No one needs reminding of how difficult life has been at times since the unexpected events that landed us all in an unthinkable situation last March, and as we look to the future with vaccine-filled arms, we can only hope for brighter and better times ahead. Though the worse restrictions have been lifted, there are still a few lingering in place – there to protect us, of course – and when the day comes when we can fervently hug our loved ones and enjoy those long-awaited celebrations with no limitations, we will be doing so with gusto. How are we planning to celebrate? With plenty of fizz of course; we will be gathering friends, and popping the corks on a...
What is it about those rising columns of tiny bubbles, the chilled condensation of the glass and the feel of a coupe in your hand to give you the flutters of excitement that only sparkling wines can give you? I’m not sure about you, but I have spent the last twelve months watching “the Wolf of Crow St.”, Luca from Rosa Madre on Instagram, guide his punters outdoors to perform the ancient and very dramatic ‘Sabrage’. Suddenly, Mary from Kilbarrack is wielding a large sword and attempting to cut the neck off her bottle of Krug, with one foul swoop. Oh, the absolute drama is just palpable. Brilliant. And only a bottle of bubbles could achieve this elevation and drama. ...
This easy bruschetta recipe is a crowd-pleasing appetizer that comes together in no time! The combination of juicy tomatoes, garlic, fresh basil, and crispy ciabatta bread will make everyone come back for more! Why This Recipe Works Bruschetta makes such a great appetizer in the summer. It’s fresh, light, and super easy to make. I actually love eating it the whole year round. It’s perfect for parties, a weekend brunch, or even for a quick dinner during the week. The recipe comes together in only 15 minutes. And it feels like taking a short trip to Italy! It’s perfect for tomato season and it’s best with homegrown juicy tomatoes. But as fresh tomatoes are available the whole year round, you...
Rewilding the landscape of possibility for the poetry of being. “In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female,” Virginia Woolf wrote in 1929, epochs before we had our ever-expanding twenty-first-century vocabulary of identities, as she celebrated the “androgynous mind” as the mind most “resonant and porous… naturally creative, incandescent and undivided.” Given Woolf arrived at her exquisite epiphany about what it means to be an artist while walking amid her blooming garden, she might have been pleased to know that the botanical term for the blossoms of androgenous plants, also known as bisexual plants — plants that contain both the male pollen-producing stamen and the female ovule-producing pistils, and can therefore self-pollinate — is perfect flowers. Lily...
Over the years, a LOT of things have claimed to "taste like chicken!" that have fallen very short. Only in the past year have things started to actually start to taste like chicken, and feel like chicken, which is equally important as the taste. One thing that tastes like chicken is the Trader Joe's chick'n tenders, and the second are these plant-based dino nuggets from ALDI. Until now, as far as I know, meatless eaters were not graced with the fun of dinosaur shaped nuggets, only vaguely organically shaped nuggets. These certainly don't look like any dinosaurs I have ever seen, but then again, who really can say what dinosaurs looked like? All of our drawings, movies, and museum replicas...
