Cranberry Salsa
on Nov 6, 2009 in Healthy Cooking appetizers holiday sauce cranberry chutney cranberry relish cranberry salsa Recipe salsa recipe thanksgiving side dishes Got chips? It was mid-summer when I started dreaming up this cranberry concoction. While my family and I were contemplating whether the elevated temperatures really warranted turning on the air conditioner, I was also starting to fantasize about how...

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Recipe
on Nov 3, 2009 in Feeding Kids Healthy Cooking appetizers roasted pumpkin seeds recipe Until last week, I had never carved a pumpkin myself. There was this one time in high school where I insisted on having a carved pumpkin … but aside from a tiny knife jab or two, I didn’t do the actual carving. But on Halloween, I carved...

Holiday Project Idea: Drop In & Decorate
on Nov 2, 2009 in Great Gifts News Break On the web holiday organization charitable causes drop in & decorate holiday service projects Sometimes, it feels like I blink and a whole month has spun by. That’s what October felt like. It was a whirlwind of trips to New Hampshire and the Cape, along with birthdays, work projects and Halloween. I fear that I might blink again soon an...

Spooky Cheese Ghosts
on Oct 30, 2009 in Feeding Kids holiday cheese ghosts creepy treats halloween snacks “Mommy, what’s this?” Will asked me when he sat down to dinner and saw two spooky ghosts on his plate. I could see him thinking hard as he studied the white apparitions.  “Are they ghosts?” Yes, indeed, they were ghosts...

Happy Halloween!
on Oct 30, 2009 in Uncategorized Last year, I was the mom who didn’t. I didn’t make it to school events on time. I didn’t remember when gym day was. I didn’t send in trinkets for holidays (a lot of parents do in our school). It was a big round of didn’t...

Eating on the Cape
on Oct 28, 2009 in Feeding Kids Vacation eating out cape cod cooke's seafood cottage street bakery lobster claw restaurant orleans the sunnyside So, where did we eat this weekend on the Cape? The Cape. It feels so unnatural to me to say Cape Cod. It’s so formal, like something that someone who hadn’t ever been there would say. But I’ve been there many times. As a child, my f...

Weekend in Cape Cod
on Oct 27, 2009 in Vacation cape cod cape cod maritime museum cottage st. bakery cranberry festival fresh cranberries On Friday, not long after hitting publish on previous blog post here, I loaded the kids into my trusty little Civic and headed to Cape Cod for the weekend. It was dark and rainy, but the drive was pretty easy and peaceful. And when we arrived, just a...

Lemon Blueberry Muffins Recipe
on Oct 23, 2009 in breakfasts muffins lemon blueberry muffins lemon poppy seed Recipe When I was in high school, I had a close group of friends who always hung out together. As groups of friends go, we weren’t always all the best of friends — there were ebbs and flows, just like any relationship. But one thing was certain:...

Regional Bites: Roast Beef Sandwiches of Greater Boston
on Oct 22, 2009 in Restaurants eating out sandwich blue house boston kelly's roast beef roast beef sandwich salem Some foods are ubiquitous to areas. Philadelphia has its cheesesteaks. The south has its BBQ. New York has its cheesecake. Boston has its baked beans. But for every well-known regional food, there are dozens of lesser known ones that are just as wond...

Blue Cheese and Caramelized Shallot Quiche Recipe
on Oct 20, 2009 in eggs blue cheese quiche easy lunch recipe egg recipe quiche recipe shallots Last night, after a rushed day, my husband and I did something together that doesn’t happen enough these days: we power-cleaned the house. In short order, my office was transformed from neglected storage space to usable thinking space. By the t...