For our cookie takedown recipe, my partner in crime made some slow cooker caramel. It turned out so tasty I wanted to make some more for my cookies for the Flour cookie swap. Flour Bakery and Café is having a cookie swap on Sunday, December 22nd. I’d love you to join me there! Here is…
Category: Charitable Living
To Do List: Lost, Found, and Trying Not to Drown
I just had my last Thanksgiving leftover sandwich (for breakfast)…oh and I forgot my tea. brb… Got it. I don’t know the last time I have completed something from beginning to end. It’s just my life at this point, but the problem now is that I’m forgetting things. I’m tired. I’m stressed. I’m depressed. It’s…
Time to Put the Pope’s Nose to the Grindstone: Thanksgiving To Do List
It’s the official culinary countdown for Thanksgiving. The house is kind of, sort of organized and clean. I have a good idea of who is coming when. We have plans for an early dinner out with the first set of family arriving at Puritan and Co. today. We have plans to take out Bon Me…
Over the Gelatin River & Through the Chocolate Woods: Gingerbread Houses
We love ginger, we love bread, we love gingerbread and we love getting our “craft on”. Even before kids, my husband and I (actually mostly my husband – I’m a bit terrified of pastry) went all out and made a gingerbread house replica of his family’s barn. This year the children and I were honoured…
Christmas Festival Opens Today: Off to Judge a Gingerbread Contest
Today the 27th annual Christmas Festival opens at the Seaport World Trade Center. The children have been so excited to be official judges this year with several others. For months they have been trying to imagine what the chefs will create. We’ve even looked at some photos from past years including the impressive Fenway gingerbread…
World Food Day: The world is your oyster
It is World Food Day today. What does that mean to you? My first thoughts are about the inequity of those beyond satiated and those always left hungry. The excess on one plate and emptiness on another. Then I think about the earth and what we are doing or not doing. Cambridge is piloting a…
Home Sweet Home: The Sweet Taste of Giving to the Community
Home Sweet Home is going to get you out of your home next weekend. Not one more Saturday night at home folding laundry will do. Ditch the laundry and fold it together as a family Saturday or Sunday morning with some good tunes on Pandora, a post laundry brunch at home or out (check out…
More Superheroes and Ballerinas: Anna’s Taqueria Has All the Right Stuff
A few weeks ago I posted about my little Superhero and Ballerina with the following thought: Superheroes don’t always wear capes and ballerinas aren’t always found in the dance studio. Anna’s Taqueria has a new kind of celebrity rolling burritos for charity because celebrities go beyond the sports field and silver screen. For several months…
Cupcake Camp: One Day, Many Cupcakes
School just got out and already we’re starting with: A little math, a little reading, a little writing, and a whole lot of fun. Why? Because we ‘re heading to Cupcake Camp! It is not exactly camp but it is a day of cupcake tasting, from classic to innovative, with amateurs (that would be us)…
Dirty, Fresh, Summer
Today was a perfect summer (almost summer) morning. I worked at our farm share/CSA farm because part of membership is that every adult works 4hrs. each season. The weather is cool and the earth is soft and damp after yesterday’s storm. I harvested garlic scapes and green onions (aka scallions) and my hands have the…
Heartbreaking way to start Spring Break: Now What?
On the calendar it says, ‘Vacation week’. It was going to be a week of lazy mornings and fun spontaneous outings staying in town. I usually love to stay home because the weather is nice and it’s the first days that feel like Spring in New England. After the bombings at the 117th Boston Marathon,…
Infusion Diabolique: Cocktails vs. Straight Up
If you’re not likely to drink anything straight up on the rocks, then you might surprise yourself with Infusion Diabolique’s infused tequila and bourbon. They can definitely stand alone. On the other hand, they also make a great cocktail. Here’s what we sampled last night at the MidWinter Revels. Infusion Diabolique Mixto: This is a…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 