Author: zeldaandscout

  • February Round Up

    February Round Up

    February may be the shortest month, but it managed to cram  a whole lot into its 29 days (Happy Leap Year!). The weather flip-flopped from balmy spring to frigid winter and back again. Scout left one job and started another (her first real, honest-to-god, 9-to-5 gig — having weekends off is crazy, guys). Zelda upped…

  • Eat This, Drink That: Rosemary Shortbread and Salty Dogs

    Eat This, Drink That: Rosemary Shortbread and Salty Dogs

    This month for Eat This, Drink That, we are switching things up! Scout was hankering to make a cocktail, and Zelda was ready to get back to her love of baking, so we decided to pull a blog Freaky Friday and go back to our comfort zones for a post. Scout picked up the shaker,…

  • Inspiration Tuesday: Laissez les bons temps rouler!

    Inspiration Tuesday: Laissez les bons temps rouler!

    Happy Tuesday, and a very happy Mardi Gras to you all! Zelda’s Southern heritage comes steeped in Tabasco and chicory coffee, bred in the mud of the bayou, so she is particularly fond of this festive day. For the weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday, her kitchen table back home is watched over by two…

  • February Playlist: Love Love Love

    February Playlist: Love Love Love

    Oh February, you month of hearts and flowers, chocolate and cupids, fuzzy teddy bears and glittery cards and more pink and red than a strawberry stew. As two brutally single females, we can tend to regard all these Valentine festivities with a healthy dose of cynicism and a tinge of despair. We’re equal opportunity love bugs,…

  • January Round Up

    January Round Up

    Our third calendar year on the blog (wait…what?) is off to a good, if cold, start. We’ve been busy working and writing, and we’ve both been ailing — Scout with a killer cold and Zelda with a debilitating stomach bug — so we’re sorry if we haven’t been all that present this month. But still,…

  • Eat This, Drink That: Angel Food Cake and French 75

    Eat This, Drink That: Angel Food Cake and French 75

    Most of Scout’s food-based memories come from one of her grandmothers. So when choosing something to make for this month’s Eat This, Drink That, she looked back on all those memories, running from the car as they pulled up to the old A-frame cabin on the lake and sprinting into the long narrow kitchen to find…

  • Inspiration Tuesday: If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

    Inspiration Tuesday: If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

    For this month’s inspiration, we’re looking to music. As we search for our voice and attempt to march to the beat of our own drum, these are the songs (and books and videos and etc.) in our ears and in our hearts that help us march unto the breach of a new year with confidence and…

  • January Playlist: Non-Stop

    January Playlist: Non-Stop

    It’s a new year, which means our lives are filled with new goals and new outlooks on how to approach the big obstacles in life. This month, we wanted to make a playlist jam-packed with the songs that give us that extra push, the ones that make us sprint that final stretch or meet that looming…

  • December Round Up

    December Round Up

    Goodness gracious, y’all. The calendar tells us there are a scant two days left in 2015, and we suppose it must be true. This year was hard and it was fun, filled with new beginnings and unknowns. We write to you one year older than on January 1st, and we hope perhaps a bit wiser,…

  • Eat This Drink That: Fried Chicken, Rosemary Gimlets, and a Special Guest!

    Eat This Drink That: Fried Chicken, Rosemary Gimlets, and a Special Guest!

    This month, we bring you a very special “Eat This, Drink That.” Normally, we pick a theme for the month’s post, find an appropriate recipe, and then muddle through as best we can, with Google as our sous chef. But this month, we brought in the professionals for a real schooling in one of the…