Revelry Reverie

I came across an article on scary additives that I thought I’d share. The link will be at the bottom. Note that the “found in” sections are not exhaustive lists – read your labels. Here’s the top 10 scariest additives, as according to the editors of Men’s Health. Olestra (found in Lay’s Light chips and…

This isn’t rocket science. You have to marinate them. And you have to start with some good caps. Shriveled caps don’t work for me – they’re tough. I don’t mean fully dried ones, I mean ones that are old enough to shrivel. Skip those and go for some good, fresh, fleshy caps. The shriveled ones…

One day I ate a tiger, and then a tall giraffe. And when I ate an elephant, it really made me laugh! And then my belly looked like this: My apologies for the graininess of the image. iPhone, low light, the usual excuses. Of course, I’m just kidding. I didn’t eat any of those things…

This past weekend, Bob and I took my parents to Canandaigua for a night. Our plan was to attend a wine and food pairing class at the New York Wine and Culinary Center on Saturday, spend the night at Belhurst Castle, and return home on Sunday. That’s more or less how the weekend went, but…

For New Year’s, Bob and I went to Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario for 5 days. “But Zandy, why on earth would you go somewhere colder on vacation?” Glad you asked. Because of the surrounding geography, there is a small area that has a very temperate climate. Due to the surrounding lakes and prevailing winds, the town…

Well I definitely haven’t blogged more. It’s a shame, because I have a really good post percolating, and I want to get it out there before it dissipates.  It will be all about Christmas and New Years, and what we did and what we ate, where we went and good wine. Tantalizing, no? Yes. So…

Our puppy Penny likes to help me cook. She’s always been a kitchen dog. When she was actually a puppy (puppy age), she would stand in the kitchen and whine at the oven if it was on and we weren’t in the room. She’s also always been a no-good scavenger. When we first brought her…

Half way done with the experiment, in other words. I hadn’t thought about it at the time, but I started the blog at the perfect time, so that half of the blog fell in one year, and the other half fell in a new year. What a great time for an evaluation and fervent vows…

*So sweet, they named it twice. Last weekend Bob and I made a trek up to Rochester (and surrounding areas) for the weekend. We drove up on Friday night, and checked into our hotel. We hemmed and hawed about where to eat, checking Trip Advisor and Yelp. Finally, we settled on JoJo’s Bistro and Wine…

I was one of those lucky people who had more than one Thanksgiving this year. I got three, if you count the actual day itself. Two if you only consider a big dinner with family as Thanksgiving. They were a week apart. First was Thanksgiving: The Prequel. It was at Bob’s parents’ house the Sunday…