NY Neighborhoods Project: East Village Sampler Platter

Forces in the universe conspired to have the East Village be the first stop on the NY Neighborhoods Project a couple of weekends ago. Cir...

NY Neighborhoods Project

Image borrowed from NYInsiderGuide.com One of the things that’s both hard and exciting about being in a new city is that after years o...

Leftover Makeover: Bits & Pieces Cocktail

  If you to look in our freezer, you might think that there are some weird hoarding issues going on.  There are plastic bags filled wit...

Hunger Games Dinner: A Menu for Meat Eaters and Vegetarians

I’d been meaning to read The Hunger Games for ages.  I love fantasy and YA fiction – yeah, I’m a little bit of a nerd.   I was bummed whe...

Tasty Eats Around Seneca Lake: Veraisons Restaurant & The Red Dove Tavern

In our short time in the Finger Lakes we had two really nice meals in the area.  Well, really we had three – our friend Laura’s mom made a b...

Wine Weekend in the Finger Lakes

A small reception to celebrate the marriage of our friends Matt and Laura got us out of the city and upstate this past weekend.  They got...

The High Line: Now Twice As Fun

Today one of my favorite spots in NYC got even better.   Twice as good to be exact. I fell in love with the High Line the first time I...