Author: Sara

Recipes

Super-easy grilling: Sriracha-glazed shrimp & pineapple skewers

Memorial Day in our town is pretty quiet, with the big parade happening the day before on Sunday, so we usually spend it just relaxing at home together and enjoying a quiet day, and if the weather holds, getting the backyard set up for the season. Most of the day threatened rain, but by 3pm it was sunny enough that we felt confident enough to get … Continue reading Super-easy grilling: Sriracha-glazed shrimp & pineapple skewers

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Restaurants

Brunch in Davis Square: Five Horses Tavern

Now that nice weather has (mostly) arrived, we are spending as much time as possible outside. On a Saturday or Sunday we often walk to one of the many squares in Somerville or Cambridge, and spend a few hours window shopping, bookstore browsing, people watching, and, of course, having a nice lunch or brunch. This past Sunday we decided to hit up Davis Square, about a mile and a … Continue reading Brunch in Davis Square: Five Horses Tavern

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Random Thoughts, Travel

Anticipation=Happiness

We’ve written about the fact that we really enjoy the pre-travel planning and research that goes into any trip. So much so, in fact, that lately we seem to be planning trips further and further in advance, giving us more time for anticipation. Once a trip is booked, we love looking in used bookshops for books (both fiction and nonfiction) about our destination, or searching Netflix … Continue reading Anticipation=Happiness

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Travel

“Would you go back?”

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller After “what was it like?”, the second most popular question we’ve been asked about our trip was “would you go back?” We’ve asked ourselves the same thing many times. This was the first trip we’ve ever taken where upon our return we were not already planning what we’d do … Continue reading “Would you go back?”

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Travel

Going to Kathmandu

Sorry for the delay in getting to this final city from our Indian & Nepal adventure. It’s somewhat surreal to me that it’s been just over six months since we boarded a flight towards this amazing part of the world. And it really has taken us almost this long to sort through not just our actual photographs, but our memories and impressions and figure out how best to explain it all. So far … Continue reading Going to Kathmandu

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Travel

Discovering Kali in the City of Night (Part 2)

After a great first couple of days in Kolkata, we were keen to see what the next two days would hold. (If you missed Kolkata part 1, click here to read it.) Our third day in the city coincided with Kali Puja, and we decided to make our way to Mullik Ghat, by the Hoogly river under the Howrah bridge, to see the large flower market there. Checking a map, … Continue reading Discovering Kali in the City of Night (Part 2)

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Travel

Discovering Kali in the City of Night (Part 1)

Our arrival in Kolkata* was surprisingly green. I don’t know why we didn’t expect it; after all, the city is in a tropical area, but somehow the idea of “Calcutta” called to mind images of impossibly crowded, urban streets and not much else. But there were palm trees, and lush greenery in many areas, notably on the drive into town, and then the motherload of … Continue reading Discovering Kali in the City of Night (Part 1)

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Culture, Travel

India & Nepal: explaining the unexplainable

We had some people over this past weekend, some of whom we hadn’t seen since our big trip. “So, how was India?”  they ask. “Was it amazing?” It’s been nearly four months since we returned from our trip, and we still don’t know where to start answering that question. India cannot be boiled down into a sound bite, or an elevator pitch. India was amazing. It was also … Continue reading India & Nepal: explaining the unexplainable

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