Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters

Falling Back: Adjusting to the Time Change

As the parent of young children there are many ways to cope with the time change. You can plan ahead and slowly adjust your family’s schedule by 15 minutes a day for several days. You can try to function on “old time” for a little while and slowly adjust after the fact (because forethought is…

Vote and You Shall Receive

Get up and vote today and you shall be rewarded. You will not only have the honour of choosing the next president, but you will also use your super powers as a valid member of this democracy. Just in case that wasn’t enough, some companies have decided to give you a little boost. Vote and…

Farmer’s Market: The Last Hurrah

In New England, we are coming to the end of our farmer’s market season. If you’ve been inspired to hit the farmer’s markets then you still have a chance. This time of year is a great time to stockpile for the winter. I am about to hit all the garlic baskets and load up…

Delivery 101: In Season

In Season. This is my dream delivery service (and I have yet to try it) but I just can’t keep it to myself. I’ll give you the basics, and once I try it I will fill in the details. I can place my order online on a Saturday before noon and the following magic will happen: I…

Weekly Bump: Zing Pizza

‘m back and enjoying the beautiful Fall weather and scenery. I’m happy to announce that the cafe at the Porter Square Book Store has finally opened Zing Pizza, their little lunch/pizza place around the corner from the Porter Square shopping plaza. Location: 1925 Mass. Ave. Fare: comments by Gini on chow hound stated the following: …

Halloween Challenge

I’ll be gone with some of my family until Halloween so in the meantime I have a challenge for you all. It’s frightening how quickly we get into a routine, and how difficult we think it is to change. The reason I’ve been thinking about this is that the Dunkin Donuts with a drive-through is…

This Week’s Pizza

In the fridge: eggplant from Lindentree CSA, fresh mozzarella cheese from the CSA, plain old-school white mushrooms from Market Basket, a tiny bit of Applegate ham left over from making lunches, whole wheat dough from whole foods thawing In the pantry: pizza sauce, oregano, Maldon’s sea salt, pepper grinder On the counter: CSA and farmer’s…

Halloween

Let’s begin with a little something scary. Apparently, we’re still using a lot of plastic bottles and recycling very few. Here is a great animation representation of that. Yes, it’s a little scary but safe for all eyes young and old. If you’re thinking ahead start getting your co-workers, teachers, a useful gift, but them…

Almost Defeated: Juggling on a Monday Morning

I like to have a plan for whatever I do. I’m not so rigid that I can’t let things go with the flow, but I just can’t function without a starting and ending point and a vague idea of how I’m getting from A to B. Somehow, with the addition of school this year and…

Food For Thought

Main course: I’m not actually going to give you food for your thoughts, but spending time thinking about this may change how you shop and eat. The question is how do you define value when it comes to food? Do you just look at price? What about the quality of the food and the value…

Delivery 101: Boston Organics

When my daughter was old enough for baby food, I had fantasies of steaming my organic veggies and using the fabulous food mill that I got as a baby gift to make her the most delicious, nutritious, hand-shmooshed food a child’s palate could experience. I thought on weeks that I just couldn’t find the time to…

Grocery Store Delivery 101: The Supermarkets

Once you have kids, delivery has a whole new meaning, purpose and value. The first delivery is usually the most painful, but once you get used to the whole process it’s a breeze. And, no, I’m not talking about the hospital, birth center, home birth, water birth kind…I do mean food delivery. It’s new, you might not be…