Pizza at Crust Wood Fired

This is the four cheese special pizza at Crust Wood Fired Pizza. Starts with a Margherita inspiration, but adds three more delicious white cheeses.

This is a meat lover’s pepperoni and sausage pizza.

 

Want to know more about Crust? Check out this story where I discuss the menu and interview Chef Dusty Chorvat. Crust prides itself on using farm fresh ingredients from Mepkin Abbey, GrowFood Carolina, Ambrose Farms, Thackeray Farms, and a host of others.

Crust recently added a Sunday Supper, featuring three courses for $17: salad or soup for starters, pizza or pasta for the main course, and a special dessert for a remarkable finish. All Sunday long Crust has $2 Mimosas and $4.50 bloody marys.

Photo: Poutine at the Southern General

Poutine is a Canadian answer to cheese fries; it uses cheese curds, gravy, and chives on top.

I thought curds would look like ricotta or feta crumbles, but nope! They were breaded, fried and deliciously gooey. I was dreaming about them two days later.

The handcut fries are not greasy and limp, they have the heft of a skinny steak fry.

Yum!

Gnocchi at Sunrise Bistro

Sunrise Bistro at the corner of Main Rd. and Maybank Highway is most famous for serving breakfast. Two nights a week, Fridays and Saturdays, dinner is served 5-9pm.

This is gnocchi and vegetable plate I enjoyed the other night. Per my fellow guests, the fried chicken, quesadilla, and homemade soup are also recommended. And there are many more options to choose from.

Sunrise Bistro has many options for wine, and serves several draft and bottled beers.  I enjoyed a locally brewed Palmetto this particular evening.

Sunrise Bistro is both family and budget friendly.

Historical Marker: Federal Expedition of John’s Island and the Battle of Burden’s Causeway

This two-sided historical marker is posted near the intersection of River Rd. and Plow Ground Rd. It’s not really easy to read these markers unless you stop your car; most drivers are whizzing past at 50-60 mph.

Butterflies at Freshfields, pt. 2

I returned to Freshfields this week, determined to get closeup shots of the Gulf Fritillary butterflies we see in the Lowcountry in early fall. They have delightful coloring. The interior of their wings are orange with black banding and trim;  up near the top of their interior wings, they have a few black and black and white “freckles”. On the outside of their wings, they have paler orange coloring, with large luminescent white spots outlined in black.

Butterflies are in a constant state of motion as they collect nectar and chase other butterflies. I use a fast shutter setting to try to catch them, and it’s still a challenge. I concentrating on shooting in the moment, and left the cropping for when I got home.

   

There was also one of these neon yellow varieties that we see all summer long in this area. I believe they’re called Cloudless Sulphurs:

It’s early October now, and the Fritillaries and Sulphurs have smaller “butter-friends” joining them. These  have thicker, almost moth-like bodies compared to their larger cousins.

I suspect the orange-gold and brown ones below are Salt Marsh Skippers.

Even though it’s a little blurry on the wings, I love this image:

I also saw some mini-butterflies that were taupe and gray, with some iridescent peacock green luminescence on their backs and the interior wings. I think they are called Longtails:

Freshfields has a lot of shopping, but sometimes it’s worthwhile to just stop and watch the butterflies while they are still here, and see the smaller species that drift through in early Fall. They can’t get enough of small clustered flowers (like these fuchsia ones) found in beds near The Station at Freshfields, and some flower beds nearby.

Thanks to The Big Little Book of Butterflies by Jeffrey Glassberg for help identifying these butterflies.

Stono Market and Tomato Shed

This is the sign in front of the Stono Market and Tomato Shed Café on Main Road. This time of year (late summer), it is covered in morning glorys that are bluish purple.

Here is a closeup image of one of those flowers:

Johns Island Rural Sign