Let your slow cooker do the work with Game Day Slow Cooker Sweet & Sticky Chicken Wings. An easy and delicious recipe for football season in your line up of game day food. I have cookbook to share in celebration of Crocktober: *Stock the Crock: 100 Must-Have Slow-Cooker Recipes, 200 Variations for Every Appetite, An All-New…
Category: Books
In the Potting Shed: Botanic Blooms and Butterflies
Summer blooms are waning in the garden but my Portmeirion Botanic Garden provides a continual flower show year round! I had a little tabletop and dish gardening fun with blooms and butterflies in the Potting Shed. The beauty of these blooming dishes is I don’t have to wait until next spring to enjoy the short but…
Flower Therapy: Arranging Tips, Tricks, and Medicine for the Soul
Happy August! I gathered some flowers and floral arranging tips from the archives for a little flower therapy! I like to pick up flowers at the Farmers Market in the summer for a flower fix. . .a cheery bouquet is a guaranteed spirit lifter for the summer heat and humidity and the August blues. You can combine…
At the Table: Fleur du Soleil
I’m at the table with Fleur du Soleil or Sunflowers, which say “summer” no matter what language you speak. Sunflowers were for $3.99 a bunch at Trader Joe’s, impossible to resist for the price and the smiles they bring with their cheery faces. Grown for beauty as well as harvested for seed, sunflowers symbolize the sun,…
The Bees Knees Table in the Potting Shed
I love all things *bee* and love seeing them buzz and bumble about the garden. . . I cut some flowers and bee favorites to fill some Quattro Stagioni Canning Jars. The jars have an adorable bee skep design which is hard to photograph, but ideal for a just-picked bouquet from the garden! They’re filled flowers…
Garden Blooms Around the Potting Shed
Putting the ‘She’ in a Potting Shed and Giveaway
My Potting Shed was featured in She Sheds: A Room of Your Own, by Erika Kotite, published by Cool Springs Press/Quarto Publishing Group. “She” was honored to be included among the examples of She Sheds in this book! You can find her in the “Sheds for Gardeners” chapter. Other chapters in the book include “What’s Your…
A Tropical Table and Lake Breeze Cocktail
Happy Friday! I’m taking you to the tropics via the table to dream of white sandy beaches, tiki bars and umbrella drinks! My table inspiration came from *Beach Cocktails: Favorite Surfside Sips and Bar Snacks (Oxmoor House, May 2017) by the Editors of Coastal Living, is a full-color book packed with 125 thirst-quenching cocktails that will transport you…
Thirst-Aid Kit: Beach Cocktails and Book Giveaway
With Memorial Day, the unofficial kick off to summer right around the corner, I have a book to share and giveaway if you’re dreaming of white sandy beaches, tiki bars and umbrella drinks: *Beach Cocktails: Favorite Surfside Sips and Bar Snacks (Oxmoor House, May 2017) by the Editors of Coastal Living, is a full-color book packed with 125…