Hey Amy!

Nothing beats fresh, warm pastries during a weekend breakfast.  The aroma lingers all day in your home, your tummy enjoys the fruits of your labor, and there are usually leftovers for the work week!  I enjoy coffee cake and pretend like it’s a breakfast food and not a sweet.  Hee hee.  This recipe has fruit [...]

I have experienced countless frustrating moments surrounding the lack of R.S.V.Ps to my events.  One year I entertained 50 people for an Independence Day party and over 20 guests finally sent their R.S.V.P. two days before the party!  Now all you fabulous hosts and hostesses know that I had already shopped for the food and [...]

I found a fabulous cook book from the 1960′s that Dinah Shore put together by gathering recipes from her celebrities friends. It is an engaging read as she printed each recipe as the celeb wrote it–complete with comments, letterhead and personal messages to Dinah. I do love reading and rereading this book. Today I am [...]

I got a request today for a “light frosting that would accompany carrot cake”.  Most of you, I feel certain, use cream cheese frosting for your carrot cake.  It’s a delicious combination that reinforces the rule of only one of the two should be super sweet–cake or frosting.  But this recipe for Sea Foam frosting [...]

Last year I had the opportunity to happen upon a charming Tea Room in a church social hall while I was seeking a plantation in Charleston, SC. The ladies of Old St. Andrew’s Parish Church have a tea room as a fundraiser each year. The girls with whom I was traveling and I decided we [...]

I am starting to see berries in the market (locally grown berries) and also at the local roadside fruit stands.  I love the foods of the spring and summer so these sightings thrill me.  I try to find new ways to eat berries although I recognize naked in a bowl is best (the berries you [...]

My 85-year-old grandmother whom I call Nany knows everything.  She is thee most humble person I have ever met so she would dispute this fact but I know in my heart and mind she knows everything.  Anytime I need something, Nany has the solution, knowledge, instinct.  I hope to share some of the lessons she [...]