantly hooked.  I couldn’t get enough.  I watched it over and over again, swept away by the idea of a more gracious time, historically inaccurate as it may have been.  A voracious reader, I became obsessed with reading about the South and the Civil War.  A few years later, I ... read more