A recipe for smoky grilled chicken legs slathered in a tangy South Carolina-style barbecue sauce. Jump to recipe. [Read more…]
Grilled Salmon, Fennel, and Corn with Dill Butter
From Erin Scott’s gorgeous Yummy Supper Cookbook, a recipe for grilled salmon, fennel, and corn on the cob with dill butter.
blackberry blueberry crisp with vanilla bean whipped cream
This week has been beastly. Sometimes, parenting should be hilarious but isn’t, because it’s actually happening. There you are cleaning cuts, or puke, or both, and then sort of getting on with your day. [Read more…]
weekend links + mint juleps
With the weather already turning cooler, I’m feeling like the summer is slipping away too quickly. So it’s important to take some time and step away –– read a book, dangle feet in the water, and squeeze our children a little too tight. This weekend, I hope you’ll have time to pause, breathe some air, and take in one of the intense pink sunsets that typify this time of year. When you do any of these things, they’ll be better with a mint julep in hand. (You can check out our pared-down take over on Cosmopolitan.) [Read more…]
bing cherry slab pie
I don’t know about you, but I’m a total birthday crier. On the eve of my fifteenth birthday, I sat on the floor of my dad’s house, looking up at a full summer moon and sobbing uncontrollably –– overcome by the passing of time and the fleeting number of hours we have on this planet, already nostalgic for all the time that had passed.
So, if I were to tell you that in our family of four, three of us have July birthdays, you might worry that I’ve spent all of July in hysterics. Happily, the month is busy enough that my bouts of ennui are kept pretty well in check. Besides, there’s a lot of pie to be made. [Read more…]