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Summer Saturdays Vol. 3

BAKING

I made these blueberry bran muffins and they’re fantastic.

COOKING

I always forgot how good at-home quesadillas are. These kale and corn ones are unbelievable.

CRAVING

I’m counting down the days until summer tomatoes have arrived so I can make this heirloom tomato toast daily.

DRINKING

Got drinks at the Chelsea Hotel with some friends and ended up in the lobby the whole time, which I kind of prefer over the actual bar area. Love this place.

EATING

My love for caesar salads is endless.

EXPERIENCING

We saw Stranger Things on Broadway and the visuals were incredible. It ran a bit long and I really don’t love the newer theatres, but I’m so glad we went.

LISTENING

1950s are were on repeat this week.

LOVING

The wedding cookie from Crumbl was actually great, I love a frosted cookie.

SHOPPING

I tried on dresses at Zimmermann the other day and they are absolutely not worth $900 per dress, but I truly love how they fit.

WATCHING

Almost finished my rewatch of Downton Abbey and wow does that show take a turn for the dreary. I might have to stop before it ends, it’s just such a downer.

WEARING

This years-old Zara dress continues to dominant my summer wardrobe.

You can see last week’s Summer Saturdays Vol. 2 over here if you like.

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Summer Saturdays Vol. 2

BAKING

These blueberry breakfast cookies are insanely good. I keep them in the fridge because I love a cold cookie in the morning.

COOKING

I’ve been baking a lot of salmon lately - nothing too special. I top it at the end with a garlic/soy sauce/maple/mustard glaze and I haven’t grown tired of it yet.

CRAVING

Two things mainly: June strawberries & lap swimming. I don’t ask for much.

DRINKING

When I was in Turks and Caicos earlier this year, I had the same lunch smoothie each day from a place in town and we’ve made it here at home almost 100 times since then it’s so good. Almond milk, chocolate protein powder, green apple, honey, peanut powder, cocoa powder, frozen banana & ice. Heavenly.

EATING

I’ve been slow-cooking the garlic & peppercorn pork tenderloin from Trader Joe’s and making spinach wraps (which is just spinach blended with eggs and then pan fried to resemble a tortilla) with feta for lunch this week.

EXPERIENCING

So happy to have seen the New Jersey town where the original Friday the 13th was filmed so many years ago.

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LISTENING

I went mad with organizing all of my playlists on Spotify, so this week it’s the 1970s that's on repeat at the moment.

LOVING

My dad turned 102 this week (!), which is obviously incredible.

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SHOPPING

Repurchased my favourite coffee beans (hazelnut creme) from San Francisco Bay Coffee.

WATCHING

I’m in the middle of a rewatch of Downton Abbey, which has been great because it’s been so long so I’ve forgotten most of it. Poor Edith.

WEARING

I’m still living in these Target wedge heels. Best thing I’ve bought all year, by far.

You can see last week’s Summer Saturdays Vol. 1 over here if you like.

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Friday The 13th Day Trip to New Jersey

We visited the filming locations of the original Friday the 13th in New Jersey.

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Summer Saturdays Vol. 1

Welcome to the return of Summer Saturdays! I started doing these in 2023 and I write them mainly to reiterate to myself that I am a human woman who is capable of doing fun summer things. For most of my life I’ve hated this horrid season (the heat, everything smells, children run wild/free = all reasons to naturally hate it), but I’ve actively tried to change that mindset these past few years. So these posts are here to stay (until Labour Day). And you might say that summer starts on the 20th, but it starts when I says it does.

BAKING

This is in no way a fun muffin, but these black bean muffins are good, I promise you. Full disclosure: you will not like them, but I do.

COOKING

At-home steak salads are always the answer. And it should be illegal for one to be anything upwards of $20 at a restaurant, I will die on this hill. We used to be a country.

CRAVING

The vegan tahini soft serve from Seed + Mill in Chelsea Market. Top three best soft serve in the city, hands down. Try to ignore the vegan/tahini part of the description because it’s actually really good.

Above Photo: Soft serve from Seed + Mill in Chelsea Market, NYC

DRINKING

LOVE the Schweppes seltzer flavour concord grape. Tastes so much like a purple Crush only without the raging sugar headache.

EATING

A few months ago I realized the secret to an incredible at-home chicken parm - you have to get bone-in chicken (and then just slice it before you cook). Made it countless times since then and it tastes phenomenal.

EXPERIENCING

Saw the new costume exhibit at The Met and of course had many thoughts.

LISTENING

Made a 1960s playlist that’s been on repeat for about a week now.

LOVING

This long sleeve bodysuit from Aerie. I got them in two colours: navy & “canyon sun.” What the hell is canyon sun, you ask? Brown. It’s just brown. People hate the word brown so much they’re willing to come up with the nonsense that is “canyon sun” shoot me.

SHOPPING

Just reordered the Urban Skin RX Dark Spot Facial Scrub. It smells great and really gets rid of any recent acne scars.

WATCHING

The second episode of And Just Like That. I’m very into the idea that there’s a new love interest for Carrie. I’m sure it’ll end badly and she’ll just stay with Aiden, but at least we don’t have to just watch her wondering around her house all day. Also, is it just me or was the show more fun when she wasn’t rich? I’ve rewatched the series so many times over the years and I think I’m onto something here.

WEARING

Wore this gorgeous Simons dress to a wedding because I’m trying to unlearn how much I’ve hated how my arms look in the past. Progress!

You can see last year’s Summer Saturdays series over here if you like this series but live in the past. Volume 2 coming next Saturday!

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I reviewed the new costume exhibit at The Met for 2025.

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The Best of May 2025

The best of May 2025 can be read over here.

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The Best Tweets of May 2025

The best tweets of the month can be found over here.

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The Met's 2024 Costume Exhibit - Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

YES, this exhibit review post is a year late. Sometimes time moves too quickly, I don’t make the rules. (I did see this year’s exhibit the other day, so you can expect that post a lot sooner (haha, am I lying? Nobody knows).) Full post over here.

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The Best of April 2025

The best of April 2025 can be read over here.

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The best tweets of the month can be found over here.

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Be Ready When The Luck Happens By Ina Garten - A Review

Obviously, I loved this memoir because Ina Garten is beyond likable. I’ve made her recipes for years - two of my absolute favourites are her insanely good sausage and fennel pasta and these decadent cauliflower toasts. And since this is her first non-cookbook, I was so eager to read this one. Favourite parts ahead.

“On the road, even the infamous roundabouts that popped up every so many miles seemed charming to us. In the States, rotaries, as we call them, usually provoke squealing brakes, honking horns, and the occasional rude hand gesture, because nobody understands who has the right-of-way. But in France, these little traffic circles are a reminder that life is not about straight lines or the shortest distance between two points. Slow down, they seemed to say, you can take a little twirl and still get exactly where you’re going. Such a nice approach to life.”

“I love when changing your behavior - in this case how I dressed - changes everything without your saying a word. It’s a lesson that I’ve used many times in my life.”

“There’s a wonderful quote attributed to George Lucas: “We’re all living in cages with the door wide open.” That was me until I realized I had the power - and the responsibility - to set myself free. To step out of the cage of whatever I’d experienced in the past, to think for myself, and to believe in my choices.”

“I also learned that it’s important to listen to advice and then decide if it’s true to who you are and what you’re trying to accomplish.”

“I always say that you can’t be inspired at home alone by yourself. You have to go out into the world and see what people are doing, and that will trigger something else in you, and then you’ll do it your way.”

“Limit your liability. What’s the worst thing that can happen if it doesn’t work? Will it change your life or just be a learning experience? Who and what will it impact? What’s the upside if it does work?”

“I knew the past couldn’t hurt me now, but it’s always there deep inside. It’s what we do with those feelings that can determine the rest of our lives.”

“Everybody thinks that successful people are smarter, more talented, or just plain lucky. I don’t think it always works that way. The people I’ve known who are successful have faced enormous challenges, but they didn’t let the challenges stop them - they figured out some way over the wall or around the wall, or they just smashed the wall down. In fact, it was exactly those challenges that shaped their success.”

After hearing her descriptions of some of her recipes, I absolutely have to make these in the near future: coq au vin, grilled lemon chicken salad, outrageous brownies, coconut cupcakes, perfect roast chicken, banana crunch muffins and Beatty’s chocolate cake.

Such a great book, can’t recommend it enough.

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I read and reviewed Viola Davis' book Finding Me.

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The best tweets from this season of The White Lotus can be found over here.

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The Best of March 2025

The best of March can be read over here.

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The Best Tweets of March 2025

The best tweets of March can be found over here.

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The Best of January & February 2025

The best of January & February 2025 can be found over here.

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The Best Tweets of February 2025

The best tweets of the month can be found over here.