In celebration of Bee Season, Garden Bouquets and Summertime Sipping, I have a giveaway for your summer entertaining! And I’m serving this giveaway with a recipe for refreshing beverage for summer! This Summer Peach Tea Punch recipe can also *bee* easily adjusted and mixed as a cocktail for a party or summer soirée. A summery twist on an Arnold…
I hope you’re having a blooming good summer! It’s hot and drier than normal here in North Carolina this summer, so I’m watering pots around my Potting Shed every morning. It’s apparently the perfect weather for Passion Flower! This vine volunteered and has grown up from between cracks of the boards of the porch of my Potting Shed.…
No spoon required to get your cobbler fix with these easy to assemble bars, made with fresh summer peaches and blackberries! Help yourself to a taste of summer in an easy dessert, Peach-Blackberry Cobbler Bars! Peaches are the stone fruit harbinger of summer! Local South Carolina peaches are starting to arrive at farm stands and…
Enjoy the flavors of summer with recipes and inspiration from the kitchen to the table. You’ll find a bumper crop of recipes using Farmers Market fresh tomatoes, corn and peaches along with summer table inspiration for alfresco dining. Are you looking forward to the lazy days of summer? I pulled together some of my favorite ways to…
Keep your wine chilled and festive with Frozen Wine Cubes with Edible Flowers! Frozen Wine Cubes with Edible Flowers are a festive way to serve and enjoy your wine this summer! Freezing your wine into cubes will help keep it chilled while enjoying it in the heat of the summer without diluting it! You can…
Create a Blooming Watermelon Centerpiece and find 10 sweet and savory watermelon recipes for summer. Memorial Day is the unofficial kick off to summer! I have a watermelon vase centerpiece, just in time for your Memorial Day celebration or ideal for summer entertaining, along with a round-up of 10 watermelon recipes for summer! Let’s make…
Bourbon, Peach and Blueberry Crumble is a celebration of summer fruit in a skillet! Easy to make using juicy peaches at their peak of freshness; make individual desserts using mini skillets or one large skillet to serve a crowd. We’re enjoying the fruit of the season and Bourbon, Peach and Blueberry Crumble is a celebration…
Summer Patchwork Fruit Cobbler, a delicious and easy dessert celebrating summer fruit! You’ll find the easiest method to top your cobbler using mini squares of sugar-crusted dough. Customize your cobbler using your favorite combination of summer fruit. Patchwork Fruit Cobbler is a medley of peaches, plums, and blueberries with an easy to assemble patchwork crust…
Fresh-from-the-Farmers’ Market Pasta Salad is the answer to ‘what’s-for-dinner?’ with summer’s bounty from local farm stands or your own garden. Fresh, light, and on our summer rotation of easy meals for the summer! You can adjust your ingredients for what’s in season or what you like. My June issue of Southern Living Magazine yielded a bumper crop…
I’m lakeside enjoying a little seaside dining with Pfaltzgraff Seaside Dinnerware! Pfaltzgraff’s Seaside brings the color palette of the sun, sand, and sea to the table. Shells, starfish, and a rope detail, dot the coastal borders of the plates in shades of blue and green with a touch of sunny yellow. I combed the aisles…