I had a fantastic brunch with Emily and Natasha on Sunday morning. We were budget-friendly, had the brunch at Emily's house and each contributed. I brought fruit, an egg bake and bloody mary's, Emily made a delicious blueberry coffee cake and French Press coffee and Natasha brought mimosas.We took a ...
Cocktails / Beverages
Fabulous Tea
Check out this gorgeous sparkling tea (Golden Star Tea) I found in the lastest issue of Metropolitan Home. It would be a great non-alchoholic option for my pregger friends (Jill!) or for anyone who isn't a huge drinker. Garnish it with a raspberry or strawberry and you have a gorgeous faux cocktail ...
Tomatillos are delicious
I celebrated my first ever Cinco de Mayo with good friends Siobhan, Tom and Matt. We made an amazing dinner. I played the role of sous chef and Siobhan was the executive chef. The guys provided great company.The (freaking fabulous) menu:Homemade margaritas (translation, I squeezed juice out of 12 ...
Public Service Announcement (and dinner party details)
So the pretty cocktail I had such high expectations for was not good. Repeat...not good!! My two girlfriends (Kristin and Libby) agreed. The drink was way too sweet, too lavender-y and almost tasted like body oils or lotion. The lavender was overpowering. In Rachel Ray's defense, I changed up the ...
The prettiest cocktail
My girlfriends, Libby, Kristin and I have "dinner club" every so often. That basically just means we get together at each other's houses and make a fabulous meal and drink wine. Dinner club used to be weekly but us gals get busy! So lately it has been monthly.Well I am very excited for our dinner ...
Slender-tinis
My girlfriends and I created the Slender-tini a couple years ago when I was on my 80th Southbeach diet kick and I trying to go lo-carb. The diet sucked and I am no longer a fan of Southbeach but the Slender-tini was one good thing that came from it.I'm sure this is a fairly common drink, so I am by ...