LA Lady

by | Jul 23, 2010 | Behind the Scenes

  What a difference a week makes. Last weekend, the Hubs and I embarked on an exploratory apartment-hunting trip in LA and, one week later, now find ourselves with a one-year lease and a new home on our hands. And we couldn’t be happier! We have been...

Quick and Easy Summer Bruschetta

by | Jul 21, 2010 | Behind the Scenes, Food

  Quick and Easy Summer Bruschetta Have you ever made bruschetta? I had never made bruschetta before (or anything not from a recipe), but found myself with some olive bread, zucchini, grape tomatoes, kalamata olives and fresh basil and figured how hard could it...

Zucchini Fettuccine

by | Jul 21, 2010 | Behind the Scenes

When on the hunt for new recipes, I look for three things: 1) Is it easy? 2) Is it fast? 3) Is it delicious? Wait. My criteria for recipes is the same as most men’s criteria when hunting for women in bars? What would my imaginary therapist say about that? I...

Jazz-Age Dance Party

by | Jul 20, 2010 | Behind the Scenes

  How gloriously exuberant is this picture of the Jazz-Age Dance Party on Governors Island in New York City? Doesn’t it make you want to throw a Great Gatsby lawn party pronto? Where you can dance on table tops and swing from chandeliers? I’ve never...

Happy Bastille Day!

by | Jul 14, 2010 | Behind the Scenes

  Happy Bastille Day, or Joyeux Quatorze Juillet for you Francophiles! Today brings back a food flood of memories of our time in Paris this past fall. Mostly, it brings back delicious memories of pain au chocolat and gelato, traipsing around the Marais, feeling...

The Knot: Would You Let Your Lover...

by | Jul 13, 2010 | Behind the Scenes

  One year. It had been one year since my last hair cut. The longest my hair had been since I was single digits. Hair might be misleading. Rat’s nest, Kool-Aid-drinking, Grey Gardens hurricane cyclone (fill in the skank blank) would be more apropos. After...