5 Things & 3 More

5 happy moments from the last 5 days: 1. Baking and eating Ovenly's peanut butter cookies. 2. Editing endless photos of cherry blossom. 3. Running with friends for the first time...

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The Silent Beauty of the Cherry Blossoms

Following up on the post below, I just wanted to share with you all this totally unprofessional video of the cherry blossom, in case you hadn't already seen it on Instagram, and needed this endless, pastel pink beauty to be vividly brought to lif...

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Brooklyn's Cherry Blossom

We'd been waiting for the perfect day to visit Brooklyn Botanical Garden's famous cherry blossoms for many, many weeks. Every day for at least a month we've been repeatedly checking...

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5 Things

5 happy things from the last 5 days: 1. Sunny evenings in the backyard. 2. Many, many margaritas at Patron's #PerfectMargarita event. 3. Peppermint tea. 4. Pizza in the...

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Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pie

We first walked past the big pink sign pointing to Steve’s Key Lime Pie last September. I (in my food-obsessed head) took note, but for some reason ignored the instruction to...

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Hometown Bar-B-Que

The best barbecue (by which I mean American barbecue - the smoky, slow-cooked, Southern kind, not the British word for any form of outdoor Summer eating) I've ever had is undoubtedly...

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5 Things & 3 More

5 happy moments from the last few days: 1. Catching the last of the sun's rays in our little garden after work 2. Broccoli and anchovy mac and cheese 3. Rhubarb 4. This...

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Two Hands

C and O came to visit us in NYC, so we obviously had to meet for brunch. C choose Two Hands from a sillily long list that I sent over, and so, after some confusion about...

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5 Things

5 happy moments from the last 5 days: 1. My best friend came to visit. We managed not to cry. I'm not going to let her leave. 2. This song. On repeat. Permanently. 3. Evening...

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Juliana's Pizza

For maman and papa's most recent visits, we had all managed to get tickets to watch Nice Fish at St Anne's Warehouse. News that Mark Rylance was in 1 mile proximity from  my...

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Baked in Brooklyn

A sunny spring day was made up of a lot of walking as we led maman and papa across Gowanus, up through Park Slope (via Milk Bar for coffee), around Prospect Park, along Windsor...

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5 Things

5 happy moments from the last few days: 1. Political TV shows. Watching multiple at once. Obsessed. 2. Easter cookies and Easter Peeps. 3. Having less hair to brush in the...

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