Salento Italia

329 Donelson PikeNashville, TN 37214 P: 615.621.2120W: salentonashville.com HoursMon-Fri: 11A – 9P (last seating)Sat-Sun: 3P – 9P (last seating) The Donelson area of Nashville is rapidly becoming a mecca for new restaurants. If you’re a regular reader of this site (if so, thanks), you have undoubtedly heard about – and hopefully visited – Tennfold, Nectar…

Pursuit United Straight Bourbon Whiskey

For Memorial Day, we were supposed to travel to St. Petersburg, Florida, but that trip ended up being postponed. Rather than waste a perfectly good holiday weekend, we decided to make the 3-hour trip north to Louisville, KY to drink some bourbon and visit my youngest sister. We hopped in the car and started driving…

Italian Wedding Cookies

The time is drawing near for cookies to be made in preparation of Christmas Eve. What goes better with a cold glass of milk for Santa than these tried and true favorites that look like miniature snowballs? The key is to refrigerate the dough before rolling into balls, then rolling them after baking twice ……

Tennessee Whiskey Trail – Part 3

On a recent beautiful Saturday afternoon, we resumed our pursuit of completing the Tennessee Whiskey Trail. Our travels this day took us to H. Clark Distillery in Thompson’s Station and Leiper’s Fork Distillery in Leiper’s Fork, both of which lie just south of Nashville. We began our day by meeting our friends John and Donna…

Apple Crisp

Recently after a photo shoot, I had leftover apple pie filling. Since I hate wasting any food, I decided to utilize it in a crustless apple crisp. It was so easy, smelled incredible baking and was the perfect dessert as the temperatures drop. I say “was” because it was gobbled up quickly. Yours will too…

Tennessee Whiskey Trail – Part 2

We recently began the “arduous” task of completing the Tennessee Whiskey Trail. We are in the early stages of our journey, but as someone once said, “getting there is considerably more than half the fun.” That is especially the case with this journey. Part 2 of the TWT wasn’t nearly as involved as Part 1….

Tennessee Whiskey Trail – Part 1

A few weeks ago, we were trying to plan a weekend getaway with two of our oldest and dearest friends – John and Donna. They are responsible for matchmaking us many years ago, and our friendships go all the way back to our fraternity and sorority pledge classes. The idea was to go to Louisville…

Chicken Pot Pie

There are few things more comforting than a dinner of chicken pot pie. It is economical, easy and other than the topping, it can be made ahead of time. I decided to try cooking this one on the grill and it turned out beautifully. You can just as easily bake it in the oven. Either…