Entries Tagged as 'Foodage'
Making Apple Butter
Even though I am in the habit of cooking and baking from scratch, apple butter is one of those food items I associate with being jarred and found at a roadside farm stand in Massachusetts, without any knowledge or curiosity about how it got that way. It’s untouchable, and thus, I had never even [...]
Categories: Foodage
Jellied or Whole Cranberry Sauce?
Why, jellied of course! This year marks my first Thanksgiving not travelling home to Pittsburgh; I will be staying on in Brooklyn and my parents will be coming to us! Even though it breaks tradition, I’m slightly relieved to not be in any way involved with Thanksgiving travel, airports, delays, traffic, etc. With that, [...]
Categories: Artsy/Crafty · Foodage
High Falls, New York
For my birthday, I planned a trip upstate to a little town by the name of High Falls, at the suggestion of a college friend who grew up a stone’s throw from there. With a lot of internet searches and help from this friend’s veg-head sister about veg-friendly restaurants, and the beauty of zipcar, we [...]
26 Candles
I turn 26 today, at 12:46pm to be exact, and I’m hoping to have a fun-filled half weekend upstate (NY) with Ian, in and around some towns that I know and love. Sadly, I will not be celebrating my birthday with Brenna (whose birthday is Nov. 6) for the 3rd year in a row, or [...]
Not much has changed :)
My birthday is November 2, so while I was always slightly peeved that I couldn’t have the Hawaiian-themed summer birthday parties like my sister, I did love having Halloween-themed birthday parties. My mom made these cookies every Halloween, and they eventually came to be known as “my cookies,” because I loved them so much [...]
Candy Corn Expressions (Craftiness and Cookies!)
My mom made the above Halloween crib decoration (hung high enough so we wouldn’t get strangled!), which my dad sent as a photo in an email recently, pondering, “Maybe this is what burned in the craft synapses in your brains.” That is my sister (18 months older than I) in the picture, and it does [...]
Categories: Artsy/Crafty · Foodage · Life