Valentine or no, this year you don't have to celebrate alone. With a husband in the restaurant business assuredly to be working, I have intentions of curling up on the couch with my snuggly fur ball and binging Sex & the City reruns. In true SATC style, I'll be sipping on this ultra classic cocktail with...
Find Your Tribe, Love Them Fiercely
Some days are just so. good. Life is seriously crazy. It is so easy to get bogged down in the everyday. Work, school, babies, dating. Whatever it is. You keep on going task to task to task, there's just A LOT of it. Yesterday was a chance to unplug from all the crazy busy stress and reconnect...
Winter Soup Recipe Round Up
Happy Sunday morning friends! On this chilly New England morning in January, I raise my coffee cup to toast you. Whether you spent the weekend lounging in sweatpants watching netflix and football or went on a 10-mile hike or drank bloodies and brunched real hard - you did you, so cheers to that. The weather in...
Mexican Black Bean Soup with Bacon Corn Salsa
Sometimes tacos get lonely. All that goodness hidden away in it's little tortilla blanket. They need friends, friends like Mexican Black Bean Soup. You're skeptical, right? Friends for tacos means less room for tacos. I'm with you on the logic, but after one spoonful of this smooth, spicy and smoky soup your tacos are going...
Ruka Restobar | The Godfrey Hotel Boston
Its true what they say, mommin' ain't easy. Last Wednesday, the stars aligned. Shea had already been dropped off at Nana's, an offer had been made to cover my shift at the bar, and there was an extra ticket with my name on it for Boston Ballet's The Nutcracker. While there is nothing that compares...
Matcha Chia Seed Pudding
New year, new you, right? After two months of heavy indulgence in all the best edible vices, January will be a month of resetting the gut. 30 long, long, long...did I mention long?....days of no wine :::stifled sob::: natural sugars, and minimal carbohydrates. In all reality, it certainly doesn't have to be the start of...
Farewell to 2016: the Final Edition of Frank
Well. Here it is. The final edition of Frank. An eviction process 18 months in the making. Yesterday marked the first of what will be many follow up appointments over a lifetime, but for Henry and I it finally felt like closure. In the past year and a half I've learned far more than I...
Homemade Balsamic Bruschetta
It's official. In the two days left before Christmas, Shea and I had our first grocery store walk-out-with-nothing experience. While standing in front of the meat department, trying to decide if I'm making lamb, ham, or beef, Shea had her mind made up that she was absolutely over being in the grocery store. In that moment...
Penuche Fudge
::In sports announcer voice:: ARE YOU READY????? No really, are you ready for the best freaking fudge you will ever put on those cute little taste buds of yours? I mean, don't get me wrong. There are one hundred thousand flavors of fudge and a lot of them are really amazing, but penuche is the creme...
Squid Ink Pasta with Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes
Making homemade pasta seems like an expensive, technical and daunting task but it really is as simple as the ingredients. There is just something about that light, smooth, sauce soaked texture of homemade pasta that just keeps me replenishing my flour and eggs supply. Especially if it's the seducing dark, ink color of squid ink...