February vacation is a trip to the beach for some and sliding down the slopes for others. You don’t have to leave town though to have a great vacation. Play The museums are a great choice, and yes they may be busy over vacation but you can still have a great time if you plan…
Category: New England
Field Trip: Seven Stars Bakery- Providence, Rhode Island
I buy Seven Stars Bakery breads at my local Whole Foods (Fresh Pond, Cambridge). I love their durham stick. So, when my husband had a cyclocross race near the Franklin Park Zoo in Rhode Island, we just had to stop at the real bakery on the way home. I warmed up with a much needed…
The Road Less Traveled III: A Chat with Chefs Tony Maws and Carl Dooley of Craigie on Main
This Wednesday, January 29th, Craigie on Main will be hosting their third The Road Less Traveled dinner. Some are more recent than others, but my strongest memories are all related to moments in the kitchen, smells wafting from a kitchen, individual bites, or entire meals at the table. I was lucky enough to attend Craigie…
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…
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…
Skate on In to Winter Today
I have a favourite local rink . I love the tiny sweet rink in Harvard Square at the Charles Hotel, but recently I saw a photo that might tempt me across the river. The Rotunda Rink at the Boston Harbor Hotel. The rink is open Monday – Friday 3:00 to 8:00 pm and weekends from…
PIN: Pencil it in this week(end)
Tis the season of excess, from spending to indulging, but my favourite kind of excess is overloading the calendar with so many wonderful holiday, community, seasonal events. It is fun if you don’t try to have your cake and eat it too. Choose the ones you want to go to and (if you have young…
Simple Caramel Recipe & A Cookie Swap with Joanne Chang
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…
Join The Club: Meet Me at Hopster’s
One thing that we don’t do nearly enough is go out with our friends. We are all too busy somehow. Newcomer, Hopster’s Brew and Boards will take care of that with their 99 Club. Every 3 months, you will gather with friends (the more the merrier) and up to a total of 20 other local…
Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker: Dewdrops, nutcrackers and 4,000 crystals
As I sit outside class, rack after rack of beautiful hand-stitched costumes roll by. They will soon be coming to life on stage in dress rehearsals making the renderings of the newest production of the Nutcracker come to life. The dewdrops fairy’s bodice and tutu alone has 4,000 crystals set on it. Each one done…
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…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 