following the foodie leaders

January 19, 2012 in food, life

fun with carrot curls and rice

We have some friends who have somehow achieved the impossible on a very expensive island:  Managed to live on one minimal salary in order to have one parent stay at home with their daughter.  Where they found the money, ability, and gumption I don’t know, but what I do know is that they, more than anyone else I know, enjoy life on an island.

They are gourmands and love to drink excellent beverages.  They have lovely taste in clothes and always look fashionable.  They are in better shape than I have ever been.  A lot of people call them their favorite couple.

I’ve always wondered how they kept their heads above water, their daughter happy, and their marriage solid when they worried about money.  But, like I mentioned before, happiness, wealth and contentment go hand in hand if you’re creative enough.  And they’re very creative.  They are great example of a simple island life.   Read the rest of this entry →

tomato, basil, and burrata

January 18, 2012 in food, recipe

tomato, basil and burrata

I used to have a food blog before I gave up the name to my husband for a side project he does with a friend of his.  Then the blog got hacked, and everything – I mean everything - I had written and photographed was gone.  It made me amazingly sad, and even now sometimes I think about a recipe I had tweaked and tweaked until I got it to where I wanted it, written it down on the blog, and now it is no more.  I wish I could remember everything I did – but even those pictures are gone, erased in a moment of frantic cleaning from my phone (because I photograph with my iPhone).

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