what jen does

Life, home, and a little travel

Month: December 2015

  • gingerbread scones with maple glaze
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    gingerbread scones with maple glaze

    I’d like to introduce you to a wonderful scone variety – unfortunately, he’s appropriate for about as long as the Little Debbie Christmas Tree cakes are. Meet the Gingerbread scone. While he would taste the same all year long, he tastes best probably November to New Years Eve. Maybe one weekend into the month of…

  • Bye Palm Beach // Day 5
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    Bye Palm Beach // Day 5

    Bye Florida. Today was largely uneventful. It was a lot of drive to the airport, go through security, go through security again because you accidentally left the terminal, and then fly home. But before all that, I took a sunrise walk on the beach. It might have been one of the prettiest sunrises in the…

  • 1 Alligator, 1 Manatee, 5 Turtles // Day 4
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    1 Alligator, 1 Manatee, 5 Turtles // Day 4

    After two days of trying to find something “nature” related to do in Florida (besides walk on the beach), I finally achieved my goal. It was actually a really great day with no repeats visits like the previous days. I didn’t go back to the Gardens- just kidding of course I did. I tried new…

  • A little bit of everything // Day 3
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    A little bit of everything // Day 3

    Today was overall a win. I got some yoga in, had a BLT, and ate dinner with my brother. In the loss column? A failed trip to a nature preserve. All nature is beautiful but I expected a little bit more for engagement. No big deal. Other exciting things compensated for that loss. 

  • Faux Beach Yoga // Day 2
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    Faux Beach Yoga // Day 2

    Every day when I’m at home I wake up at 6 am. In part because I try to get the 6:40 train to work – but also because I’m an early person. So, I just assumed that I would wake up in time for my morning yoga class – and I just barely did. I…

  • Palm Trees Please // Day 1
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    Palm Trees Please // Day 1

    Welcome to Palm Beach! Or at least a slightly less amazing area 10 minutes to the west of Palm Beach. Whatever. The beach is still the beach. I’m down here for a few days chaperoning Jake on a school trip. Despite how much time we spend together in general, this is our first trip together……

  • Braised Chicken with Onions, Rosemary and Sage
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    Braised Chicken with Onions, Rosemary and Sage

    If there were 3 things that made living in the burbs best, they would be: more farms, more people willing to eat my cooking, and more ocean. All three are rather important to me – and I managed to do all of them this past weekend. Jackpot.   I spent the weekend going to various…

  • Meet Marshall

    Meet Marshall

    I’m a big fan of the Timehop app on my phone. It might be one of the first things I look at each morning as I delay getting out of bed. These days my commute unfortunately propels me a little faster from the covers… and earlier to boot. This morning the app kindly reminded me…

  • Brussel sprout latkes with basil aioli
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    Brussel sprout latkes with basil aioli

     With the move behind us, I was excited and maybe a little anxious to get in the kitchen and make my first meal. Technically my first meals were frozen pizzas, takeout chicken fingers, and the inaugural box of Kraft Mac and Cheese… but let’s not split hairs. I’ve always wanted to cook seasonally and try…

  • 34 boxes … more or less

    34 boxes … more or less

    I feel like I am going to jinx myself here … But I am feeling very organized for this move. I mean unlike nearly every other move, I have labeled every box and none of them have “random shit” listed as the contents. Yes, some are very random. Please see above as evidence. Specifically the…