This cake was totally inspired by The Kitchn’s Easy Summer Cake with Fruit & Cream recipe. I mean, isn’t that cake absolutely gorgeous? I just love, love, love it! Of course, I had to make the cake, wouldn’t you? However, I decided to use a different cake recipe (from a cookbook I own), just because it’s […]
Scavenger Hunt in Downtown Cleveland
On day 2 of our family vacation, we decided to do a scavenger hunt of famous landmarks in downtown Cleveland. For us, one sure way of getting Alex interested in checking out new things or places is to incorporate them into a scavenger hunt game. After much googling, we came across only one website – […]
Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens
We had a two day mini-vacation last week with Alex. We actually had planned it for the week before but Alex was sick then. Even last week, Alex and I were still recovering from our lingering cold but we were determined to have our “vacation” before school starts. On day 1 (Thursday), we decided to […]
Flea Market
Went to a local flea market two Saturdays ago. I did not expect to spend as much time as I did there but there were just too many treasures to explore. :) Here are some things that caught my attention but I resisted all of them until the very last item(s) – Time Life Foods […]
Braided Cream Cheese and Blueberry Bread
This is actually King Arthur Flour’s Braided Lemon Bread recipe but since I’m not using lemon curd in the filling, I decided to call it the above (longish) name. :) I guess it doesn’t really matter what it’s called because all you need to know is…it’s d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s! In fact, KAF should officially rename it Delicious […]
Asian Stores and West Side Market
After his week of camp, Alex promptly fell sick. In fact, he was sick the whole of last week and is actually still recovering at the moment. Since I was cooped up in the house with him, I finally decided it was time to make space for my ever-growing vintage cookbook collection, instead of just […]
Dim Sum at Li Wah
Last Friday was the last day of our mini-vacation without Alex. As much as I love my one-to-one time with Keith, I missed my kiddo as well (even though it was actually a break for me…go figure). After we dropped Alex off at camp, we headed to downtown Cleveland and decided to have dim sum […]
Mitchell’s Ice Cream
On Thursday (which was day 3 of our mini-vacation), we passed time at several different places but the most noteworthy goes to Mitchell’s Ice Cream. Although Mitchell’s Ice Cream has been around for a while now, this was the first time Keith and I gave it a try. Of course, everything we sampled tasted delicious […]
Lunch at Shinano
After Eton, we went to lunch at our favorite Japanese restaurant – Shinano, located in Solon, OH. As usual, we had a hard time deciding on what to order but we finally settled on an unagi (broiled eel) and yakiniku (sautéed beef) meal. For sushi, we ordered unagi maki (eel again), philadelphia (smoked salmon and […]
Eton Chagrin Boulevard
For day 2 of our mini-vacation (Wednesday), we spent the morning at Eton Chagrin Boulevard. Eton is a shopping center in Woodmere, another suburb of Cleveland, OH. We normally go there to shop at Trader Joe’s and Penzeys Spices and occasionally, Sur La Table and Barnes & Noble. Besides these stores, another thing that attracts […]