Today’s Hurricane Ida: Comfort in a Casserole hits a little close to home. On the morning of August 29th and on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida became the second-most damaging and intense hurricane to strike Louisiana; my home state. She would make landfall as a powerful Category 4 hurricane decimating entire towns…
This post has been a long time coming. Several months, in fact. It’s long and I encourage you to refill your coffee, or other beverage of choice while settling in. It began at the beginning of the year. I wasn’t feeling my most authentic self with where my food blogging was heading and in particular…
Gather round’ y’all, I’m dishing about our recent Cookbook Club featuring Magnolia Table! Before I jump right into sharing our inaugural cookbook club gathering, let me first preface that the idea was not entirely original. It was a combination of every single year me telling myself that I should start a supper club, combined with…
This post is a little overdue. Originally, I wanted to share some holiday recipes suitable for family coming “Home for the Holidays”, but then my Stella passed right before Thanksgiving and the past few weeks have been a blur. Today I want to share with you my house guests this holiday season, instead! Backstory: In…
Last week I hinted about taking a bit of a breather from the blog and reconnecting with my creative side. I haven’t necessarily neglected my creativity altogether, but for the past few months I’ve been solely focused on being creative in the kitchen nearly exclusively. I haven’t touched my sewing machine in over SIX MONTHS,…
Hi gang, I thought we’d deviate from the usual food and craft posts to let you know about a special exhibit coming to the West Baton Rouge Museum. The APRON CHRONICLES: A Patchwork of American Recollections will be in our area until April 5th, 2015 but there’s a day in particular I want to call your…