City Life Eats — the art of healthy urban living

Beauty Monday – Carol’s Daughter Almond Cookie

December 16, 2008

It’s been freezing here in Washington the last few days, and I was planning to write about Carol’s Daughter Body Butters today — they are wonderful to stay moisturized in cold weather. Except that today it is balmy and in the 60s. So instead I am going to tell you about one of my favorite […]

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Holiday Markets

December 14, 2008

I love holiday markets — and I do miss the New York ones very much — so I was pleased to discover that DC started having a Holiday Market in 2005 and is now in its fourth season. I love shopping from smaller indie companies and was very excited to check it out. I stopped […]

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Chicken Thighs with Red Onions and Balsamic Vinegar

December 10, 2008

What’s Cooking Wednesday this week is a quick chicken recipe that has been a long-time favorite for me. It’s delicious with mashed potatoes, like these. I adapted the chicken recipe from a recipe in a Cooking Light issue from years and years ago – they have a slightly different approach and their result is equally […]

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How do you like your pizza?

December 9, 2008

I tried Pete’s Apizza in Columbia Heights recently and was pleasantly surprised. The crust was thin and crispy and I found the toppings subtle and not too heavy – the standout was the sausage and wild mushroom slice I had, though the cheese slice was good too. My husband, on the other hand, said that […]

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Beauty Monday and Indie Spotlight on Mad City Sue

December 8, 2008

Beauty Monday is a weekly feature focusing on green beauty, paraben-free skincare, makeup, and the beauty industry and marketing. I discovered Mad City Sue about the time I started getting into etsy. MSC is known for her Creamy Whipped Sugar Body Scrub, and I can see why. This is a nice, thick, very moisturizing (but […]

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Whole Wheat Couscous and Acorn Squash with Ground Lamb

December 3, 2008

Welcome to What’s Cooking Wednesday. Please be sure to check out Tales of the Fairy Blogmother, the home of WCW. There’s always yummy recipes to try! I know that supposedly December is when you move away from cooking with squash to even heartier dishes, but I eat squash in various forms pretty much all winter. […]

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Old World Hot Chocolate

December 3, 2008

As I mentioned yesterday, I recently discovered Lake Champlain Hot Chocolates. Or, more accurately, I recently discovered their Old World Hot Chocolate and am so pleased with it I fully intend to try the other kinds. You know that incredibly rich-like-liquid-chocolate-pudding hot chocolate that is somehow not sludgy, and is very hard to recreate at […]

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Limping to the End of NaBloPoMo

November 30, 2008

The weekend kind of whizzed by and NaBloPoMo sort of went by the wayside. That said, I learnt a lot about blogging and writing – I think I might try my own NaBloPoMo after the holidays, on a quieter month. One thing that I really missed this month was posting comments on other blogs — […]

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Happy Thanksgiving

November 28, 2008

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving — we went to see friends, and the turkey they made was absolutely delicious. I don’t even really like turkey and I loved this one. I hope they enjoy the vanilla caramels from Have It Confections that I brought along. I loved the salted caramels I got from […]

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Whole Wheat Pasta with Bacon

November 26, 2008

Welcome to What’s Cooking Wednesday. Please be sure to check out Tales of the Fairy Blogmother, the home of WCW. There’s always yummy recipes to try! So I have this ever-growing file of recipes to-try. The older a recipe is, the more likely I am to have forgotten about it, but once in a while […]

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Some thoughts on NaBloPoMo

November 26, 2008

So this is the last week of NaBloPoMo and I have to admit — the 30 days are dragging out a bit. Some of it is that I have not had a chance to sit down and download/resize pictures from the camera – and some of it is just that blogging every day seems like […]

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Beauty Monday – Fighting Winter Dryness

November 24, 2008

It has been ridiculously cold for Washington lately. While my friends keep reminding me New York is generally colder, it’s still been really cold here. And of course, despite my year-round moisturizing, I found myself reaching for the heaviest body butter I own – Coconut Hut Beauty’s Big Kahuna Body Butter. In the dead of […]

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A Chain Ethnic Grocery Store

November 24, 2008

I know that’s basically an oxymoron, but that’s pretty much the only way to describe CostPlus World Market. I stopped by there yesterday and thought, yet again, how it has some great products (including yummy gingerbread cookies I used to have growing up in Switzerland) yet has that mass marketing feel. They do have furniture […]

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A Unique Gift Idea

November 23, 2008

I know this time of year is when people are often trying to find unique gift ideas. One fun place to check out is The Iron Fairies – imagine a cross between fantasy, folklore, a soap and candle store, and associated statues and other iron items. I stumbled on their New York store last summer […]