City Gardening

If you live in a city, gardening can be few and far between.  First of all, there are not really backyards unless you are one of the fortunate ones.  We are not, so windowsills are your friend.

Utilizing organic seeds and organic soil

My husband enjoys gardening so he planted our first herb seeds in Boston today.  My office gets tons of sunlight (sometimes too much!) so that's where our planter of herbs is going to go.  In New York, we had a windowsill of herbs and they did pretty well!  We enjoyed a few meals of basil pesto pasta and also used some basil for our caprese bruschetta.

Grow Baby Grow!

I Love Cookbooks

I'd have to say that I'm not much of a reader.  I occasionally like to read for fun, but I absolutely love to read cookbooks.  Most of our gifts that are given to us are cookbooks and you can look at all of them on our bookshelf.  Yesterday, I visited the Cambridge Public Library (picture above) that is very close to our new apartment.  The library is gorgeous.  It has a patio where you can sit and read and very nifty self checkout system. I got my library card yesterday and went straight to the cookbooks section.  There are SO many!  I checked out a few cookbooks: Momofuku, Dave's Delicious Dinners and Best of Best Cookbooks by Food and Wine.

I've heard good things about this cookbook so eager to try some recipes.

I also checked out this non-cookbook for fun.  Reading the first 20 pages, it's entertaining!

Be sure to check out your library to see if they have a cookbook section!  I often like to browse through them before actually buying them.  If you are lucky like me, you will have a cookbook section that feels like shopping at your bookstore!

P.S.  Started writing in my blog again and moved from New York to Boston a few weeks ago!

Unforgettable Per Se

I thought I would finish the story and say that the Per Se dinner on our 3rd wedding anniversary was one of the best dinners that my husband and I had ever had.  We were treated with such great service.  I had written them an e-mail not knowing if anyone was going to read it, but they sure did!  I shared with them our story about our fund and how we had been saving for a few years to go there.  They made our experience truly memorable...and the food wasn't so bad either ;)

Here are some pictures from our dinner:

Gougeres and Salmon Cones

Personalized menus

Oysters and Pearls - heaven in your mouth!
"Oysters and Pearls"
"Sabayon" of Pearl Tapioca with Island Creek Oysters and Sterling White Sturgeon Caviar