I was scanning over a daily recipe email from Food and Wine Magazine and saw an interesting section on DIY Soda. I tend to stay away from soda unless its ginger ale when my stomach is upset or a couple guilty pleasure sips of coke when I’m eating a burger and fries. Being able to [...]
Read more →I have been remiss in posting. “After examining your conscience and telling God of your sorrow, go into the confessional. You may kneel at the screen or sit to talk face-to-face with the priest. Begin your confession with the sign of the cross, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of [...]
Read more →Mulled wine is a festive winter drink but I am more a fan of sangria with a seasonal twist. Last weekend I met up with my gal pals in Providence for a friends Thanksgiving. This included a 15lb beer can turkey, Narraganset tall boy to be exact, so while the boys were busy wrestling with [...]
Read more →Recently, my cooking slumped. I slouch around the kitchen, exhausted after work; I rely on old standards and My Steady Gentleman Caller. Dishes pose an existential crisis. The majority of interesting foodstuffs coming out of the kitchen result from the efforts of My Gentleman, and aside from breaking in the Kitchen Aid with VBar for [...]
Read more →Check out this amazing article in the NYT style section today on preserving fruit in alcohol rather than canning. The crows do an awful lot of booze-fruit eating in the summertime when we fancy-up our white wines and simple cocktails with a little fruit garnish to be munched on at the end of the drink. [...]
Read more →Don’t you just love Thursdays? With just one day until the weekend, it seems like anything goes. When I was living in Jamaica Plain, it was all about the late-night Milky Way dance sesh (until they changed locations and became the “Lame Way”) but now that this crow has made a nest in New York, [...]
Read more →Too much mint and jalapenos? How about some lite summer snacking of homemade salsa and guac with an iced cold pitcher of mojitos to wash it all down. That’s what VBar, Emily and I were up to a couple weeks ago. I can’t believe I forgot how delicious and easy making your own salsa is! [...]
Read more →Laaaaid back. Last night my friends Alex and Traven joined me for some cocktail mixing and summertime sippin’. Check out what this little crow whipped up… We muddled a half container of blackberries in fresh-squeezed lemon juice with a touch of sugar. Next, we added about 5-6 shots of gin and a bottle of Prosecco [...]
Read more →The Boston Crows got a girls night out last week in celebration of Riane’s visit, and boy did we do it up! Mo, Holly and I have been simply dying to try out relatively-new hot spot Drink for what feels like ages, and this finally afforded us the opportunity. Located in the rarely visited Fort Point neighborhood of [...]
Read more →Vbar and I flew north this past weekend to go visit Riane in the lively city of Montreal. It was a packed apartment with six of us pals plus two cute pups so meal planning involved some strategy. The first morning there we made a giant batch of scrambled eggs and bagels from a [...]
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