Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters

Fall Lunch in Seconds Flat: Toaster Required

Ideally this is done in a toaster oven but a regular toaster and microwave combined will do in a pinch. Ingredients: 2 slices of good white or multi-grain bread. 2 slices of fresh tomatoes A little fresh or dried oregano Any good cheese you sampled at your local cheese shop, Whole Foods Market or farmer’s…

Weekend Guide: September 6th & 7th

Saturday, September 6th Whole Foods Somerville is celebrating their 1st year. There will be chef demonstrations from 12 to 4 p.m., face painting, a photo booth and more. Be sure to catch Chef Tony Maws from 2-4 as he will be cooking up his award winning hot dog from Kirkland Tap & Trotter. From 12…

Prize Winning Hood Sour Cream Noodle Kugel (Recipe) -Sponsored

I recently had the opportunity to create a recipe using Hood Sour Cream. Even though I cook a lot, I am usually a recipe cook. I occasionally do a little kitchen improv but I never write it down. So in fact this was my first ever experience developing a recipe and I had a blast…

Vegan Late Summer Strata

Last night’s dinner was a bit thrown together but because of a CSA pick up from Lindentree and a lucky Davis Square farmers market coincidence we had a delicious, local, farm to table meal. My picky diner had spinach fettuccini from Valicenti and edamame from our organic Lindentree CSA. The rest of us enjoyed a…

School: Let it Go

For the amount of yoga gear, yoga talk, yoga instagram quotes, yoga lifestyle sites, blogs, shops, philosophies, and classes that exist in our world today, we are lacking in dhyana (or zen). In terms of the first days of school. I have a few pearls of wisdom to share with you. Let it go According…

Shake Your Way Back to School: Chai Latté Milkshake (Recipe)

Earlier this summer I attended Blogger Bash in NYC and Johnny Rockets challenged attendees to “Shake it Up” and come up with a Milkshake recipe of our own to help kick of National Shake Month. Fall is in the air, and the flavours of chai just seemed to make sense to me. As I was…

Cookies and Milkshake by Isabelle K. (Recipe)

Cookies and Milkshake Ingredients 1/2 cup milk 3 scoops of milk and cookies ice cream (We used Ben & Jerry’s) 4 diced chocolate chip cookies (We used Newman’s Own) 1/2 pint of whipped cream 2 Tablespoons of sugar 1 small chocolate chip cookie (For garnish) Directions: Mix ingredients in a blender except for the whipped…

Mochi Masterpiece by Miriam G. (Recipe)

Ingredients 1/2 cup of milk 3 small scoops vanilla ice cream 3 vanilla mochi cut into 4ths 1/4 pint of heavy cream 2 tsp granulated sugar Directions Blend ingredients together. Place blended ingredients in the freezer while you make the whipped cream. Put heavy cream in a bowl with the granulated sugar. Whip until just…

Labour Day Weekend Guide 2014

This weekend is either the last hurrah of summer or the let’s get this show on the road, back to school, get our lives organized weekend. It all depends on how you look at it. Last Hurrah Events St. Anthony’s Feast in the North End. Opening Weekend of King Richard’s Faire. Play date at the…

Back to School in the South End

Different families celebrate back to school in different ways. In France “la rentrée” if you are starting school is all about getting your very first “cartable” and your first leather cartable is definitely a coming of age moment. In Germany children get a schultüte which is a sort of back to school “goody bag” in…

Un-Weekend Guide

This weekend I have no guide for you except this. (which I meant to post yesterday but life pulled me away from the screen and I’m only getting back to you now….) Stop everything else even if it “must get done” because it still can probably wait a bit and do something you love. For…

Kugel & Cards: Vacation

On vacation, I try to be on vacation. I always give my husband the stink eye when he’s checking email on his phone. If he tells me he has a quick conference call I can feel my hear drop like an old elevator in my chest but I smile and shrug. He’s gotten much better…