I truly want to see this played in real life someday. Please.
Game prep:
Arrange the cans of beer around the bottle of rum. The cans are Pawns of the Secret Order, the rum is the King, and the arrangement is called the Castle.
Decide on 4 Zones, and arrange platforms ( chairs, buckets, anything ) in patterns through them. The 5th Zone is the Zone with the…
Right about now, your CSA is probably full to bursting with gorgeous tree fruits, maybe even more than you can eat in a week. Peach picking season is winding down, just in time to go apple picking. And how can you resist the gorgeous fall produce at the farmers’ markets?
It’s a lot of fruit to deal with. Even if you take up canning as many of my friends have, you’re still left with a lot of jam. So use some of that fruit or jam to fill a crostata, a quick and easy fruit tart.
Travel article on Lucca, Italy, featured on the front page of the Boston Globe’s Sunday Travel section.
(reposted here)
Boston Marathon 2010: Heartbreak Hill.
Boston Marathon 2009: The scene on Heartbreak Hill.
Boston Moms: Creative birthday party ideas for kids.
Boston Marathon 2008: Getting to the starting line.
First in a series, test-run on Bostonist.
When I was little, I used to watch my grandmother cook. She didn’t write anything down, so neither did I. I thought I’d learned her recipes, kept them in the muscle memory of my hands.
I grew up, she passed away, I worked more and cooked less. One day I realized I couldn’t remember anymore.
I feared it was too late. But when I told her friends M and A my regret, I discovered they’d all shared recipes, and the friends had written them down. Now every week we pull out the card file, and I learn a new dish. Some were from my grandmother, some are M or A’s, and some were scrawled on the back of a paper plate during a party, source unknown. But each recipe, I assure you, is from someone’s Italian grandmother.
Boston Marathon 2007: Loading the buses.
Boston Marathon 2006: Early morning.
