When Chris and I travel we love heading to restaurants that we really like for a second time. We enjoy getting to work our way through a menu that’s carefully cr...

If you’ve been reading my blog for while now, you know how important coffee is to me. We love making cappuccinos at home, but when we’re on the road we don’t jus...

Seriously! You need to make this beef stew. My husband made it a few weekends ago and I loved it so much that I demanded he give me the recipe for the blog. It’s...

One of my new year’s resolutions is to have more adventures in cooking this year! I have so many cookbooks on my bookshelf and instead of finding new recipes, I...

Since we went to Florence during the summer, we missed tasting the classic roasted chestnuts served warm from local carts on street corners. 

So this Christmas we...

At our favorite coffee shop in Florence, Ditta Artigianale, where we would head every morning for breakfast and cappuccino, we received a surprise drink on our t...

Though the past few weekends have been filled with a day trip and a weekend away, sometimes there is nothing better than a lazy Saturday at home, early morning b...

Every year it’s been a small tradition of mine to surprise Chris with a date - where we go out to eat and see a show. It all started when I surprised him with ti...

I’m always looking for ways to surprise Chris with fun and different Christmas gifts. I love finding him things he doesn’t expect and two years ago I did just th...

Ice cream is pretty good. But gelato is even better. Gelato is churned slower than ice cream which gives it a smoother texture. In Florence, we tried 3 different...