This year is our first with a garden. As you’ll remember when I first wrote about the little (little!) raised bed we planted this year, I was thrilled to finally be in one place long enough to see a summer garden through the season. So much for all my dancing and jigging about being in [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Of Friends and Fried Okra
Posted in Budget, Comfort, Salads and Sides, Southern, Vegetarian on August 11, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The Mimi Project: Happy (Early) Birthday to Sweet Pea and Punkin Seed
Posted in Brunch, Comfort, Dessert, Southern, The Mimi Project, tagged 7 Minute Icing, Birthdays, Chocolate Cake, Devil Food Cake, Mimi Project, Sea Foam Frosting on August 8, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Jenny and I are approaching Sweet Pea and Punkin Seed’s first birthday. After much deliberation, we (and by “we” I mean Jenny) thought of the perfect way to celebrate: we would bake ourselves a birthday cake – specifically, Mimi’s signature birthday cake. (See our earlier posts in the series called The Mimi Project.) We talked [...]