BLOG
IF YOU CAN'T JOIN EM SERVE EM
When I was a little girl, my favorite game to play with my mother was WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE? She would sit my on her lap, look me in the eyes and say, "Mary, What do you Want to Be?" If my wish was to be a princess she would gently press her finger against my lips, poof I had lipstick. A slight brush of my head and there was my tiara, sprinkles of magic dust followed and TA-DA……I was a princess. We must have played this game 5 times a week for about 4 years and over those years I was everything from a Zoo Keeper to the Fonz. If...
read moreWhen Life Gives You Lemons..Make Lemonade..Just Add Vodka
Pure and simple life sometimes smacks you in the ass (and not that kinda fun slap that you may be into Last week I (we) got slapped……REAL hard. At almost 13 weeks pregnant, after YEARS of trying, very abruptly, we lost what was to be our first little girl. We called her Baby Maeby. Instead of talking to a therapist (as I’ve been advised) or downing a coupla pills (which I’ve also been advised) writing HAS and ALWAYS will be my therapy, so here goes. (Proper time to click off if you’re not feeling like hearing my sob story). For...
read more8 Years Ago
We lived in Murray Hill two blocks away from Curry in a Hurry. I would climb out my window and smoke cigarettes on my “balcony” a.k.a fire escape. I drank cosmos. I had a pair of Lucci’s not Gucci’s in my closet. We had a computer that took up half of our living room. Ryan and I were already married for four years. We made the decision to leave our jobs, me the Chef and Catering Company I was working for and Ryan the real estate company he was working for, empty our back account and start a catering company. What should we call...
read moreLIGHTS CAMERA OSCARS
It’s the most wonderful time of the year….and I’m not talking the Andy Williams kind. I LOVE the Oscars and everything that goes along with it; Joan Rivers, Wolfgang Puck, shiny bald gold men, long winded musically interrupted speeches, squinting celebrities trying to read teleprompters ABSOLUTELY everything about the Oscars makes me happy. This year for my at home Oscar Viewing Party, I went on a mission to find THE perfect TV Watching/Food Serving table ever created in the history of tables and LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!! Take a...
read moreBLOG
Hangover Kits from the Today Show!
Hello Party People! While this blog may have been useful pre-holiday weekend bashing, it’s never too late for some party tips. Many of you have asked me what were those two pails on The Today Show I never got to. Well, my dear Blog pals, since the theme of my segment was eat, drink, laugh and recover…..they were Hangover Kits! In honor of The Hangover 2 (Bradley Cooper was a classmate of mine at Georgetown by the way coming out Memorial Day weekend, I thought it was only fitting to equip Kathie Lee and Hoda with the essentials...
read more