Be Here for Beer

Chef Anthony Garnett from the Coral Bay Club

Upstairs in Back Street

Be Here for Beer Photos

at The Backstreet Pub

Featuring Natty Greene's Brewing Co.

And Local Chef Anthony Garnett, with The Coral Bay Club

Such a cool little bar, perfect setting for this event.

There is an awesome umbrella like tree in the courtyard

Perfect little area for conversation and beer

Tried to include more detail shots for my blog

but I have a ton of people shots.

Other news, I am 35wks this week. Feeling huge!!

Will have to post a picture of myself

Tired of rude peoples comments at the grocery store etc.

People find it hard to believe I have 5wks left.

My Dr. "guessetimates" baby is already 7lbs

so they doubt I'll make it to June 21st.

Whew.. this is going to be a big little boy

he already bigger than Maddie was

Getting nervous now as everything is getting closer.

Still have things to hang in his room.

Finished my Big Sis shirt and gifts for Miss Maddie

Cooking with Chef Shawn Pratt

Chef Shawn and Steve Tylicki with Steele Wines

My Cute Sister in law

Fennel dusted bread with Seared lemon

Thursday's event was cooking with Chef Shawn Pratt

of Gatherings in Swansboro. Held at the old courthouse at the Beaufort Historic Site.

He shared great recipes and tips along with

a cooking demonstration.

Yum! My favorite was his braised pork

tenderloin with fresh sage and white beans.

And the Fennel dusted lemon seared bread was

to die for. I am such a die hard bread fan.

Check out his website here and his blog.

He teaches lots of cooking classes and shares

some of his tips & recipes on his blog.

Beaufort Wine & Food Weekend Day One

Wanted to share a few photos from my first assignment

This was the opening luncheon held at the Carteret Community College Culinary building. Guest chef was Stephen Ribustello

And the winemake was Joe Shirley with Napa Cellars.

The place was packed everyone looked like they were enjoying themselves.

And of course the food looked and smelled great!

So many exciting events to share.

The road to Beaufort Wine & Food Weekend

I am slowly getting back into our routine here at home

I finally uploaded 566 pictures last night from the Wine & Food weekend.

2 more days of pictures to upload yet.

But this week I have been a little sidetracked little Miss turns 3

this weekend! plus it's mothers day. Big weekend!

Busy getting stuff ready for her party. Tonights chore is getting stuff

ready for her class tomorrow. Making cupcakes & goodie bags for her

classmates. Plus made treats for her teachers as this week is

teacher appreciation week. Busy, Busy!!

But thought I'd start with posting a few pictures from our trip down

to the wine weekend activites. We ended up not leaving as early as

we hoped but it all worked out. We left around 630am ish..

And we had hoped someone would sleep but no she was way to

nosey to go back to sleep. She kept asking where we

going Mommy!! We made good time. Stopped for breakfast in Exmore

at my favorite diner! Then we were back on the road and stopped

in to check out some things in Edenton. One of them being an

old Peanut Mill factory that's for sale. Just for curiosity we have dreams of opening a brewery/winery that's Tom's dream. Of course I would have a photography studio or a junk/antique shop in it too..

Enough dreaming  it ended upbeing a lot rougher than we thought.

Too much work for us. The top couple pictures are of it. Of course it

poured it's butt off as soon as we got to Edenton.

Then we stopped for lunch at Kristy's an Italian place and got back

on the road again and made it my brothers house by 445ish I think.

So excited to see my cute nephew ! He's changed so much since the

last time I saw him. Love this picture of him & made having a cheese stick

break on Mike's lap.

So much more to share, so check back..

Beaufort Wine & Food Weekend

Hitting the road tomorrow traveling to Beaufort, NC

for the Beaufort Wine & Food Weekend

So excited to be given the opportunity to photograph all of their events again.

I can not wait to explore more photography wise this time

and try a more creative approach to documenting the talented people

and the wonderful things this festival has to offer.

Check out the Beaufort Wine & Food Weekend Website here

A ton of great events happening everyday this week & on thru the weekend.

Lots of great dinners, seminars & tastings.

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The details

Back to Wine & Food shoots,

Just wanted to share these couple that I edited last night.

Almost done!

I didn't get as much done as I wanted to rough night.

Hubby came home with a fever of 102 !!

He's been having sinus/allergy issues for weeks. And of course he's a man so he wouldn't go

to our local triage place so I made him take motrin every four hours, I also gave him nyquil.

He woke up with a fever of 100. I made him go to the Dr. today. He's not only running a fever but

has an awful headache that keeps getting worse he said.

Waiting to hear back from him. I am guess it's a bad sinus infection.