South Carolina - The Palmetto State

We made it to South Carolina in August 2015!  Sydney was home for 10 days and it was the perfect state to be on since Conner was leaving for his freshman year at Clemson University in a few days.

South Carolina is one of those states that you know immediately what the main meal is going to be.  South Carolina was shrimp and grits.  I realize I did shrimp and grits for North Carolina but this was a different recipe, and we love Shrimp and Grits!  I also do a lot of brussels sprouts, these were Southern Style Brussels Sprouts.  They were good, a little sweet and had pecans.

A southern meal is not complete without biscuits.  This Biscuit recipe was wonderful.  I would definitely recommend these biscuits.

For the drink we had Sweet Tea and dessert was South Carolina Peach Cobbler.  Sydney made the cobbler and it was delicious and even better for breakfast the next day.

We won't be all together for a meal until December.  Hopefully we'll get to South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas!

             

Rhode Island - The Ocean State

Our Rhode Island meal was over 11 months ago and I am finally getting to writing about it.  In the past 12 months we only got through 2 states.  My goal is to finish up before Will leaves for college, which is less than 2 years away.

I have only been to Rhode Island once and it was a brief stop on the way to Maine.  Rhode Island is known as the Ocean State and the only thing I remember about Rhode Island is that Allen and I stopped there for lunch at a place surrounded by water.

The meal turned out well and it was an easy one to make.  The main course consisted of Dynamites, Red Clam Chowder and Roasted Brussels Sprouts.  Dynamites remind me of Sloppy Joes on a torpedo roll (that's what hoagies rolls are called in Rhode Island).  The dynamites were good but I like Sloppy Joes better.  The clam chowder was fantastic and I will definitely make this recipe again.  The brussel sprouts are Sydney's favorite (mine too) and are always delicious.  Every times she comes home brussel sprouts are on the menu.

To drink we had coffee milk, which is milk with sweet coffee syrup.  You can't but the syrup in the NW so I improvised.  Nobody liked ir, it was too sweet.

For dessert we had Johnny Cake.  It was just OK, to me it seemed liked having corn bread for dessert.