Jennifer Rose – Page 9 – All Things Good

What’s for Breakfast in the South?

Jennifer Rose Realms Of Gold January 23, 2015May 1, 2017Breakfast, Brunch, Cahill's Market, Cooking, Food, Fried chicken, Gravy and biscuits, Grits, Pat Conroy, Recipes, South Carolina, Southern Cooking, Southern food 0 Comment

If you’ve spent a considerable amount of time in the South, you’ve probably experienced your fair share of southern food – i.e. pulled pork, fried chicken, grits and biscuits, sweet potato pie, etc. – and would quickly relate to comedian Jim Gaffigan’s “Southern Food” routine that pokes fun at the southern penchant for cooking with a heavy emphasis on “fried” and “filling.”

But Sunday brunch at Cahill’s Market & Chicken Kitchen – a generational family country farm, market and restaurant a few miles from historic Bluffton, South Carolina – is no laughing matter. That is, until you start reading the menu. Read more

Eat. Drink. And Learn.

Jennifer Rose Around The Table January 20, 2015May 1, 2017Cookies, Cooking, Farm to Table, George Washington, Meals, Molasses Cookies, Recipe, Veal Scallopini, Wine 1 Comment

Recipes below include Scotch Collops (Veal Scaloppini), Jalapeño Cheddar Cornbread, and Molasses Cookies.

If only our history books in school were as beautiful, lively and interesting as the Mount Vernon Ladies Association book, Dining With the Washingtons: Historic Recipes, Entertaining, and Hospitality from Mount Vernon (2011), perhaps we Americans would be a little more passionate about our history lessons.

As Walter Scheib, a former White House Chef, wrote in the introduction:
“For years, my view of George Washington was probably similar to that of many Americans, I pictured him as the gracious and influential statesman I had seen in his renowned portraits and learned about in history classes.” Read more

A Warm Winter’s Meal

Jennifer Rose Around The Table January 14, 2015May 1, 2017Cabernet Sauvignon, Caesar Salad, Comfort food, Mac and cheese, Macaroni and cheese, Recipes, Wine 1 Comment

Looking for a simple, delicious meal for the wintertime? See our recipes below for Caesar Salad and Maccheroni and Cheese, in addition to a suggested wine to go along with our post in Rose’s Ridge.

Contrary to popular belief, Caesar Salad is not named after Julius Caesar, the Roman general, statesman and consul who played a significant role in the rise of the Roman Empire. Rather, it is attributed to restaurateur Caesar Cardini, an Italian immigrant and chef who first created the salad at his restaurant in Tijuana in 1924.

According to Life Is Meals, after customers appeared late one night, he instructed a waiter to combine and toss the remaining ingredients in the kitchen, serving the salad as if it were a “house specialty.” Read more

Cooking “Au Pif”

Jennifer Rose Around The Table January 7, 2015May 1, 2017Baking, Cookbooks, Cooking, David Leibovitz, French Onion Soup, James Salter, Julia Child, Life Is Meals, Meals, Paris, Recipes, restaurants 3 Comments

In Life is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days, American novelist James Salter writes:

“The meal is the essential act of life: it is the habitual ceremony, the long record of marriage, the school for behavior, the prelude to love. Among all peoples and in all times, every significant event in life – be it wedding, triumph, or birth – is marked by a meal or the sharing of food or drink. The meal is the emblem of civilization. What would one know of life as it should be lived or nights as they should be spent apart from meals?”

This quote could have easily been attributed to Julia Child*, the epitome of one who never lived apart from meals and who received a great amount of joy and pleasure from cooking – and eating! As she once said, “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.” Read more

Traversing Through Time with Timeless Treasures

Jennifer Rose Realms Of Gold December 15, 2014April 11, 2017 0 Comment

There’s no other month quite like December. Its ability to captivate us with the sheer joy, cheer and merriment of the holiday season, while also nudging us ever so slightly to the realization that yet another year has passed, is certainly unique – but somehow inevitable, each time it rolls around.

Indeed, it is the month of December in which time in all of its confounding and mysterious forms can be most intensely experienced – signaling both the end of one year and the beginning of another – and filling us with a sense of both longing and renewed hope as we reflect back on the past and eagerly anticipate the promise of a New Year. How true the Aristotelian principle that “every moment is both the end of an era and the start of something new.” Read more