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I am a graduate student in archaeology that loves to travel, cook, and collect. This blog will feature a range of homestyle gourmet recipes, antique recipes that I have collected, economic buying tips, and ecclectic info! Please visit me!
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Aug 06
This is such a great dessert to make for a dinner party. Really easy once you learn the steps the first time and it is sure to wow. No bake, just make ahead at least 2 hours. Try variations on this to suite your taste, add sliced strawber (read full article)
Jul 22
I LOVE this recipe!!!! Great summer southern food too! Very easy and quick to make despite the long ingredient list. I think I made this tonight in less than 20 minutes. It will take 30 at most! Servings: 4 normal or 2 (read full article)
Breakfast, Cajun, Seafood, southern
Jul 22
MUSTARDY CHICKEN SALAD IN PITA POCKETS(Tastes amazing! Photo doesn't do it justice)4 small boneless skinless chicken breasts cooked and shredded (I boiled mine for an hour with some onion, carrot, celery, and bouquet garni herbs I had: rosemary (read full article)
Jul 20
This is another wedding post! Next post will be a food post with my shrimp and grits recipe. I have known for a while now that at my wedding I want the send off to be guests throwing lavender buds at us. Not bird seed, rice, bubbles, or s (read full article)
Arts and Crafts, wedding
Jul 07
Non-food post! Even though my rehearsal dinner is almost a year away, I am already planning what I would like to wear. Though I don't quite fit into this dress yet, this is my weight loss goal. I fit into it 3 years ago. This is my (read full article)
Jul 07
Sun Drop Punch: We used this punch for our Alice in Wonderland Bridal Tea Party. Very Simple and Delicious Punch! Great for Weddings, Tea Parties, Office Parties! I grew up drinking Sun Drop instead of Sweet Tea in Limest (read full article)
Drinks Punch
Jul 05
Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter Bridal Tea Party Entry 2: Food Pics! The next entry when I have more time will have some of the recipes! I hope you enjoy these pictures! My mom and I have so much fun cooking!TablescapePurple M&Ms (Bri (read full article)
Jul 05
My mom and I threw an amazing themed Bridal Tea Party for our friend Mary Elizabeth. My mom was the creator on this one and I was the co-creator and sous-chef. Standard English tea parties are wonderful but make it a Lewis Carroll themed Alice (read full article)
party
Jun 30
Non-food post! In appreciation of the Eclipse release today I thought I would throw this post up. This is a set of the four Twilight Book Covers that I painted and gave to a very sweet Gal that watches mine and my mom's pups when we are o (read full article)
Jun 29
Yay! It is time to giveaway the awesome kitchen stamp kit. The winner is.......... Comment number 4 which is ANNA M! Congratulations! I used the random number generator at random.org and once again it would not copy over correctly d (read full article)
Jun 28
Just got back from Becca's Bachelorette Bash in Foley/Gulf Shores AL. It was so much fun! The cookies were well received! : ) Chilton County Peaches: On the way to the beach we took 82 so that we could go through Chilton (read full article)
Jun 24
I am headed to a bachelorette party this weekend at the beach and this is my contribution! Classic rolled sugar cookies with royal icing. I think they turned out very cute! I baked some other more risqué and hilarious coo (read full article)
Dessert, party
Jun 22
Just wanted to share my fun new toy. Our local Thai restaurant uses garnishing knives on most of the veggies to make them extra pretty and I wanted to try one. This one works very well and I got it at TJ Maxx for $3.99. An add (read full article)
Jun 19
Our engagement party: What a great looking crew! We forgot to take a group picture until much later in the night so this picture is missing a few people. :( Delicious food, tasty wine and beer, lots of friends, and cute cuddly puppies..... perf (read full article)
party
Jun 18
Tuscaloosa Estate Sale: 1 silver plated cracker tray($2) , 1 silver and clear glass beaded clutch bag ($4), 1 abalone-esque button necklace ($2)Before CleaningAfter CleaningTonight our friends are throwing us a wine and cheese engagement party! (read full article)
Estate Yard Sale Finds
Jun 18
Nothing like a great summer dinner of fish tacos. I have done them several different ways but I had all the ingredients to make them this way today. Really simple, really tasty!FISH TACOS WITH SPICY DILL SLAW for 22 tilapia fillets cut in (read full article)
Main Dish, mexican, Seafood
Jun 16
I'm so excited to present this giveaway to all my readers! Not too long ago I commented on a blog's giveaway to try to win a set of stamps from this cool company. I didn't win the giveaway but one of the designing women read my comment and saw (read full article)
giveaway
Jun 13
Here is another post about my wedding plans. Sorry if I am boring the food lovers. As you can tell by my blog, I LOVE antiques!!! So it only seems natural to make several aspects of my wedding look antiqued! : ) I really love (read full article)
Jun 10
True Random Number GeneratorMin: Max: Result:4Powered by RANDOM.ORGYay! We have a winner! The web generator really did have a min of 1 and a max of 6 but no matter how many times I tried to copy it, it always said 100. The (read full article)
Jun 09
Tuscaloosa Farmer's Market Produce from Snow's Bend Farm. How pretty does that Rainbow Chard look? I made some grilled squash and some pickled beets.Staying in Huntsville for the week dog sitting. Staying in Huntsville really makes (read full article)