Sweet potato butter makes great homemade holiday gifts and is perfect for slathering over biscuits, toast, your favorite bread, or even apple slices. Sweet potato butter is a smooth creamy mixture of sweet potatoes, brown sugar, and fall spices that sends bread over the … [Read more...]
Skinny Southern: A Cookbook Review
With her new cookbook Skinny Southern, Georgia private chef Lara Lyn Carter reinvents classic Southern dishes with clean, healthy ingredients. If you've been reading Biscuits & Burlap for long, you know that our passion lies in Southern food. We love the … [Read more...]
Your Guide to Gifts for Bourbon Drinkers
Whether you are a bourbon lover yourself or you love a bourbon drinker, there are a few tools you need to have so you can make these 4 essential cocktails: An Old Fashioned, a Manhattan, a Boulevardier, and a nice glass of bourbon on the rocks. Are you a bourbon drinker … [Read more...]
Gifts for the Grill Master and Outdoor Cook
Looking for gifts for the grill master in your life? This list has great ideas that go beyond a set of barbecue tools. Have you been there too? Someone on your gift list is a grill master or loves to cook outdoors and you don't know what they'd like? They can only use so many … [Read more...]
Great Gift Ideas for the Southern Foodie
We've put together a collection of great gift ideas for the Southern Food Lover. Find the perfect gifts on our list or get inspiration from it to branch out on your own search. When it comes to being Southern food lovers we sort of consider ourselves to be experts. Seriously, … [Read more...]
Hand Cut Map Adds Special Touch
Many of y'all know how much we love our little town of Norcross, Georgia. It sits just northeast of Atlanta and is close enough to have easy access to all the big city offers, but it is a small town in every sense of the word. Read here about our decision to make Norcross our … [Read more...]
Gift Guide for the Southern Football Fan
Football Gifts especially selected for the lover of southern football. To say that college football is an important part of life here in the South would be a gross understatement. We live and breathe football. Our pacifiers have our parents' team logo. Our first words are "Sic … [Read more...]
The Best Sewing Machine (and SUPER Affordable)
Okay, y'all, we have never had a product review on Biscuits and Burlap. It just makes sense to share how much I LOVE my sewing machine with our readers. This post is not being sponsored in any way. I am not an expert at sewing and I am not an expert on sewing machines. I … [Read more...]
10 DIY Father’s Day Gifts
They say that the best gifts come from the heart. Why not make a DIY gift for the most important man in your life this Father's Day? Here are some of my favorite bloggers' ideas that anyone can do. … [Read more...]
Father’s Day Gifts For Any Budget
Looking for a last minute gift for the most important man in your life? Look no further! Here are a few of my favorite items for him, whether he is into sports, outdoor adventures, gadgets, or cooking: … [Read more...]
Bloody Mary Gift Basket
The bloody mary drinker in your life will swoon over this personalized bloody mary gift basket with everything they need to make the perfect cocktail! Personally, I never find it easy to shop for men. Birthdays, Christmas, Father Day... I feel like every gift idea has been … [Read more...]
Teacher Appreciation Gift
As you probably know, I'm a 1st grade teacher. This week is Teacher Appreciation Week (if you can read this, thank a teacher!) and thanks to my fantastic parents and administrators, the gifts have been pouring in... gift cards, flowers, breakfast and lunch, coffee, Bath & … [Read more...]
New Mom Survival Kit
I made this new mom survival kit for my sister-in-law as a Christmas gift since she is due just a few days after Christmas, but it would be perfect as a baby shower gift. It's just a little goodie bag of comfort items that can be easily taken to the hospital and used in … [Read more...]