One of our favorite ways to conjure memories of a favorite vacation is to make some of the foods we discovered away from home, ideally with ingredients we’ve brought back. Tortilla soup reminds us of Mexico City and tofu with ground pork and rice takes us back to Laos. Treacle …

Everybody wants to bake bread these days. As our Covid semi-quarantine rounds on a full year we all crave things that are unique and a bit of a treat. And for most people warm fresh bread is comfort and just the right amount of indulgent.  It makes the house smell …

Updated march 2020 Following two exotic trips over the winter (Guadeloupe and Senegal), plus spring break jaunt to Pittsburgh, we opted to be relatively frugal for the summer and staycation. We wanted it to feel like a real vacation, though, not just a week hanging around the house. One goal …

There’s always one week of summer where everyone is home from camp and work but we aren’t going away. We need things to do so that we feel like we’re really on vacation. More than that, we need to get out of the house so we don’t spend our “vacation” …