as you can probably imagine based on the date of this post, its been several weeks now that the rhubarb pictured has been languishing in our crisper. purchased during the height of rhubarb season,…
this weekend, some rare time off to enjoy the wedding of a friend and a luxurious sunday stroll through our new neighborhood. in the late afternoon we popped into stinky bklyn to taste their…
a few weeks ago james and i came home after a long day out and all we really wanted was a little snack. we didn’t have anything in the way of store bought treats,…
{aunt carrie’s, narragansett, ri}. {season’s first lobster roll}. {the view of point judith from aunt carrie’s}. nothing says new england summer like a hot lobster roll smothered in butter and devoured in minutes. after…
there are a lot of sweet tutorials about coloring eggs this time of year. but i’m tempted to say that nature does it best. what do you say?…
means time to bake cookies. these ones, made with chocolate chips and cranberries. some things are good.…
james got some disappointing news yesterday afternoon, so we were in need of pretty serious comfort food for dinner. our friend jenny has been running a column over at wine spectator, where she shares…
we have a new milk frother. it is about the fanciest thing we own. i’ve become a frothing queen, even taken to frothing the milk i add to my afternoon cup of earl grey.…
i wish i was better at breakfasts. my favorite breakfast foods are warm and buttery. but many mornings by the time i’ve finished blinking my eyes open over my first cup of tea, i’m…
while i will continue to tout the restorative effects of filling your home with wintertime bulbs and watching them grow inch by careful inch, there’s another quick fix for fighting the winter blues that…