I don’t enjoy coconut-flavored anything. So over the years when I saw recipes that called for coconut milk, I just skipped. Because I don’t like coconut. Then, a few months ago, my friend asked if I could taste a dish she had cooked. It was chicken penne in a cream sauce made with…coconut milk. So I said, “Oh, it looks …
Hi, everyone. I had a few topics floating in my mind for what to write about this Monday, but I keep getting the feeling that something is missing from this space. What are the gaps in the subject matter we’ve covered so far on the blog? Any questions you want answered about shidduchim or more broadly about the experience of …
Remember how I said that I wanted to learn how to bake challah? Well, it’s happening. I’ve actually been interested in learning how to bake challah for months, since long before my “Shabbos project.” One of my friends offered to teach me back when but then the lockdowns happened so that was put on hold. A few weeks ago …
Ever since I read the Rebbetzin Machlis book, I wanted to get more involved in making Shabbos. It was more of a wish/dream instead of an actual goal because I kept running into this resistance in my head that told me that making Shabbos before I was married would just be “pretend.” One of the positive developments for me …
I got the term “the America feeling” from Gretchen Rubin. It perfectly captures the patriotism + transcendence I feel when I have certain experiences. Like visiting Washington, D.C., which I’ve done many times, especially walking around the congressional office buildings. (How cool is it to stroll past office suites marked “North Dakota,” “Louisiana,” and “Texas” and watch mysterious and official-looking …
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how reopening is making me anxious because it was so nice to have a break from shidduchim. There are some other aspects of this lockdown that I’ll really miss. -Charming backyard weddings. I really wanted one. -Having an easy way to feel like I was doing everything right. I will miss …
This new online life might be far from ideal but I’m kind of leaning into the craziness and allowing myself to not be so productive. One of the side effects of spending half the day (okay, exaggeration, but only slightly) on Zoom is that you end up opening all these tabs and going down rabbit holes and clicking on links …
Sorry if y’all want a break from…the situation, but bear with me another moment. I find such charm in anything tiny and, between you and me, my secret wish was always to have an intimate little wedding (too much Anne of Green Gables, perhaps?). So, these days my imagination is in overdrive. As always, my heart truly goes out to …
At this point, just about everyone’s lives have been turned upside down. With schools shut down, businesses shuttered, and flights cancelled, not to mention the social distancing measures, I’m getting so jittery. Weddings have had to be dramatically scaled down…and that got me thinking about what I would do if my wedding was taking place under these circumstances. It’s actually kind …
This week I started to play mahjong. I most definitely have an overly romantic notion of mahjong but I definitely wanted to learn it. I started my lessons this week (tutor: 80-year-old woman) and it felt a bit like being lost in Wonderland, where everyone else understands some kind of inscrutable logic you can only weakly follow… So what …
