Life, Food, Wine

40-Something Life: Balancing Life with Food and Wine...

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A number of years into writing my blog, which I love doing, I realized the weight had gone up, the exercise had slowed and my physical peak is no longer a peak, it’s more of a trough, a very deep trough. I work all the time and when I am not working, I want to relax, have a glass of wine and dinner at a restaurant with a friend.

How do you balance life with food and wine?

Standing up for My Rights in Size Fives

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The size five is so elusive these days it is like hunting for the perfect boyfriend at age 40-something. I know he is out there but I am so exhausted with looking for him that giving up altogether might be the only option left to me. I am destined to be shoeless as well as boyfriendless and I honestly don't know which one is worse?

Wine Wednesday: Let's Play Some Wine Games...

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A very fun way to improve your knowledge of wine is to play games. What’s more fun that? Check out these engaging and knowledge building games to enhance your wine experience…

Ugh - I need to go on a Diet Again...

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Let’s talk Diets. Why you ask? Well, because I need to go on one again and I dont like doing them alone! Maybe it’s my blog and food writing or the fact that I eat to much in general? Too much wine? No, that can’t be it at all. Or, I stopped working out. Either way, I need to go on a diet – again… and start working out... again! http://40-...

Cooking Class: French Bistro Cooking at the BCAE in Boston

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What do you buy for a friend who doesn’t really need anything? She has gorgeous clothes, wonderful jewelry, amazing shoes, fabulous bags and the list goes. I called her husband and he thought she would enjoy doing a cooking class. Not because she can’t cook, at least I hope that is not what he was implying, but more because she would enjoy it. ...

Talking the Wine Lingo

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We all know what the words nose, legs and finish mean, but do you know what they mean with regards to wine tasting? Saying things like “On the nose there is blackcurrant and spices…” is not pretentious it is just simple wine speak for what you initially smell at first sniff. Here are a few other terms to help us budding wine tasters work our way ...

Wine Wednesday: Wine Gadgets

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For this week’s Wine Wednesday I thought I would share some wine gadget ideas – from the very simple to the totally fun.

A Run Down of What's New and What's Still Around in South Boston - Restaurants, Cafes and Bars...

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Once bereft of places to go in South Boston beyond a sports bar or scary green door that led you into an even more terrifying bar that you may not get out of, we now have an exciting plethora of restaurants, bars and cafes right on our doorstep. Of course, I like to make it my business to try them out and tell you all about them… I see it as a pu...

A Memoir of Kitchen Envy...

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... I have always felt like the epitome of a kitchen fraud because people think I'm a good cook. Lauren has an ease and natural flair where as I have anxiety and a knot in my stomach, which is written all over my face when I'm preparing a meal...

The Benefits of Drinking Wine

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Do you even want to know what they are? Of course you do! Who doesn’t want to hear about the benefits of doing something that can sometimes been seen as bad for you to hear that there are benefits of it being good for you. We all see the reports of different surveys done every year on the health benefits of drinking wine, but can it really make a...

If you are not looking for love online, where can you look?

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74 percent of singles look for love online. Isn’t that a staggering number???? Is it because people can’t communicate anymore in person? Are our friend’s rubbish and don’t introduce us enough to their eligible single friends?

My Characters Welcome: The Men of USA (the TV channel)

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My Top 5 Men of USA (TV) - Now, so you know I am not some crazy TV star stalker; it is the character I think is cute and I am well aware that the real person is a uniquely different human being. I just wanted to set that straight… I am really not crazy - honest. So, I thought why not share my problem. I mean a problem shared is a problem halved...

Wine Wednesday: Let's Talk Champagne

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As we are moving into the season of parties and celebration I thought now would be an apt time to discuss one of my favorite wines… Champagne.