Today my body is a bit sore. I feel some of the work from abs to glutes. At the end of my workout (35 minutes) my toes are cold and my cheeks are warm. My routine this morning: Warm Up 1 : Where my toes are cold and I stand in one patch of sun….
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NYC Ballet Workout Day 2: Snow Day Edition
I made it work even though I had company. After a day of running around in Natick looking at furniture for the playroom, playing at the Apple Store and the Lego store and the play space we made it home and carved out about 30 mins. to do the workout. I had company of the…
Simple Blood Orange and Avocado Salad (Recipe)
This week I learned a new term for something I’ve been doing for years. To supreme. It is how you cut the orange for this recipe. You remove the peel by cutting the top and bottom of the orange flat then gliding the knife from top to bottom all around until peeled. Then you slice…
Pencil It In: This Week
Still trying to get my calendar to be a bit more streamlined. Here is a more complete albeit late update to this week’s calendar of events. It’s not comprehensive but it’s a bunch of events that sound fun and fabulous. I will include more family friendly activities and events as we go. I thought about…
NYC Ballet Workout: Day 1
Today is my official Day 1 of working towards getting back in the ballet studio. I am eons away from the person I was dancing up to 40 hours a week and then still going out dancing with friends in the evening. So I need to start small. Very, very small. I’m starting with 30…
Martin Luther King Jr.
My Pencil It In calendar is still incomplete but as I mentioned before there are many wonderful opportunities today for a day of service. Don’t feel you have to rush out and do that today because volunteering, giving, community service isn’t about one day. Use this day to propel you forward in a way that…
Pencil It In: Incomplete
I’m playing around with ways to streamline my calendar of events for all of you. It is still a work in progress for this week, but I didn’t want you to miss out on some of events happening today and tomorrow… There are a lot of great events happening on Monday including days of service…
Vinaigrette for one or two (Recipe )
A vinaigrette takes a minute or two to make. Usually I make a whole jar at once but yesterday I just wanted to make enough for my micro green salad. Ingredients: Cider vinegar Vermouth Vinegar Dijon mustard Olive oil Camp Mix You can use all cider vinegar or sub in Champagne or white wine vinegar…
The Best Brunch of the Year: Boston’s Super Hunger Brunch
The Greater Boston Food Bank’s Super Hunger Brunch is an event that I try to participate in every year. It is the easiest way to support one of Boston’s most important organizations. It’s a fun event to participate in, and the restaurants and chefs put so much into this day that there is no excuse…
An Heirloom Kitchen in Dedham: From their kitchen to your table
When Bakers’ Best closed it was a sad day for me. Even though it is not in my neighbourhood I would drive over to Newton because I knew I could pick up some really good food on a day that I didn’t want to cook. I liked it better than takeout because you see the…
Starting Simple – Green Smoothie (Recipe)
It is a new year and my fridge is somewhere between bare and simply stocked with the basics. It is winter so a bowl of citrus is sitting in the kitchen counter for my favourite winter indulgence: Fresh squeezed orange juice. Ingredients: 2 juice oranges a handful of blueberries a handful of baby kale Blend…
Winter Farmer’s Market: Beyond Kale
Why bother going to a farmer’s market in the winter? If you live in New England are you just going to a room full of booths with kale and other hardy greens? Fear not, the winter’s farmers markets go way beyond root vegetables and fibrous greens. There is locally roasted coffee, baked treats to keep…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 