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Fun Friday...European travel...high hopes for this again in 2021

01.01.21 07:34 PM By Adrienne Towsen - Comment(s)
Fun Friday...European travel...high hopes for this again in 2021

First of all, I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and a wonderful 2021!! The expectations are huge for this year, so let's hope it can bring back some sense of normalcy to the world. A major part of that would be the ability for us to safely and freely travel. This has been missed mo...

Throwback Thursday...2015 Christmas gift becomes amazing 2106 experience

12.31.20 03:19 PM By Adrienne Towsen - Comment(s)
Throwback Thursday...2015 Christmas gift becomes amazing 2106 experience


Christmas morning 2015 will not soon be forgotten. It was the day my then 15 and 13 year old daughters received the most sought after tickets on Broadway...Hamilton! (the tickets were for me and my parents too

Holiday Wine Around The World

12.30.20 04:00 PM By Lisa - Comment(s)
Holiday Wine Around The World

This week I thought I would focus on the holiday wine traditions around the world. For those of us in the northern hemisphere it is cold, dark, and often festive with the holiday lights, sounds, and scents.

The Wassail is a tradition most commonly associated with cider country Wassail in England. It ...

Vegetable Bisque

12.29.20 04:00 PM By Lisa - Comment(s)
Vegetable Bisque
This is another one of my absolute favorite soups. It’s definitely not low in calories, but it sure is an amazing soup for a cold winter evening......

Ingredients

*10 cups chicken broth (can use vegetable stock if you want to make this a vegetarian dish)
*8 tablespoons butter (1 stick)
*4 cups heavy cre...

Kid's Corner...Follow your own path

12.28.20 06:59 PM By Adrienne Towsen - Comment(s)
Kid's Corner...Follow your own path


Written by Danielle  (age 20)...

Growing up, everyone always asked me “do you want to be a doctor like your mom?” For as long as I can remember, the answer was no. I enjoyed seeing what my mom did on bring your kids to work day and quick trips to the office, but I knew it wasn’t for me. As som...

Kid's Corner...Reflections on "the norm" 

12.28.20 06:59 PM By Adrienne Towsen - Comment(s)
Kid's Corner...Reflections on "the norm" 

written by Kayla  (age 18)...


didn’t notice any difference between my family and my friends’ families until I was about 9 or 10. Having a working mom, or parents, with demanding schedules seemed to be the norm for a lot of kids my age; however, I didn’t have any friends who had a single w...

Fun Friday...The holidays at Hershey Park!

12.18.20 05:08 PM By Adrienne Towsen - Comment(s)
Fun Friday...The holidays at Hershey Park!

Hershey Park... the home of great rides, a water park and of course chocolate world has some wonderful festivities around the holidays. We live just over an hour from Hershey, so we have taken full advantage of this over the years. When my kids were younger, we went for an overnight trip once at Chr...

Throwback Thursday...fun in the snow

12.17.20 11:04 PM By Adrienne Towsen - Comment(s)
Throwback Thursday...fun in the snow

Living in the northeast, winter typically means snow. Where we live it varies year to year, but we can usually count on at least one or two good storms. It would always be very exciting for my kids who loved to go out and sled and  make snow angels or snowmen and then come in and warm up with h...

Wines of Hungary

12.16.20 07:13 PM By Lisa - Comment(s)
Wines of Hungary



The Hungarian wine industry can be traced back to the Roman Empire. Through the mid-1900s, Hungary saw a decline in the quality wine while the country was under communist rule. Quantity and profit for exports was favored over quality. It wasn't until the 1990s that the Hungarian wi...

Honey Citrus Lavender Crème Brûlée

12.15.20 04:00 PM By Lisa - Comment(s)
Honey Citrus Lavender Crème Brûlée

One of my favorite desserts of all-time is crème brûlée. That first break through the flame-caramelized layer of sugar is so incredibly satisfying, as is that sweet vanilla bean taste. Years ago while gazing the spice section of a local market, a small packet of cooking lavender caught my ...

Fun Friday...let's have a party at the concert!

12.11.20 07:52 PM By Adrienne Towsen - Comment(s)
Fun Friday...let's have a party at the concert!


I will never get tired of this view during a Carbon Leaf concert at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.  If you saw yesterday's post, you have been introduced to my love for this band. I took a little trip down memory lane yesterday with photos from concerts over the year...

Throwback Thursday...14 years, 82 concerts, 1 band, countless memories!

12.10.20 09:27 PM By Adrienne Towsen - Comment(s)
Throwback Thursday...14 years, 82 concerts, 1 band, countless memories!

One of my good friends from residency used to give me recommendations for bands to listen to. He would send me a song or just the band name, and if I liked them, I would go buy a CD. Yep...this is before the time of just downloading the song, asking Alexa to play it, or listening on Spotify...we're ...

The Wine of Greece

12.09.20 07:12 PM By Lisa - Comment(s)
The Wine of Greece



It's not typical for me to walk into a store and buy a Greek wine. I never knew much about them and now I know why....The quality of Greek wine has supposedly improved dramatically since the 1980s, and more of them have been appearing in the United St...

Homemade Wonton Soup

12.08.20 03:12 PM By Lisa - Comment(s)
Homemade Wonton Soup

This time of year when it starts to turn cold, my favorite thing is soup. It’s warm and comforting.  One of my favorite soups is wonton soup, which you can get at every Chinese restaurant you go into. I started wondering what it would be like to make my own. I started researching different reci...

It's Monday again...

12.07.20 08:04 PM By Adrienne Towsen - Comment(s)
It's Monday again...

The above quote makes me laugh and it is definitely my feeling most Mondays. For me Monday is typically a busy day in the office seeing patients. Tuesday and Friday are my days in surgery, which are the days I enjoy the most. I think this is true for all surgeons. We train for many year...

#TBT...Spring Break...Remembering travel and warm weather!

12.03.20 08:22 PM By Adrienne Towsen - Comment(s)
#TBT...Spring Break...Remembering travel and warm weather!

In April  of 2014 my mom and I took the girls to Puerto Rico for the first time over spring break. We stayed at a resort my parents had discovered many years prior, and I had stayed there on my honeymoon as well.  It is a beautiful place, and we had a wonderful trip. The weather was p...

Chenin Blanc, My New Obsession

12.02.20 05:02 PM By Lisa - Comment(s)
Chenin Blanc, My New Obsession

Before last week I had never tasted a Chenin Blanc. Mind blown. I've always been more of a red wine drinker, especially in the winter and fall, but I think as I study more wines from around the world, my palate has definitely grown. I have always appreciated Champagne, Prosecco, and Chardonnay (my f...

Maggie's Vanilla Bean Frappuccino

12.01.20 07:36 PM By Lisa - Comment(s)
Maggie's Vanilla Bean Frappuccino
Magg's has been experimenting in the kitchen for as long as she’s been able to. She could make the perfect over-easy eggs on toast and she is also great at making cakes. Maggie is really into Frappuccino’s so she’s created her own that in my opinion is better than the one at Starbucks. So I called t...

Motivation Monday...time to grab those Cyber Monday deals!

11.30.20 07:44 PM By Adrienne Towsen - Comment(s)
Motivation Monday...time to grab those Cyber Monday deals!

And so it begins...with Thanksgiving behind us, we are into the holiday shopping season. Black Friday has traditionally been crazy with huge crowds and long lines starting super early in the morning. Many people enjoy this and gather with friends and family to go out and get those deals, but with th...

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