Historic Roswell Eats, Drinks and Ghosts

Last night we headed to historic Roswell with besties E, N and C and their gaggle of misters.  The evening commenced with dinner and drinks at the eclectic Nine Street Kitchen on trendy Canton Street.

Afterwards, we nearly had to run down to the square for the evening’s main event – the Roswell Ghost Tour!  The two-and-a-half hour walking tour is led by a guide that shares the “charm and mystery of the deep south through ghost stories.” This was my second time on the tour and I found the thrills, chills and sheer history of the spirits residing behind the walls of the antebellum mansions, historic cemetery and ruined mill just as fascinating this time around.

We visited Bulloch Hall…what is that bright white light in the second photo??  Dust to the cynic in the group :-)


…we headed to Founder’s Cemetery on the other side of the square…


…next stop was a few of the original homes of the mill workers…

…and just a short walk away are the bricks.  I was taking this last picture when I got incredibly spooked and realized I was lagging behind a bit.  What are those black marks??  They aren’t in any of the other pictures of this building.
…and we wrapped up our tour at the “spooky house”.  It was once the residence of the town hangman and it IS legitimately and eerily creepy.  It just feels bad. 

And while our night was seemingly free of paranormal activity, walking the line between the living and dead was a frightful good time with a group of forever friends.

Oh, and before we leave the subject of historic Roswell, at the request of bestie N and the new MW, I’d be remiss if I didn’t share with y’all the fabulous drinks at INC.  Per the text I received late Friday night, “on the left is the refreshing Peach Margarita (which isn't on the menu) and on the right is the INC margarita that boasts a Chambord Raspberry Liquor floater.” 

Based on your descriptions and the humorous state of your texts and e-mails, I’m adding it my “must drink” list.  Stat.  Sounds like a fab way to wash down INC’s seriously divine Al Pastor pork tacos!  *drool*
xoxo

Darling Easter Desserts

Sister is our go-to gal for darling desserts around these parts.  This Easter she had us swooning over her dolled up Whole Foods lemon cake (which is totes delish.)  She added loads of edible Easter grass (which is down right nasty in spite of its fabulous appearance), a chocolate bunny and a single blue egg to give an average looking cake an extreme makeover.

Last year she dazzled us with this fun and springy Peeps cake.  For this one, she simply added Peeps and yellow gumballs to a Fresh Market white chocolate cake.

Oh, and while that edible grass is on my mind, I had to share these sweet mason jar treats the littles found in their baskets.  (Inspiration found here.)  A chocolate bunny, edible grass and a few robin’s egg malt balls arranged all pretty like in a mason jar.  You’ll be seeing these again in the form of teacher treats next spring.

Can’t wait to see what Sister comes up with next year…
xoxo

A Dixie Delights Easter:

Spring Décor

Egg-cellent Lunch

Peeps Party - Cake, Cocktail and Favor

Treat for Our Peeps Free Printable

Lent for the Littles

Easter 2011

Peep Pops

Easter 2012

Bunny Bottom Breakfast

Resurrection Eggs

Bunny-tini Cocktail

Easter Tablescape

Bunny Bottom Breakfast

Easter morning, the littles dined alfresco on these darling and refreshingly easy “bunny bottom” pancakes, green grapes and yogurt with a handful of sprinkles on top.


Are those not positively the cutest?!?!  Credit goes to the Chick n Coop.  Hop on over there for the full how to.

xoxo

A Dixie Delights Easter:

Spring Décor

Egg-cellent Lunch

Peeps Party - Cake, Cocktail and Favor

Treat for Our Peeps Free Printable

Lent for the Littles

Easter 2011

Peep Pops

Easter 2012

Bunny-tini Cocktail

Easter Tablescape
Resurrection Eggs

The Bunny-tini

Y’all know how I love my cocktails.  This one was so divine last year that it made a reappearance for Easter 2012 and was deserving enough for mention in countless other posts.  Pin this one for next year cause it’s a keeper…



The Bunny-tini
3 1/2 cups Simply Raspberry Lemonade
3/4 cup coconut rum (Malibu)
5/8 cup amaretto
Simply mix, pour and embellish with a bunny Peep (cut a slit in the bottom of the Peep and the marshmallow inside will help stick it to your glass.)


And fill up the little’s glasses with straight up raspberry lemonade.  Which is incredibly delish in it’s own right.

Sister did in fact break her foot and is now sporting an air cast on from knee to toes.  It's quite the fashion conundrum, that thing.  Some are blaming the episode on the Bunny-tinis so please consume with caution :-)

Mother, the baby and I are headed to lunch with the PCP and will be making an appearance as Mystery Reader for his class.    Since he has visitors coming, the PCP is pleased as punch to be buying his lunch.  And luckily, sassy little E in his class let him know that only the vegetarian salad is a good choice seeing as it's slime free.  A little nugget I'm glad to know as I embark on the always interesting school cafeteria adventure...
xoxo

A Dixie Delights Easter:

Spring Décor

Egg-cellent Lunch

Peeps Party - Cake, Cocktail and Favor

Treat for Our Peeps Free Printable

Lent for the Littles

Easter 2011

Peep Pops

Easter 2012
Easter Tablescape
Bunny Bottom Breakfast
Resurrection Eggs

Happy Easter

I hope all of you had a wonderful and relaxing day, soaking up the company of loved ones and remembering the true meaning of Easter.

If there’s one sure fire thing about this family, we never ever pass up a photo op.  And Easter is one of my favorites…I mean, how often have y’all seen Honey sporting a tie?!?!





After we exhausted ourselves forever documenting every combination of ourselves in the front lawn, Honey’s Maple Bourbon Ham on the Big Green Egg made for a divine “linner” (or so we call the meal between lunch and dinner.)

With our gullets sufficiently stuffed, Sister and her Mister headed out back for some highly inappropriate activity.

Okay, I’m totally kidding.  But it does look bad, no?  She thinks she broke her foot hiding eggs and when her Mister tried to carry her to a chair in the shade we were all laughing so hysterically that they collapsed in the yard.

Meanwhile, some bunny rang the bell…what could it be???

Well, the Easter bunny, of course!

I threw together these mason jar treats for the littles at about one a.m…

And then more hysterics ensued when Mother came up the walk rolling Sister in the wagon…

After pouring through the contents of our baskets, we were delighted to find out the bunny had been busy hiding eggs around back!

After collecting up the loot, we had to sort and divide.  Y’all see, I had the ingenious idea to buy each one a mini lego set and stuff the eggs with lego pieces.  Well, each little had different colored eggs and it became a slight logistical nightmare to get everyone to hand them over to then divide them back up.  However, they were super excited to put their pieces together!  There were also twelve Resurrection Eggs in the mix so we took turns opening them and telling parts of the Easter story.
 

After cleaning up the first round of dishes, it was time for dessert on the deck and a friendly family game of kick ball.  We brought out the basket of Peep Pops, brought back last year’s Bunny-tinis and Sister outdid herself with the darling cake.



The house is clean and quiet and I’m off to bed.  I can hardly believe it’s back to school at the crack of dawn!

Happy Easter, y’all!
xoxo

PS. We don’t yet know the status of Sister’s foot as she refused the ER and no urgent cares were open today.  She’ll be getting it checked out first thing in the morning.

A Dixie Delights Easter:

Spring Décor

Egg-cellent Lunch

Peeps Party - Cake, Cocktail and Favor

Treat for Our Peeps Free Printable

Lent for the Littles

Easter 2011

Nature’s Garden Delivered

Try as I might, I have finally come to terms with the fact that I can only manage to shop at one store each week.  And that has to be Publix.  So, after looking around for another solution for organic, local fruits and veggies, I have signed up at Nature’s Garden Delivered.

They deliver natural and organically grown seasonal fruits and veggies (and other great meats, cheeses, milks and spices) right to your doorstep!  There are a few different ways to customize your box – fruits only, veggies only, mix of both in large, medium and small sizes.  I went with the medium box and have it delivered every other week for $45. 

Our first box had celery, onions, rocky rose potatoes (divine), pink lady apples, red grapefruit, anjou pears, red peppers, green squash, honey tangerines, bananas, tomatoes, red russian kale, green leave lettuce and green onions!  Everything was fresh and delish!  We used every.single.thing. in the box by the time the next one came and found the size to be perfect for the four of us.



The second box had braeburn apples, bananas, broccoli, carrots, green kale, romaine lettuce, yellow and white onions, mid-season oranges, bosc pears, red roasting potatoes, yellow squash, honey tangerines and tomatoes.  As soon as the PCP got home from school he ran for the front porch saying “I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT’S IN THE BOX!!!!”



As soon as I opened the box I remembered seeing this Kale and White Bean Soup recipe on Pinterest.  I had everything on hand and everyone gobbled it up!  It’s a definite keeper!



Back to the box… we’ve gone with exactly what comes in the base box both times because we really aren’t picky eaters.  That being said, each week you get up to five substitutions for things you might not like or want more of.  You can also put items on a “never include” list to be automatically excluded as they come up.  You can hold delivery if you are on vacation or just don’t need it.  There is no contract and you can cancel at any time.  Your credit card is charged on delivery.

I have not been compensated in any way for this rave review :-)  I have just found the service and produce to be amazing, it saves time in my week AND I know that I’m doing good for my family and for my local economy.

In the time it took me to snap that second pic and write this little post, things have gone completely haywire.  The PCP is being dragged around the kitchen by the seat of the baby’s pants…



Clearly I need to regain some control around these parts :-)
xoxo

Musings

SPOILER ALET: Please tell me I’m not the only one that didn’t know the handsome and enviable Matthew was going to be killed off in the season finale of Downton Abbey?!?! I mean, I really cannot come up with words to express my supreme disappointment. I immediately booted up my computer to find some answers – I mean WHY would they do that??? Well, it seems he wanted off the show and that was their only way to make it happen. UGH. I have just five words for him… the grass is always greener.

Speaking of Downton, did you see the fantastic party printables at Tatertots & Jello? I wish I’d had a good reason to use them but it seemed a little over the top (even for me) to string them up around my bedroom while I laid here by myself to watch the finale.



The student council at the PCP’s school sold lollipop Valentine’s to be delivered on the big day.  The PCP sent a few to kids in his class and besties in other classes and came home with one himself…  From our family friend Jacob: “You are my best frend”.  awwww



The baby’s fourth birthday party was featured at Hostess with the Mostess!  I mean, that’s only like the best party planning blog EVER :-)  I was beyond excited to his smiling face in my blog roll.  (See all the details here)

Photo from HostessBlog

Daddy-O has come up to Savannah with a trunk load of oranges straight from my parent’s next door neighbor’s yard on his last three visits.  They are simply the very best oranges I’ve ever wrapped my lips around.  I made fresh squeezed orange juice for breakfast one morning and the baby said it best when he exclaimed “Mommy!  This is the BEST thing I’ve never had!”


Another success in the kitchen has been Oh Sweet Basil’s Honey Lime Chicken Enchiladas.  I’ve made them twice over the last month and they are divine!  They were so good, in fact, that they were the chosen meal for our “prepare a meal for someone who doesn’t expect it” Lenten activity.

Photo from Oh Sweet Basil

On the flip side of successful foodie finds would be the salt and vinegar kale chips I made for snack last week.  Let it suffice to say they have nothing on Lay’s.  (In retrospect I am wondering why on earth I thought I'd like them in the first place.)



I received the sweetest email and shot out from Amelia at Monograms ‘n Mud yesterday.  I was completely humbled at her kind words and then completely wowed by her blog.  I die at her basement – full of DIY goodness and totally my style…

Photo from Monograms ‘n Mud

I ate lunch at Zoes Kitchen for the first time this week and it was SO yummy!  I had the half sandwich (chicken salad) and half salad (greek minus olives) and was super happy with the meal.  It felt good to break out of our “errand day” Chick-fil-A lunch rut.

With that, I’m off to “nuggle” the baby before feeding him his usual three breakfasts and coercing him into helping me fold the four loads of laundry piled up all over our bedroom.
xoxo