Stop & Shop is doing their best to help you prep for your holiday open houses, Christmas dinners and New Year’s Eve parties. They recently added a Boneless NY Strip Roast to their holiday offerings. We don’t eat a lot of red meat, because we’re not huge meat eaters in our family, but for special…
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Gift Guide: Shopping Local
If you’re sitting by your computer shopping online, there may be someone bringing you a cocktail, and good cheer, but I bet it’s much easier to find by bundling up and skipping out your door to head to some of the local craft fairs, holiday strolls and some of my favorite little boutiques. We use Amazon.com…
Chefs Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonette Celebrate 9 years of Toro: Chef Edward Lee Joins the Party
Happy 9th Anniversary Toro! Not only are Chefs/Owners Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonette celebrating 9 fabulous years with a party a cocktail party and special Bully Boy cocktails (available for purchase), but they’re inviting you to the party tonight, Thursday, December 4th. In addition, coming North for the celebration is Kentucky chef Edward Lee. This…
Whiskey Guide: Behind the Bar
(A copy of The North American Whiskey Guide from Behind the Bar was sent to me for review. As always all opinions are my own.) I never found myself behind the bar, well except for once serving drinks at a party hosted by my dorm, Royal Victoria College, at McGill and I don’t remember pouring too…
A Guide to Chocolate in Boston
Thanksgiving is all fine and good for those who enjoy pie. While everyone else is hmmming and hawing about which pie they will try after their Thanksgiving feast, the chocolate lovers are quietly pretending to be full because no fruit or nut filled, one layer, pastry encrusted pie plate holds what they really crave: chocolate….
Chocolate Lovers Guide to Boston: The Langham Boston Chocolate Bar
The Langham Boston’s Chocolate Bar is an annual outing for some and others save it for special milestones. I’ve brought pregnant friends out for this chocolate feast. I’ve come for a mother-daughter outing with my 7 year old. This year, I brought the whole family. When we have guests in town who are true chocolate…
Thanksgiving Prep: Pie Crusts & Cranberry Sauce
Cranberry sauce and pie crusts are the first things I make for Thanksgiving. I always make the same cranberry sauce from my Classic Canadian Cooking book from Elizabeth Baird. I carry this cookbook with me wherever I go. When I was little I had my “pink Mickey”, which was my blanket that brought me comfort. …
What’s The Opposite of Tiny Bubbles?
I don’t like to think about Chanukah or Christmas until Thanksgiving has come and gone, but the reality of it is that the catalogues are dropping into the house faster than the bees did outside at the first frost. The other truth of the matter is that I do not do holiday shopping during…
Dine out with Chef Renee Erickson at Row 34
This came through my inbox just now and if I were here tomorrow night I would go in a heartbeat. I love Row 34 and would to get to know more about Chef Erickson. Tomorrow, Chef Renee Erickson of Seattle’s The Walrus and the Carpenter. Head over to Row 34 Thursday, October 23rd. Guests are…
Make Puffed Rice at Home (Recipe * how to)
Isabelle and I were recently invited to the kickoff of Uncle Ben’s Ben’s Beginners cooking contest and we were inspired to try something a little different. I wondered if we could puff out own rice. There were a few resources online but not a ton. Here is how we did it. Isabelle then created a…
Fallen for Funghi: A Taste of Fall at Lineage
I fell for fungi a long time ago. As a child, I remember sitting by the counter in my mother’s kitchen carefully wiping down mushrooms with a damp paper towel until the were spotless and ready to be stuffed. When I was a bit older, we lived in France and I remember collecting mushrooms in…
The Applegate Upgrade: Pre-packaged meals that don’t make me cringe
Even stay-at-home/work-from-home parent can feel the crunch of the back to school and back to everything else schedule. In a way, as a freelancer, the luxury of a flexible schedule allows me to be less efficient which is a bit of a catch 22 when time is of the essence. Because we still have our…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 