It can be hard to maintain a healthy diet during the holidays, but you can do it without having to sacrifice your favorite holiday foods by getting your portions correct. Fitbie’s Perfect Holiday Portions infographic below details just the right size for your portions of mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, turkey, champagne, egg nog, and pumpkin […]
How to Open Sparkling Wine
It’s the holiday season! This means friends and family, gifts, dinners, and sparkling wine. And it also means opening and serving that sparkling wine, a task many dread. But with a few tips and pointers on how to store and serve Champagnes and sparklers, the fear of presentation should dissipate quickly. 1) Proper storing and […]
Krug Clos du Mesnil
“Happiness is closer than you think… it comes in a glass of Krug” – this was my reality for this whole past weekend. There was a lot of Krug and that defiantly made me very happy. My liver, on the other hand, not so much. After day two I had hiccups while serving wine at […]
Dinner Party Appetizers
Have you ever met someone that tells you TOO much of the truth? I’m not talking about too much information – those people who’s over shares make you cringe – I’ll give you an example of just what I mean. When I make people something delicious for dinner and they compliment me on it, instead […]
Eggs Benedict
Sometimes I just get the urge to cook something fancy. This morning it was breakfast. I had had a long week and my husband and I happened to have the same day off, which never happens, so I made brunch. One of our favorite brunch items is eggs benedict. It’s a classic that has everything […]