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Food

Tarragon Honey Butter & Pasta with Tarragon Honey Butter and Caramelized Fennel

This recipe came about as a happy accident. One of my favorite snacks is radishes dipped in honey butter.  If you’ve never tried that before, by all means do.  That dish (if you want to call it a dish) is one of my go-to party tricks, too.  It’s simple – but unexpected – but delicious.  Even the non-radish-lovers in the crowd typically go crazy for it. I’d made…

Beauty

Favorite Finds: Amika Polished Perfection Straightening Brush

Glossier Lidstar in Herb, Cub || Glossier Lip Gloss, Clear || Glossier Cloud Paint in Haze, Storm || OUAI Scalp & Body Scrub I have what you might refer to as “unruly” hair.  It’s coarse and thick and has a natural wave to it.  It frizzes and snarls. When I style my hair (2-3 times, per week), I blow-dry it, and then use a straightener to tame some…

Food

Sweet and Savory Roasted Pumpkin Risotto

I know my way around a pan of risotto.  It was one of the first dishes that I learned how to cook, and in the last 20-ish years or so, I have perfected the technique (If I do say so myself.). One of the other foods that I know my way around is a pumpkin; specifically where hacking into one is concerned. I spent the past winter in…

Lifestyle

A Powerful Practice: The Morning Pages

  Do you have a specific morning routine? I described mine, here. One of the practices that I have added to it recently is writing my “morning pages”.  I bought a notebook at HomeGoods, which aptly has the word “WRITE” splayed across the cover.  It has quickly become one of my most-prized possessions. I cannot take credit for this idea.  I got it from the awe-inspiring Lauryn of…

Beauty

Favorite Finds: Billie

Branding.  How important is it to you? I have been known to purchase an item based on that (and packaging as a part of the whole), alone.  You could say that branding is important to me. I am into it.  I think about it as it applies to my work, and of course, other brands. It was what drew me to Billie.  I had seen a photo of…