Ah, winter… when the days are short, it’s dark when I wake up and when I finish work for the day, and I can see my breath when I take the dog out in the mornings. While there aren’t a lot of things I do like about winter, I do love the seasonal drinks and flavors we get to enjoy this time of year. Today, let’s talk about winter cocktails.
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Southern Small Businesses to Support This Holiday Season
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted millions of people and their lives this year. We don’t have to discuss that too much. One group it’s impacted in particular, and one that’s near and dear to my heart, is small businesses. So this holiday season, I’m making a conscious effort to shop from Southern small businesses as much as possible.
My Baking Bucket List
People make bucket lists for places they want to travel or other things they want to experience in their lives. Why not make a baking bucket list? All the baking, cooking, and binge-watching I’ve done in quarantine has me feeling ambitious, so here goes nothing.
What I’ve Learned Working from Home
Like many people across the country, I’ve spent the last few weeks working from home. That was a whole new challenge and change for me, since I had never truly worked from home for longer than a day or two at a time, here and there. I’ve learned a lot while working from home for the last few weeks, and I’m excited to share those learnings with y’all today.
Pantry Staples: How to Cook Beans
What a world we are living in these days, y’all. For this post, I’m excited to partner with my friend Amanda Angel, also known as @fit.food.chatt on Instagram! Amanda is a personal chef and healthy-eating advocate, with a huge repertoire of satisfying, approachable recipes. In this post, we’re partnering to talk about how to cook dry beans, a popular pantry staple, and easy ways to stretch your meals and your budget.
13 Easy Self-Care Ideas
To put it lightly, it’s been a tough few weeks. Between everything in the news and the general stresses and anxieties of millennial life, self-care seems to be a pretty low priority for a lot of people, myself included. Self-care shouldn’t be neglected, for any reason, so today I’m sharing some of my favorite self-care ideas so we don’t lose our minds over the next few weeks.
Instagram Post Ideas for Food Bloggers
As a Southern food blogger, Instagram is my go-to social media platform for sharing pretty photos, my favorite recipes, and other content (you can follow me here!). It’s a great platform for inspiring new ideas and engaging with other food bloggers from around the world. But sometimes, even the most creative bloggers run out of Instagram post ideas.
2020 Goals and Resolutions
Well, Happy 2020, y’all! 2019 came and went in a blur, and we’re already here at a new year, and a new decade. Talk about something that’s weird to type! As crazy and awesome as 2019 was, I have a feeling 2020 is going to kick the decade off with a bang. To start, I’m making a list of my 2020 goals and resolutions.