September and October are my favorite months in New York. The weather starts to cool down in September and October days are blissfully crisp and cool. Mother Nature is being her usual fickle self this September and one day it is hot and the next is brisk.
I’m talking about the weather, aren’t I?
Ach. I’m finding [...]

My grandfather is dying. He may be shuffling off his mortal coil in the next few days. The last time I saw him he was still walking around, making jokes, poking fun of my grandmother. Now, I’m told, he spends most of the time with his eyes closed. He doesn’t eat. It has not been [...]

Hello, internet!
This is AmeliaMac, filling in briefly for AnonNY while she’s carousing around Ireland with Sports Fan. A while back, when the lovely AnonNY mentioned that she was looking for some guest posters to keep her blog occupied while she was vacationing, I thought – I can totally do that! I don’t currently have a [...]

Hello. I am Matty. My Mama and Papa are in Ireland, as you know.  I would like to take this opportunity to clear up a question you may have asked yourself a time or two about my me and my parents.
As you can see from photographic evidence, I wear a coat of fur. It is [...]

If you don’t recall, I’m heading to Ireland next week to see the Emerald Isle and the man who needs no introductions:

Oh yeah. I’ve lined up a few equally cool people to do some posts for me while I’m drinking Guinness and, uh, drinking Guinness. Because I can’t let my fans friends down. But I’d [...]

We have a little furry guest staying with us at Casa de AnonNY for the next few days. My friend, Denise, is out of town for work and she left her little Schnauser, Paddington, with us.  Oh my goodness, he is just the cutest, sweetest little guy ever.  The poor baby was abused as a [...]

I’ve only eaten jambalaya a few times at restaurants and never in N’Orleans, so I’m not sure how this measures up to the REAL stuff, but, man, is it good. Lots of good heat, nice and meaty and even better as leftovers. Actually the picture is from leftovers because I couldn’t even wait to take [...]

Hmm. I believe I owe you some recipes. I posted some pictures on Flickr last week of some pasta and a Lemon-Champagne Sparker cocktail but did not give any recipes. How rude! Here is what you have been waiting for.

Sicilian Spaghetti
from Simply Good Food
Serves 4
1 eggplant, about 12 oz, cut into 1-inch cubes
1 lb. cherry [...]

I am not a very good housekeeper. It is one of the few things I dislike about myself, you know, if you gloss over all of my body issues.  I wish I was the kind of person who was fastidiously neat. Always putting things back where they belonged, cleaning messes up as soon as they [...]

This past Friday I came home to a frightful sight. There was a note from our dog walker that Matty and his doggy friends went to the dog park in the afternoon. After a day of temperatures in the 40s, the snow had melted and the park was a muddy mess. Matty, of course, LOVED [...]