A Magnolia's Culinary Chronicles

11/25/2024

Champagne pairs with the holiday season like Frank Sinatra and mistletoe. It's timeless, compliments a variety of dishes and delivers the effervescent joy we all crave during the season. Although the Grand Maisons like V***e Clicquot and Perrier-Jouet are familiar on the holiday shelves, I look to Grower Champagnes for the immense quality and their incredible price point for the majesty found in the bottle....

Champagne pairs with the holiday season like Frank Sinatra and mistletoe. It’s timeless, compliments a variety of dishes and delivers the effervescent joy we all crave during the season. Alth…

03/01/2024

Bright, taut fruit, alpine verve and complexity, limestone and marl minerality and tantalizing acidity coalesce to rear sheer, liquid nirvana; these allusive elements are everything I hanker for in the glass. Few wine regions around the world possess them all; Italy’s Piedmont is one such exception. My hands down, favorite wine region of Italy, is the alpine pocket in the northern reaches of the country....

Bright, taut fruit, alpine verve and complexity, limestone and marl minerality and tantalizing acidity coalesce to rear sheer, liquid nirvana; these allusive elements are everything I hanker for in…

05/27/2020

As our family traversed the southeast on a military move amidst COVID-19, we encountered an endless supply of southern hospitality and charming small businesses you simply must visit. Check out our guide on this month's Destination Regency.

04/08/2020

I recently made the choice to purchase all of my vegetables, fruit and meat from our local farmers now that farmer's markets have closed. These are the folks without big supermarket contracts. These are the guys that have struggled financially as they made the righteous yet costly choice to organic conversion and certification. They are the folks that always have a piece of fruit, a smile or a sticker for my wild and adorable four-year-old. So, I have pledged to do ALL my produce shopping through them from here on out. Some weeks, the farmer I buy from hands over a box of mixed produce for a flat rate. Last week, my box had a rutabaga, Brussels sprouts, green onions as well as some hobbit-sized carrots. The perplexing question of what I wanted to do with a Rutabaga led to this week's recipe...Carrot & Rutabaga slaw - and I honestly enjoyed it more than classic cabbage slaw. It was a revelation. So whether you dig the recipe or not, think about reaching out to your local farmers and ranchers. They need it more than your supermarket chain and we all gotta eat. So, without further adieu, here’s this week’s article:

https://amagnoliasculinarychronicles.com/2020/04/08/what-we-can-do/

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I know. I know. COVID-19 is highly contagious and we need to flatten the curve. Got it. Nevertheless, small businesses and their employees are sinking, or have already sunk, all over the countr…

04/01/2020

In an effort to support my local farmers, I've opted for boxes of fresh assorted produce every week. This week, a beautiful bundle of mustard greens-turned-dumplings delivered a delicious twist on Chinese dim sum. Get the recipe here! ,

03/16/2020

For your St. Patty’s Day Quarantine Survival Feast, click here:

This St. Patrick’s Day, we are forgoing the crowds and celebrating from the road! The following recipe is a must try: http://bit.ly/3dbJuIa

02/05/2020

With an instant pot you can master any meal in the comfort of your Regency RV! Learn more here: http://bit.ly/3b2TVfO

11/14/2019

Asheville is paradise for RVers - Blue Ridge Mountain majesty, a world-class food scene, Beer City USA and a prolific music lineup - look to Destination Regency's latest guide to all that is Asheville.
https://www.regencyrv.com/blog/asheville-a-vanlife-paradise-from-destination-regency/

10/29/2019

Today’s recipe is derived from one of my recent concoctions that was so delightful, I felt I simply had to share it on Recipes from the Road.  This New Mexican-inspired dish is a culinary mashup of two of my all-time favorite ingredients – Hatch Green Chiles and Quail.  Stuffed with chile-infu...

07/12/2019

Destination Regency hops a ferry this week for British Columbia’s Vancouver Island.  With an enchanting city, charming fishing towns, a surfers’ paradise, truly noteworthy wine country and old-growth forests, Vancouver Island truly delivers something for everyone. My husband and I were actually...

06/03/2019

California’s Highway 1, known endearingly as PCH (Pacific Coast Highway), is a bucket list journey for travelers around the globe – and for good reason. It’s home to dramatic seascapes of waves breaking against jagged cliffs, redwood forests that bring to mind Tolkien’s Middle Earth and smal...

05/28/2019

https://amagnoliasculinarychronicles.com/2019/05/28/beat-the-heat-with-this-classic-ceviche/

It's 102 degrees outside with a humidity level that stirs the hot air into a gardenia-scented soup. Thank the Lord for gardenias! Needless to say, I am parched, hot and in desperate need of a cool down. My plan – classic Mexican ceviche – the kind you scarf down at a beachside shack with a thatched roof in Mexico and a bottle of Dos Equis lager with extra salt and lime in hand! Nothing quite revitalizes you and takes the edge off the heat like fresh, cold ceviche. Check out our link for the recipe!

It just so happened that the Lowcountry’s first sweltering heat wave of the year coincided with my resolute mission to paint our screened-in porch. The color was perfect – the original Charle…