Winter Wednesdays Vol. 8

by Liz Heather in

BAKING/COOKING

I made this brioche berry bread pudding and it was actually pretty great. I don’t love boring desserts, but this one was a hit.

CRAVING

This baked goat cheese salad. When I first moved to New York in 2005, I ate a similar salad with a dijon vinaigrette but the goat cheese was encrusted in puff pastry at this great (obviously now-closed) French place downtown and I still think of that salad to this day. It should be illegal to be this nostalgic.

EATING

So much parmesan-topped asparagus. Oh! I also made a wildly lackluster cauliflower soup from the NYT. Not many things more disappointing than a giant batch of homemade soup that sucks.

EXPERIENCING

I started mixing body oil with body lotion and… why am I not in charge of more things? Truly life-changing. I always wondered what the purpose of pure body oil was and now everything makes sense.

LOVING

Since I don’t have Spotify Premium anymore, I started making more playlists on my free account so the variety alone will make up for the lack of control. New playlists include a best of the 90s and best of the 00s.

SHOPPING

I didn’t buy one this week. But I am thinking of overhauling my whole closet, there’s just so much I hate about my winter wardrobe.

WATCHING

I just learned that Pluto has a million Twilight Zone episodes available, so that’ll take up the rest of my year.

WEARING

I heard a styling tip that wearing brown stockings instead of black makes an outfit look more put-together (I swear there was some kind of real logic to this that I can’t remember now), so I tried it this week with these Aerie brown stockings and I loved how it looked.

You can read last week’s Winter Wednesdays Vol. 7 over here.

Winter Wednesdays Vol. 7

by Liz Heather in

BAKING/COOKING

I made these small batch oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with a Dairy Milk chocolate bar instead of chocolate chips and they’re insanely good.

CRAVING

I’ve been in this routine of waking up really early, going on a long walk, eating breakfast and then starting the day at around 10am and it’s been incredible. My plan is to keep doing this Monday to Friday, and then really make Saturday and Sunday more intentionally luxurious, like maybe introducing morning baths on weekends. No one tells you how boring your life gets as you age, they also don’t tell you how wonderful it becomes to embrace the boring.

EATING

On one of my morning walks I found this small coffee shop Sonbobs in Astoria and it’s so lovely. The owner is often curt (in a refreshing way) that I wish more women were, and the baked goods are unholy.

EXPERIENCING

My love for New York City snow is infinite.

Union Square Park, February 2024

LOVING

The ramp we got for Baby Dog for the side of our bed is perfect. Sometimes she’ll look at it and intentionally just jump from the floor to the bed in a defiant “I don’t need this shit” type fashion, but it’s great to use at night when she can’t see as well.

SHOPPING

I bought some medium-sized gold hoop earrings because I’m trying to try new things.

WATCHING

The terrible rom coms on Tubi. Don’t ask me why. I won’t do it again. Did anyone on earth actually like Two Weeks Notice??

WEARING

More Nordstrom finds.

Winter Wednesdays Vol. 4

by Liz Heather in

BAKING/COOKING

I made this brioche french toast with nutella whipped cream and it was spectacular.

CRAVING

Coffee Crisp mini eggs.

Found them at Shoppers

EATING

I’ve never loved Oreos, but the maple syrup ones from Quebec are pretty sweet.

EXPERIENCING

Anger at the fact that the new Mississauga Central Library has electronic return boxes outside the entrance. What the hell was wrong with a BOOK SLOT?? A real PERSON used to be on the other side of that box checking in the returns and now that job is nonexistent. I’m becoming Nathan and I’m not mad about it.

LOVING

I’m on a mission to find photos of Square One in the 90s (the mall near my parent’s place) and these photos are making me remember so many things I thought I’d forgotten.

The food court wishing fountains!

The glass elevator!!!!

The movie theatre that is now a GoodLife!!

SHOPPING

In love with the Veet waxing strips (the blue box). Will only be using this brand from now on.

WATCHING

Finally watched No One Will Save You because everyone told me how good it was and please remind me to stop listening to everyone. It BLEW.

WEARING

The underwear special at Aerie isn’t necessarily a steal, but I can’t think of a better place within that price point.

You can read last week’s Winter Wednesdays Volume 3 over here.