A CSA Recipe:  Simple Kohlrabi Salad

I love kohlrabi and before we started our CSA many years ago, I had never eaten before.  Now, I look forward to seeing it sitting in the CSA baskets in the cool pick up area around the corner from the tree swing and hammock. This simple recipe is a great way to enjoy the slightly…

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Summer Life in the City: Family Film Fest at the Prudential

There’s a funny thing people do when they are away from home and on vacation.  They go out.  They explore.  They stay out past the usual bedtimes.  They try new things. They carry on annual summer traditions.  The thing is, you don’t actually have to travel far or travel at all to do those things.  Summer in the…

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Posto Mobile Pizza Food Truck: Come for the Pizza and Keep the Sauce

Pizza really is the best fast food available.  The problem is that it isn’t always fast and it isn’t always made from the best ingredients.  If you can find a place that makes it well, they have the right ingredients and the right equipment. In the Boston area (Boston’s South End, Cambridge, Somerville), we have…

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Committee: Love at First Bite

Boston’s Seaport is an eclectic mix of art, cocktails overlooking the water, gathering spots for a cold beer, and construction sites.  I love it over there.  It is a spacious corner of Boston where the vibe is hip and fun, but I feel totally comfortable going out with the family too.  Last night, I got…

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Busting Out of Little Kid-ness at Dave & Busters

When the kids were little we went to Chuck E. Cheese’s a handful of times. It was always a special treat because they knew it wasn’t the kind of place I like to go to or take them to. On stormy winter days or sweltering hot summer afternoons, Chuck E. Cheese was a break for…

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Chain Link: Restaurants Worth Checking Out

In general, I skip a chain restaurant and prefer to go to a small, local independent restaurant whether I’m at home or in traveling to another city.  With social media sources for information such as Yelp, Chowhound, Urbanspoon Zomato, my Facebook feed full of food loving folks, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, I can get a good…

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Drink for a Cause: Negroni Week in Boston

 Campari is a sunset red liqueur that is perfect for summer.  It is also an essential ingredient for the Negroni.  From June 1st through June 7th over 2,510 bars and restaurants are celebrating Negroni week to raise money for charity.  Charities include the Developing Minds Foundation (Brick & Mortar), Rosie’s Place (BRIX Wine Shop), Greater…

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A Few New Additions to Your Wine List for Summer: Wines of Tejo Portugal

     I have been a fan of Portugal’s most well known fortified wine for a very long time.  Port was really my first introduction to “spirits”  and I didn’t venture beyond it for a long time because I was perfectly content.  When I was in university, I lived in Montreal’s “little Portugal” and became a…

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The Trouble With Letting Go

I’m a pretty sensitive person and it’s taken me years to build up the callouses life requires.  It’s odd, in some ways I’m really good at letting things roll off my back. Yet, for many things that I know I should not hold on to I clench in my fist and it takes me a…

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Growing Season is Here: Now Just Add Cooking

Just as the farms are starting to grow some delicious things for us to eat here in New England (or to be fair the greenhouses are doing a lot of the work right now), the kids’ schedules are going crazy.  From end of year events, special meetings, concerts, recitals and ball games, planning for dinner…

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