I’ve started a new adventure the past couple of months. I’ve always been a fan of Salt Lake Magazine. They do a beautiful spread and great online content about my hometown. I’ve started writing for their online ‘Farm to Table’ blog about local food, farmers, sips and the other exciting…
Bits and Bobs – On Our Day Off
Every-once-in-a-while, Lydia and I have the same day off. Most often it happens to be a weekend day, and there are all the weekend tasks to manage that don’t get managed during the week. This week, we fortuitously had a week day off together. And somehow it just didn’t feel…
The Suitcase Round Up – November 2014
We kept things low key this week, what with Thanksgiving happenings and friends and family and all that jazz… Hope you each have recovered from holiday madness, Black Friday insanity and death by leftovers. So many of you loved our Thanksgiving Recipe Recap that we decided to do it again…
Bits & Bobs – Music to Cook by
So, once upon a time I was living in Russia, and a friend there asked me my thoughts on the power of music. That question is one that still regularly comes back to me. I am not a musician, and I don’t have a great understanding of music theory. I…
Suitcase Foodist Travels: Creepy Europe for Day of the Dead
This past summer Greg and I took a month long jaunt to Europe. We swung through Paris – Greg’s first visit. Spent time all over Italy and then swung through Istanbul (which was one of my bucket list items). The cities we visited were beautiful and we have such an…
Bits & Bobs: A Walk Around the Block
This week was a week of gatherings, get togethers and good byes, peppered with good friends and food. I ‘do’ parties professionally. As in, I’m the gal behind the scenes pulling strings to make everything come together. Here’s the stressful bit about doing events – I always secretly wonder if…
Bits & Bobs – A Walk on the Wild Foraging Side
Once a week, you’ll be getting some random thoughts straight from my brain to the page. It might be about restaurants we’ve tried, events we crashed … er… got invited to, travel tips, books we are reading (or want to read) or our plans to run away to New Zealand.…