Bless Your Heart

Living out loud in the Carolinas

Category: food

  • Finally- the Christmas post. Christmas Eve we gathered at Sara’s (my sister) for dinner and presents. I brought over a big pan of baked mac & cheese and I also made a fabulous dip. It doesn’t really have a name, but it’s good. Cream cheese, splash of lime juice, southwest seasoning- all smeared on the…

  • Wednesday the 12th was my honey’s 36th birthday. We went to his parents’ house for dinner and cake. Jon’s mom makes a theme cake every year (we have so got to have kids quick!). This year’s cake was a replica of his truck. It was really cute. Click here to see the rest of the…

  • The 3 Ts. That’s what you need to stock your house if you’re having a visit from Irish people. They only stayed for 3 nights but in that time they went through a loaf and a half of bread, a package of english muffins, 4 sticks of butter, and a half a jar of jam.…

  • Do you know how hard it is to type with no space bar? And could it have been at a worse time?? Shannon’s in China- emailing with her had to be limited to just a few words cause of the space bar situation. Ugh. I can’t wait to meet Miss Em when they come home!…

  • I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I sure did. I hosted my very first Thanksgiving and it went really well! We had tons of food and fun. We deep fried the turkey and it came out great- so juicy! Candice & Devin from next door came over with their kids. They are from…

  • Last week I went to visit my Grandmommy at her nursing home. My Mom & Morgan met me up there. The nursing home was putting on a Thanksgiving dinner for the residents and their friends and families. They had tables all set up and decorated with little things the local scout troop made. We were…

  • It took me just over 34 years but I finally like dill pickles. I’ve been working my way up to eating a dill pickle on it’s own, straight from the jar. I like dill. I like cucumbers. I even like sweet pickles. But the dill pickle scared me. I started with deep fried pickles with…

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