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Paris is always a good idea
Asheville
A Paris Feast
Tradition
Most of our Christmas rituals are about food… surprise! Cookie-baking (all the favorites from years past and newly discovered recipes), holiday gifts, buffets for get-togethers… but our favorite rituals are the ones on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We always have lasagna on Christmas Eve, and it’s always made by Barry. He used to stayContinue reading “Tradition”
“beer. burgers. basement.”
We visited Silver Spring, Maryland last weekend, and discovered a great dive bar/restaurant there called Quarry House Tavern. Their tagline: beer. burgers. basement. All true. There isn’t even a sign on the street for the Tavern — but after viewing a streetview Google image for the restaurant, we knew it was next door to anotherContinue reading ““beer. burgers. basement.””
As sweet as Tupelo Honey…
In July we had a fabulous time in Asheville, North Carolina, and one of best places we ate was the Tupelo Honey Cafe in downtown Asheville. The website deems them “Asheville’s New South Kitchen.” They serve farm to table cuisine, and everything we had was great! Everything is served on colorful Fiestaware. There’s fried greenContinue reading “As sweet as Tupelo Honey…”
Yum… can’t wait to go back!
In March we had brunch at an amazing little cafe in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh — the Point Brugge Cafe. We all had the Liege Belgian waffles, similar to the picture above (I knew I should have brought my camera in!) but they were covered in a raspberry mango puree. Delicious! We gotContinue reading “Yum… can’t wait to go back!”
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