Three simple everyday ingredients and a little time are all you need to make this classic beverage, my easy strawberry shrub! Sweet and tangy, it’s great for cocktails and perfect with club soda for a fruity “soft-drink”. A Shrub: Not what you were expecting, right? When you see this luscious ruby-red syrup slowly flowing into…
My good friend Virginia Willis is a lot like the title of her brand new book: Basic to Brilliant, Y’all: 150 Refined Southern Recipes and Ways to Dress Them Up for Company. Virginia is basic, as in down-to-earth, real, practical and good; and she is also brilliant, as in creative, intelligent, accomplished, and inspiring. In…
This chocolate cake is completely delicious, and not the least formal, which I’ve learned, from the staunchly loyal, old-fashioned cake lovers in my family, is a very good thing. When my friend Sarah Copeland, author of the wonderful blog Edible Living, told me that she was writing a cookbook, I made room on my kitchen shelf…
