As the days shorten and grow cooler, the autumn months are one of my favorite. Perhaps it’s the respite from the heat of summer, the new season of vegetables and cooler weather that inspire “comfort cooking”, or a combination of both. For some people I think it’s the “routine” that we often fall into this time of year. That annual … Read More
Cooking with Wine
What kind of wine should I use when I’m cooking? As Julie Andrews once sang: “Let’s start at the very beginning…” : Do not use “cooking wine”. Look next to the vinegars in any grocery store and you’ll find an array of bottles labeled “white cooking wine”, “Cooking Sherry”, “Cooking Marsala”, etc. The reason they are not sold in the … Read More
Green Tomato Pie
Traditionally this time of year the gardens are either winding down from summer crops or bearing their bounty with fall vegetables like pumpkins, winter squash and other fall produce. Soon northern areas will be getting their first frosts and tomatoes that haven’t had time to ripen will be lost…or not. Thanks to the popular movie by the same name, most … Read More
Cutting Up with Kari Underly–The Art of Beef Cutting
It’s true when they say “if you don’t use it you’ll lose it”. I had butchery class in culinary school but since then have never really worked anyplace where I needed to, or had much opportunity to do butchery. Recently finding myself with much coveted time off and not sure how to use this valuable asset, I decided to…delve further … Read More
Ten Years of Delicious Benefits
Each year St. Vincent’s Health System Foundation of Jacksonville, FL hosts an annual food and wine gala to benefit their community health outreach. The outreach ministry helps to fund a mobile community clinic to take healthcare to neighborhoods and areas where they would otherwise probably go without. The most recent 2011 gala held September 8-10th marked the 10th year for … Read More
Fried Green Tomatoes with Crab Salad & Chow Chow Relish
This is a recipe that I recently created to feature as my tasting at the 10th Annual “Delicious Destinations” gala to benefit the St. Vincent’s Health Foundation of Jacksonville, FL. Even if you’re not a tomato lover I would encourage you to give fried green tomatoes a shot. The flavor is nothing like a ripe tomato. Green tomatoes used for … Read More
Thrill of a Grill–Grilled Peach & Vidalia Onion Relish
I can be the worst when it comes to making a major purchase. I guess you could say I definitely learned the importance of comparison shopping, but the problem is that I tend to take it to the far extreme. There always seems to be one more place I need to check before I make my decision…oh wait, perhaps I … Read More
Special Event: Saltus River Grill – Beaufort, SC
Earlier this summer I had the pleasure of meeting Pat Branning, the food editor of the Beaufort Tribune. when she came to participate in one of my classes. She’s just recently published a beautiful hardcover book that highlights many of the Low Country inspired recipes that she’s collected and created over the years. In addition to Low Country inspired recipes, … Read More
Gazpacho al Andaluz
It was another hot and steamy day here in Savannah and based on this summer’s weather patterns, it probably was where you are too. For supper tonight I enjoyed a big bowl of refreshingly cold and flavorful “Gazpacho al Andaluz”. (ok, truth be told…in true bachelor style there was no actual bowl involved, I ate direct from the plastic storage … Read More
Peaches: Georgia vs. South Carolina
Shortly after moving to Georgia just over six years ago I was surprised to hear someone say “Georgia’s known as the peach state but South Carolina peaches taste better!” Really? I probably wouldn’t have been as surprised if they had been spoken by a South Carolinian but the fact that it was a native born Georgian making the comment seemed … Read More