I manage to combine everything I love in one trip. How cool is that? Crew, travel, photography, food..life is good, eat pie. Let it Snow, let it snow, let it snow by Diana Krall New England Bucket List Row at Head of the Charles in Boston: Check In Boston: Delicious dinner at Amelia’s …
Are you ready to start baking for the holidays? I tried two new cookie recipes yesterday to take to our annual holiday cookie swap and both are winners. We started our swap way back when the kids were in pre-school and through the years we have managed to keep the tradition alive. Our early gatherings were during …
Is it December already? Time to get in the holiday spirit. In my book that means baking cookies and listening to holiday tunes. I am an unabashed lover of Christmas music. You won’t find me anywhere near a mall on Black Friday. Instead, I’ll be home pulling out my favorite Christmas CDs and kicking back. …
I absolutely love Dorie Greenspan, her recipes work, her writing is wonderful and most of all she comes across as a really nice person. I left a comment regarding a recipe I found on her blog, it wasn’t even her recipe but from Sarabeth’s in New York. Well the next thing you know, she contacts …
I love nuts, any kind of nuts. But if posed the proverbial question “what if you were stranded on a desert island and you could only have one kind of nut, what would it be”. My answer, hands down would be pecans, a no-brainer. Pecans have a buttery, sweet nutty flavor. When making chocolate chip …
My cooking gadget addiction strikes without warning. Standing in Michaels one day, supposedly JUST browsing with NO intention of buying anything when BAM! I became the proud & puzzled owner of a donut hole pan. Yes, a donut hole pan. I have 4 or 5 mini-muffin tins that would do the trick, but nooo, in …
Our foray into eating vegetarian would have ended a long time ago (for me it may have never started) if it were not for the Fab Five, mushrooms, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, eggplants, and potatoes. Admittedly, vegetables have always been relegated to the side dish category, an afterthought to that juicy ribeye or grilled chicken. …
There are two types of cookies in this world, kid cookies and adult cookies, and lately, I’ve been baking lots of kid cookies like chocolate chips. Tired of making chipsters, I pulled my copy of San Francisco a la Carte, a junior league cookbook that’s easily 25 years old, to find the recipe for World’s …
Hard to believe the holidays are just around the corner! Unfortunately, I am not a brick and mortar shopper, thank goodness for online shopping. I’m the one dragging my feet in the malls and whining “are we done yet?” To appease me (get rid of me), my family will tell me to go to the …