Happy Birthday, Becca!!
Have a great day on the cape! Hope to see you soon!
XOXO.
Archives for July 2010
Favorite Blog: Piewacket
July 17, 2010
I’ve decided that once a week I am going to start introducing you to some of my favorite blogs. One blog will get featured every week (day to be determined) so that you may visit this blog and fall in love with it too.
These blogs are all exceptional in photography, layout and design, fashion, craft, and/or food, and are just plain fun to read.
The first blog I would like to bring to you is one that I’ve loved since the beginning. It’s AMAZING vintage-esq photography and fresh ideas keep me coming back week after week. One visit to Lara’s website and you’ll instantly know what I’m talking about. Take a visit to the dream world of Piewacket… and have a great Saturday!!
Jamaica Pond
July 16, 2010
Last Sunday, after our Saturday of dealing with the rain (plus eating Five Guys), Zan and I went to Jamaica Pond to enjoy a beautiful walk around the pond on a beautiful (and HOT) summer day. This was my first experience actually walking around the pond, although not viewing the pond since I often babysit right up the street.
In a nut shell, Jamaica Pond is awesome.
And now for a little history:
“Jamaica Pond is a kettle pond, part of the Emerald Necklace of parks in Boston designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. The pond and park are in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, close to the border of Brookline. It is the source of the Muddy River, which drains into the lower Charles River.
The pond has an area of about 68 acres, and is 53 feet deep at its center, making it the largest body of fresh water in Boston, and the largest natural freshwater body in the lower Charles River watershed. It is ringed by a walking path, and is an extremely popular destination for Bostonians for walking, fishing, and sailing.”
-Thanks, Wikipedia
If you ever have the chance go and give the pond a look (and head over to Larz Anderson Park while you’re at it). It’ll give you another reason to L-O-V-E Boston!!
Sunflower Butter vs. Peanut Butter
July 14, 2010
Meet my new friend:
Sunflower Seed Butter
Although I do still have a [VERY] special place in my heart for peanut butter, I am forced to eat my beloved PB&J’s with sunflower butter this summer, as my reading specialist internship is at a “peanut-free” school. Which I guess would now make it a SB&J. Which really, just sounds weird.
Truthfully, sunflower butter is actually pretty tasty and when slabbed on some bread with some extra delicious raspberry preserves I can barely tell the difference.
But still we should ask ourselves– Which butter is better??
After doing a bit of research (my own taste tests and those of others) I have come to the conclusion that although peanut butter ultimately tastes better, it is not in fact better for you. For nutritional value sunflower butter takes the gold. It has lesser amounts of monosaturated fat and it is richer in vitamins, protein, and fiber. And although it might not taste as sweet or salty, it has less additives, and is more hearty in flavor.
And if you feel up to it– go ahead and mix some of your own!
Click here for an easy recipe from Domesticfluff (a really awesome blog!):
Still I do wonder– when my internship is over will I rejoin forces with Peanut Butter? We have, after all, been lovers for SO long– a true connection that runs deep.
Only time will tell.
