Musing About Eating and Boozing

Food and Drink

  • A Year of Musing: January/February

    This year I’m going to take a stab at reinvigorating my blog and perhaps more aptly my desire to blog by musing every two months in 2025! If my math is right, that’ll be six posts filled with the three… Continue reading

    A Year of Musing: January/February

  • The One about a Head of Cabbage, Garlic Bulb and Three Scallions

    If you’ve read a couple of my blog posts and given the site title, it’s probably pretty obvious that food is a big part of my life. I’ve preached for years now that there’s so much more to food than… Continue reading

  • Charleston Two Ways

    Practically all that know me or have read this blog know my daughter and I share a birthday and for the last 15 years or so we’ve taken a trip to celebrate, just the two of us. This year with… Continue reading

  • The Story of Hodge Podge Lodge and the Patchwork Garden

    My favorite Billy Joel song is the less popular “You’re my Home”. Life as an Army brat played right into the lyrics as I moved around a lot when I was young so I never really had a place I… Continue reading

  • Something New from Something Classic

    I took the opportunity recently to develop a couple of recipes using a new dressing offering from Gazebo Room, Asian Vinaigrette. With two of my close friends as guinea pigs, I set out to create and serve them an Asian… Continue reading

  • Finally,2016 Musing Awards!

      For me, 2016 pretty much sucked. I won’t bore you with all the specifics, but let’s just say if it wasn’t for my obsession with musing about eating and boozing, my guess is I would’ve withdrawn from all human interaction… Continue reading

  • History, It’s in the Making (or It’s all about the Shrimp Spread)

    The Easter Tablescape this year As an Army Brat, an Officer’s daughter no less, one of my Mom’s jobs as so many other Officer’s wives was to entertain. We had lots of Cocktail Parties, Sit-Down Dinners, Luncheons and Teas at our… Continue reading

  • The Paris Vacation that Wasn’t

    In early years, the alligators in the fountains at The Jefferson in Richmond Virginia were real If I had a nickel for every time I’ve planned a vacation to Paris and it was canceled because of a Terrorist Attack I’d… Continue reading

  • A Food Frolic

    Last weekend my adult children (I call them the DC Contingent) came from our Nation’s Capital to partake in what I dubbed as our “Spring Frolic Weekend”. We kicked everything off on Friday evening by meeting in the booming (not)… Continue reading