I just got back from Italy, where I learned how to make fried pizzelle. Pizzelle are a deep fried pizza dish from Naples, Italy. I learned how to make pizzelle at a private cooking class at Daniela’s Cooking School in Rome. Attending Daniela’s class was one of the absolute highlights of my trip to Italy. It was …
Since I attended Nashville’s Music City Food + Wine Festival this year, I thought my readers would enjoy hearing about it. I’ll describe my experience, of course, but I also hope to provide helpful information for those planning to attend a future event. That way, you’ll have the facts you need to know, before you go. Although I …
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Visit Panama City Beach for IZEA Worldwide. All opinions are 100% mine. If you’ve ever vacationed in or around the Panama City Beach area, along the Gulf coast in Florida, you were probably holding your breath, as I was, last October, when Hurricane …
I’ve got four great reasons for you to visit Berkeley Springs – and one of them happens to be why I was there in February: I was a judge at the 28th Annual International Water Tasting. More about that later. First, let me give you three other reasons why YOU should visit Berkeley Springs, WV. …
This post about great restaurants in Gulf Shores was hosted and the whole trip was put together for me by Gulf Shores and Orange Beach Tourism, but ALL opinions, as always, are uniquely my own. Duh. 😀 Looking for a great restaurant in the Gulf Shores/Orange Beach area? If you’re planning a trip to the beaches of Alabama, …
This trip was hosted and put together for me by Gulf Shores and Orange Beach Tourism, but ALL opinions, as always, are uniquely my own. Duh. 😀 What are the Top 4 Must-Haves for a Girlfriend Getaway/ Road Trip? I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking: Earplugs A White Noise Machine Poo Pourri Corkscrew Clearly, some …
When I travel, I love to investigate a place for myself. Sure, I read up before I go, and I pay attention to the things I read. I talk to folks I know who have traveled there, and I listen to their advice. But I try to wait to form an opinion till after I’ve …
There is a story behind this recipe for Mimosa Fried Chicken Biscuits, and it all started on my recent trip to Asheville, NC . The Highland Brewing Company in Asheville While I was in Asheville, I went to the Highland Brewing Company, where I met the owner, the incomparable Oscar Wong. I don’t throw that …
Because I couldn’t possibly fit all the wonderful things that went on at the Food Blog Forum in Asheville, NC into one post, I decided to break my account up into a few smaller, more manageable bites. This is the second post in my series on the 2014 Food Blog Forum in Asheville, and here’s …
When I visited Anne recently, we had a grand time going shopping together in the Carytown neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. I loved the whole feel of the district: kind of historic, kind of hip, kind of funky. Carytown is full of vintage clothing stores, and Anne took me to one of her favorites, a Goodwill …
You probably think that’s a misplaced my apostrophe in my title, don’t you? And well you might! Unless…. You hail from Tompkinsville, Kentucky. In which case, I bet you lovie Dovie’s, too. For the uninitiated among us, let me give you the scoop on exactly why I lovie Dovie’s. Some of you who have been …
I guess I better get on this and spill the details before I forget any more of it than I already have. I believe I left off at the point where the Big Bison and I went back to the hotel to relax a bit and get ready for our BIG NIGHT. The unending coverage …
This… …will not grace the studio of my dear husband, the Big Bison. Well, not this year, at least. We are back from our trip to smokin’ hot Los Angeles. Smokin’, because the skies were full of not only smog, but the smoke from the wildfires burning on the hillsides north of Los Angeles. Hot, …
Saturday was a day of contrasts. We went from the site of the Summer of Love and total hippieness, across the Bay to the port of quaint and rampant yuppieness. From clouds into sunshine, and then back again. Saturday was our day in the car: a day of hurtling through time and space at breakneck …
So, my petite posse, Robin, Chloe and Anne came to pick me up chez Gigi, and they took a walk around her lovely home, and spent a few minutes chatting with her. If you read the comments on my last post, Anne said we stayed just long enough for Grady the cat to hiss her …