You’ve driven what used to take three hours and now takes seven with the kids and it is just not manageable. You invited family to your place and inevitabely someone wasn’t happy with the arrangements. You tried cooking the turkey and it took three hours longer than expected. You ordered prepared foods and couldn’t keep…
Author: City Living (Boston)
I am a writer and cook. I write about city living, travel, food, the arts and family. I raise my family in Cambridge & Boston and share tips for throwing cocktail parties, packing lunches, having fun on the weekend without going broke or losing your sanity.
Store Hours: Shopping for Turkeys
Bakers’ Best Monday-Friday 7:30 am – 7:00 pm Thursday (Thanksgiving): CLOSED (617) 332-4588 Flour Bakery We have stopped taking orders for Thanksgiving but we are working hard to make extras of everything to sell on Wednesday, first come first serve. Happy Holidays! Monday-Tuesday 7:00 am – 7:00 pm -Fort Point Channel Monday-Tuesday 7:00 am –…
Thanksgiving To Do List
Here we go… Whether you are at home or at work this week, tomorrow is a pivotal day in the preparations for Thanksgiving. To do: Make a detailed grocery list for all the ingredients for all the meals before, during and just after Thanksgiving. Do not go shopping (unless you want to go first thing…
What’s For Dinner: Supper Club
Smells of warm cookies waft down the hall. Supper is warming in the oven. Vegetables are steaming on the stovetop. The home-made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are perched on their cooling rack. The sweet sound of a cork popping from the bottle of red wine and the clink of wine glasses are heard. Add a…
Patricia Wells’ Braised Beef with Carrots (adapted)
Equipment: A large, heavy-duty skillet with a lid: 12 warmed dinner plates (or in our case three cold dinner plates, and four melamine kids plates, a lidded Pyrex in the fridge, and a plastic to go container.) 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 3 pounds of beef in a single piece from the top or bottom round,…
Thanksgiving: The Peripheral Meals
I think the biggest problem with Thanksgiving is when you forget about the peripheral meals. There are the friends who drop by the day before because they are in town. There is tea after the New Yorkers come in after their longer than expected drive. There is lunch on Wednesday for the whoever came in…
Cranberry Turkey Sandwich
If you just can’t wait for Thanksgiving, buy some cranberries and you can give yourself some tastes of the holidays this week. With a little cranberry sauce you can make the Cranberry Roquefort Tartines if you are feeling festive. If you just need a sandwich for work, buy some turkey, bread and take the mayo out of the…
Safe Havens: Food for Thought
We all have places where we can go either figuratively or literally to feel safe. For some of us it is a place that’s easily accessible and we live our day primarily in a safe place whereas for others it’s only a state of mind or a brief moment that is not easy to get…
Cranberry Roquefort Tartines
This is a great bite that you can throw together in minutes. It is a perfect addition to a cocktail party. You can serve it with drinks before a formal meal. You can pour a glass of wine and throw it together for a grown-up “after-school snack” while the children play lego on the coffee…
Ode to Verrill Farm
Verill Farm is a place that I’ve always wanted to go. I have heard only good things about the farm stand. With the hectic life of running after a two year old and a four year old and living in Cambridge I have never quite made it out there. I was sad to hear…
Planning For Thanksgiving: Cook It
If you’re coming over for Thanksgiving, this is what’s on our menu. Roast Turkey with Bacon-herb butter and cider gravy (Bon Appetit Nov. 2008) Roasted Fall Vegetables in Cheddar Crust (Eating Well Dec. 2008) Herb and Onion Stuffing (Bon Appetit Nov. 2008) or Rustic Bread Stuffing with Dried Cranberries & Oyster Mushrooms (Fine Cooking Nov. 2008)…
Turkeys & Turkey Trots
If you would prefer to have your Turkey prepared and cooked for you, then you check out Planning for Thanksgiving: Buy it. If you want to tackle the bird yourself then you’ve got several options. Since childhood, I have always been someone who prefers vegetables and fish to meat especially poultry for the simple reason that…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 