Key lime margarita

It’s summer! The time when I reach for Lucy Buffett’s cookbook before anything else.

This one is based on Lucy’s Cadillac Margarita, adapted to, naturally, include key lime juice. Because I am obsessed love it.

Do me a favor and combine in a shaker:

1.5 ounces tequila
3/4 ounce Grand Marnier
1 ounce key lime juice
1 [...]

Simple syrup

Try not to be blown away by the beauty of that picture, okay?

I saw bottled simple syrup for sale the other day for a kind of ridiculous price and I was kind of horrified. Its name is no accident, folks; this stuff is crazy easy to make.

Ready for this one?

1 cup sugar
1 cup water

The end. [...]

Sweet Relief: Nashville Food Blogger Bake Sale

UPDATE: We were able to raise $1000 for Second Harvest Food Bank today. So great!! Thank you to everyone who baked and helped and ate, and a huge thank you to Love and Olive Oil for organizing the whole thing.

You want to help after the Nashville flood. You also want cupcakes.

We are raising money for [...]

Caramel corn

This recipe is from the fabulous Magee. The fabulous Magee is the mother of my fabulous friend Lissa (perhaps you’ve heard of her here? Or here?). This is her recipe for caramel corn and it is to die for. Crazy good. The Yankee doesn’t like caramel corn (should I call a neurologist?) and of course [...]

Chilpotle cheese dip

I’ve been doing a bit of desperation cooking around One Particular Kitchen.

In the initial thick of things with the flood we were trying to stay out of the way, stay home, and leave the available gas, water (oh the irony), roads and groceries for those who needed them far more than we did.

We [...]

And now for something completely different

Middle Tennessee is under water.

(Photo by Jim Cantore)

My back yard has seen better days:

Our CSA farm is very hard hit.

Our interstates are under water.

As of 7:00 this morning 11 Sixteen Nineteen people have died.

(photo by Martin’s BBQ)

There are lots [...]