With the holiday season upon us, the next few weeks of posts are going to be related to things that can help make your holidays a bit easier. The may be recipes that you can pull together in a hurry, cocktails for some festive cheer […]

During the summer, Pete and I were lucky enough to spend some time in Padova (Padua). While we were there, we saw one of the greatest masterpieces of Western art, the Scrovegni Chapel, and we had fabulous meals at Le Calandre and Osteria dal Capo. One of […]

East meets Italy in this global twist of an Chinese classic. Dinner reboot – Taking some leftovers and turning them into a new meal that does not at all resemble the original meal. In this meal we are going to use leftover rice, leftover porchetta […]

  Hot off the presses! This just in! There is a cool new site that allows you to get 5% back on hotel bookings. Introducing….. The best part is that you can make your booking directly with the hotel (or through The Guestbook website). As […]