I think if someone wanted to be clever, they’d program the lights to show a message to photographers that like to do this kind of thing
Pizza in Charleston Trip on Gowalla
Explore some of the local pizza joints with my Pizza in Charleston trip on Gowalla.
Thanks to Chrys for the idea.
Charleston Eats: Mustard Seed
Mustard Seed James Island
Atlantic Salmon over couscous with local veggies
Turkey meatloaf, garlic mashed potatoes and local veggies
In which a pumpkin is roasted
Today’s CSA pickup came with another pumpkin. I still hadn’t done anything with the one I picked up last week (or most of the other squashes from last week either).
This pumpkin bread recipe looked interesting, but I was out of eggs and too lazy to head out to the store this evening, so I decided to roast one of the pumpkins.
A good sharp knife makes splitting it in half a pretty easy job.
Scoop the innards out. I like to drizzle a little bit of olive oil inside before roasting.
Place the halves cut side down on a half sheet pan and roast for about an hour.
Now you have roasted pumpkin.
Steamy. And much more yellow than I expected. The dogs get canned pumpkin every now and then, which is always orange. Perhaps just a different variety of pumpkin.
Then just scoop the pumpkin flesh out of the skin and let it finish cooling and draining a little.
It doesn’t taste like much by itself. Maybe after I get rid of some of the water it will start tasting like something.
Now I have to figure out what to do with this roasted pumpkin…
Save the Windmill!
I’ll bet you never knew there’s a windmill in Charleston, did you. It’s located at Plymouth Park in the Riverland Terrace area on James Island. Not only will you find this windmill there, but also a nice little playground, baseball field, a boat launch and a fire station. It’s also a great place to sit and watch the water go by.
Ok, it’s not exactly functional, but it is interesting and unique. And the dogs like to visit it.
It’s also in need of repair. The Riverland Terrace Garden Club is putting on a fundraiser dinner this weekend to raise some money to repair the windmill.
The Riverland Terrace Garden Club is raising funds to repair and paint its Dutch-style windmill.
Chef Barry Waldrop, owner of Stono Cafe Catering, will prepare a dinner Saturday to raise the $3,000 needed for the project.
The windmill, built by John Roessler at the Wappoo Cut around 1936, was a landmark along the Intracoastal Waterway. It was donated to the club and moved near Elliott’s Cut adjacent to the Plymouth Avenue firehouse boat landing and playground in 2000.
The dinner menu is croissants, fall salad, herb encrusted pork tenderloin with a port wine demi-glaze, garlic mashed potatoes, vegetable medley and a fall berry cobbler. A silent auction will be held during the event, which takes place at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the James Island Baptist Church social hall.
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the Charleston Post Card Co., 182 Plymouth Ave., James Island. Or call Edith Mclemore, event chair, at 762-0771 or Barbara Knight, president, at 762-1243.