December 18, 2014

One Stop Holiday Shopping at BJ’s Wholesale Club

BJ’s Wholesale is the place to be this holiday season! Your time is very valuable around the holidays and the last thing you need to be doing is going from store to store getting everything you need. The grocery store for food, the mall and toy store for gifts, the local Christmas tree tent or Home Depot for a tree – I am getting exhausted just writing this! Forget that holiday rat race and head to BJ’s Wholesale Club. This place has everything – and I mean EVERYTHING you need for the holidays all under their big old roof. I…

Continue reading →

December 17, 2014

Hanukkah Round Up

Posted by Amanda in December, Recipes

Hanukkah is officially here! For the next 8 days and nights, The Festival of Light is upon us. That means some great east, lots of candles, presents and of course, family! My husband is Jewish but coincidentally never really celebrated Hanukkah. After we got married, I thought we should start celebrating Hanukkah for our kids sake. So there I was, 6 months pregnant planning my very first Hanukkah dinner. I made matzoh ball soup, stuffed cabbage and latkes (aka potato pancakes). We lit the menorah, ate like champs and exchanged little presents. It was everything a non-Jewish girl thought it…

Continue reading →

December 16, 2014

Rustic Chicken Recipe

Posted by Amanda in December, Recipes

We are a chicken family. I’m telling you, we eat so much we may start clucking soon and I’m totally okay with that. My husband and I share a love for cooking and eating, so it’s not rare for him to jump into the kitchen on any given night to try out a recipe he found. Not long ago, he did just this and thinking about it is making my mouth water. He reluctantly told me he was watching Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa and saw her make a delicious roasted rustic chicken with croutons. The way he was raving about…

Continue reading →

December 11, 2014

Trader Joe’s Mandarin Orange Chicken

Posted by Amanda in December, Shopping

I do not hide my addiction to Trader Joe’s and frankly, I have an unhealthy obsession with going there. Lucky for us, the closest TJ’s is no more than 15 minutes away. We were trekking to Wellington (which is about a 45 minute trip) to do some TJ’s shopping and we couldn’t be happier with the newest location in Boca Raton. They really have such amazing deals and some of the best kept secrets that only TJ’s can offer up. I read on a blog that one of the items that was a must try at Trader Joe’s was their Mandarin…

Continue reading →

Archives

See what’s happening on our Instagram