Dining & Reviews

Salt Kitchen & Rum Bar

By On July 3, 2014

My friend, Susan recently asked me to join her for dinner at a relatively new place in her neck of the woods on the North Shore of Boston. She had been hearing… Read More

Recipes

Dulce de Leche Sandwich Cookies & Volunteer Rehab

By On January 15, 2014

Enjoy and please refer to my Tips at the end of the recipe!… Read More

Travel

Sicily Part Two

By On March 16, 2023

Over the past few weeks, I have had three separate inquiries about travel to Sicily, so clearly it is the hot spot du jour!  And just in time, I have loaded in… Read More

Recipes

Sweet Potato and Bulgur Wheat Kufta

By On March 2, 2023

Growing up, my grandmother would make a dish called kufta which you may be more familiar with if I refer to it as kibbeh.  The kufta that my family enjoyed could best… Read More

Recipes

Ginger Molasses Blondies

By On December 1, 2022

Chocolate has always received a lot of attention on the blog.  I can’t help it – I adore it as I’ve mentioned so many times before. Have I ever mentioned, though that… Read More

Recipes

The Woop Woop or St. Germain Martini

By On July 29, 2021

For the moment, let’s ignore the title of this post shall we?  I will get to that a little later when I share today’s new recipe. In the meanwhile, hasn’t summer been… Read More

Dining & Reviews

Catching Up

By On June 24, 2021

In the past month or two, we’ve been getting back into the groove of dining out!  Although I’ve mostly dined outdoors at this point, I have also been inside once and was… Read More

Recipes

Clams Casino

By On August 6, 2020

For my first 12 years, until I happily shipped off to sleep away camp in the White Mountains, my family spent the month of July with my grandmother at her summer home… Read More

Dining & Reviews

Sarma

By On October 24, 2019

About 7 years ago, when it appeared that things were running fairly smoothly in our household, I decided to think about what my next chapter was going to look like.  For some… Read More

Dining & Reviews

Ilili New York

By On June 6, 2019

Just a quick post this week to share a wonderful restaurant that we visited in New York a few weeks ago on our way to our younger daughter’s college graduation. Owned by… Read More

Dining & Reviews

Chickadee

By On February 14, 2019

A few weeks back, some friends and I went to the first sample sale held at Alice Walk in South Boston.  My friend Susan, who you’ve met on the blog a bunch… Read More

Lifestyle

Much Ado About Something and Horiatiki Hummus

By On November 15, 2018

Thank you to everyone who commented on the blog last week or sent me a note.  Julie’s story touched many of you in different ways and it was unanimous that you all… Read More