January 25, 2011
Posted by Michelle
Food, glorious food! Turns out “Big Easy” refers to the ease in which a person can find incredible food without much effort and without spending a ton of money. Who knew?! (I made that up, but I think it totally works.) We booked our trip to New Orleans months ago and I started researching restaurants [...]
July 28, 2010
Posted by Michelle
As you probably gathered from her last post, Ona is moving away from us lowly DMVers and heading for brighter, smarter pastures. She’s off to Harvard Law (and something about public health… too advanced for me). Ona “Elle Woods” Balkus is heading to Cambridge (our fair city). Now… most importantly… where should Ona eat? I [...]
July 8, 2010
Posted by Ona
Five years ago when I studied abroad in Rome, I relearned everything that I thought I knew about food and cooking. I was already interested in cooking when I got there, but was still stuck nervously following recipe directions, sacrificing flavor to make dishes “healthier”, and not understanding why a fresh peach salsa probably wasn’t [...]
June 23, 2010
Posted by Michelle
Two years ago this month Mike and I went on our honeymoon to Greece. We spent some time in Santorini and in Athens, but the highlight of our trip was our time in Crete. The scenery, the history, the food… oh, the food. We ate moussaka that was great and of course we ate gyro [...]
January 8, 2010
Posted by Ona
If you will be traveling soon to Chicago, or thinking about going to Chicago, or are going to be anywhere within an 8 hour radius of Chicago, I strongly encourage a visit to Great Lake, a pizzeria in the Andersonville neighborhood. On my first visit to Chicago last month, my valiant boyfriend navigated us on [...]
October 29, 2009
Posted by Michelle
A few years ago my husband and I took a trip to the Azores, an archipelago off the coast of Portugal. We were looking to take a vacation to some place interesting but didn’t want to spend a lot of money. At the time we lived in the Boston area where there is a huge [...]
June 15, 2009
Posted by Michelle
Thanks to an excellent late wedding gift, my husband and I headed up to Philadelphia this weekend to see the Red Sox play the Phillies. Our weekend, like most, was organized around food (and the game… but mostly food). We ate a little bit of everything, ranging from the cheap and greasy to elegant delicacies. [...]
