April Favourites

It’s annoying to talk about weather, but I can’t help myself and I’m not sorry. To put it plainly, these temperatures are bullshit. It has been cold, windy and wet for what feels like weeks. I’ve never been moodier. Someone said it’s perfect autumn weather and that’s too obnoxiously true. If something doesn’t change soon, well there’s nothing that can be done. So that’s fun.

Spring Sundays has been going strong.

• The best tweets and threads of the month can be seen here.

• Tried the lemon meringue pie M&Ms and they were weird and good, but taste nothing like an M&M.

• Decided to never to to Tim Hortons again. The quality of everything at Second Cup is better and it’s fully Canadian, so the choice has been made. It’s fun to make declarative statements sometimes.

• Loved Emily Lycopolus’s cookbook A Rising Tide: A Cookbook of Recipes and Stories from Canada’s Atlantic Coast. I’d never even heard of Jonah crab or hot milk cake, so I intend to eat/make them soon.

• I can’t get over how well my basil plant is doing (this is growth from only three weeks).

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Basil, week one

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Basil, week four

• I will always make these blueberry bran muffins because they’re perfect and I can never find a bran muffin anywhere. I store them in the fridge, then slice in half and heat up and if you’re feeling fancy then added some salted butter on top.

Blueberry bran muffin

The full post can be read here.

The Best of March

Why don’t they make sky bridges anymore? Nothing better.

• I compiled the best tweet tweets/threads of the month over here.

• I finished up Winter Wednesdays and started Spring Sundays.

• I heard a tip for making extra crispy wings: sprinkle them with baking soda and then dry them out in the fridge before air frying. Well, I went a bit overboard and added too much and they tasted like metal. Probably the grossest thing I’ve ever made. It was honestly a little alarming that Nathan still ate them all? Sometimes I think I’m a great cook because of how much he likes my food, but then something like this happens and I think… oh no.

• I had a happy hour drink at Castell Terrace in midtown (remember when a $12 drink was the not-happy-hour price?) and the service was better than the ambiance, but I’d go again if I found myself desperate in Times Square.

• Another new midtown find: Dutch Fred’s. Uncomplicated and not expensive.

• Loving my new spring seasonal plates (as shown below by Irene).

• I went to Malaparte in the West Village and I think I’m done with village restaurants at 7:30pm. The noise level in here was ridiculous. The food was fine, but my head throbbed from how loud the space was. Never again. I really can’t tell if this is just a “welcome to your 40s” situation (it is) though because I looked around and every 20-something year old looked like they were also in hell.

• The chicken salad cup from Daily Provisions is a perfect small lunch, how am I only learning this now.

• I took Nathan to Kim’s Video because everyone who loved video stores should go and it made me realize how much I miss browsing for movies.

• Nathan and I saw Dog Day Afternoon with Jon Bernthal on its first night of previews and it was fantastic. Nothing that man can’t do.

• So you know how I like to peruse the cookbooks at Barnes and Noble for recipes (sometimes I buy, I swear), well the cookbook for Levain Bakery is sealed up in plastic. So of course that filled me with a special kind of rage to now stay away from the company.

• I went on a tour of the Woolworth Building and it was everything that I wanted it to be and more. Had no idea that it was Woolworth who basically invented the whole "five and dime” concept for a store.

The full post can be read here.

The Best of February

Welcome to March! I’m back in New York and I’m elated to be here for the beginning of spring. I happened to be walking through Times Square last night and you know how people who live here get so mad at the slow walking tourists? I absolutely hate it when people get mad at those guys. I get it, it’s frustrating to have to change your own pace to accommodate someone else but I think we could all stand to calm down a bit. It’s also New York: the mecca of tourists. Can we let them live? Can we maybe allow them to stop and look up at a building they haven’t seen before? Christ.

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Wedding Gown Rejects

I have never (and will never) watch Say Yes To The Dress*, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t love seeing women try on wedding dresses. I find it enthralling. I love seeing the dresses they hate, the ones that fit weird, the ones that are too dramatic, the ones that are absolutely not worth their price tag, the ones that make no sense. The rejects are almost more exciting than the chosen wedding gown itself. So if you’re like me and you want to see what my rejects were, then welcome! (Side note: I meant to post this months ago, but we’re in a never-ending hellscape so sometimes things fall through the cracks.)

*Don’t get me started on the network TLC, cannot loathe a channel more.

Let me start by saying, if you’re engaged - please make an appointment at an Anthropologie Bridal location. They’re less stuffy than the hardcore bridal shops and a lot more relaxed but still high end.

Was it insane to consider a short, butter yellow wedding dress? Hear me out: no. I still love this dress, but I realized that it’s much too casual and twee for such an important occasion. Would’ve been a sweet reception outfit, though.

Hard to really tell, but this soft pink House of CB dress was a legitimate contender for about twenty minutes. I love draping so much, but I really think it’s meant for much taller women. I’m not wrong.

Full post can be read here.

"It's hard to replicate true love" is way too sweet/sad a thing to say in a post-game interview. Love these guys.

The Best of January

The best of January can be read over here.

The Best of December

Christmas was really nice this year. I almost threw out my dollar store gawdy snow-lined garland that I’ve had for years because for a moment I thought it might look too trashy. But I waited a few days and realized nope - I love that tacky stuff. It reminds me of my childhood/80s Christmas decor so I kept it. And then that thought made me wonder why I was doubting it in the first place and realized that it’s my damn Instagram feed. My feed was trying to tell me that not only are my choices bad, but the Pinterest “chiq” ones were the right ones maybe? I know that people are saying that Instagram is giving off dying mall vibes right now and I really hope it’s true. There’s so much slop. It’s enough already. Anyway, here’s what went down last month.

• I compiled the best tweets of the month over here.

• I know Christmas is over, but I still stand by these great NYC related gifts.

• I made a list of my favourites of 2025.

• All right this is just a PSA if you live in New York City. You know how to have an OMNY card now? REGISTER IT. No one tells you that once you register it, you can access the unlimited 7-day plan again (in the same way that you could with a Metrocard). They don’t advertise this and it’s infuriating. I loathe OMNY, but please pass on this message because barely anyone knows that you’re supposed to register it if you want the benefits of ever using the unlimited option. You can register your card here.

• I wrote about all the new years traditions that I follow each year.

• I finished up Fall Fridays (Volume 10, Volume 11 and Volume 12).

• I began Winter Wednesdays because I can’t physically not talk about what I do each week (Volume 1 and Volume 2 so far).

• I went on Nathan’s podcast for the first time in a long time.

• Still very much in love with my kitchen ring holder for when I’m baking.

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The rest of this post can be read over here.

2025 Favourites

Usually my lists are a little more organized but a chaotic year means a chaotic list. LET’S DO THIS.

THINGS I LOVED

Trader Joe’s small curd cottage cheese (the absolute best I’ve ever had and I don’t want to know why it’s so much better than every single other brand), the Lemax wedding party, Trader Joe’s facial sunscreen (great dupe for the Goop one), my wedding purse from Zara, Essie nail polish in Fiji, a ring holder for the kitchen wall, polysporin band-aids, personalized stationary and the shoes that you will likely have to bury me in: my faithful Target wedges.

The rest of my favourites can be read over here.

The Best of November

I’m in my home writing this post underneath the warmest throw I’ve had in years while it’s pouring rain outside my window, Nathan is taking a nap on our couch and my evening plans just got postponed for tomorrow. I am living the dream? Here’s what went on in November.

It has felt like a lifetime since the Jays didn’t win the World Series, is it just me? It honestly doesn’t hurt that much now. They’re the better guys and it was an incredible season. I think it’s okay to be happy about that. (Oh god, I’m that Ross meme.)

• The best tweets of the month can be seen over here.

• I’m shocked that I’m still celebrating autumn (I know it officially ends on December 21st, but I’m usually celebrating pre-Christmas right now - which is sort of an ambiguous season onto itself where the leaves are gone, the snow has only teased us with a taste and the cold rain simply devastates) but I am and so Fall Fridays continue to happen each week. The latest volume can be found over here.

• I have never seen Michael Symon’s cooking shows before but I caught a little bit of one and I think I might be a fan now. I love the recipes that he does, he’s very intentional with his ingredients and I love the way he interacts with his wife onscreen.

• We had so much leftover roast pork so I made at-home cubano sandwiches that were killer.

The rest of this post can be read on my Substack right here.

UPDATE!

If you’re suddenly feeling a void in your life because of the lack of monthly posts these past two months, please head over to my Substack!