Cooking Corner: Fancy Fried Green Tomatoes

What is this a cooking blog now? Ha! No, not quite, but we love food and cooking so much that you shouldn't be surprised when recipes start showing up here more often!
My latest creation was inspired by one of our favorite local restaurants~ Hobnob. If you live in Atlanta--you must go! When my granddad gave us a huge sack of fresh green tomatoes straight from his garden, this Hobnob dish immediately popped into my head, so I tried to recreate it as best I could. It's almost a no-brainer recipe, and it turned out so good!
Ingredients:
Green tomatoes (we used 3, sliced)
Red tomato: (1 diced)
Goat Cheese (enough to sprinkle on top)
Balsamic Vinaigrette dressing (we used Ken's Steak House brand)
2 eggs (whisked to break up yokes a little)
Corn meal (about 1/2 a ceral bowl-ish)
Olive Oil
1. Drizzle just enough olive oil to coat bottom of skillet and get it heating.
2. Dip slices of green tomatoes in egg and then dip into corn meal. Drop into skillet. Cook about 2 minutes each side or until brown.
3. Garnish with diced red tomatoes, crumbled goat cheese, and drizzles of vinaigrette.
Hello delicious light Summer meal!

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Straight from the UK

My sister recently returned from a 10 week internship with Armani in London. How cool is that?! I was living vicariously through her stories of Wimbledon, watching the royal family go by in a parade, and seeing Blake Lively at an Armani event.

How kind of her to bring me back some goodies.....
Elle UK! Which happened to come with a free tank top from one of my favorite bloggers~ Garrance. I just love her illustrations!


A mug so I can daydream about the royal newlyweds as I drink my morning coffee..

And a cute apron from her day trip to Paris.

Here's my 2 lovely sisters and I celebrating Brit's return to the states. So thankful for them!

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Great Lengths

You may remember this skirt from back in the winter. I hadn't worn it since then~ it was just too long to be practical. So I decided to hack off 4" of it! Now it's perfect for a summer shopping trip!

It's a subtle change,but it made a huge difference to me! I can forsee this skirt evolving to a midi length just below the knee once I get tired of this maxi style. Who knows, you may even see it as a mini on day~ha! Do you have favorite pieces that just need tweaking sometimes so they feel brand new?

So I decided to test out my new skirt length in a cute little area of my town called downtown Decatur.

We happened to have one of those rare Saturdays with nothing to do! Matt was off work and we just decided to do a little house hunting and a little exploring of our huge city. I of course did a little boutique shopping! Then we stopped in a cute little pub to cool off. It was one of my favorite kind of Saturdays-- no real agenda-- just hanging out!


The contents of this bag will appear on this blog really soon! ha!

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