BUNNIES!

I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter weekend filled with brightly colored peeps, sunshine and plenty of chocolate bunnies! I had all of these and more spending the weekend with my 'foster' family, the Dirolfs. With adorable care bear bedsheets, a seemingly endless table filled with 'new cousins' and an evening laughing at John Cleese in Fawlty Towers I instantly felt at home. If you're like me and away for the holidays listen to Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and sing it loud: Home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHKuB85EgnI

Tea Biscuits

I've been trying to get back in the swing of things after my much needed and glorious Spring Break in Burlington. There's nothing good food, friends and some mountains wont cure I'm convinced. In an attempt to help motivate myself I tried bribing with tea biscuits. I was suppose to reward myself after finishing a To-Do on my list but slowly found myself taking them in advance and "promising" to do it later seeing as now I was obligated having eaten the reward. Instead I just ate a lot of them and had a tummy ache and a long To-Do list staring back at me. At least now I can cross off Update Blog and feel a little less remorse.

If I Can Make Bagels, I Can Do Anything!

Four years ago my Memere cut out a newspaper clipping of a bagel recipe and sent it along with her monthly letter. I have since had it in my mind to bake my own bagels. Instead over the last four years I've simply memorized the faces of the engaged couples on the opposite side. I decided recently in a symbolic gesture that to really take hold of my life I had to quite making excuses about time and ingredients and go ahead and make the darn bagels. And I'm so happy I did because not only was it fun and delicious but I got the satisfaction of know that it's never too late to do the things you should have done. And who knows, maybe some day I'll open a bagel shop (at the very least I can always impress my friends at breakfast). What's your favorite flavor?

Shalimar's

A delightful treat to spending the weekend in Burlington, Vermont is Shalimar's indian buffet on a lazy Sunday morning. As soon as you walk in the door you feel as though you've been invited into someone's home and they just finished cooking a feast for you, complete with an eve-full glass of water. I wish I knew more about the magic that went into the making of the food I greedily scarfed down because each dish had a distinct and complicated flavor, and sometimes that flavor was extremely spicy. I'm going to make it a personal mission to learn to prepare authentic Indian dishes, or at the very least find a comparable Shalimar's in every town I'm in.