Mondays can be a pain in the @$$. If you don’t start Monday off right you might feel like there’s no hope for the week ahead. Sometimes it is the little things like the milk in your coffee curdling or having the perfect cappuccino that make or break your Monday. Today, simply finding a Pain…
Category: Lifestyle – Shopping
A little shopping is always necessary.
Today: Free dogs and discounted cookbooks
Today in Harvard Square, head to the Harvard Bookstore Warehouse (not the one near Mr. Bartley’s Burgers. not the COOP but 14 Park St. in Somerville) for 15% off and get your cookbook fix. Q’s nuts and other local Somerville food folks will be there with treats should you get hungry while you browse the…
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…
The Modern Rotisserie Saves Rosh Hashanah
It used to be that I could count on Bakers’ Best for all my holiday needs. Whatever I did not have time, desire or ability to make I could pick up at Bakers’ Best to round out my menu. A few years ago Bakers’ Best closed their restaurant/deli/takeout spot and decided to just do catering….
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…
Summer Tomato: Unrequited Love
You can’t inhale and your breath might catch when you bite into a true summer tomato. Our Lindentree farm csa summer tomatoes are finally here. You bite into it and there is no space to breathe because it is so full if flavour. There are no empty bits that blankly slide over your taste buds….
Sugar is sweeter: Chambre de Sucre
If you are a North American parent who has had a peek into the world of Japanese bento then you know that when it comes to adorable looking food we don’t stand a chance. The Japanese company, Chambre de Sucre doesn’t have decades of experience, but rather centuries of experience making these miniscule sugar sculptures….
Somerville and Cambridge Get a Bit Tastier
Somerville is lucky to have a little piece of the Area Four world. A4 pizza opens today and every day at 5:00. The spot looks like a place you could hang out on a regular basis with some good friends, a cold local brew in hand accompanied by some amazing pizza and other little bites….
Mom & Daughter Night Out: Oysters and Burgers in Harvard Square
Sometimes, especially in the summer, you need to divide and conquer. Tonight the boys stayed in and ate farm fresh veggies. The girls went out on the town. Originally, we planned to get $1 oysters at Noir in the Charles hotel (as mentioned on their Facebook Page) but it turned out that there was a…
…and they lived ‘appily ever after: Apps, iPhone, Life
I am a bit if a clutter bug when it comes to my house and my iPhone. In an ideal world it is all organized, I have what I need where I need it and I recycle or donate the rest. The reality is that I have piles or folders here and there and not…
REAL Montreal Bagels in Boston
If you have never had a Montreal bagel, then the ideal way to have one is to go to Montreal and walk over to St. Viateur or Fairmount Bagels. Sometimes, though you just can’t get there. If you are new to the Montreal bagel and you are not headed to Montreal any time soon then…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 