Things I Like

aka "Bits & Pieces"

1. Cauliflower
2. Heart shaped corn muffins
3. Olive & artichoke tapenade on sourdough
4. Vegan chocolate cake, recipe from Joy the Baker
5. Roasted chicken with roasted potatoes and veggies
6. Country fried chicken!! Major accomplishment
7. Homemade gnocchi
8. My crazy cousins
9. Our Oscars menu

It's been an interesting week. Happy to be working more freelance and thrilled to be getting started with my vintage store. Putting together more inventory and having a big photo shoot soon, get ready!!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend :-)

Bits + Pieces

1. Super cool baking mold (of lemurs!) Chako's brother, Matt got me for Christmas

2. A plate of Puerto Rican yumminess I cooked up for the Gaidica clan

3. Seven best friends ringing in 2012

4. The coolest Ewok Cat EVER

5. A tunneling Willa 

6. Boo...giving Chako a wink

7. Super amazing chameleon I found at the PetSmart, Chako says I can't have any more pets

8. Post cake making equipment

9. Coy eyes from Beaker

Bits + Pieces

A lovely weekend full of the zoo, family and LOTS of thrifting!

1. The sea lion habitat, The Prospect Park Zoo

2. Monkeys, The Prospect Park Zoo

3. My beautiful cousin, Gabriella

4. Gabriella and baby brother, Stefano

5. My very first Battenburg Cake!

6. New storage boxes, thrifted

7. Cookbooks, finally they have a place to live

8. Gold & black serving platter, thrifted

9. Crystal wine glasses, thrifted (I also got the matching champagnes glasses!! $1 each!)

10. Small crystal dish, thrifted

11. Spices in their new home

12. Precious sugar bowl, anthropologie

13. Awesome 70s green tumblers, thrifted

14. Rice pot! Thrifted

15. Amazing art by Miss Willa

16. Small pot, thrifted

Bits + Pieces

1. "Before I Die..." Brooklyn Heights

2. Jar lids from a canning adventure

3. Pork tenderloin with orange-ginger marmalade

4. Happy and refreshed people being crazy

5. Fig infused gin with fresh lemon juice on the rocks

Hope you had a lovely weekend! :-)

Belated Bits + Pieces

1. Madame Princess Lady Boo sleeping on Chako

2. Golden Baby Tomatoes 

3. Kale, Apple & Walnut Salad

4. Rosemary Cheese Twists

5. Photo booth kids!

6. Photo booth buddies!

7. Devil cats hijack the bed

8. Meringue Ghosts

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! 

I have some fun spooky, fall recipes to be posted later today or tomorrow. Have an amazing Sunday!

Bits & Pieces

1. Fresh figs prepped for Fig Infused Gin! Get ready...

2. A lovely flower Willa & I came across walking around Prospect Heights

3. A cat drinking a martini. She's a drunk.

4. Chili for Chako

5. Another coconut brownie show

6. A Calico Devil. Drag Queen. (Check out her nails...)

Exciting news! I got a waffle iron! WOOOO HOOOOO. Waffles this weekend!!!!

Have a happy weekend all.