What We Ate

The Low Country likes to showcase incredible food. Just as much, we like to eat it.

MONDAY
Breakfast at the Vendue Inn:
Cheese grits with fried eggs, onions, chiles, tomatoes, andouille sausage, peppers, green onions, coffee and OJ (JR); mini Belgian waffles with strawberry compote, fried eggs, milk, juice, and coffee (Beks)

Lunch at Middleton Place:
BBQ sandwich, orange, muscadine cider (JR); turkey sandwich, orange (Beks); Ben and Jerry's Half-Baked ice cream stick (both)

Dinner at Poogan's Porch:
Roast duck with watermelon gastrique, sauteed spinach, risotto, Alagash White (JR); buttermilk fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans (Beks)

Dessert:
Maker's Mark (on The Roof Top)
Milk and cookies at the Vendue Inn

TUESDAY
Breakfast at the Vendue:
Scrambled eggs, green onions, chiles, grits, and OJ (both)

Lunch at Tommy Condon's:
Shrimp and grits, Sweetwater 420 (JR); salmon salad (Beks)

Mid-day snack:
Moon-pie and an RC Cola (both) *an inevitable, but regrettable, experience

Dinner at Joseph P. Riley, Jr Park ("the Joe"):
Hot dog, nachos, Coke, Shock Top, boiled peanuts (JR); pizza, lemon ice, most of my nachos (Beks)

After-dinner:
fruit-infused water at the Vendue

WEDNESDAY
Breakfast at Vendue:
Strawberry pancakes with bacon and OJ (both)

Lunch at the Blue Crab:
Crabcake sandwich, asparagas and tomato salad, sweet tea (JR); fried flounder sandwich, asparagas and tomato salad (Beks)

Early afternoon snack at the Rhett House Inn:
Lemonade, shortbread cookies, brownies, and snickerdoodles (both)

Dinner at Dockside:
Fried shrimp, Palmetto Amber, fries (JR); boiled shrimp, steamed veggies, baked potato (Beks); hush puppies and dinner rolls (both)

Dessert at the Rhett House Inn:
Chocolate cake (Beks); orange bundt cake (JR); Jack Daniels

THURSDAY
Breakfast at Rhett House:
French toast, fried eggs, OJ, fruit cup (Beks); scrambled eggs (with lots of cheese), grits, wheat toast, bacon, cranberry juice

Lunch on our own at the beach (on Hunting Island):
Greek salad, peach tea (JR); pita with hummus (Beks); watermelon and grapes (both)

Mid-afternoon snack at Rhett House:
Cheese and fruit and crackers (both); Rum and Coke (JR)

Dinner at Plums:
Ginger scallop salad (Beks); lump crab cakes with asparagus and jasmine rice, Dead Guy Ale (JR)

Dessert at Rhett House:
Orange bundt cake (both); Dewar's scotch (while watching a roof-rattling thunderstorm from the second story porch)

FRIDAY
Breakfast at Rhett House:
Blueberry pancakes, fruit cup (both); sausage and OJ (JR); fried eggs and cranberry juice (Beks)

Lunch at Panini's:
Blanco pizza (Beks); Mediterranean pizza, sweet tea (JR)