Travel and food definitely go hand in hand, and recently I found http://www.internationalcuisine.com/. Blog owner, Darlene, cooks – and gets to eat – one fabulous meal from a new country each week. She then posts the recipe, beautiful photographs of each course, and also a bit about each country on her blog. She is cooking.

I am missing the Carolinas already, so I decided to make Carolina Low Country Shrimp Boil for dinner. Here is my favorite recipe: 4 quarts (16 cups) of water ½ cup Old Bay seasoning 2 TBSP salt 8 medium red potatoes, quartered 2 large onions cut into wedges 2 pounds smoked sausage cut into 2.

I invented this one myself – for those of us without enough time, patience, or girl scout/boy scout fire-starting abilities – Ice Cream S’mores: 1 graham cracker broken in half 1/2 of a Hersheys chocolate bar 1 scoop of chocolate marshmallow ice cream Put both halves of the graham cracker on a microwaveable plate. Place.